Past Events
- Thu, 04/06/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join UCSB Library at a public reception to celebrate its new exhibition of student work Happy City: Isla Vista. The exhibition is drawn from the layouts of UCSB's literary magazine The "Catalyst," whose Winter 2023 issue is themed to connect to the UCSB Reads 2023 selection, "Happy City: Transforming...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s UCSB Reads book selection, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores how our communities do or do not make us happy.
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This workshop will provide graduate students with practical tips and strategies for creating Literature Reviews in the humanities and social sciences.
You will learn the following:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources you need
- How to find and organize your sources to facilitate your writing ...
- Tue, 04/04/2023 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students. RSVP here.
**If you would like to drink wine at this event, be sure to bring either a passport or driver's license so we can verify that you are over 21.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
- Wed, 03/22/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join UCSB Library for a reception and conversation with Isis Aquarian about her life with the Source Family, a commune in Los Angeles in the early 1970s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock, and how she came to place the commune's archival materials with UCSB Library. Jodi Willie and Charlie Kitchings...
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- Fri, 03/17/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Stretch, color, grab snacks, and pick up free bluebooks and scantrons. Sign-up for a massage (first-come, first-served, in person, starting at 10:50am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Economics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s ...
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- Thu, 03/02/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s AD&A Museum, will lead a behind-the-scenes...
- Wed, 03/01/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Parallel Programming with Python on HPC on Wednesday, Mar 1 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605.Parallel processing is a powerful operation tool in that the task is executed simultaneously in multiple processors and can vastly accelerate various computational tasks. It is meant to reduce the overall program execution time and speed up the computational performance. In this workshop, you'll learn some knowledge to write python code...
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- Mon, 02/27/2023 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Students will learn and become familiar with using web-based mapping software while supporting a humanitarian effort that will ultimately impact communities across the world.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.
We work together to...
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We work together to...
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 3:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Buchanan Hall, Room 1930
Barajas will share findings from two projects within the Mobility Justice in Chicago research study, a multi-year collaboration between university researchers and a racial justice organization in Chicago. The work aims to advance mobility justice by understanding the relationships between everyday experiences and travel barriers faced by people of color in the urban area.
The first study explains how inequities in transportation...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization in Python
February 21-23, 2023 from 9:00am - 12:00pm, UCSB Library (Room 1312)
This three-day workshop is an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. The workshop...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization in Python
February 21-23, 2023 from 9:00am - 12:00pm, UCSB Library (Room 1312)
This three-day workshop is an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. The workshop...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization in Python
February 21-23, 2023 from 9:00am - 12:00pm, UCSB Library (Room 1312)
This three-day workshop is an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. The workshop...
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- Wed, 02/15/2023 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Online
This workshop will cover key definitions, recommendations, and techniques to implement data de-identification/anonymization.
Attendees will be invited to follow along and complete exercises with a provided dataset using the online graphical user interface of the R sdcMicro package for disclosure control. No R programming experience is required.
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, or affiliated researchers at the University of California (UC), and we...
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- Mon, 02/13/2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Data visualizations can be powerful tools to present patterns and insights from research findings. However, the effectiveness of communicating data visually is highly dependent on key design and accuracy principles.
Join us in a discussion about what makes good data visualizations and things that should be avoided at all costs. This...
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- Thu, 02/09/2023 - 6:00pm
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Location: Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 East Anapamu Street.
Join UCSB Reads 2023 and Santa Barbara Public Library's Book to Action Program for a panel discussion with local experts who will discuss housing policy challenges and possible...
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- Wed, 02/08/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Singularity Containers on HPC on Wednesday, Feb 8 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605. Singularity is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up software in a portable and reproducible way. You can build a container using Singularity on your laptop and then run it on the UCSB High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster or national HPC clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or a workstation....
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- Mon, 01/23/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 02/06/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for Social Scientists
January 23, 30 and Feb 6 2023 from 10:00am - 11:50am, UCSB Library (Room 1312)
This is a three-day workshop on data analysis and visualization with R. We will introduce the R programming language and RStudio, a desktop application...
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- Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) is a UCSB staff organization which promotes equity by providing opportunities for women to meet, connect, and learn together.
For its February meeting, the group is reading the UCSB Reads 2023 book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Staff, students and faculty are all welcome to join the discussion.
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- Tue, 01/31/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
As of January 25 2023, NIH now requires researchers to submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMS Plan) with new proposals. This policy applies to all research, irrespective of award budget amount, that results in the generation of scientific data. In this workshop for faculty, we will go over the essential elements of the new...
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- Mon, 01/23/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 02/06/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for Social Scientists
January 23, 30 and Feb 6 2023 from 10:00am - 11:50am, UCSB Library (Room 1312)
This is a three-day workshop on data analysis and visualization with R. We will introduce the R programming language and RStudio, a desktop application...
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- Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Take a slow group ride down to local favorite Hendry's Beach on your bicycle!
This ride, which will be led by UCSB Health & Wellness staff, is inspired by Chapter 8 in Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. In this chapter of the UCSB Reads 2023 selection, Montgomery...
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