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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries
DESCRIPTION:Over the coming year\, Dickens Universe readers and Pickwick Club members will meet for discussions focused on these novels and their lasting influence on the mystery genre. This year’s reading series brings together four landmark works of crime fiction: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics\, 2002)\, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2021)\, The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2025)\, and The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2011). Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about these beloved books. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nSept 27: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\nOct 25: The Pale Horse\nNov 22: The Murder at the Vicarage\nDec 27: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nJan 24: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nFeb 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nMar 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nApr 25: TBD\nMay 23: TBD\nJun 27: TBD\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novels for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novels to read at Gutenburg.org or listen at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-christie-mysteries/2026-09-27/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Exhibition—The Audacity to Create\, works by BIPOC UC Santa Cruz alumni
DESCRIPTION:The Audacity to Create is an alumni exhibition showcasing the work of UC Santa Cruz Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC) alumni Alejandra Chavez\, Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez \, Katie Dorame\, Seráb Serabia\, Aleya Caballero\, Edward Ramirez\, Josselyne Morales\, and Marceline Valentine. \nADMISSION \n\nAttend in person at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa Cruz\nFREE and open to the public.\nGallery hours: Tues.–Sat.\, noon–5:00 p.m.\nGallery accessibility and visitor information here.\n\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS \n\nOngoing exhibition: Thurs.\, Oct. 15–Sat.\, Dec. 5\, noon–5:00 p.m.\nReception: Sat.\, Oct. 17\, 2:00–4:30 p.m.\nArtist talk: Sat.\, Nov. 7\, 2:00–3:30 p.m.\n\nPARKING \n\nLots 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the Gallery.\nParking is by permit or Aims Mobile Pay (AMP).\nCore West parking structure and West Remote Lot 127 are free/no permit required on weekends.\nLearn more about parking at UCSC via Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n\n### \nThis program is open to the general public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/exhibition-audacity/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries
DESCRIPTION:Over the coming year\, Dickens Universe readers and Pickwick Club members will meet for discussions focused on these novels and their lasting influence on the mystery genre. This year’s reading series brings together four landmark works of crime fiction: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics\, 2002)\, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2021)\, The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2025)\, and The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2011). Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about these beloved books. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nSept 27: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\nOct 25: The Pale Horse\nNov 22: The Murder at the Vicarage\nDec 27: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nJan 24: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nFeb 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nMar 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nApr 25: TBD\nMay 23: TBD\nJun 27: TBD\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novels for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novels to read at Gutenburg.org or listen at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-christie-mysteries/2026-10-25/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: "Learning Dexterous Manipulation: From Simulation to Human Demonstrations"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Joe Dong\, Co-Founder & CTO @ Chestnut Robotics \nDescription: “Learning dexterous manipulation requires robot hardware\, training environments\, and data to work together. This talk explores two complementary approaches to making robotic hands learnable: training in simulation and learning from human demonstrations.\nFirst\, I will present Aero Hand Open\, an open-source tendon-driven hand developed with a simulation and reinforcement learning stack. I will discuss its design\, transmission modeling in MuJoCo\, the actuation mapping between simulation and hardware\, and experimental validation\, including an in-hand cube rotation policy transferred to the physical hand without policy fine-tuning. \nSecond\, I will introduce the newer Aero Hand and Aero UMI\, a robotic hand and wearable demonstration interface developed as a matched pair. I will discuss how co-designing the hand and capture interface connects human demonstrations to robot actions\, with particular attention to motion\, contact sensing\, calibration\, and data alignment. Through experimental results and demonstrations\, the talk will examine the engineering tradeoffs and open research questions in connecting robot embodiment with the simulation and data used to train it.” \nBio: Xu (Joe) Dong is cofounder and CTO of Chestnut Robotics\, where he develops robotic hands and the data\, simulation\, and learning infrastructure for physical AI. He previously worked on autonomous driving at Waymo and XPeng Motors\, including learning-based motion planning and production end-to-end driving models. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech\, and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Personal Website: http://joedong.ai/ \n  \nHosted by: Professor Zhicong Yu\, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department \nWhen: Monday\, October 26th from 10:40 to 11:45 AM PST \nLocation: Classroom E2-194
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ece-290-seminar-learning-dexterous-manipulation-from-simulation-to-human-demonstrations/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Morgan Gilmour and James D. Jacobson\, NASA Ames Earth Science
DESCRIPTION:In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946\, Passcode: 454736).  \nIf you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version\, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. \nHost: Bo Yang \nSpeaker:  Morgan Gilmour\, NASA Ames Earth Science \nTitle: NASA’s Internet of Animals project: Biologging reveals global insights \nAbstract: NASA’s Internet of Animals project uses biologging to study Earth system processes and inform biodiversity. Working with a team of scientists and engineers\, we aim to create a forward-looking approach to improve our ability to monitor the Earth\, animal ecology\, and remote environments. I will highlight case studies in which we used biologgers to quantify protections of a marine protected area\, estimate tuna-fisheries interactions\, and develop sensors that contribute to the validation of satellite measurements.  \nSpeaker:  James D. Jacobson\, NASA Ames Earth Science \nTitle: Introduction to EPIC Lab & Using MASTER over Wildfires in the Continental US \nAbstract: This seminar will introduce the Earth and Planetary Instrument and Calibration (EPIC) Lab at NASA Ames Research Center and highlight its role in advancing airborne remote. I will first provide an overview of the laboratory’s research activities\, instrumentation\, and capabilities\, with an emphasis on how airborne imaging systems are used to investigate environmental processes at spatial and spectral scales that complement satellite observations at home and beyond. \nThe second part of the seminar will focus on the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER)\, an airborne imaging spectrometer that measures reflected and emitted radiation across the visible\, near-infrared\, shortwave infrared\, midwave infrared\, and longwave infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. I will discuss how MASTER observations can be used to detect and characterize active fires\, quantify their thermal and spectral properties\, and map fire impacts across the landscape. \nExamples from the recent NASA INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) mission will illustrate MASTER’s capabilities for observing wildfire behavior and its interaction with the atmosphere. These observations provide a unique perspective on intense fire events and demonstrate how airborne measurements can connect processes occurring at the fire and landscape scales to their broader atmospheric impacts. \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/environmental-studies-seminar-series-morgan-gilmour-james-d-jacobson/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Sciences Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar:  Calibration Methods for Generative Models with Application to Protein Structure Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Brian Trippe\, Assistant Professor\, Stanford University\, Department of Statistics \nDescription: Generative models frequently suffer miscalibration\, where the statistics of their generations deviate from desired values. Protein structure diffusion models\, for example\, produce highly realistic samples but often underestimate the probabilities of important modes. These deviations are not addressed by existing fine-tuning methods for image and text generation. We frame calibration of generative models as a constrained optimization problem that we seek to solve by fine-tuning. Because the natural objective is intractable\, we introduce two surrogate objectives for which we can compute low-variance gradient estimates amenable to stochastic optimization. The resulting procedures reduce the majority of calibration error across hundreds of simultaneous constraints and models with up to nine billion parameters. Lastly\, we describe an application for assimilating thermodynamic measurements to calibrate a generative model of protein structure Boltzmann ensembles. \nAbout the speaker: Brian Trippe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford. Previously he was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington where he worked with David Baker\, and a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D. in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT in 2022. His recent research has developed statistical machine learning methods to address challenges in biotechnology and medicine\, with a focus on generative modeling and inference algorithms for protein engineering. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Yunyi Shen.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/statistics-seminar-calibration-methods-for-generative-models-with-application-to-protein-structure-modeling/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Plant Keying Workshop at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden
DESCRIPTION:The evening workshops are led by assistant director of the UCSC Arboretum\, Lucy Ferneyhough\, and will provide an informal opportunity to learn about plant terminology and identification in a relaxed atmosphere based on seasonal availability of plant material. Participants are encouraged to bring plants to look at together and ideas for topics for future sessions. The sessions will be every 4th Monday of the month from 5:30-7:30pm at the Horticulture 2 meeting hall. Participation is free for members and UCSC students\, with a suggested donation for non-members of $10-15.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/plant-keying-workshop-at-the-ucsc-arboretum-botanic-garden/2026-10-26/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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