Happening @ Michigan

Hats on to Downton Abbey

Downton Day in Northern Indiana

Are you a fan of PBS's smash hit series, Downton Abbey? If so, come enjoy the period's intriguing culture and elaborate clothing...

What's In It For Them: Inspiring Quality Performance From the Bottom Up

Presenter: Beyond Interactive Training

This course offers creative tools for increasing the level of shared goals between individuals and the organization. Through creative...

Apply to the Quicken Loans Corporate Immersion!

CLICK JOIN EVENT AND FILL OUT THE SURVEY IN THE LINK TO APPLY...

Computerized Investing 201

Let Your Computer Make You Money

Your computer can enhance your ability to actively select mutual funds and ETF’s for investment. This class will help you make decisions...

An Intimate Look: Images of Kabuki Theaters and Actors in the Edo Period of Japan for Specialists

Exhibition co-curators Natsu Oyobe and Mariko Okada will lead an in-depth exploration of Kabuki prints

Ernestine and Herbert Ruben Study Center for Works on Paper Space is limited and registration is required. Please email...

HEALTH TRACK: Pre-Vet Consultations with MSU CVM Dean of Admissions Hilda Mejia Abreu

One-on-one consultations with Hilda Mejia Abreu, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, Admissions, Scholarships, Diversity and Inclusion Michigan State...

Mitsui Finance

Elisabeth Kempf, Chicago Booth

Abstract and paper not yet available.

Graduate and Faculty Workshop with Seb Franklin

Seb Franklin (King’s College London)

Friday, November 4 | Graduate and Faculty Workshop with Sebastian Franklin (King’s College London)...

Thesis defense: Population level consequences of spatial networks: species coexistence and implications for invasive species

Senay Yitbarek, EEB Ph.D. student

Senay Yitbarek presents his doctoral dissertation research.

#EHour

Jeff Schox (Schox Patent Group)

Jeff Schox: Founding Member and Patent Attorney, Schox Patent Group; Consulting Professor, Stanford Law School...

The ABCs of Research

Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Ben Shneiderman is a pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction and in the early 1980s, developed the principles of direct...

AsianLan 203 in China Info Session

Complete your 3rd- and 4th-semester LSA language requirements in China with AsianLan 203 in Nanjing, taught by a UM Chinese instructor. Two...

How to Land an Internship

Ben Anderson

LSA Internships Office/Opportunity Hub staff will present a workshop on developing a competitive resume, identifying internship...

II Career Event

Sundara Soap: Lessons Learned by a Young Entrepreneur Working to Fight Preventable Hygiene-Related Deaths and Disease in Myanmar, India, and Uganda

Erin Zaikis is a University of Michigan Ford School alum (B.A., 2010) and the founder of Sundara - a nonprofit organization that fights...

Political Economic Series

Jennifer Gandhi

Held in the Eldersveld Room

Political Economic Workshop (PEW)

Jennifer Gandhi | Emory University

Held in the Eldersveld Room

Dance Master Class Repertory Series: Malcolm Tulip

Taught by SMTD theatre faculty member Malcolm Tulip. “In this workshop we will examine some of the core exercises in the Lecoq pedagogy...

Activity-dependent Efficiency of Endocytosis at Mammalian Central Synapses

Jianhua Xu, Augusta University

Host: Yanzhuang Wang

Future Leaders in Human Rights Lecture: Growing Pains: Why and How the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Need to Evolve over the Next Ten Years

Sarah Brooks, programme manager, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and human rights advocate

The UN Human Rights Council turns ten this year. In New York on 28 October, some of the most powerful countries in the world - both human...

Jane Cleo Marshall Lucas Lecture Honoring African-American Women Leaders in the Law

Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby will deliver the inaugural lecture

Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals will lecture on the contribution of African-American women to...

20th Annual Department of Mathematics Career Conference

Come see what careers are available to students interested in Mathematics and related fields!

Department of Mathematics Career Fair

Interested in a Career in Mathematics? Come join us for the 20th Annual Mathematics Career Conference! You will have a chance to talk with...

Economics at Work

Abigail Nurse, Department of Justice

Abstract and paper not yet available

GRIN Consulting Career Panel

Are you considering job opportunities in the industry? Do you have an interest in consulting careers? Would you like to learn more about the...

PhonDi Discussion Group

Kuniko Nielsen: "Modeling Voice Onset Time in English: Factors and their cross-speaker variability"

Kuniko Nielsen will discuss "Modeling Voice Onset Time in English: Factors and their cross-speaker variability."...

The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy

Both Sides of the Issue

This year is the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shaxpere. No, that is not a spelling error! Did this man from Stratford really...

HistLing Discussion Group

Edward Nolan: Quod-Switching: Bilingualism and Social Context in the Letters of Pliny the Younger.

Edward Nolan will give a presentations on "Quod-Switching: Bilingualism and Social Context in the Letters of Pliny the Younger."

Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Convergence of thresholding schemes for multi-phase mean-curvature flow

The thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow, was introduced by Merriman, Bence and Osher. In the talk I present...

HET Seminar | Quantum Space, Strings and the Gravitization of the Quantum

Rob Leigh (Illinois)

In the study of purely quantum phenomena, such as occur in double slit experiments, etc., it is useful to introduce modular variables rather...

SynSem Discussion Group

Yu-Chuan (Lucy) Chiang, Andrew McInnerney

Yu-Chuan (Lucy) Chiang, Andrew McInnerney

Combinatorics

Maximal Newton polygons and the quantum Bruhat graph

We will start by explaining how to associate a Newton polygon to an element in GL(n) over a field of Laurent series. This collection of...

Geometry

Sasaki-Einstein metrics, K-Stability and the 5-sphere

I will discuss the connection between Sasaki-Einstein metrics, or conical Ricci flat Kahler metrics, and the algebro-geometric notion of...

Economic Theory

Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision presented by Florian Ederer, Yale University

Abstract:...

Smith Lecture: Changing World – Changing Exploration

John Thompson, Cornell

The world continues to change, most recently through global connectivity and digital technology that have been termed the “Fourth...

2016 Parents Weekend

LSA Honors Guest Speakers Luke Schaefer & Kathryn Edin

A NYT Bestseller and White House pick, $2.00 a Day, was the summer book for the Class of 2020, written by Kathryn J. Edin (Professor of...

African American Caucus: Alumni Panel

Dr. Tayana Hardin, Dr. Frank Mitchell

When: Friday, November 4, 4:00-6:00pm Where: 3512 Haven Hall Guest Alumni: Dr. Tayana Hardin, Dr. Frank Mitchell

Biophysics Seminar: Josh Karslake and Tehetina Woldemichael, Post-Doctoral Students

Tehetina Woldemichael and Jason Karslake

Tehetina Woldemichael...

Diversity and Disability in Bollywood Films

Prof. Joyojeet Pal

In this talk, we discuss the portrayals of disability in Indian cinema since the early talkie days, and track the changes in the ways these...

Family Weekend Reception

in conjunction with the University of Michigan Parents and Family weekend

Group, Lie and Number Theory

p-adic analytic twists, modularity, and strong subconvexity

One of the principal analytic questions about automorphic L-functions are the so-called subconvex estimates on the size of their critical...

Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The dualizing sheaf on first-order deformations of toric surface singularities (following Altmann and Koll\'ar)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07805 Speaker(s): Harold Blum (UM)

Student AIM Seminar

Optimizing Scalable Adaptive Choice Experiments with Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms

Multi-armed Bandit methods have been successful for A\B testing. It is the main algorithm behind google analytics. I will apply these...

Hanja Gongbu Dongari

Weekly Friday meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 downstairs at the School of Social Work. Each week's Hanja characters will be uploaded on...

Acing the Interview: Housing student-staff candidate interview preparation

This workshop is for students interviewing for Housing student-staff positions for 2017-2018....

Ava DuVernay's 13th Screening

In partnership with the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center will be hosting a screening of...

Copy of Preparing for Pharmacy School Interviews

Would you like to become more knowledgeable about pharmacy school interviews? Come to this program to learn about various interviewing...

Documentary Screening of "13th"

In partnership with the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center will be hosting a screening of...

Preparing for Pharmacy School Interviews

Would you like to become more knowledgeable about pharmacy school interviews? Come to this program to learn about various interviewing...

The Honeybee Crisis: Real Causes and Solutions

Gunther Hauk, Co-Founder of Spikenard Farm, Inc.

It is often difficult to discern between causes and symptoms when looking at an illness. In our culture, viruses, bacteria and parasites are...

UMMA Dialogue: Celebrity Culture and the Art of Japanese Kabuki Prints

Comparable to the celebrity culture surrounding movie and television stars today, Kabuki...

Athi-Patra Ruga at MOCAD

Exploring the border-zones between fashion, performance, and contemporary art, Athi-Patra Ruga makes work that exposes and subverts the body...

Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Armstrong State

Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Armstrong State

Michigan Volleyball vs. Illinois

Michigan Volleyball vs. Illinois

Public Lecture: The Bristle Mammoth

The director of the U-M Museum of Paleontology, Prof. Daniel C. Fisher, will give a public lecture about the excavation of the Bristle...

Student Recital: Tanner Tanyeri, percussion

PROGRAM: Umezaki - (Cycles) America; Xenakis - Rebonds; Takemitsu - Rain Tree; Lang - String of Pearls; Reich - Mallet Quartet.

Senior Recital: Caitlyn Koester, piano & harpsichord

PROGRAM: Bach - Partita no. 4 in D Major, BWV 828; Satie - 3 Sarabandes; Scriabin - Prelude and Nocturne for Left Hand, op. 9; Haydn -...

Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega is a pioneer of smart contemporary folk music, an American singer/songwriter of rare poetic genius. With her sultry voice, she...

Astronomy Open House

Visit the Student Astronomical Society's Astronomy Open Houses to learn about astronomy, physics, and optics! This Friday is a special...

Wii U at Mary Markley, Fridays 9 PM - 12 AM

Do you like playing Smash 4? How about Mario Kart 8? Or do you just in general enjoy Nintendo games? Lucky for you, CGC hosts Wii U events...

Michigan Business Challenge Intent to Compete form Deadline

Eligible teams who submit an application through the Startup Compete platform by 11:59 p.m. will be invited to compete in Round 1.