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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION: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 and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-06-06/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:AI Trends in Project Management
DESCRIPTION:Build the skills organizations need most\nSkilled project and program managers remain in demand across many industries as organizations seek professionals who can plan strategically\, manage risks\, and deliver results on time and on budget. \nLearn what drives successful teams and projects\nDuring this interactive online session\, you’ll learn about key roles in project and program management and the essential skills—leadership\, communication\, and Agile practices—that help professionals stand out in today’s fast-moving workplace. \nYour speakers\nTim Bombosch and Bhawna Dua of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Project and Program Management program share their industry perspectives and highlight program courses that are designed to build practical project leadership\, communication\, and career advancement skills. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ai-trends-in-project-management/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
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SUMMARY:June Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Andrew Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Opportunities to enhance groundwater recharge with net metering and levee setbacks\nAs climate change\, population growth\, and changing land use put increasing pressure on groundwater supplies\, communities are searching for smarter and more sustainable ways to manage water. One promising approach is “managed recharge” — guiding stormwater and excess surface water back into underground aquifers to replenish vital water reserves.\n\nIn this talk\, we’ll explore how managed recharge works\, why it matters\, and how it can benefit communities\, agriculture\, ecosystems\, and long-term water resilience. We’ll look at how heavy rain events and stormwater runoff — often viewed as problems — can become valuable opportunities to restore groundwater supplies when managed effectively and responsibly. \nThe talk will also highlight emerging research on where and how recharge projects can succeed without causing unintended environmental impacts\, along with a new incentive program designed to support landowners and tenants who help maintain these systems on their properties. We’ll consider how groundwater recharge efforts can connect with flood-risk reduction and river restoration strategies\, creating multi-benefit solutions for the future of water management. \n\nREGISTER
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/june-slugs-and-steins-with-professor-andrew-fisher/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Shen\, G. (CSE) - Library-Level Choreographic Programming
DESCRIPTION:Modern software increasingly relies on distributed systems to provide accessible\, scalable\,\nand reliable services. Choreographic programming brings a global perspective to distributed\nsystem development: programmers write a single program that describes the behavior of a\nwhole system\, and a compiler projects that global description into local programs run by each\nnode. By making distributed control flow explicit\, choreographic programming can rule out\nimportant classes of errors\, including deadlocks. This dissertation investigates library-level\nchoreographic programming\, an approach that embeds choreographic abstractions in existing\nhost languages rather than implementing them as standalone languages. The central claim\nis that the library approach can retain the safety and global reasoning principles of chore-\nographic programming while taking advantage of the host language’s features\, tools\, and\necosystem. First\, we present HasChor\, a first-of-its-kind library-level choreographic program-\nming language in Haskell\, built using freer monads. Next\, we generalize the design underlying\nHasChor to algebraic effects\, giving library-level implementations in Agda and OCaml. Fi-\nnally\, we present Parkour\, a backward-compatible extension to HasChor that adds a construct\nfor expressing parallel behavior in choreographies. Together\, these systems show that chore-\nographic programming can be implemented\, generalized\, and extended at the library level\,\nmaking global programming techniques available within practical host-language settings. \nEvent Host: Gan Shen\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering  \nAdvisor: Lindsey Kuper  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93790633483?pwd=Jg8JlISsrwjLBaQIi1KdHk36bNMIv7.1 \nPasscode: 902041 \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/shen-g-cse-library-level-choreographic-programming/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Kim\, C. (CSE)- Toward Adaptive Graph Processing and Fault-Tolerant Agentic Inference on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
DESCRIPTION:Edge computing and distributed AI systems increasingly operate under heterogeneous resources\, dynamic workloads\, and frequent failures\, requiring both adaptivity and fault tolerance for efficient execution. In heterogeneous edge clusters\, nodes differ significantly in CPU throughput\, memory capacity\, and network bandwidth\, while modern distributed GPU clusters supporting agentic LLM inference must recover large amounts of runtime state under routine failures. This dissertation addresses these challenges through two systems: Zsiga\, an adaptive distributed graph processing system for heterogeneous edge clusters\, and Forte\, a fault-tolerant KV cache recovery system for distributed agentic LLM inference. \nZsiga improves connected component computation through capacity-aware graph partitioning and runtime-adaptive boundary migration\, reducing execution time by up to 90.9% while eliminating out-of-memory failures under heterogeneous resource constraints. Forte addresses KV cache recovery for long-running agentic inference workloads\, where failures can erase accumulated reasoning trajectories and tool interaction histories. Forte exploits the observation that not all KV blocks are equally critical\, introducing criticality-aware erasure coding\, domain-diverse placement\, and prioritized foreground recovery to enable efficient recovery under correlated failures. Experimental results show that Forte is the only evaluated scheme that successfully resumes execution under correlated domain failures\, reducing foreground stall by 89.7% and end-to-end recovery latency by 50.6–58.9% at 2.0$\times$ memory overhead. Together\, these systems demonstrate how adaptivity and fault tolerance can improve the efficiency and resilience of distributed systems in heterogeneous and failure-prone environments. \nEvent Host: Chaeeun Kim\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Chen Qian & Liting Hu \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/9863615188?pwd=kTka0aZXJ070tor1EKvrt3X6AveBRp.1 \nPasscode:  cG5SL8 \n  \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/kim-c-cse-toward-adaptive-graph-processing-and-fault-tolerant-agentic-inference-on-heterogeneous-distributed-systems/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:What can you do with data?
DESCRIPTION:Data Analysts Are Still in Demand\nAs organizations across industries rely more on data-driven decision-making\, skilled data analysts continue to be highly sought after. While the job market is more competitive—especially for entry-level roles—professionals with in-demand skills like SQL\, Python\, data visualization\, and AI-assisted analytics stand out. \nYour speaker\nJoin Parthasarathy Padmanabhan\, M.B.A.\, principal software engineer at one of Silicon Valley’s leading technology companies\, as he offers insights into the field and his upcoming courses: \nDashboards and Data Visualization | June 22\nPython for Data Analysis | July 25 \nKeep learning\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup. \n  \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/what-can-you-do-with-data/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:SocDoc M.F.A. Thesis Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Social Documentation M.F.A. Thesis Screening is a yearly event held by the Film and Digital Media Department. This event is part of the Social Documentation M.F.A. program\, and involves second-year students presenting a 20-minute documentary film they have produced while in the program. Films are screened sequentially at the Del Mar Theater\, with a Q&A with the student filmmakers at the end.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n—\nPARKING\nNearby Parking Lots\n– Lot No. 3: The Cedar/Church Garage 800 Cedar St (270 feet W)\n– Soquel Front Garage 601 Front St (444 feet SE)\n– Lot No. 8: The Pearl Alley Parking Lot 710 Cedar St (525 feet SW)\n– Lot No. 16: The Sentinel Parking Lot 204 Church St (575 feet W) \n—\nEVENT POSTER \n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/socdoc-mfa-thesis-screening/
LOCATION:Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Where Hardware Meets Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware\nJoin Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an introduction to how AI is transforming the field. \nLearn how the Embedded Firmware Essentials course prepares you to develop low-level software\, interface with hardware components\, and build reliable real-time applications for microcontrollers and embedded platforms\, while gaining insight into emerging trends like AI at the edge. Discover how this hands-on course can help advance your career in embedded systems engineering. \nYour speaker\nJuergen Kienhoefer\, instructor of the Embedded Firmware Essentials course\, also teaches Embedded Linux Design and Programming\, which kicks off June 26. \nKeep learning\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup. \n  \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/where-hardware-meets-intelligence/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Tang\, M. (STAT) - Bayesian Modeling and Scalable Inference for Count Time Series in Infectious Disease Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:Real-time monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks calls for statistical models that recover interpretable quantities such as the time-varying reproduction number from noisy count data\, track posterior uncertainty\, and run on time scales compatible with daily updates. Existing methods address these aims through separate model classes. Discretized Hawkes processes\, Poisson autoregressions\, and distributed lag models each capture self-exciting transmission through alternative parameterizations of the same conditional mean structure\, but they have been developed across separate software packages with model-specific inference routines\, which makes structural model comparison cumbersome in practice. This dissertation develops a unified Bayesian framework for count time series in disease surveillance\, organized around three threads. First\, a class of dynamic generalized transfer function models places the three modeling families inside a common modular state-space class built from six independent components. A hybrid variational algorithm combines sequential Monte Carlo on the latent trajectory with stochastic gradient ascent on the static parameters. Second\, a multivariate extension to spatially connected regions\, a Bayesian network Hawkes model\, jointly estimates time-varying source-specific reproduction numbers and a sparse transmission network learned from data through a regularized horseshoe prior. The observed reproduction number at each\nlocation is decomposed into a local component and an imported component. Posterior inference proceeds through a blocked Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler\, with a particle Laplace variational counterpart developed for routine refits at larger spatial scales. Third\, an R package implements the unified univariate framework through a compositional specification interface aligned with the six modular components\, with the two inference engines available behind a single entry point. The methods are illustrated through simulation studies and applications to daily COVID-19 case counts from Santa Cruz County and from ten California counties. \nEvent Host: Meini Tang\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Statistical Science  \nAdvisor: Raquel Prado \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97990210796?pwd=e59WbsNrYgYSITmMw0OIT5f1SQThEN.1 \nPasscode:  479460
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/tang-m-stat-bayesian-modeling-and-scalable-inference-for-count-time-series-in-infectious-disease-surveillance/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Just-In-Time (all-majors) Virtual Career & Internship Fair
DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing careers in all industries are welcome to attend. Get the chance to meet recruiters from all industries/firms seeking to fill internship\, full-time\, and part-time roles. Connect virtually and take essential steps toward laying the foundation for your future career and potentially even land an interview! \nHelpful Resources: \n\nHow to Prepare for the Fair\nHow to Prepare (video)\nGuide from Handshake\nSigning up for Sessions\nCheck Video Requirements\n\nNeed support during the fair? Career Success is here to help! Please login to “Ask a Peer” \nYou will receive registration and additional information via Handshake emails. Please make sure to check your junk/spam folder if you are not receiving the following information. \nHandshake is committed to building an accessible product\, as well as an ongoing\, sustainable process for maintaining accessibility. Please contact slugtalent@ucsc.edu if you need accessibility support at least two weeks prior to the fair date. \nWe will not cancel an event due to a power outage. If your power goes out during the fair\, please email slugtalent@ucsc.edu. \nCareer Fair registrations are made without endorsement\, direct or implied\, by Career Success or UCSC. Career Success educates students about various opportunities and ensures equity of access to campus recruiting activities for all employers who abide by our Employer Policies. Individual students are encouraged to determine which employers align with their diverse talents\, values\, and interests. \n  \n  \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications. \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/just-in-time-all-majors-virtual-career-internship-fair/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Carrión\, H. (CSE) - Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Representation Learning and Understanding
DESCRIPTION:AI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine\, and particularly in dermatology\, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones\, body sites\, and disease types\, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce\, demographically imbalanced\, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label\, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet\, which learns wound healing stages from longitudinal photographs without any human labels\, reaching 90.6% downstream stage-classification accuracy on a small longitudinal cohort. The Fair\, Efficient\, and Diverse Diffusion (FEDD) model then leverages powerful diffusion-model embeddings to build a skin-tone-fair\, data-efficient classifier for skin lesions\, matching or exceeding state-of-the-art performance while using only 5-20% of available labels and contributing explicit skin-tone-stratified fairness evaluation of the work. Next\, Controllable Generation of Diverse Dermatological Imagery (cgDDI) re-tasks this diffusion model to controllably synthesize skin-tone-balanced dermatological imagery\, growing a small biopsy-confirmed dataset by over 400x and reaching state-of-the-art 90.9% accuracy and improved fairness in malignancy classification\, with a +13.9% cross-dataset gain on the Fitzpatrick17k benchmark. Finally\, we introduce D-Synth and DermDepth: a synthetic dermoscopic dataset with pixel-perfect 3D ground truth and a metric-scale foundation model that closes the loop into 3D dermatology\, correcting metric scale error from over 16x to under 1.1x on real dermoscopic data and enabling single-photograph measurement of lesion reconstruction: size\, area\, and volume without specialized hardware. All data\, code\, and models are released openly to support reproducibility and ongoing fairness research. \nEvent Host:  Héctor Carrión\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Narges Norouzi \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96678782408?pwd=71f0ObEnUMNgkZ9NYnpbFLMlg1Pdm0.1 \nPasscode: 0FMVtz
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/carrion-h-cse-deep-learning-algorithms-for-medical-image-representation-learning-and-understanding/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Wang\, Z. (CSE) - From Static Alignment to Adaptive Safety: Toward Reliable and Capable AI Systems
DESCRIPTION:Modern AI systems are rapidly moving beyond static text generation toward capable models and agents that reason\, use tools\, store memories\, and update persistent state\, yet safety methods still often assume a fixed model whose behavior can be controlled by output-level refusal. This leaves critical gaps in understanding why aligned models fail under adversarial pressure\, how to align reasoning models without suppressing their useful capabilities\, and how to preserve safety once capability and control are externalized into editable agent state. My research proposes a static-to-adaptive safety framework for building reliable and capable AI systems: studying the mechanisms that shape behavior inside models\, using reasoning capability as a substrate for safety alignment\, and governing persistent state as agents learn and adapt over time. We instantiate this agenda through two completed works and three proposed directions. AttnGCG studies adversarial failures in aligned language models\, showing how jailbreak attacks can manipulate model attention and expose limitations of output-level safety analysis. STAR-1 studies safety alignment for large reasoning models\, showing that policy-grounded reasoning data can improve safety while largely preserving general reasoning capability. Building on these foundations\, we further study when editable agent harnesses meaningfully affect future behavior\, how persistent state creates new safety risks\, and how adaptive agents can safely update state while preserving useful learning. Together\, my research aims to move beyond static alignment alone\, toward AI systems whose safety remains reliable as their capabilities expand through reasoning and adaptation. \nEvent Host: Zijun Wang\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Cihang Xie  \nZoom ID:  962 8317 0929 \nPasscode: 687715
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/wang-z-cse-from-static-alignment-to-adaptive-safety-toward-reliable-and-capable-ai-systems/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Designing for Today's Digital World
DESCRIPTION:Design digital experiences people love to use.\nIn today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape\, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy\, usability\, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods\, prototyping tools\, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms. \nSpeaker\nJoin Nicole Sharratt\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension User Experience & Web Design program\, for an inside look at how our courses equip you with the skills to lead user‑centered design projects—whether you’re shaping websites\, apps or digital products. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/designing-for-todays-digital-world/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260625T130000
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SUMMARY:BME/Genomics Seminar: Supervised and Unsupervised DeepGene Finding and Genome Foundation Models
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Mario Stanke\, Professor of Bioinformatics\, University of Greifswald \nDescription: This talk will explore recent machine learning approaches for eukaryotic genome annotation. Our supervised ab initio deep gene finder\, Tiberius\, correctly predicts more than four times as many human protein-coding gene structures as its father\, Augustus\, and in some clades\, it approaches the accuracy of evidence-based pipelines such as BRAKER. Genome foundation models can automatically learn annotation-relevant embeddings from unannotated training genomes. I will also present Vipsania\, the unsupervised wife of Tiberius. Vipsania is a genome foundation model that learns hidden Markov models to find gene structures from naked genomes using a BERT-style masked language model objective. Finally\, I will report on ongoing efforts to use phylogenetic teaching signals from whole-genome vertebrate alignments to train a genome foundation model comparatively. \nKeywords: hidden Markov model layer\, linear recurrent unit\, continuous-time Markov chains on trees \nBio: Mario Stanke studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Göttingen and UCBerkeley\, and received his Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Göttingen. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Haussler lab at UC Santa Cruz in 2006–2007. He has been a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Greifswald since 2010. \nHosted by: Genomics Institute \nLocation: E2-599 (limited space) \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95380317295?pwd=0HbwSYKRQqyCtBcPXGfoB0tPOsA16V.1
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bme-genomics-seminar-supervised-and-unsupervised-deepgene-finding-and-genome-foundation-models/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260625T140000
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SUMMARY:Burbano\, L. (CS) - Security of autonomous decision-making agents: From control systems to embodied AI
DESCRIPTION:Due to their increasing complexity\, autonomous decision-making agents rely on increasingly advanced algorithms\, from classical control theory to reinforcement learning (RL) and\, more recently\, large vision-language models. While these algorithms help automate the decision-making in complex systems\, they bring newer attack vulnerabilities that an adversary can exploit. In this dissertation\, we study the security of autonomous decision agents that use control systems\, RL\, and AI. We focus on the security of cyber-physical and autonomous cyber-defense systems. In particular\, we study how an attacker can compromise decision-making agents. \nFor control systems\, this dissertation studies the existence of backdoor attacks against control systems that rely on data and proposes a defense strategy against the sensors of control systems. \nFor reinforcement learning\, we study the security of autonomous cyber-defense (ACD)) agents that automatically respond to attackers’ actions in a network. While previous works focus on creating agents\, we study an adversary who compromises the agent’s own infrastructure\, manipulating the information it observes to steer the network toward an attacker-chosen state. We also propose a defense strategy that focuses on determining if an attacker is compromising the ACD. \nFinally\, we study the security of embodied AI\, where CPS rely on large vision-language models (LVLMs) for decision-making. We propose a novel attack that can cause an agent to make unsafe decisions by presenting a well-designed textual sign via the visual modality. While previous attacks against neural network-based algorithms rely on creating adversarial patches without semantic meaning\, in this work\, we exploit the fact that LVLMs can understand text. \n  \nEvent Host: Luis Burbano\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science  \nAdvisor: Alvaro Cardenas \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92373119649?pwd=BLFQMrGkOxJVXnjrJhXqudN1iciZAn.1 \nPasscode: 160434\n   
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/burbano-l-cs-security-of-autonomous-decision-making-agents-from-control-systems-to-embodied-ai/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260625T180000
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SUMMARY:UC Santa Cruz Premed Cohorts and DIY Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the UC Santa Cruz Premed Postbacc Program for an informative\, live online session designed for students\, parents\, and anyone exploring pathways into medicine\, public health\, and other health professions. \nIn this discussion\, we’ll provide a comprehensive overview of premed and pre-health programs to help you understand your options and choose the path that best aligns with your goals. \nThis is a presentation and discussion with plenty of time to ask questions and connect directly with program staff. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/uc-santa-cruz-premed-cohorts-and-diy-info-session/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260628T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260628T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork\, Bleak House. This year\, we will spend the year reading the 2026 Dickens Universe novel. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about this beloved book. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nOCT 26: Chapters 8-13\nNOV 23: Chapters 14-19\nDEC 28: No meeting\nJAN 25: Chapters 20-25\nFEB 22: Chpaters 26-32\nMAR 22: Chapters 33-38\nAPR 26: Chapters 39-46\nMAY 24: Chapters 47-53\nJUN 28: Chapters 54-67 (End)\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel 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 novel to read at Gutenburg.org or listen to it 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-bleak-house-2/2026-06-28/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260630T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260630T130000
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SUMMARY:From Diploma to Dollars: Money Matters for New Alumni
DESCRIPTION:Life After Graduation Series \nHosted by UC Davis\, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. \nJoin the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another session in the Life After Graduation Series\, “From Diploma to Dollars: Money Matters for New Alumni\,” on Tuesday\, June 30 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). \nGraduation is behind you—now it’s time to take charge of your finances. From new careers and paychecks to bills and major financial decisions\, this transition can feel overwhelming. This session will help you build confidence navigating budgeting\, debt\, benefits\, and financial priorities. Walk away with practical tools and smart habits to support long-term stability and success. \nLEARN MORE & REGISTER \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/from-diploma-to-dollars-money-matters-for-new-alumni/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T120000
DTSTAMP:20251211T171734Z
CREATED:20251211T171734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T171734Z
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION: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 and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-07-04/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260709T133000
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SUMMARY:Carrión\, H. (CSE) - Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Representation Learning and Understanding
DESCRIPTION:AI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine\, and particularly in dermatology\, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones\, body sites\, and disease types\, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce\, demographically imbalanced\, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label\, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet\, which learns wound healing stages from longitudinal photographs without any human labels\, reaching 90.6% downstream stage-classification accuracy on a small longitudinal cohort. The Fair\, Efficient\, and Diverse Diffusion (FEDD) model then leverages powerful diffusion-model embeddings to build a skin-tone-fair\, data-efficient classifier for skin lesions\, matching or exceeding state-of-the-art performance while using only 5-20% of available labels and contributing explicit skin-tone-stratified fairness evaluation of the work. Next\, Controllable Generation of Diverse Dermatological Imagery (cgDDI) re-tasks this diffusion model to controllably synthesize skin-tone-balanced dermatological imagery\, growing a small biopsy-confirmed dataset by over 400x and reaching state-of-the-art 90.9% accuracy and improved fairness in malignancy classification\, with a +13.9% cross-dataset gain on the Fitzpatrick17k benchmark. Finally\, we introduce D-Synth and DermDepth: a synthetic dermoscopic dataset with pixel-perfect 3D ground truth and a metric-scale foundation model that closes the loop into 3D dermatology\, correcting metric scale error from over 16x to under 1.1x on real dermoscopic data and enabling single-photograph measurement of lesion reconstruction: size\, area\, and volume without specialized hardware. All data\, code\, and models are released openly to support reproducibility and ongoing fairness research. \nEvent Host: Héctor Carrión\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Narges Norouzi \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96678782408?pwd=71f0ObEnUMNgkZ9NYnpbFLMlg1Pdm0.1 \nPasscode: 0FMVtz
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/carrion-h-cse-deep-learning-algorithms-for-medical-image-representation-learning-and-understanding-2/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Levine\, R. (CSE) - Validating GPU Memory Consistency and Safety at Scale
DESCRIPTION:Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become essential platforms for parallel computing\, supporting applications far beyond graphics. Central to GPU programming models is its memory consistency specification (MCS)\, which defines the semantics of concurrent shared-memory operations and interacts with other language features to determine security guarantees such as memory safety. Understanding whether implementations conform to an MCS\, and whether the MCS provides a sound abstraction of real hardware\, is essential for reasoning about GPU programs and validating implementations. \nThis thesis develops techniques and large-scale studies for validating GPU memory consistency and memory safety. First\, it introduces MC Mutants\, a mutation testing methodology that systematically evaluates GPU MCS test environments. Applied to WebGPU\, MC Mutants generates a suite of conformance tests and uncovers two implementation bugs. Next\, it presents GPUHarbor\, a browser- and Android-based framework for large-scale testing across commodity GPUs. GPUHarbor enables a study of 106 GPUs from seven vendors\, reveals two previously unknown memory consistency bugs\, and provides new insights into GPU behavior that inform subsequent architectural and security studies. Finally\, this thesis presents SafeRace\, a collection of security assessments and specification proposals for preserving WebGPU memory safety in the presence of data races. Evaluated across dozens of GPUs and 21 WebGPU compilation stacks\, SafeRace identifies vulnerabilities in multiple GPU implementations\, including one assigned a CVE\, and proposes a validated path toward stronger memory safety guarantees in WebGPU. \nEvent Host: Reese Levine\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Tyler Sorensen \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94641390195?pwd=RWXp9aprCMqmaAo8nq7oKwqTt02zwN.1 \nPasscode: 628349
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/levine-r-cse-validating-gpu-memory-consistency-and-safety-at-scale/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Scott\, J. (CSE) - Mechanistic Specialization Does Not Guarantee Performance: Evidence from Dual AttentionTransformers
DESCRIPTION:Dual Attention Transformers (DATs) extend decoder-only Transformers with a dedicated relational-attention stream\, making them a natural architecture for abstract identity rules such asABA and ABB. Surprisingly\, we find that comparably sized GPT-2 models outperform DATs on these tasks. We investigate this gap with two complementary mechanistic analyses. First\, causal mediation analysis shows that DATs exhibit stronger evidence of hypothesized symbolic mechanisms: symbol abstraction\, symbol induction\, and retrieval\, than GPT-2. Second\, a routing analysis shows why this specialization does not translate into better behavior: DATs make more wrong-copy errors\, can attend to the correct source token while still predicting the wrong token\, and show weak direct contribution from relational attention to the correct-versus-wrong outputmargin. Ablating positive-routing heads hurts performance\, while amplifying those headsimproves DAT more than matched controls. These results show that explicit relational attentioncan shape internal organization without guaranteeing task success. For identity-rule tasks\, performance depends not only on whether relational information is represented\, but whether it is routed to the final output position in a form that affects the next-token prediction. Because pretrained DAT and GPT-2 models differ in training data\, tokenizer\, and other implementation details\, these findings should be interpreted as evidence about the mechanisms used by existing models rather than as a definitive architectural comparison. Follow-up experiments will address these confounders through controlled training comparisons that match data\, scale\, and evaluation conditions across architectures. \nEvent Host: Jonathan Scott\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Leilani Gilpin \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95404396322?pwd=0e0AegKSxhcFDDKrn08muHcqfHs6WW.1 \nPasscode: 985103
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/scott-j-cse-mechanistic-specialization-does-not-guarantee-performance-evidence-from-dual-attentiontransformers/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Kembay\, A. (ECE) - Sparse and Continual Foundations for Adaptive General Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:While the human brain learns continually\, mastering new tasks without forgetting\nthe old and adapting to unfamiliar ones from context alone\, modern neural networks\nstill lack both. To bridge the gap between biological adaptivity and modern AI\, we\nhave established foundational work on sparsity as a computational principle at three\nlevels of neural computation\, through salient feature masking that distills only the most\ninformative knowledge from a teacher\, quantized spiking neural networks whose sparse\nactivations mitigate catastrophic forgetting by updating weights only when new learn-\ning requires it\, and complex-pole value-path dynamics that give Transformer attention\na resonant\, positionally selective memory. Addressing the remaining bottleneck\, that\nthese sparse structures are fixed in advance rather than adapted to the task at hand\,\nwe propose a research roadmap centered on in-context meta-learning with sparse atten-\ntion priors\, enabling models to ‘learn to be sparse’ by inferring task-relevant structure\nfrom context alone\, without any weight update. Taken together\, this research seeks\nto unify brain-inspired sparsity with continual and in-context learning as a foundation\nfor adaptive general intelligence. \nEvent Host: Assel Kembay\, Ph.D. Student\, Electrical & Computer Engineering \nAdvisor: Jason Eshraghian \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92202931005?pwd=peVIc4e03fUPwFqlGa6yWx6ZlL33lI.1 \nPasscode: 742766
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/kembay-a-ece-sparse-and-continual-foundations-for-adaptive-general-intelligence/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:July Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor Aide Macias-Munoz
DESCRIPTION:Unlocking the blueprint for regeneration: Insights from Hydra\nRegeneration\, the ability to heal and regrow lost body parts\, varies across species\, tissues\, and even cell types. To harness regenerative ability for medicine\, we need to understand the genetic mechanisms that are similar across regenerating species. My lab uses Hydra\, a small freshwater relative of jellyfish\, to investigate how the genome controls this extraordinary process. Hydra possess remarkable regenerative abilities\, including the capacity to regenerate head and foot when cut in half and to rebuild a complete animal from clusters of cells. By studying gene expression and gene regulation during regeneration\, we aim to identify the genetic programs that drive this process. In this talk\, I will discuss what Hydra can teach us about the evolution and genetic basis of regeneration. \nAide Macias-Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Her research seeks to understand how complex traits\, including regeneration and eyes\, have evolved across animals. She is particularly interested in deciphering whether similar or different genes are used to encode these traits in different species. She holds a B.A. in Integrative Biology with a minor in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Irvine. \nREGISTER
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/july-slugs-and-steins-with-assistant-professor-aide-macias-munoz/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260722T110000
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SUMMARY:Holmes\, J. (CM) - Towards a Multi-dimensional Model of User Load
DESCRIPTION:Games user researchers (GURs) use various methods to understand when a game is overloading its players. In games research where data-driven multimodal approaches are necessary to drive insights\, the currently available tools to measure user load are coarse\, one-dimensional\, and often aggregated. The more dominant instruments\, such as the Cognitive Load Scale (CLS) and the NASA-TLX\, rely on player reflections of mental effort\, primarily at the end of the playtest session\, to distinguish different cognitive load types. This makes it difficult to: (1) understand where specifically players are struggling and experiencing high load\, especially at the non-reflective subconscious level\, (2) identify where that load is primarily coming from (e.g.\, perceptual clutter or difficulty/skill imbalance)\, and (3) examine user overload at scale\, a crucial component of designing a game with large player bases. Telemetry is the behavioral record of what players are doing from moment to moment\, in varying degrees of granularity. Telemetry has served as a powerful tool to understand player behaviors at scale\, yet is rarely used to measure user load\, especially through a validated multidimensional framework. This dissertation proposes that behavioral signatures of specific load constructs are observable in game telemetry\, and a model built and validated on such telemetry can measure the distinct components of each load at the moment-to-moment granularity of individual play\, as opposed to aggregated magnitude. This dissertation consists of three parts: (1) Validation through construct manipulation and reference measurement. Specifically\, manipulating theoretically grounded load constructs and confirming that the proposed telemetry features respond as predicted\, relative to the established measurements collected alongside them (e.g.\, NASA-TLX\, pupillometry\, secondary-task). (2) Individual-level validation through rigorous longitudinal examination of the same players repeatedly across many sessions such that load constructs can be tracked at the within-person granularity. This is necessary to establish that the measure works for an individual player and not just for population averages. (3) Test the user load model by applying it to naturalistic game telemetry. Additionally\, this phase will entail the development of an insight-oriented measurement tool for GURs based on our validated user load model. The overarching contribution is a behavioral\, telemetry-based method for measuring multidimensional user load in games\, validated to measure load within each person (individual-level). This gives GURs a scalable tool and replicable process for detecting user load in commercial game telemetry. \nEvent Host: Jonattan Holmes\, Ph.D. Student\, Computational Media \nAdvisor: Magy Seif El-Nasr \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98245962806?pwd=HnkwPMFSamQJFrE5aihbZbKDBbt4s9.1 \nPasscode: 347521
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SUMMARY:Li\, J. (CM) - Detecting Failure to Adapt: Reading Self-Regulated Learning Breakdowns from Game Telemetry through Plan Recognition
DESCRIPTION:Three learners who fail the same level of an educational game the same number of times can be failing in three different ways\, and the difference determines what each should do next. Yet the measures a game’s logs are usually reduced to (completion time\, error counts\, mastery estimates) render the three identical. This proposal takes one breakdown as its object: failure-to-adapt\, the case where the game has repeatedly surfaced evidence that a learner’s current approach is failing and the learner’s approach shows no responsive change. The construct is grounded in Winne and Hadwin’s monitor-and-control model of self-regulated learning and defined at the level of the learner’s plan. To detect it\, a plan-recognition engine maintains a continuously updated probability estimate of which strategy the learner is executing across the whole trace; an episode is flagged when that estimate shows no evidence-responsive revision. Because behavior alone cannot settle what broke down\, flagged episodes are validated against learners’ own verbal reports\, coded blind\, and decomposed into monitoring failure\, control failure\, or control the trace cannot show. Three studies carry the work: detection and diagnosis on real telemetry from an educational game\, including a comparison against the analytics the field already runs; a formative study of what a facilitator (an instructor or teaching assistant running a class play session) must see to judge correctly which learners need attention; and a documented authoring case carrying the detection to a second game. The contribution is knowledge for game-based-learning researchers: a theory-grounded construct\, a validated way to detect it from play\, and the authoring knowledge to embed that detection in new games. \nEvent Host: Jiahong Li\, Ph.D. Student\, Computational Media \nAdvisor: Magy Seif El-Nasr \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93238603235?pwd=zENRsu82HRj4JYKcMEn9MZibU8kC7F.1 \nPasscode: 835328
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-26/
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-27/
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-28/
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-29/
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