Audience: Undergraduate Students
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Panel Discussion—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series
Audiences are invited to Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—a conversation and panel discussion with filmmaker Akira Boch and Quetzal members Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores. Introduced by Interim Dean and Professor of Film and Digital Media Lawrence Andrews. Conversation and panel discussion with UCSC Professors Russell Rodriguez and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (4:00–6:00…
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Mocktails and Mock Interviews with EOP and USS
Join us for an afternoon soirée of delicious mocktails and delightful mock interview conversations. Get inquisitive with your fellow soirée companions as we delve into the do’s and don’t of interviews, then take a turn yourself to debut your interview skills and practice proper interview etiquette. Questions and Accommodations may be addressed to your gracious…
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NemoClaw NVIDIA x ASUS Hackathon @ UC Santa Cruz
Welcome to the premier physical AI hackathon on the West Coast. We are bringing together the top 200 AI, infrastructure, and hardware engineers to build autonomous, agentic applications on the NVIDIA NemoClaw stack. You aren’t just calling APIs, you are building on enterprise-grade hardware. The Tracks: The Edge Track: 40 exclusive teams will be granted…
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Making an Exoneree Showcase
Audiences are invited to Making an Exoneree, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about…
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Shadmon, R. (CS) – Proximal Byzantine Agreement
Research on fault-tolerance protocols for approximate Byzantine agreement (ABA) has largely focused on ensuring that distributed processes remain consistent despite fewer than 1/3 faulty processes. Yet in many real systems, consistency is only useful when it enables processes to make accurate decisions from replicated, noisy, and potentially adversarially corrupted data relative to an ideal fault-free…
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Sweet Send-Off Celebration
Greetings, International and Global Learning students! Join us for a special celebration in recognition of our international students studying here at UCSC, Global Learning alumni that have studied abroad/away, and to those that are about to start their programs this summer and fall. Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from 17:00 – 19:00 (5 pm – 7…
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May Slugs and Steins with Professor Soraya Murray
TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination In this presentation, visual culture scholar Soraya Murray (Film + Digital Media Department, UCSC) shares her new book, TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, Feb 2026). In TECHNOTHRILLER, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural…
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First-Gen Wellbeing Workshop
Join SHOP in collaboration with Porter College to be in community with other first-gen students and learn how you can thrive at UCSC. Dinner and raffle prizes! This event is supported by Student Health Services for Mental Health Awareness Month. You are invited to engage in a variety of campus-wide activities focused on mental health…
