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  • Grad Path Week: from Exchange to Graduate Studies

    Classroom Unit Classroom Unit, Santa Cruz, CA, Select a Country:

    International Student Services and Programming is excited to partner with UC Santa Cruz faculty members and graduate departments to highlight Ph.D. and Masters programs to international exchange students interested in […]

  • Seminar speaker Kelli Gutierrez

    AM Seminar: Analysis of Flagellar Gait Changes Across Fluid Viscosities

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Dr. Kelli Gutierrez, CSU Monterey Bay Description: Many microswimmers propel themselves using flagella, which are thin, threadlike filaments that beat in a periodic wavelike motion. The flagellar beat emerges […]

  • Grad Path Week: Real Talk – Navigating Grad School Life

    Zoom

    Wondering what it’s really like to be an international graduate student at UC Santa Cruz? Join our International Graduate Peer Mentors for an informal, candid conversation about navigating grad school […]

  • Archaeobotany of an Ainu Kotan: from Ethnographic Trope to Empirical Data

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for an Anthropology Lunch Talk on October 21st at noon in SocSci1, Rm 261. Emanuele Guglielmini, a PhD candidate in archaeology at UC Berkeley’s Anthropology department, will present “Archaeobotany of an Ainu Kotan: from Ethnographic Trope to Empirical Data.”

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    An Evening with Dr. Samuel Waymon — Ganja and Hess

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc., presents two very special evenings with Dr. Samuel Waymon Award-winning composer, actor, lecturer, arranger and brother […]

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    BME 280B Seminar: Valery Ortiz and Joseph Cruz

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Welcome to the 4th week of our BME 280B seminar series, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology and bioinformatics. Open to all, food is provided. […]

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    An Evening with Dr. Samuel Waymon — The Amazing Nina Simone (Venue Change)

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc., presents two very special evenings with Dr. Samuel Waymon Award-winning composer, actor, lecturer, arranger and brother […]

  • CSE Colloquium: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling

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    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Title: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling Presenter: Adrian Brasoveanu, UCSC Linguistics (Joint work with Ece Takmaz and Jakub Dotlačil) Abstract: We present Relational BabyLM, a system submission to the BabyLM 2026 challenge that combines two cognitively motivated inductive biases in a single decoder-only Transformer. Architecturally, we replace standard self-attention with a Dual Attention Transformer (DAT), […]

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  • Performing Anarchive

    Colligan Theater 1010 River St, Santa Cruz, United States

    Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black cultural memory. Together, they move through fragments of sound, image, and memory, shaping the world around them as the performance unfolds. Performing Anarchive brings body and technology together in a live exploration of […]

  • Headshot of ECE290 Seminar speaker, Joe Dong

    ECE 290 Seminar: “Learning Dexterous Manipulation: From Simulation to Human Demonstrations”

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Joe Dong, Co-Founder & CTO @ Chestnut Robotics Description: “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. First, I will present Aero Hand Open, an open-source tendon-driven hand developed with a […]

  • Morgan E. Gilmour in the field

    Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Morgan Gilmour and James D. Jacobson, NASA Ames Earth Science

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736).  If 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. Host: Bo Yang Speaker:  Morgan Gilmour, NASA Ames Earth […]

  • Speaker Brian Trippe

    Statistics Seminar: Calibration Methods for Generative Models with Application to Protein Structure Modeling

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Brian Trippe, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Statistics Description: 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 […]

  • Reshaping representation: Midterm elections and emerging district map battles

    Reshaping representation: Midterm elections and emerging district map battles

    Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Our panel will discuss the long history of redistricting in the United States, differentiate between racial gerrymandering and partisan gerrymandering, discuss the intersection of race and partisan objectives, highlight the role of recent state independent redistricting commissions and California’s Prop 50, along with exclusionary changes to the Voting Rights Act and recent actions taken by the Supreme Court.

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