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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://events.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-christie-mysteries/2026-09-27/
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas & Speaker Theo Kell
DESCRIPTION:Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity \nPresenter 1: Julian Lucas\, Graduate Student in Miga Lab\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nDescription: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation\, yet their repetitive DNA has long been a blind spot in human genomics. Until recently\, they were largely missing from reference genomes\, and they are still omitted from many genomic analyses due to their rapid sequence divergence. Reference-quality assemblies from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) now make it possible to compare centromeres across hundreds of human haplotypes. I will describe how we built these assemblies and developed methods to align their repetitive satellite arrays. Together\, these form a centromere pangenome that represents variation and supports analysis such as read mapping\, making centromeres accessible to genomics. Our analysis reveals large structural differences in and around centromeres\, as well as unexpected patterns in single-base changes that offer clues to how centromeric DNA evolves. \nBio: Julian is a graduate student in Karen Miga’s laboratory at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research uses pangenomes to characterize variation in human centromeres\, with the goal of bringing these historically difficult-to-analyze regions into mainstream human genetics. Recently\, he helped lead the assembly effort for Release 2 of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC)\, which produced reference-quality genome assemblies that better capture human genetic diversity. Before graduate school\, Julian worked at biotechnology startups\, most recently in non-invasive cancer detection. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department \nTitle of Talk 2: Genomics Institute Computing Resources \nPresenter 2: Theo Kell\, Senior Systems Architect\, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute \nDescription: The backbone of the bioinformatics research at the Genomics Institute is its computing infrastructure. Members of the Genomics Institute have access to a wide array of resources\, including petabytes of storage capacity\, and a supercomputer cluster with over 7\,000 cores. There are also systems for hosting public websites\, sharing datasets with the world\, and collaborating on coding projects. The Genomics Institute IT team works with all stakeholders to make sure that the computing resources are accessible\, up-to-date\, and optimized for cutting-edge\, massively parallel bioinformatics research. \nThis presentation will give an overview of the computing assets that are available\, explain how they are used\, and elaborate on best practices. It is intended to be approachable for students who do not yet have experience with programming or using the command line\, while also providing a jumping-off point for students who are ready to dive in and begin running code. \nBio: Theo Kell is a Senior Systems Architect at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. After graduating from the Baskin School of Engineering’s Technology and Information Management program\, he worked as an IT System Administrator at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Cabrillo College before returning to UCSC to join the Genomics Institute IT team. He has a broad background in Linux/Unix systems\, virtualization\, cybersecurity\, networking\, and customer support.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-speaker-julian-lucas-speaker-theo-kell-genomics-institute-computing-resources/
LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, Physical Sciences Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 and will need to attend another workshop. \nZoom Link \nTo learn more about OPT\, visit the ISSP Optional Practical Training webpage.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/optional-practical-training-opt-workshop-5/
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SUMMARY:International Student Orientation Make-Up Session
DESCRIPTION:Greetings\, New International Students! \nThis session is designed for all new F-1 and J-1 international students that were not able to attend the in-person orientation. During this make-up session\, you will meet Global Engagement staff and learn about campus resources to support your studies and success as a Banana Slug. \nPlease join our mandatory Orientation Make-Up Session for all F-1 and J-1 students. \n\nDate & Time: Thursday\, October 1\, from 13:30 – 15:00\nLocation: Virtual via Zoom Link\n\nIf you have any questions\, please contact istudent@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/international-student-orientation-make-up-session/
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SUMMARY:Miriam Pawel - California Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California—an epic story of one of the world’s elite public universities\, its sweeping social impact\, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDistinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility\, the University of California—a constitutionally independent public trust—is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access\, funding\, and leadership. The University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War\, from women’s rights to student protests\, from academic freedom to affirmative action\, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States. California Dreams narrates UC’s rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed-in particular\, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains\, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion\, “California’s best idea of itself.” \nAt a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty\, as higher education faces unprecedented threats\, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews\, California Dreams weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama\, significance\, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education\, and also California itself. \nMiriam Pawel is an award-winning reporter and editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation\, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a California Book Award Gold Medal and The Crusades of Cesar Chavez\, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and the Winner of the California Book Award. She was recently an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a John Jacobs Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-pawel-california-dreams/
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