Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
Free
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Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
Free
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 […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Morgan Gilmour and James D. Jacobson, NASA Ames Earth Science
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Morgan Gilmour and James D. Jacobson, NASA Ames Earth Science
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 […] 
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 […] |
3 events,
Hybrid Event
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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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UC Santa Cruz is bringing Science in the Neighborhood to South County! Join us for our first event in Aptos. Are we alone in the universe? Answering that question begins surprisingly close to home. Earth has been many different planets over its long history, offering clues about how life begins, evolves, and ultimately transforms the […] |
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Presented by: Quan Xiao, PhD Candidate @ Cornell University Description: “Agentic AI systems combine large language models with system-level design choices such as post-training data selection, retrieval, tool use, and memory management in augmented inference. Training these systems involves multiple coupled objectives beyond task success, including safety, retrieval quality, and adaptation efficiency. Sequential tuning can cause […] 
Human genome references have provided unified coordinate systems for mapping genetic variation, enabling numerous discoveries in genomics. However, mapping to a single linear reference can be misleading or even impossible when a sample’s genome is highly divergent from the reference, an issue known as reference bias. Recent advances in long-read sequencing technologies and computational techniques […] |
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5 events,
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: Stacy Philpott Speaker: Paolina Hwae Kyung Kao Yook […] 
Presenter: Enter the speaker’s name, title, and institution at the top of the event Description: Optimal transport (OT) provides a principled way to match, compare, and interpolate distributions, but its computational cost limits its use at realistic scales. I will present our recent work on reducing that cost and on using OT for statistical modeling […] 
Presenter: Reza Fazel-Rezai, Senior Science and Education Application Engineer, MathWorks Description: Please join us to learn how to accelerate data analysis using a workflow that spans low-code tools, Generative AI, and Agentic AI. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you’ll see how to import, explore, visualize, model, and process data using interactive tools that require […] |
5 events,
Hybrid Event
Hybrid Event
Steering living systems toward a desired behavior is a central goal in synthetic and quantitative biology. Levers of control range from electric fields and optogenetic stimulation to engineered gene circuits, chemical dosing, and tuning the adhesive attraction and repulsion between cells. Biology makes it hard to know how much each lever should be pulled, or […]
Virtual Event
Virtual Event
Are you curious about careers in education? Join a job talk with Faith Delgado, a UCSC literature and education alum! 
Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You must attend the full workshop to receive credit. Be sure to arrive on time and stay until the end, or you will not receive credit […] |
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Norma Ibarra, born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, photographs underrepresented and marginalized skateboarders such as female-identifying skaters across Mexico for her photobook Para Ti (2021), and self-fashioned Indigenous skaters for the Museum of Vancouver 2021-22 exhibition, Skate for Change. This presentation focuses on the latter, articulating how Ibarra’s collaboration with her participants circulate the decolonial potential […] |
3 events,
Virtual Event
Virtual Event
With El Niño expected to bring significant rainfall this season, safeguarding your garden’s foundation is more critical than ever. Join the UC Master Gardeners and the UCSC Center for Agroecology for a timely, practical workshop dedicated to protecting and preserving your garden soil during severe wet weather. In this fast-paced, FREE online session, three experienced Master Gardeners will deliver actionable strategies to help […]
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This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is free and open to the public. |
3 events,First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […] |
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As a part of the Sovereignty & Solidarity Fall Speaker Series, the Huerta Center is thrilled to host Dr. Jessica Stites Mor from The University of British Columbia. This talk will explore how Cuban photojournalism of the 1960s-1970s functioned as an infrastructure of tricontinental solidarity shaping anti-imperial vocabularies and forging new global networks of struggle. […] 
Presenter: Chrysoula Tsogka, Professor, Applied Mathematics, UC Merced Description: In a strongly scattering medium, waves undergo multiple scattering that is usually seen as an obstacle to imaging. Time-reversal experiments show the opposite: waves re-emitted into the medium refocus on their source more sharply than in a homogeneous medium, because scattering makes the array appear larger […] |
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Join us for a Kraw Lecture exploring how social media algorithms are shaping family life, from food choices to everyday conversations. Digital feeds influence how teenagers see themselves and communicate with their loved ones, but young people are more than passive consumers of online content. Research involving teens, parents, grandparents, and people with food allergies […] |
3 events,
Virtual Event
Virtual Event
DNA-based forensics is largely centered around PCR-based amplification of a few dozen STR markers. While this assay is powerful, it does not work for samples with small amounts of fragmented DNA like rootless hair shafts. My lab and company have pioneered high-throughput sequencing technologies that enable new approaches in DNA bases forensics. These include forensic […] |
3 events,
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a conversation with filmmaker and graphic novelist James Spooner about his latest graphic novel, moderated by cartoonist Johnny Damm. It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. An AFROPUNK Ending tells the origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with […] |
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Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You must attend the full workshop to receive credit. Be sure to arrive on time and stay until the end, or you will not receive credit […] UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range of the River: Asia’s Great River Systems and the Making of a Transregional World on Monday, November 16, 2026 from 3:30-5:00pm PST in Room 210, […]
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Presenter: Joshua Schraiber, Research Scientist, University of Southern California and Cornell University Description: The advent of biobank data has presented an unprecedented opportunity to understand the evolutionary history of the human species. By collecting genotype data from hundreds of thousands of individuals, we can look closely at recent evolutionary history, including recent demography, mutation rates, […] |
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In this talk, Jennifer interrogates how Cuban identity is performed, disciplined, and made legible within globalized media systems that simultaneously celebrate diversity and constrain it through drag and beauty pageantry. Rather than treating Cubanidad as a stable or unified identity, Cubanidad is discussed as a mobile and contested formation shaped by histories of economic crisis, […] |
3 events,
Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil 2026: Remember Me As… An evening exploring memory, legacy, and our shared LGBTQ+ lineage to honor trans, 2 Spirit, non-binary, and gender expansive lives lost in the last year. Featuring community-made fabric art installations, an intergenerational lineup of performances, and more to explore our community’s strength and cement our commitment […] |
3 events,
Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
Free
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5 events,
Hybrid Event
Hybrid Event
We motivate, formulate, and solve several structured optimal transportation (OT) problems for learning and control. The field of OT had its inception in 1781, when Gaspard Monge sought the optimal map to transport mass from a given initial distribution to a desired terminal distribution. Both OT and its entropy-regularized variant, the Schrödinger bridge problem (SBP), […] 
Presenter: Edric Tam, Warren Alpert Fellow in AI and Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Description: A longstanding question in Bayesian analysis concerns the role of randomization. We introduce randomization posteriors, a class of generalized Bayesian updates obtained by averaging over an auxiliary randomization law. A particularly relevant instance assigns random weights […] |
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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: Karen Holl Speaker: Christina Blebea, UC Santa Cruz, […] 
Presenter: Rafael Cabral, Member of Technical Staff, Axiom Math Description: Latent Gaussian models (LGMs) are among the most widely used classes of statistical models, with applications ranging from biostatistics to spatial modeling. Their central assumption, that the latent variables are Gaussian, is nevertheless rarely checked. Many datasets contain sudden jumps or local spikes that a […] |
4 events,
Virtual Event
Virtual Event
Neurodivergent children and young adults are frequently subjected to therapeutic and educational interventions anchored in “behavior deficits” inherited from the Medical Model of Disability. These paradigms prioritize normative performance, forcing disabled individuals into cognitive and emotional “masking” at the expense of their autonomy and well-being. Resisting these ableist connotations, this dissertation advances a philosophy of […] |
4 events,
Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You must attend the full workshop to receive credit. Be sure to arrive on time and stay until the end, or you will not receive credit […] |
4 events,First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […] |