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The Cognitive Computing Odyssey November 2016 // Presented by Uncubed & IBM

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SUMIT_2016: U-M's Cyber Security Conference

Cyber Security in an Ever-Changing World — The New IT Paradigm

Plan to attend SUMIT_2016, the 12th annual cyber security conference. The Security at University of Michigan IT (SUMIT) is an annual...

IMAGINING DEMOCRACY: ELITES AND LEADERS IN RUSSIA’S LONG JOURNEY FROM COMMUNISM

Judith Kullberg, Professor, EMU

Dr. Kullberg is Professor of Political Science at EMU and Faculty Associate of the University of Michigan’s Center for Russian and East...

Copyright and Your Dissertation

This Copyright Office workshop addresses common questions about copyright and dissertations. It's intended for graduate students, but...

Cognition, Culture, and Complexity: Modeling the Emergence of Shared Social Realities from Individual Mental Representation

Lynette Shaw, Research Fellow University of Michigan

The cultures we belong to affect far more than just our practices and beliefs - they also fundamentally shape how we perceive the world,...

Economic Development

Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade presented by Reka Juhasz, Columbia University

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Economic History

Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade presented by Reka Juhasz, Columbia University

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International Economics

Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade presented by Reka Juhasz, Columbia University

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Private Environmental Governance

Lee Paddock, The George Washington University Law School

Please join us for the next installment in our Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Lee Paddock, Associate Dean for...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan's Policy for Protecting Cultural Properties:History, Current State and Challenges

Tadahito Tsutsui, Technical Official, Fine Arts Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan

Based on knowledge acquired through his years of service in the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education and the Agency for Cultural Affairs -...

GIEU Writing Workshop with Sweetland Center for Writing

Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates

GIEU programs are project-based service-learning programs. Earn 3 credits taking a semester-long pre-departure course on intercultural...

Time Management: Everyone's Challenge!

Workshop hosted by WAKE UP in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives

Join us for a discussion on how to manage time effectively and stay on top of your game....

Gifts of Art presents Great American Songbook

by Sarah D’Angelo Trio

Sarah D’Angelo was born in Jamestown, New York and began formal studies in music at a young age at the State University of New York,...

Spanish 230 Abroad Info Session

Complete your third- and fourth-semester LSA language requirements in Argentina, Costa Rica, or Spain with Spanish 230 abroad next spring....

Emerging Wolverines | Session 3

Session 3 What Matters to You...

Wieseneck Symposium: "Arabs, Jews and 'Arab-Jews': Israel's Entangled Identities"

This symposium brings together Institute Fellows and other prominent scholars to discuss Israel’s entangled identities between Arabs and...

Econometrics

Inference Under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization presented by Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago

Abstract and paper not yet available.

Collaborations for Diversity, Access and Inclusion at the U-M

K-12 Outreach and Engagement Programs for "Growing STEM" & Beyond

This event will provide an opportunity to discuss how units on campus can better communicate and collaborate across campus to grow,...

Commutative Algebra

Global Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and Frobenius Betti numbers

The Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and the Frobenius Betti numbers are numerical invariants that can be attached to any local ring of prime...

Decision Consortium

Mark Reimers, MSU Neuroscience Program

Statistical methods for big data can help elucidate neural processes during decisions

Disability Justice Panel

various panelists

A panel of scholars and activists from the University of Michigan community will reflect on the ways in which disability activism may...

Quant Program Practitioner Seminar

Introduction to C++ in Quantitative Finance

Speaker(s): Pete Benson (University of Michigan)

Analysis/Probability Learning Seminar

The Kadison-Singer Problem: Part 2 of the Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava Proof

We will continue the proof of Paving Conjecture and finish the proof of Kadison-Singer problem using Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava theorem....

Citizenship Workshop

The International Center is excited to work with the National Immigration Forum to host a workshop on obtaining US citizenship through the...

Differential Equations

Least action, incompressible flow, and optimal transportation

We describe a striking connection between Arnold's least-action principle for incompressible Euler flows and geodesic paths for...

DISC Film and Discussion. Facing Mirrors

Negar Azarbayjani, director. In Persian and German with English subtitles (102 min., 2011)....

EEB Thursday Seminar: Fens, bogs, and polygons (oh my!): Effects of ecosystem succession and permafrost on wetland carbon dynamics

Claire Treat, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, DE

Wetlands are an important component of the hydrological cycle, a globally important carbon stock, and the largest natural source of...

Fall 2016 Communication and Media Speaker Series | When User Comments Meet the News: Korean Case Studies

Eun-Ju Lee, Professor, Department of Communication, Seoul National University

With the emergence of various forms of Internet-based communication, the blurred boundary between mass and interpersonal communication has...

Happy Birthday, NPS! A Cartographic Celebration of 100 Years of Our National Parks

Join us for a cartographic celebration of 100 years of our national parks. Come and explore the varied and vast landscapes and monuments...

Logic

Strong failures of higher analogs of Hindman's theorem, II

(One of the versions of) Hindman's theorem states that, whenever we partition an infinite abelian group G in two cells, there exists an...

Math Club

How many primes are there?

Speaker(s): Efrat Bank (UM)

Proteoform Analytics for Biomarker Discovery by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry

Steven Patrie (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

Advancements in chromatography, mass spectrometry, and informatics have made “birds-eye-view” (top-down) proteomics increasingly...

The Economics of Wishful Thinking

John Leahy, Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow....

The Fragments Workshop: Romanization in the Middle of Nowhere

Carlos Norena, University of California-Berkeley

This paper addresses the problem of historical change in the provincial backwater of a large premodern empire. It examines the evidence for...

The Island of Hermaphrodites: Gender Performance and Transgenderism in Early Modern France

Featured speaker will be Kathleen Long, Professor of French, Department of Romance Studies...

Topology

Essential surfaces from intersections in the character variety

I will describe the SL2(C) character variety for a family of hyperbolic two-bridge knots. These character varieties have multiple curve...

Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

More background on p-divisible groups

Speaker(s): Valia Gazaki (UM)

French Language Study Abroad Info Session

Improve your French rapidly in Grenoble or Paris—go next spring or summer or for a full semester. French 230 in Grenoble and Intermediate...

Ig.Nite

Come out for our Ig.Nite evening of dinner and discussion, starting with 5:10pm Daily Mass!

Wynwood Walls - Art as Ignition: Presenting Jessica Goldman Srebnick with Tristan Eaton and Kashnik

Dark, gritty, and desolate were words used to describe Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood in 2006. Wanting to revitalize the neighborhood,...

Acing the Interview

This is an event for the Beyond the Diag organization.

UMSI MIX & LGBTQIA Study Break/Social Hour

We hope you are doing well and hanging in there during midterms! The officers of MIX (Multiethnic Information eXchange) and the UMSI LGBTQIA...

ZLI Startup Workshop: Conducting Effective Customer Discovery

Customer discovery is a critical activity that allows you to develop and test hypotheses about your new business or social venture. This...

Acing the Interview

This is a session for members of Phi Alpha Delta....

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower 20th Anniversary Celebration

Enjoy complimentary hot apple cider and doughnuts on the new Edu U. Gerstacker Grove as Michigan Engineering presents an evening of dynamic...

BLI Leadership Experience Showcase

Barger Leadership Institute students and project teams will share some of the amazing experiences they had over the past year that were...

Connecting Students to Advance Health

2nd Annual Interprofessional Town Hall

U-M students and faculty in health-related fields are invited to join leaders from across the health professions and schools for this annual...

Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng

“A Day in the Sun”

Featuring Tiffany Ng (SMTD), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley), Chris Chafe (Stanford), Susan Lepri (UM College of Engineering)...

HEALTH TRACK: Exploring Barriers to Health--Tackle Two Real Casesfrom the UM Student Run Free Clinic

RSVP is required for this program. If you are in Handshake, Click "Join event" to RSVP Not in Handshake? Click here:...

Ready, Set, Intern!

*RSVP is required for this event. Please click "join event" onthe Handshake event page to RSVP". Not in Handshake, click this...

Student Success: Learning How to Celebrate Differences

Hosted by the Intercultural Communication Program Suite in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives

Practice how to be "respectfully curious" and learn about communication styles from other cultures. This workshop will build on...

Italian Language Study Abroad Info Session

Improve your Italian in Ferrara, a medieval treasure and Italian cultural center, or in Bologna, home to the world's oldest university....

Target Corporation Diversity Dinner & Networking Event

· What: University of Michigan Diversity Dinner and Networking Event...

UM Psychology Community Talk with Dr. Fiona Lee

Dr. Fiona Lee, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Title: Living competently in a global world...

Weekly Bible Study - The Book of John Ch 6

Weekly group gathering for fellowship, worship and a Bible Study. This year we will be working our way through the book of John.

Before the Flood - film pre-screening

Dr. Henry Pollack will answer questions following the screening. Dr. Pollack shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for his work on the...

Restore

Restore is a new undergraduate faith sharing group with a focus on building a faith community with real friendships and authentic...

What Happens after It is Uncovered?

Sebastián Encina, Collections Manager

Sponsored by the Huron Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society.

David Wilcox

"An eager, unapologetic sincerity flows from the heart of David Wilcox's acoustic music," says Rolling Stone. David Wilcox is...

Orpheus Singers

“An Evening of Part Songs”

Jerry Blackstone, music director...

University Philharmonia Orchestra

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15PM in the lower lobby....

Swing Dance with Miscellania

Stressed out from the first round of midterms? Back from fall break and want to continue having fun?Come to Miscellania's second event...

U.Pitch Competition & Showcase Application Deadline

U.Pitch brings together collegiate entrepreneurs from across the country for the ultimate elevator pitch competition with a prize pool of...