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DTSTAMP:20250408T135629
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color
DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm
UID:134798-21875170@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250513T110731
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T162000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Byrne B2A2 (Back to Ann Arbor) Conference  on Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance
DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free\, but online registration is required for all attendees who are not speakers.\n\nSpeakers\nBahman Angoshtari (University of Miami)\nShuoqing Deng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nArash Fahim (Florida State University)\nQi Feng (Florida State University)\nGaoyue Guo (CentraleSupélec)\nBingyan Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nYu-Jui Huang (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\nAli Kara (Florida State University)\nChristian Keller (University of Central Florida)\nDonghan Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)\nMike Ludkovski (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nDominykas Norgilas (North Carolina State University)\nJinniao Qiu (University of Calgary)\nRonnie Sircar (Princeton University)\nQingshuo Song (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nGu Wang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nZhenhua Wang (Shangdong University)\nRuoyu Wu (Iowa State University)\nHao Xing (Boston University)\nSong Yao (University of Pittsburgh)\nXiang Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\nXin Zhang (New York University)\nZhou Zhou (University of Sydney)\nAntonios Zitridis (The University of Chicago)\n\nVenue\nAll the talks will be held in Forum Hall Auditorium at Palmer Commons Building\, located at 100 Washtenaw Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109.\n\nOrganizers\nErhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)\nAsaf Cohen (University of Michigan)\nIbrahim Ekren (University of Michigan)\n\nAcknowledgement\nThis meeting is partially funded by the Department of Mathematics\, Jack Byrne Center for Financial Mathematics and Risk Management\, and Curtis E. Huntington Honorary fund.
UID:135618-21876996@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135618
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium,Free,seminar,Talk
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250407T111911
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit.  His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country.
UID:134757-21874902@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250211T122734
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown
DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm.
UID:129602-21864158@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250604T104248
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Survey Methodology
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Survey Methodology\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n9:00am-12:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to Survey Methodology\, a noncredit course\, covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs\, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors\, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design\, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing.  The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey. \n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business\, public health\, natural resources\, law\, medicine\, nursing\, social work\, and many other domains of study.
UID:135992-21877631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135992
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250513T122307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.\n\nTuesdays\, 9:30-11 a.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID:94181215786)\nWednesdays\, 1:30-3 p.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98659357324)
UID:117253-21865834@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117253
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Machine Learning,Social Science,Social Sciences
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250529T110505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\"
UID:135894-21877391@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250304T131847
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden
DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing.
UID:133414-21873028@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250328T143529
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Psychological Safety in the Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:123164-21865681@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123164
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Communication,Leadership,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250520T123319
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Safer Prescribing Series: Effective Conversations about Opioid Tapering and Deprescribing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fifth Safer Prescribing Series webinar discussing strategies for having effective conversations with patients\, including how to navigate interactions relating to opioid tapering and deprescribing.
UID:135742-21877215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135742
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Medicine,Opioid,Opioid Overdose,Public Health,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20240930T165802
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Parenting Through Separation & Divorce Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Separation or divorce is difficult to handle in general — when children are in the mix\, it becomes that much more complex. Many parents are concerned about the well-being of their children during this time of change. The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) offers free Parenting Through Separation and Divorce virtual workshops each month.\n\nThis workshop delivers practical parenting advice in a collaborative\, caring environment for those going through change. We help parents understand their children’s needs during the transition and offer specific suggestions for creating the most beneficial post-divorce parenting relationships.\n\nThe link to access the online workshop is provided to participants after registration. \n\nThe program is an approved alternative to the SMILE Program by the Friend of the Court program in Washtenaw County\, Michigan.\n\nWhat to Expect:\n\n+ Practical\, actionable advice for couples going through a temporary or permanent split.\n+ A caring and collaborative environment for attendees facilitated by UCCF staff members.\n+ Guidance to help parents understand their children’s needs during what can be a tumultuous time of change and uncertainty.\n+ A certificate of participation once the workshop is over.\n\nWhile it is free\, workshop participants must register via Eventbrite. You will be provided the link once your registration is confirmed.
UID:127149-21858583@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127149
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Children,Divorce,Family,Free,parenting,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n 
UID:84303-21621618@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250421T113230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:134875-21875558@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library
LOCATION:William Clements Library
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250610T102018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Arabic Placement test_June 10\, 2025 (12pm-3pm EST)
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test takes approximately two hours and a half in length\, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed via Zoom and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed online through Canvas site\, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion\, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: The interview portion will be weighted most heavily as it will be used to validate performance on the other two portions. The final result/score/rating will thus be based on the student’s performance on the interview above all. Rating of performance on the writing or reading portions is secondary.\nHow is the result calculated?Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the LSA Language Requirement.Where can I view my results? Placement results are posted within 7 business days after taking the test. You will not be notified of your score automatically. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.\nImportant information about the test* Please note that only students who are participating in the Spring/Summer orientations are eligible to take the online placement test. If you are an existing UM student\, please sign up to take the in-person placement test that is taking place in August.* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in\, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* Students who are currently taking an Arabic course will not be allowed to take the placement test. * The test assesses students’ proficiency in Standard Arabic (fuSHa)\, NOT colloquial Arabic.* If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge\, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before\, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM\, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level\, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement.* Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in\, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101\, 201\, 401\, 501 or 504 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester\, and Arabic 102\, 202\, 402\, 511 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 & 102\, combined) AND Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202\, combined) are offered in the Spring-Summer terms.UM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan\, Syria\, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to developing the four language skills of formal Arabic (fuSHa). If you have questions regarding the placement test\, please contact the Arabic program director at\, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu
UID:135700-21877112@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135700
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Zoom-Canvas
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250604T104048
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations
DESCRIPTION:Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n1:00pm-4:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nCourse Objectives\n• Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question\n• Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions\n• Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions\n• Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions\, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments\n• Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises\n• Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.\n• Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.\n\nDescription\nThis workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions\, revise them\, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes\, evaluations\, and internal\nstates).\n\nWho Should attend\nIndividuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design\, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments\, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.\n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those
UID:135993-21877627@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135993
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20241004T130515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding and Managing ADHD: Free Parent & Guardian Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This free virtual workshop is designed to help parents or guardians. Your child may have received a formal diagnosis already\, or you may suspect they have ADHD or a similar learning challenge. Participants learn more about what ADHD is\, what it “looks” like in children\, how it differs from what you might expect/how it is presented in media\, and where to go from here.\n\nParticipants can expect to learn:\n+ What causes ADHD.\n+ What ADHD looks like in children.\n+ How to support a child with ADHD at home\, school\, and with friends.\n\nThis workshop includes interactive components and a Question-and-Answer session at the end. To help us better prepare and tailor the content of each workshop\, we ask participants to provide their most pressing questions in writing when they register.
UID:127422-21859038@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127422
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:adhd,Children,Free,parenting,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250527T170539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mechanistic Modeling of Complex Health Problems with Deep Learning
DESCRIPTION:Though they show impressive empirical accuracy\, machine learning methodologies have been criticized for not producing interpretable\, scientific theories. In both clinical medicine and public health\, the researchers aim not just to predict health outcomes\, but to improve them. Hence\, causal\, human-interpretable models of nature hold particular value in these fields. In this dissertation\, I investigate how deep learning\, when integrated into scientifically-informed models and principled statistical frameworks\, can be used to advance mechanistic modeling in the health sciences.\n\nSince the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs)\, there has been growing interest in evaluating medical interventions through large-scale observational studies of diverse patient populations. In the first chapter\, I examine the opportunities and challenges that arise from applying deep neural networks to EHR data. Despite the vast scale of EHR datasets\, black box predictive modeling has limited value for informing clinical care\, where human judgment is indispensable. Medical researchers are often interested in estimating counterfactual treatment eff ects on patients’ time-to-event outcomes. In the second chapter\, I propose the Dynamic Survival Transformer (DynST)\, a deep survival model that flexibly estimates hazards from both static and time-varying features typical of EHR data\, and demonstrate how DynST supports robust\, semiparametric inference for causal survival analysis.\n\nStochastic infectious disease models capture uncertainty in public health outcomes and off er mechanistic explanations of transmission patterns. However\, they are often nonlinear dynamical systems with massive latent state spaces\, making likelihood-based inference of model parameters difficult. In the third chapter\, I develop a methodology for efficiently calibrating large-scale stochastic epidemic simulation models to observed data using Neural Posterior Estimation. In NPE\, a neural network trained on simulated data learns to “invert” a stochastic simulator and returns a parametric approximation of the posterior distribution. I use NPE to calibrate a stochastic Susceptible-Infected model to a study of a healthcare-associated infection in a long-term acute care hospital and find evidence of spatially heterogeneous patient-to-patient transmission risk.
UID:135846-21877321@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135846
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
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DTSTAMP:20250527T143544
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T131500
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Reducibility and Anosov Representations
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn this thesis\, we explore the framework of Anosov representations for reducible representations of a non-elementary word hyperbolic group. We give characterizations of the Anosov condition for these reducible representations in terms of the eigenvalues of the irreducible block factors of its semisimplification\, or more generally\, of the block factors of its block diagonalization. In the character variety\, these Anosov representations comprise a collection of bounded convex domains in certain finite-dimensional vector spaces\, and this perspective allows us to conclude for many non-elementary hyperbolic groups that connected components of the character variety which consist entirely of Anosov representations do not contain reducible representations. Applying these results to reducible suspensions\, we obtain explicit examples of non-Anosov limits of reducible Anosov representations.
UID:135842-21877318@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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DTSTAMP:20250610T132018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union.
UID:135660-21877055@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan Union Wolverine Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250610T132018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union.
UID:135660-21877056@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan Union Kuenzel Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250610T132018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union.
UID:135660-21877057@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan Union Pond Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250521T145820
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T184500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (Conservation Librarian Emerita\, University of Michigan) and to learn about the \"Virgil wove.\" Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nMore than 10 years ago\, Baker examined the library’s copy of the first edition of John Baskerville's Virgil (Birmingham\, 1757) and became convinced that the paper she was looking at was not formed on a woven-wire screen\, as has long been assumed\, but rather on a piece of cloth secured over a single-face laid mould. She has since conducted numerous papermaking experiments using this technique and examined more than 200 copies of the book in private and public collections in the US\, UK\, Ireland\, Germany\, and Japan.
UID:135774-21877251@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135774
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20250530T142345
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T201500
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:MCSPremiere
DESCRIPTION:Meet other incoming MCSP students and learn more about the program from student leaders!
UID:135916-21877507@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135916
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250509T115652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Leo Kottke
DESCRIPTION:\"an American legend in the guitar world\" –Los Angeles Times \n\nAcoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens\, Georgia\, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states\, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child\, flirting with both violin and trombone\, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps\, Kottke joined the Navy underage\, to be underwater\, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak\, a diesel submarine. \n\nKottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri\, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina\, then to New London and into the Navy\, with his twelve string. \"The trip was not something I enjoyed\,\" he has said\, \"I was broke and met too many interesting people.\" Discharged in 1964\, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis' Scholar Coffeehouse\, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues\, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder\, for the Scholar's tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.) \n\nAfter sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey\, Kottke was signed to Fahey's Takoma label\, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records. \n\nKottke's 1971 major-label debut\, \"Mudlark\,\" positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein\, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still\, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce\, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol\, as records like 1972's \"Greenhouse\" and 1973's live \"My Feet Are Smiling\" and \"Ice Water\" found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique. \n\nHis collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon\, \"Clone\,\" caught audiences' attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called \"Sixty Six Steps\,\" produced by Leo's old friend and Prince producer David Z. \n\nKottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations\; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College.
UID:133984-21873762@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133984
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved + Gold Circle
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