BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250519T154502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250522T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Billfishes and other fishes with 'bills'\" DESCRIPTION:This talk is in 3150 BSB and offered via Zoom UID:135735-21877189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum - Herbarium,Museum - Zoology,Museum Of Paleontology,Museum Of Zoology,Paleontology,Research,Research Museums Center,Zoology LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 3150 BSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T152524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250527T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250527T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Roundtable. Analyzing the 2025 Philippine Midterm Elections DESCRIPTION:Register for this Zoom event at http://myumi.ch/D884G\n\nPatrick Peralta - PhD student\, Department of Political Science\, University of Michigan\; Non-Resident Visiting Scholar\, Ateneo de Manila University Mike Tiu - SJD student\, University of Michigan Law School\; Assistant Professor\, University of the Philippines College of Law Cesi Cruz - Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and Department of Economics\, University of Michigan Jefferson Ragragio - Gosling Lim Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies\, University of Michigan\; Assistant Professor\, Department of Science Communication\, University of the Philippines Los Baños\n\nIn midterm elections held on May 12\, 2025\, more than 68 million Filipino voters cast their ballots for local and national posts. The results are largely a repudiation of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration and will likely set the stage for the 2028 presidential race\, for which Vice President Sara Duterte is currently the frontrunner. Among the issues on voters’ minds were the ongoing rivalry between the Marcos and Duterte clans\, the looming impeachment trial of the vice president\, and the upcoming International Criminal Court trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte. This webinar brings together four scholars specializing in political science\, economics\, media studies\, and law. They will briefly share their views on the election results\, key trends and developments in campaign strategies\, and broader implications for the future of democracy and rule of law in the Philippines. In the second half of the webinar\, the panelists will answer questions from the audience.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at valdezjo@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:135776-21877252@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,political science,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250515T055331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD 30th Anniversary Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design (CPOD) will celebrate our 30th Anniversary Symposium on May 28\, in the Biomedical Science Research Building Kahn Auditorium. The Symposium is a significant milestone in the Center's history that marks its dedication and contribution to the UM scientific community. The Symposium is an afternoon event that is filled with a series of in-person speakers with a focus on the Center's past\, present and future\, followed by a reception.\n\nOnline registration is now closed\, onsite walk-in registration begins at 12:00pm on May 28th. Contact us at CPOD-contact@umich.edu if you have any questions. UID:131430-21868462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Biosciences,Ecology,Education,Engineering,Free,Graduate School,Graduate Students,human genetics,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Science,symposium,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T154223 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Scholars Writing for the Public DESCRIPTION:Scholars play a vital role in helping our communities better understand social issues of the moment. This event both encourages and offers tools for scholars to translate their research to advance critical thinking and inform everyday decision making to broad audiences\, including for families\, community leaders\, and policymakers. Speakers include researchers and journalists with experience writing for the public who will share suggestions on how to write and communicate effectively for broad and diverse audiences. They will also share their experiences writing across public platforms. Attendees will consider how they can contribute to deeper understanding and constructive dialogue on complex\, often polarizing topics.\n\nModerator: Rita Shah\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University\n\nPanelists:\n-Manoucheka Celeste\, Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago\n-Kevin Cokley\, Associate Chair for Diversity Initiatives & Space Management\; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan\n-Edvige Jean-François\, Executive Director of the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora at Georgia State University\n\nAttendees will have an opportunity to register for a follow-up session to workshop pitches for Spark\, a publication by the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Spark is an open-access publication that offers timely and scholarly-informed content. Readers gain a general level of understanding on historical and current social issues so that they can make informed decisions that affect them\, their families\, and communities. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of academic journals and popular media\, Spark’s review process draws from peer-reviewed academic practices and promotes well-informed essays. UID:135628-21877021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135628 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Diversity Equity and Inclusion LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T163933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250528T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Restoration Toward Robust Native Fisheries in Saginaw Bay\, Lake Huron DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, an alumnus will return to the research and teaching campus nestled along Douglas Lake in northern Michigan to give a free\, public talk focused on conservation of Great Lakes native fishes.\n\nDr. Scott Koenigbauer\, a fish biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Alpena Conservation Office in Alpena\, Michigan\, will describe multiagency efforts to restore degraded rock reef spawning habitat and re-establish a once abundant native mesotrophic fish\, cisco (Coregonus artedi)\, in Saginaw Bay. He will characterize a pre- and post-restoration assessment of fish spawning utilization at Coreyon Reef\, and contextualize results with potential benefits to population genetic structure. Koenigbauer also will describe the Saginaw Bay cisco reintroduction program and its comprehensive monitoring at all life stages. Finally\, he will conclude with restoration outlooks for the Saginaw Bay fish assemblage and future research priorities.\n\nKoenigbauer received his bachelor of science in ecology and evolutionary biology from University of Michigan\, and his master of science and Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from Purdue University. His research focuses on Great Lakes fishes\, examining ecological phenomena through synthesis of long- term monitoring\, characterizing phenotypic variation in different environments\, and evaluating restoration efforts to increase or sustain native fish abundance.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132688-21871598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132688 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250515T141212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250529T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250529T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Innovations in Likelihood-Based Inference for State Space Models DESCRIPTION:State space models are important tools for time series analysis\, particularly when data come from partially observed dynamic systems. Despite their importance\, likelihood-based inference with these models is challenging because a closed-form expression of the likelihood function is unavailable except in the simplest cases. This dissertation introduces three projects aimed at advancing likelihood-based inference for state space models.\n\nThe first project proposes a novel algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) models\, which are formally a special case of linear Gaussian state space models. The proposed algorithm overcomes underrecognized optimization shortcomings of existing parameter estimation methods. The second project presents a likelihood-based analysis of the 2010-2019 cholera outbreak in Haiti. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of recently developed algorithms for performing inference on high-dimensional models. A key focus of this project is to assess the strengths and limitations of using state space models to inform public health policy decisions. The third project\, which is the primary focus of my presentation\, is a novel simulation-based algorithm called the Marginalized Panel Iterated Filter (MPIF). This algorithm is designed for maximum likelihood estimation of parameters from large collections of independent state space models. Theoretical support for this algorithm is provided through an analysis of iterating marginalized Bayes maps. New theoretical developments for the convergence of iterated filtering algorithms on this class of models are also derived. UID:135647-21877033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T095445 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250529T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250529T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Data and AI in Society Lecture Series | Industries of Ideas: Preparing People & Policy for Work in an AI Economy DESCRIPTION:Generative AI burst into the public consciousness with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the end of 2022. In the two and a half years that followed\, we have seen the capabilities of foundation models like ChatGPT grow at a breathtaking rate\, but our understanding of AI’s implications for the economy and work has not kept pace. Public impact predictions have ranged from species extinction to utopia\, while even the most sober and technical economic forecasts have varied by amounts nearly twice the size of Germany’s economy.\n\nAs a result\, state and federal policymakers\, business and innovation leaders\, higher education institutions\, and everyday students\, families and workers face great uncertainty as they try to decide how to react to and prepare for the effects AI may have on business\, careers\, jobs\, education\, innovation\, and the prosperity and security of the United States. Much of this uncertainty stems from the lack of trustworthy\, timely\, local\, and actionable data about where the technology is headed\, how its capabilities may shape the workplaces of the future\, and what we can do to prepare.\n\nThis talk surveys some of the key issues for understanding AI effects on our jobs and the economy. It walks through initial findings the Industries of Ideas (IofI) project\, a new effort that brings together universities\, federal and state agencies\, business and economic development leaders\, and education and training providers to better understand how this new technology is shaping jobs and the skills needed to position the nation\, specific regions\, employers\, and individuals to thrive in an AI-driven economy.\n\nMeet Jason Owen-Smith:\n\nJason Owen-Smith is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan\, where he drives the expansion data usage that strategically supports the University of Michigan’s research and creative enterprise. A Professor of Sociology and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research\, his work examines the impact of large-scale networks on knowledge-intensive fields\, such as science\, engineering\, and surgical\ncare.\n\nProfessor Owen-Smith is the author of Research Universities and the Public Good and co-founder of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)\, which curates data to improve the public value of academic research investments. UID:135249-21876543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai,Artificial Intelligence,Career,Data,Data Science,Economics,Free,Genai,Labor,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Policy,Professional Development,Public Policy,Research,Social Sciences,Talk,Training,u-m office of research LOCATION:Angell Hall - Auditorium B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250506T154249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250530T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250530T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dissecting the High Energy Plasma Environment of Sagittarius A DESCRIPTION:The crowded central parsecs of our Galaxy offer a unique environment to study accretion physics\, plasma dynamics\, star formation\, and more. Within arcseconds of central supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)\, colliding stellar winds from Wolf-Rayet stars in the nuclear star cluster generate a hot plasma reservoir from which Sgr A* accretes. Given this abundance of accretion material\, the SMBH radiates at a lower luminosity than expected. At larger angular scales\, the extended Sgr A* plasma environment overlaps in our line of sight with the supernova remnant Sgr A East. Through Chandra spectroscopy and imaging\, I examine the extended X-ray plasma at multiple scales. To investigate the spectrum of the accretion flow\, I perform forward-modeling of High Energy Transmission Grating-Spectrometer (HETG-S) data\, accounting for the accretion geometry and instrumental effects. We found that a Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow (RIAF) model fit to the quiescent HETG-S spectrum indicates an outflow balancing inflowing material and a sub-solar iron abundance. Synthetic spectra from smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations of the stellar‐wind plasma fit equally well\, but the two scenarios will only be distinguishable with future microcalorimeters that have high spatial resolution. Lastly\, I use data-driven signal separation techniques to analyze Chandra imaging data of the extended emission around Sgr A*. In particular\, the supernova remnant Sgr A East may yield insight into the recent history of star formation\, dust physics\, and feedback in the Galactic Center. In this work\, I separate Sgr A East from the cooler plasma around Sgr A*. Through comparison with a wide range of multiwavelength datasets\, we assess the spatial and spectral relationships among the observed structures and discuss the physical implications. UID:135464-21876853@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250530T181505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250530T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250530T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Strange You Never Knew: A Conversation about Art\, Identity\, & Community DESCRIPTION:In his exhibition Strange You Never Knew\, Chinese American multimedia artist Jarod Lew explores the limits and potential of knowing—knowing who you are\, knowing your family history\, and knowing your place in a community. His photographs function as a repository of personal and communal histories\, surfaces relationships among historic and contemporary acts of racism and violence toward Asian Americans\, and examines how identity is shaped by both individual and collective memory. \n \nAs the exhibition comes to a close\, join us for a conversation with Jarod and fellow makers\, curators\, and writers who have inspired his artistic practice: Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander\, Howie Chen\, Simon Wu\, and Yechen Zhao. Together\, the panel will surface ideas related to self-discovery and community\, discuss cross- and inter-generational understanding\, and reflect on their paths within this cultural moment.\n \nFree and open to the public\, no registration required.\n UID:134687-21874714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134687 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T142028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250531T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250531T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A George Floyd Moment | Discussion III of III DESCRIPTION:We invite you to George Floyd Moment III -a powerful\, intergenerational gathering reflecting on the five years since George Floyd’s death. This free public event\, presented by Detroit is Different and the UM Detroit Center\, centers on the theme:\n\n“What’s Changed\, What’s Not Changed?”\n\nThis conversation brings together young men and women with professionals from the fields of public safety and community advocacy. Together\, we will reflect\, respond\, and imagine how communities can empower ourselves in the face of ongoing police brutality. UID:135641-21877026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Civil Rights,Community,detroit,social justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location - University of Michigan Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T174628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Generative Machine Learning\, Granger Causality\, and Optimal Intervention in Self-Exciting Spatiotemporal Processes DESCRIPTION:In many situations\, the occurrence of one event increases the likelihood of future events\, exhibiting self-triggering behavior\, e.g.\, earthquakes leading to aftershocks\, or crime activity in a region leading to further crimes\, etc. These systems are usually modelled as Hawkes processes. This presentation focuses on some problems at the interface of generative modeling\, optimization\, and Spatiotemporal Hawkes processes\, with a special emphasis on applications in predictive policing.\n\nA core challenge in applying Hawkes processes to real-world data\, such as crime records\, is the presence of noisy and missing data. Traditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) methods become intractable when dealing with a significant proportion of unreported crimes. To address this\, we propose a likelihood-free approach using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGAN) and demonstrate a case study on forecasting crime hotspots in Bogota\, Colombia\, using only reported crime data. Next\, we look at Hawkes networks where activity in one node might trigger further activity across the other nodes. These systems are widely used in predictive policing. Strategic intervention at some nodes (such as enhanced patrolling) can mitigate the spread of events throughout the network. In this context\, we explore the problem of optimal intervention strategies under resource constraints to minimize the spread of events in a self-exciting spatial network. Different intervention strategies are compared\, and the optimal strategy\, formulated as a solution to a mixed integer programming (MILP) problem\, outperforms heuristic methods by adapting to clustering and spillover dynamics. Subsequently\, we illustrate our methodology using crime data from Los Angeles\, CA. \n\nIn the last chapter\, we investigated shape-constrained non-parametric estimation of triggering kernels in Hawkes processes. While parametric kernels like exponential or power-law are standard\, they may not fully capture the true nature of event triggering. Non-parametric methods allow for more flexible kernel shapes\, such as monotone decreasing or concave kernels. Our work establishes that computing the NPMLE boils down to solving a convex optimization problem under linear constraints. Then\, we describe methodologies to estimate the triggering kernels consistently using regularized NPMLE and illustrate our method using financial market data and earthquake aftershock records. \n\nIn addition\, we discuss avenues for future research in these areas and general computational challenges in the area of Hawkes processes. UID:135847-21877322@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135847 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250514T170332 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SRC Seminar Series - The Quality of Jobs: Evidence from a New Worker Survey DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 3\, 2025 | 2:00-3:30pm ET\n2:00-3:00 Seminar\n3:00-3:30 Questions and Collaboration\n\n1430BD ISR-Thompson\n426 Thompson St.\n\nRegister to attend\n\nAbstract\nMany job attributes affect worker outcomes\, yet measures of job quality tend to focus solely on compensation\, reflecting the limited information collected in most surveys. The National Job Quality Survey—which was an outgrowth of the 2022 Job Quality Measurement Initiative\, a collaboration of foundations and the U.S. Department of Labor—was designed to help fill this gap. The survey instrument was developed by a team of researchers and was first administered by Gallup in January and February 2025 to over 18\,000 workers residing in the United States. The survey collected information on five dimensions of job quality: economic security\, work conditions including scheduling and job design\, work environment and culture\, skills development and opportunities for advancement\, and worker voice. The survey also collected detailed information on personal characteristics and outcomes and distinguished between workers in employee and various self-employment arrangements. The talk will cover features of the survey’s design and provide an overview of initial findings\, including salient findings for special populations\, such as those with certain diagnoses and conditions\, and differences in job quality among employees\, independent contractors\, informal workers\, and other self-employed workers.\n\nBiography\nSusan Houseman is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Her recent research has focused on nonstandard employment arrangements (e.g.\, independent contractor\, temporary help\, and other contract company arrangements)\, job quality issues\, the manufacturing sector\, and measurement issues in economic statistics. Currently\, she is leading a research team to develop and analyze data from a national job quality panel survey and is a co-organizer for the NBER Conference on Income and Wealth conference on the Changing Nature of Work. She chaired the Technical Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2012 until the Committee’s termination in March. Houseman received the Society of Labor Economics Prize for Contributions to Data and Measurement in 2023 and was elected to be a 2025 Academic Fellow of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. UID:135642-21877028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Sciences,Statistics,Survey Methods LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T142309 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250603T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Waterline Launch at Literati Bookstore DESCRIPTION:Fiction at Literati: Aram Mrjoian\n\nTue\, 6/3/2025 - 6:30pm\nLiterati Bookstore\n124 E. Washington St.\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48104\n\nAbout The Book: In this deeply moving debut\, a close-knit Armenian American family grapples with the aftermath of losing one of their own.\n\nOutside Detroit on the island of Gross Ile\, the Kurkjians receive news that Mari\, the eldest of their youngest generation\, has swum into the depths of Lake Michigan with no intent of returning to shore—the consequences of which drag out a deeply rooted pain passed down from generations before.\n\nMore than a century earlier\, Gregor\, the great-grandfather and patriarch of the Kurkjian family\, survived the Armenian Genocide after fighting for his freedom atop Musa Dagh. Decades later and miles away\, Gregor’s epic mythos is inherited by his family as they navigate living in its shadow. As the Kurkjians now struggle with their new\, devastating loss\, secrets and shortcomings rise to the surface\, forcing each relative to decide where their own story fits in the narrative of their family’s fraught history. UID:135839-21877315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,English Language & Literature,Humanities,Literature,Writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T172055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250604T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250604T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Statistical Inference for Spatial Transcriptomics in the Age of Deep Learning DESCRIPTION:Single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables the measurement of gene expression of individual cells while simultaneously capturing the spatial positions of these cells within a tissue sample. To utilize these spatial positions effectively\, careful model selection is required to ensure conclusions reflect spatial dependencies in the underlying biology. In this dissertation\, we contribute three novel methodologies that merge deep learning with statistical inference for ST data.\n\nFirst\, we attempt to better predict gene expression by leveraging the spatial context included in spatial transcriptomics data. Comparing predictions from a spatial model to those from a baseline regressor without cell neighborhood information offers insights into how expression changes because of cell-cell communication (CCC) signals. However\, to trust conclusions reached from such a paired modeling framework\, the baseline version of a model needs to be a valid non-spatial reference point. To this end\, we develop a graph convolutional network (GCN) that uses graphs defined by cellular positions to predict gene expression and compare against a counterpart model without spatial context. \n\nSecond\, we study a clustering task for ST data through a Bayesian framework. A central challenge in spatial transcriptomics is to identify distinct cell communities that not only reflect transcriptional heterogeneity but also preserve spatial coherence across tissue. These clusters often represent biological components such as cortical layers\, tissue microenvironments\, or pathological regions\, whose spatial organization is critical for interpreting tissue structure and function. Existing exact Bayesian methods often rely on hard assignments\, limiting flexibility. To address this limitation\, we introduce a stochastic variational inference (SVI) method designed to learn posterior spot cluster distributions that are both spatially coherent and biologically interpretable. This approach is more computationally efficient than methods that rely on posterior sampling techniques\, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)\, which can be expensive to retrain. \n\nThird\, we leverage normalizing flows as the approximate posterior distributions for variational inference on ST data. Normalizing flows transform simple base distributions into more expressive ones by stacking invertible transformations based on the change-of-variables formula. This allows us to model flexible\, multi-modal posteriors over soft cluster assignments beyond the capacity of standard variational families. UID:135878-21877364@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135878 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T094441 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250604T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250604T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What Can We Learn About Sex From Studying Fungi? DESCRIPTION:Fungi pervade nearly all ecosystems as agents of nutrition\, nurture\, decay\, and disease. Yet\, most of their lives are cryptic\, buried in their food. Most noticeable for those who seek fungi is that we mostly find them when they attempt to reproduce. Fungi display a bewildering diversity in reproduction\, from bizarre spore morphology to unusual sexual strategies\, such as mating type and mate switching. \n\nAs part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Timothy Y. James will give a free\, public talk focused on the fascinating world of fungi. He will review patterns of evolutionary change in fungal reproduction over time and as fungi diversified into many unique branches on the fungal tree of life. These patterns provide the foundation to explore some of the unanswered questions in evolutionary biology regarding sex and why it is so widespread in all eukaryotes.\n\nJames\, who teaches the Field Mycology course at UMBS\, is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan\, the curator of fungi at the University Herbarium\, and the Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Chair in Fungal Taxonomy.\n\nJames received his Bachelor of Science in botany from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. from Duke University. His scholarship focuses on reconstructing the Fungal Tree of Life and using genomics to determine fungal mating systems\, ecology\, and life histories. His is a co-founder and director of the Midwest American Mycological Information educational non-profit\, and he is currently the president of the Mycological Society of America.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132660-21871520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132660 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T142953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Deep Learning-Assisted Approximate Bayesian Inference with Applications to Astronomy DESCRIPTION:Approximate Bayesian methods provide a principled means for inference in settings in which exact posterior inference is intractable. In this work\, I present methods for variational inference\, an approach to approximate Bayesian inference in which an approximation to the posterior is selected by numerical optimization. The approaches and analysis primarily consider amortized variational inference\, a class of techniques that leverages deep learning to obtain a mapping from data instances to variational approximations of the posterior. First\, I present SMC-Wake\, a likelihood-based approach for minimization of the forward KL divergence. This algorithm uses Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers to construct inexpensive particle approximations for training an inference network. Next\, I present a study of neural posterior estimation (NPE) and its objective function\, the expected forward KL divergence. This likelihood-free approach to amortized inference averages over large amounts of simulated data from the model to learn mappings from data instances to variational approximations of the posterior. I present an analysis of this approach from the perspective of neural tangent kernel (NTK) theory. Under certain conditions on the variational family and neural network mapping\, I show that NPE optimizes a convex functional and reliably converges to a unique solution in the asymptotic infinite-width limit\, despite the highly nonconvex nature of neural network optimization landscapes. Finally\, I extend these results to posit a novel class of expressive variational families based on linear combinations of basis functions\, and propose a procedure to adaptively fit these basis functions to parameterize complex distributions. When targeting the forward KL divergence within this framework\, the objective is convex in the variational parameters\, but nevertheless allows for practitioners to fit highly multimodal variational approximations to the posterior. We conclude with applications of these methods to difficult problems in astronomy\, such as redshift estimation from astronomical images\, and the task of detecting blended astronomical spectra. UID:135773-21877250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T144304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: The Great Bay Eelgrass Resilience Project: Lessons Learned Doing Cutting Edge Science with Broad Community Input DESCRIPTION:The Eelgrass Resilience Project was a three-year collaborative research effort designed to bridge science and management and address eelgrass habitat loss in the Great Bay Estuary\, NH. The estuary is currently classified as nitrogen impaired\, primarily due to significant declines in eelgrass (Zostera marina). Despite more than a decade of discussion\, uncertainty remains about the factors affecting eelgrass health and the role of nitrogen reduction—creating challenges for effective action.\n\nThis project brought together hydrodynamics\, biogeochemistry\, and ecology to explore how factors such as water residence time\, nitrogen loading\, in-situ nitrogen processing\, sediment dynamics\, and light availability influence eelgrass resilience. The team assessed spatial trends across the estuary and conducted a cutting-edge experiment to measure nitrogen processing along a flow path through an eelgrass meadow. In this webinar\, we’ll present our scientific methods\, key findings\, and project deliverables. We’ll also share insights from working with a Project Advisory Committee that connected our team with municipal and state decision-makers\, as well as national experts who provided real-time peer feedback throughout the project. UID:135627-21877020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250506T152516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Michigan Medicine 3rd Annual Pride Month Keynote and Celebration DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Michigan Medicine’s 3rd Annual Pride Month Keynote and Celebration – “Unstoppable Pride: Thriving in the Face of Adversity”\n\nThis year\, we are honored to welcome Dr. Jennifer Potter – Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chair of the Fenway Institute – as our keynote speaker. Dr. Potter is a nationally recognized leader in women’s health and gender equity\, and a pioneer in advancing clinical care and medical education for sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities. Her keynote address will explore the critical intersections of education\, trauma-informed care\, and inclusive practice in health care delivery.\n\nWe invite all faculty\, staff\, learners\, and community members to attend this important event as we celebrate Pride\, foster belonging\, and advance equity in health care together. \n\nThis event is generously sponsored by the Office of Patient Experience and the Office of Faculty Development\, and co-sponsored by Spectrum Center. UID:135463-21876852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Graduate and Professional Students,LGBT,LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT 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: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT 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 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT 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 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T091326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"The Neotropical Miocene biome of La Venta (Colombia)\" DESCRIPTION:The La Venta deposits in Colombia are one of the most fossil-rich regions in tropical South America and offer an exceptional opportunity to study the effect of the Miocene climatic changes and the evolution of extinct and extant clades in a low-latitude ecosystem. Land and freshwater vertebrates\, and less commonly plants and invertebrates\, constitute most of the La Venta fossils. The mammal record has been studied for nearly a century and has been used to define the Laventan Age/Stage c. 13.5-11.8 million years old. Recently\, Colombian and international researchers have joined collection and research efforts\, resulting in the establishment of a new La Venta natural history museum (Museo de Historia Natural La Tatacoa). This new wave of paleontological and geological studies has provided an improved stratigraphy of La Venta and new paleobiological and evolutionary hypotheses of several vertebrate groups\, and in the museum’s educational and outreach activities. This talk will review the paleontological knowledge of La Venta\, identify knowledge gaps\, and discuss future research directions. A century after the first paleontological expedition\, La Venta’s fossil record continues to illuminate the evolution of the South American tropical biodiversity during the Miocene. UID:135989-21877622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum - Zoology,Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T095832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manoomin – The Good Berry DESCRIPTION:Manoomin\, or wild rice\, is native to the rivers and lakes of northern Michigan and is an integral plant both economically and culturally. As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, Frank Zomer will discuss the importance of manoomin to Anishinaabe people\, the history of manoomin in Michigan\, reasons for its loss/decline across the state\, and where we are now. He’ll provide many examples specific to his work as Inland Fisheries Biologist for the Bay Mills Indian Community and also talk generally about trends across the state.\n\nZomer leads the manoomin restoration program for the tribe. He also is active in the restoration of manoomin statewide as the co-chair of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative which brings together all 12 Michigan Tribes and state and federal agencies to promote and protect manoomin in Michigan. Frank enjoys spending time outdoors in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula with his wife and three children.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132662-21871522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250606T111451 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250613T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250613T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Capturing Unique Auto Heritage Stories DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to share your story and learn from others’ stories?\n\nThink Tank Detroit\, LLC\, a research & design consulting firm\, collaborated on a community video history project preserving Michigan’s auto heritage through 75+ short interviews. Stories collected include labor\, women\, and communities of color\; family and personal auto industry histories (including suppliers)\; influential mentors\; and auto-related community work. Engagement took place in Detroit neighborhoods\, union halls\, and museums in Lansing and Flint. Come be a part of the conversation! UID:136025-21877704@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:detroit,Discussion,History LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T135135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250613T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250613T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Comics in Conversation: Artist\, Writer\, Reader DESCRIPTION:Learn from some of the most talented graphic novelists working today. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or simply curious about the creative process\, join us for an afternoon of exploration and enlightenment as we uncover the power of personal narrative in graphic novels.\n\nComics is an interactive medium that invites the reader to infer meaning from arranged images and words. Many comics are made by a team of collaborators who respond to each others' input to shape the work into something that exceeds the sum of its parts.\n\nScott McCloud (Understanding Comics\; The Cartoonists Club)\, Raina Telgemeier (Smile\; The Cartoonists Club)\, and Tony Weaver Jr. (Weirdo\; The Uncommons)\, will talk about the rich interactions that can happen when making and reading comics. Moderated by Ryan Claytor.\n\nThis A2Inkubate pre-conference event for the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival is sponsored by the U-M Library (Computer & Video Game Archive)\, the Ann Arbor District Library\, and Kids Read Comics. UID:135575-21876965@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135575 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250615T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250615T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250615T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exhibition Tour: Strange You Never Knew with Professor Ian Shin and Curator Jennifer Friess DESCRIPTION:FINAL EXHIBITION TOUR — Join U-M Professor Ian Shin and exhibition curator Jennifer Friess for the final tour of Jarod Lew’s first solo museum exhibition\, \"Strange You Never Knew\". Jarod Lew explores the limits and potential of knowing—knowing who you are\, knowing your family history\, and knowing your place in a community. \n \nStrange You Never Knew explores how photography can function as a repository of personal and communal histories. By weaving together connections between personal histories and broader social contexts\, Lew draws connections between the past and present\, examining how identity is shaped by both individual and collective memory\, while challenging viewers to reflect on the ongoing impact of racial discrimination and cultural stereotyping.\n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required.\n UID:135191-21876474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135191 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Tour,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250616T105648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250618T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250618T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate Solutions Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:According to the most recent survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications \, \"62% of Americans say they 'rarely' or 'never' discuss global warming with family and friends.\" (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-beliefs-attitudes-fall-2024/toc/2/)\n\nYet according to climate scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe one of the most important actions we can take is speaking with people about climate change!  (https://youtu.be/FkIVdmnqIIA?si=bBGNwk7pP1KMjuwn)\,\n\nJoin us on Wednesday\, 6/18 at 7pm on Zoom\, for a discussion on how to talk with more people about climate change.  Please bring your ideas and experiences and join the conversation. UID:136125-21877875@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Discussion,Environment,Free,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T101908 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250618T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250618T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Long-Term Maintenance of Regenerative Agriculture Enhances Climate Resiliency and Supports Soil Biodiversity DESCRIPTION:Regenerative agriculture is often associated with restoring key ecosystem services such as nutrient retention\, erosion prevention\, and climate resiliency. There is also an expectation that regenerative agriculture will improve soil biodiversity\, which has important implications for overall ecosystem functioning. Despite these expectations\, there are several unknowns regarding the long-term maintenance of regenerative agriculture and how consistent management may impact soil carbon accrual\, soil food webs\, and climate resiliency.\n\nAs part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series\, Dr. Christine Sprunger will outline the case for integrating free-living nematodes into the soil health framework to better understand sustainability goals and climate resiliency within agroecosystems.\n\nSprunger is an associate professor of soil health at Michigan State University and is currently serving as interim associate director at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS).\n\nIn her talk at UMBS\, Sprunger will explore how soil carbon and free-living nematode communities shift through time after almost 30 years of regenerative agriculture management. She will demonstrate how nematodes are critical bioindicators of drought events within agroecosystems\, discuss the socio-ecological aspects of regenerative agriculture\, and present ways to engage farmers on climate resiliency topics.\n\nSprunger is a faculty member in the Department of Plant\, Soil\, and Microbial Sciences at MSU and is based at KBS. She also is a member of MSU’s Plant Resilience Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of agriculture and the environment\, where she investigates how climate change impacts crop production\, nutrient cycling\, soil food webs\, and rhizosphere dynamics. In addition\, much of her work addresses how crop diversity\, perenniality\, and reduced tillage contribute to important ecosystem services such as soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen use efficiency. Sprunger also conducts interdisciplinary research with social scientists to understand farmer perceptions of soil health and climate adaptation. \n\nSprunger holds a Ph.D. in crop and soil sciences and ecology\, evolutionary biology\, and behavior from Michigan State University\, and she received both a B.S. in forest resources and a B.A. in environmental studies from the University of Washington with a minor in human rights.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132665-21871535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132665 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T155054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250620T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250620T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Elevating the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in NERRS Conservation and Beyond DESCRIPTION:Coastal wetlands across the National Estuarine Research Reserve System provide a variety of essential habitats for migratory and threatened/endangered birds throughout the Pacific region. They are used by millions of birds each year to breed\, rest\, refuel and overwinter. Human communities also value these areas for subsistence\, cultural\, commercial\, and recreational activities. Despite the benefits they provide\, estuarine habitats are being lost at accelerating rates.\n\nTo address this need\, a one-year catalyst project connected geographically distinct reserves in the Pacific/Western United States with shared migratory bird species and a common interest in elevating the role of Indigenous Knowledge and management practices in coastal conservation. The project – whose team included five reserves\, their local management and cultural partners\, and Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture – explored applications and built on existing frameworks for weaving together conventional science and Indigenous Knowledge\, research\, and cultural values to enhance stewardship of estuarine habitats and coastal watersheds. In this webinar\, project team members will share key workshop takeaways\, project outcomes and ripple effects\, and future plans to continue this work. UID:136009-21877665@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T093517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250625T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250625T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate Change and Human Health DESCRIPTION:Dr. Larry Junck is a neurologist studying how brain health is compromised by climate change. As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, the researcher and professor emeritus of neurology at U-M will discuss air pollution from fossil fuels\, the effects of air pollution on human health\, infections related to climate change\, other health consequences of climate change\, and what we as citizens and scientists can do.\n\nJunck earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana and his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan. His residency training in neurology was at Stanford University\, and he completed research fellowship training in position emission tomography at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He served on the U-M faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School for 39 years and directed the Brain Tumor Program for over two decades. He is the recipient of the health system’s Best Clinician Award and is on the Board of Directors of the Michigan State Medical Society. \n\nJunck is the founder and leader of Michigan Medicine Climate Voices\, a member of Voices for Carbon Neutrality (U-M)\, on the Board of Directors for the Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action (MiCCA)\, and co-founder and co-leader of Neurologists Interested in Climate and Health (NICHe).\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132728-21871647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132728 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,climate LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T112510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250702T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250702T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Little Looney: Lessons Learned as a Loon Biologist DESCRIPTION:The Common Loon is an icon of the northern wilderness as well as an indicator of the health and integrity of aquatic ecosystems. Giving the Hann Lecture in Ornithology during the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, Dr. Jay Mager will provide an overview of the life history of the Common Loon\, share insight into the past work considering behavioral mechanisms by which loons select and defend breeding territories\, and discuss current conservation practices by scientists and citizens to preserve and protect loon populations\, including more recent work considering the behavior of loons during the non-breeding season.\n\nMager is a professor of biological sciences at Ohio Northern University\, where he teaches courses in biology\, ecology\, animal behavior\, and ornithology. He received his Bachelor of Science in biology at Hiram College\, his master’s degree in zoology at Miami University\, and his Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. Trained as a behavioral ecologist\, Mager is fortunate to have spent most of his career studying various aspects of the life history of the Common Loon and applying what he has learned to a number of conservation and management issues facing this species.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132667-21871540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Biosciences,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T114834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250709T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250709T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mutualism: What Do We Know\, and Where Do We Go From Here? DESCRIPTION:Mutualism is cooperation among different species. Giving the Pettingil Lecture in Natural History during the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, Dr. Judith L. Bronstein will review the history of the study of mutualism\, a field that has only coalesced in the past 20 years. She will identify six major research directions and present her own recent work on one pollination mutualism to show how these directions can be integrated to move our understanding forward. This is a particularly intriguing interaction because it appears to be exceedingly costly (the offspring of the pollinator moths are voracious herbivores on the same plants)\, making it an ideal test case for testing our understanding of how mutualisms arise and when they can persist. Bronstein also will discuss a few pressing issues surrounding mutualism that are likely to drive the field in the coming years.\n\nJudith L. Bronstein is University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona\, with a joint appointment in the Department of Entomology.\n\nShe also is an alumna of the U-M Biological Station. She studied at UMBS in 1978.\n\nBronstein received her A.B. from Brown University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. She joined the University of Arizona faculty in 1989. Dr. Bronstein focuses on the ecology and evolution of interspecific interactions\, particularly on mutually beneficial ones (mutualisms). Her career-long goal has been to build a solid conceptual foundation for the study of these poorly understood interactions. Her current projects focus on their intersection with other interspecific relationships\, as well as with\nintraspecific cooperation.\n\nBronstein has won numerous teaching awards and has served in leadership positions locally\, nationally\, and worldwide. She is associate editor of Annual Review of\nEcology\, Evolution\, and Systematics and natural history associate editor of The American Naturalist\; she has served as editor-in-chief of The American Naturalist and as president of the American Society of Naturalists. Bronstein is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and recipient of the American Society of Naturalist’s Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences Award. In 2024\, she was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132669-21871544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132669 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250610T121507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250712T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:On Love and Data: Stephanie Dinkins and Lisa Nakamura DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of critical conversation with transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins and leading scholar of race and digital media Lisa Nakamura. Presented in partnership with MOCAD\, this special event celebrates the launch of Love and Data\, Dinkins’ new monograph and a powerful call to reimagine technology through the lens of care\, equity\, and justice\, rather than extraction and bias. Moderated by Srimoyee Mitra\, Director of Stamps Gallery and editor of Love and Data.\nDinkins works with emerging technologies\, including AI\, to spark dialogue around race\, gender\, aging\, and what she describes as our “future histories.” Her innovative practice\, currently featured in the exhibition Code Switch: Distributing Blackness\, Reprogramming Internet Art\, reclaims storytelling as a vital form of data\, positioning memory\, myth\, and cultural knowledge as algorithms in their own right.\nIn conversation with Nakamura\, this event will explore how new technologies shape our social realities and how art can challenge dominant techno-cultures. Together\, they’ll reflect on Dinkins’ wide-ranging work and consider how data and digital tools might better serve Black and marginalized communities.\nThe event will include a book signing with Dinkins following the discussion. Love and Data will be available for purchase onsite.\nBiographies\nStephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates experiences that spark dialog about race\, gender\, aging\, and our future histories. Her work in AI and other mediums uses emerging technologies and social collaboration to work toward technological ecosystems based on care and social equity. Dinkins' experiences with and explorations of artificial intelligence have led to a deep interest in how algorithmic systems impact communities of color in particular and all of our futures more generally. \nDinkins teaches at Stony Brook University\, where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. Dinkins is a Mozilla Rise25 Awardee (2024)\, a Schmidt AI 2050 Senior Fellow and LG_Guggenhiem Award winner named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI(2023).\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is the founding director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and has been writing about digital media\, race\, and gender since 1994. She has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies.\nNakamura is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2008)\, Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (2013) and is co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (2013). Recent and forthcoming books include Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (2024)\, and The Inattention Economy: Women of Color\, Digital Labor\, and the Internet (2025). \nSrimoyee Mitra is an award-winning curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect among diverse through exhibitions\, discussions and publications. She has worked as a curator and art writer in Canada and India and published widely in journals and exhibition catalogs. author of Border Cultures (2015)\, Stephanie Dinkins: On Love &\; Data (2024). She is the Director of Stamps Gallery\, part of Penny W. Stamps School of Art &\; Design\, University of Michigan. UID:136017-21877694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136017 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250708T140222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250715T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250715T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Robust Methods for Causal Inference and Policy Learning with Applications to Mobile Health DESCRIPTION:This dissertation comprises three essays that develop robust methods for causal effect estimation and policy learning\, especially in the context of micro-randomized trials (MRTs)—a longitudinal experimental design used in mobile health (mHealth).\n\nThe first essay develops methods for integrating data across multiple MRTs for the purpose of causal effect estimation. Compared to a single-study analysis\, the methods produce increased statistical efficiency by borrowing information across related studies. Methodologically\, we relate the studies by assuming that certain conditional causal effects are equal across studies\; then we estimate these effects and appropriately average them to target prespecified marginal estimands. \n\nWhereas the first essay develops methods for integrating data across MRTs that have already been implemented\, the second essay introduces the robust mixed-effects (RoME) algorithm for optimizing treatment policies during an MRT. RoME is a contextual bandit algorithm that makes use of mixed-effects modeling\, network cohesion penalties\, doubly robust estimators\, and double/debiased machine learning (DML) to address the specific challenges of mHealth: treatment effect heterogeneity\, cluster structure\, nonstationarity\, and nonlinear relationships. We establish a high-probability regret bound that depends solely on the dimension of the differential-reward model\, enabling strong regret bounds even when the baseline reward is highly complex.\n\nThe third essay steps back from the MRT setting and develops Bayesian Randomization Inference (BRI): a general framework for Bayesian estimation of treatment effects based principally on the physical act of randomization. BRI involves fixing the observed potential outcomes\, positing a probabilistic model for the causal effects\, and forming a likelihood based on the randomization distribution of a statistic. In many cases\, BRI does not require specification of marginal outcome distributions\, resulting in weaker assumptions compared to Bayesian superpopulation-based methods. We prove several theoretical properties for BRI\, including a Bernstein–von Mises theorem and large-sample properties of posterior expectations. UID:136388-21878604@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T181509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250716T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250716T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Envision 2025 Conversations: A Roundtable with Artists\, Curators\, and Art Leaders DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful discussion on the ideas and themes that guide the practices of the artists featured in Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2025. Finalists Conor Fagan\, Katie Mongoven\, and Sara Nickleson will be in conversation with Srimoyee Mitra\, Stamps Gallery director and curator\; Cindy Meyers Foley\, director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum\; and Katie McGowan\, director of Kresge Arts in Detroit.\nEnvi­sion: The 2025 Michi­gan Artist Initiative is on view at Stamps Gallery from June 26 through August 2\, 2025.\nFree and open to the public. Limited space available\, registration recommended. RSVP Here.\nAbout the guest curators:\nCindy Meyers Foley (she/her) has worked for 30 years helping museums become welcoming spaces that cultivate curiosity and social engagement. She is the director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum\, an institution committed to being people centered by strategically placing people at the center of all decision making. \nFoley curated a number of exhibitions including Playground\, 2002 which launched a groundbreaking project\, Learning to Love you More. Foley is committed to the role museums play in developing creative thinkers. She has been on the faculty of the Maine College of Art and Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom Summer Institute\, and regularly keynotes a variety of Museum\, Art\, and Education Conferences. Foley has given two TEDX Talks including Teaching Art or Teaching to Think like an Artist. Foley received the 2018 Ohio Distinguished Educator for Art Education award. She was appointed to the Michigan Arts and Culture Council in 2023. \nKatie Grace McGowan (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist\, cultural producer\, and committed advocate for creative workers. Her art practice straddles performance art and literary art–autofiction and experimental poetry\, in particular. She has spent her professional career teaching art at the university level\; advocating for the rights of artists and cultural workers\; and curating exhibitions\, screenings\, literary events\, and performances independently and while employed at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Katie has served on the board of directors of Detroit Puppet Company since 2016. She currently works as director of Kresge Arts in Detroit.\n UID:135576-21876966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T120232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250716T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250716T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Decoding Biological Invasions: Impacts and a New Approach to Management DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal\, a researcher and instructor at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, is a featured speaker in the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the research and teaching campus nestled along Douglas Lake in Pellston\, Michigan.\n\nRodriguez-Cabal\, who also is a research assistant professor at the University of Vermont in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources\, will give a talk titled “Decoding Biological Invasions: Impacts and a New Approach to Management.”\n\nRodriguez-Cabal is a field ecologist with broad interests in factors that generate\, maintain\, and threaten biodiversity. His research focuses on understanding how species and ecosystems respond to the rampant loss of biodiversity\, climate change\, and the spread of invasive species. He has 15+ years of active research focused on mutualisms loss\, the loss of native species and the gain of invasive species\, global warming and the impacts of habitat fragmentation on the diversity and structure of communities\, and ecosystem processes.\n\nRodriguez-Cabal uses observational\, experimental\, meta-analytical\, and theoretical approaches with the aim of understanding the indirect impacts of global change on biodiversity. Mariano has published 50 peer-reviewed articles on different questions and systems from slugs in British Columbia and ants in North Carolina to endemic marsupials and birds in Patagonia. He is a two-time winner of a Fulbright Scholarship.\n\nHis Ph.D. is from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. Rodriguez-Cabal earned his master of science from the University of Florida’s Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. His Licentiate in Biological Science is from the Universidad Nacional del Comahue-Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche\, in Patagonia\, Argentina.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132671-21871550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250709T153909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250721T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250721T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Yang Li Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Seismic hazards present significant risks to urban areas\, especially those built on soft sediments that amplify ground motion. Accurate assessment and mitigation of these risks require dense\, high-resolution imaging and continuous monitoring of the shallow subsurface. However\, conventional seismic networks are often limited in urban settings due to high costs\, sparse coverage\, and logistical constraints. These limitations hinder our ability to characterize site effects\, monitor subsurface changes\, and develop effective mitigation strategies. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has emerged as a transformative solution\, repurposing existing fiber-optic telecom cables into dense arrays of seismic sensors. DAS enables scalable\, cost-effective\, and non-invasive seismic data acquisition with meter-scale spatial resolution\, making it well-suited for dense urban environments. Despite its potential\, DAS presents distinct challenges for urban seismic applications. Because telecom cables are not designed with geophysical monitoring in mind\, researchers often lack detailed information about the fiber layout\, coupling conditions\, and burial depth. These unknowns can degrade data quality and introduce uncertainty in the spatial accuracy of seismic measurements. Additionally\, DAS generally exhibits lower signal-to-noise ratios compared to traditional geophones\, particularly in noisy urban settings. Another fundamental limitation is DAS’s directional sensitivity: DAS measures axial strain along fiber\, making it less responsive to seismic waves arriving at angles not aligned with the fiber\, which can result in incomplete wavefield capture. This thesis addresses these challenges through three targeted investigations aimed at enhancing the utility of DAS for urban seismic imaging and monitoring. These investigations bridge the gap between theoretical DAS capabilities and practical urban applications\, offering a framework for using telecom fiber networks as long-term\, distributed seismic observatories in cities.\n\nIn Chapter 2\, we investigate the shallow shear-wave velocity (Vs) structure of Granada\, Spain\, a region of moderate seismicity but high hazard due to shallow soft sediments amplifying ground motion. Using a two-day DAS deployment (August 26-27\, 2020) along a telecom fiber with complex geometry\, we address challenges such as urban noise and limited recording duration. An ad-hoc processing scheme incorporating frequency-wavenumber filtering enhances virtual shot gathers and multi-mode dispersion images from ambient seismic noise interferometry. We are able to employ this dataset to generate several Vs profiles for different sections of the cable. The resulting Vs profiles show a shallow low-velocity layer (150-300 m/s) corresponding to alluvial deposits\, transitioning to weathered metamorphic bedrock (>800 m/s) at depth. These profiles align with local geological conditions\, demonstrating DAS’s capability for soil characterization and seismic microzonation in urban areas.\n\nIn Chapter 3\, we examine the near-surface Vs structure in the hill zone of Mexico City through a joint inversion of Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion curves extracted from DAS ambient noise data. We first perform angular response analysis to identify channel pairs with optimal sensitivity to both Rayleigh and Love waves. We then extract phase and group velocity dispersion curves using DAS recorded ambient seismic noise\, and jointly invert them using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework to constrain Vs structure to 300 m depth. Notably\, the joint inversion approach enhances the resolution of subsurface interfaces around 25-m depth\, which are poorly resolved in inversions using Rayleigh or Love waves only. Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion data contribute complementary sensitivity to the model: Love waves constrain the shallow structure (0-100 m)\, while Rayleigh waves provide information on deeper layers (up to ∼300 m). This combined sensitivity results in a more robust and stable velocity model. Our results demonstrate the potential of DAS-enabled joint inversion in capturing fine-scale subsurface structure\, particularly in complex urban environments with challenging wavefield conditions. UID:136405-21878626@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2520 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250714T144159 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250722T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250722T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Theoretical Advances in Reinforcement Learning: Online Average-Reward and Offline Constrained Settings DESCRIPTION:This dissertation presents theoretical advancements in reinforcement learning (RL)\, focusing on two key settings: online RL under the infinite-horizon average-reward criterion and offline constrained RL under partial data coverage.\nThe first part addresses the online setting\, where the objective is to optimize long-run average rewards through interaction with the environment. A family of value-iteration-based algorithms is proposed by approximating the average-reward objective using a carefully tuned discounted surrogate. This part resolves an open problem by establishing a computationally efficient algorithm for linear Markov decision processes under a weak structural assumption. The proposed algorithm employs span-constrained value clipping and a decoupled planning strategy that mitigates statistical inefficiencies arising from the complexity of the function class.\nThe second part is motivated by safety-critical applications and studies the offline setting\, where the agent must learn a policy from a fixed dataset without further interaction. Primal-dual algorithms are developed for both linear MDPs and general function-approximation regimes\, based on the linear programming formulation of RL. These methods are oracle-efficient and provably sample-efficient under partial data coverage. Moreover\, they extend to the constrained RL setting\, where the policy must satisfy additional safety constraints defined by auxiliary reward signals and threshold levels.\nTogether\, the contributions of this dissertation advance the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning in settings that prioritize safety and long-term performance. UID:136447-21878712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136447 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T181141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250723T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250723T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Partnering Science and Practice: Using Genomics to Guide Resilient Eelgrass Restoration DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, rising summer temperatures have caused large-scale diebacks of eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in parts of the lower Chesapeake Bay\, shifting these once-stable habitats toward lower-density\, ephemeral states. These losses threaten the vital ecosystem services that eelgrass provides\, from supporting fisheries to stabilizing shorelines. With climate change accelerating\, coastal managers and restoration practitioners increasingly recognize that long-term eelgrass restoration success must account for the species’ resilience to thermal stress. However\, critical knowledge gaps remain about which eelgrass populations may be best suited for future restoration under warming conditions.\n\nTo help fill these gaps\, this project compared eelgrass populations in Virginia and North Carolina to identify traits and genetic markers associated with thermal resilience. The team conducted genomic analyses and reciprocal transplant experiments to evaluate how different populations respond to heat stress and to test which seed sources might perform better under future climate scenarios. In this webinar\, project collaborators will share key findings from this work and introduce several practical products developed through the project\, including an eelgrass restoration decision-making framework\, a standard operating procedure (SOP) for seed-based restoration\, and guidance for integrating genomic data into management decisions. UID:136011-21877667@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136011 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T103854 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250723T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250723T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cascades in Corn Cover Crops and Milkweeds that Make Migrating Monarchs: Chemical Ecology at the Intersection of Pest Management and Conservation DESCRIPTION:Agricultural and natural landscapes are shaped by plant-insect interactions\, with cascading effects on ecosystem function.\n\nAs part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Jared Ali will give a free\, public talk exploring how cover cropping influences multitrophic interactions\, soil traits\, and pest suppression through plant chemical signaling. At the same time\, we investigate how different milkweed species impact monarch butterfly flight\, shedding light on the chemical cues that shape migration. By integrating chemical ecology across these systems\, we bridge applied pest management strategies with conservation efforts\, uncovering novel ways to support both agricultural sustainability and insect biodiversity.\n \nAli is the director of the Center for Chemical Ecology\, acting director of Penn State’s Ecology Research Institute and associate chair of the Ecology Graduate Program at Penn State. His research explores plant-insect-microbe interactions\, plant defense chemistry\, and the ecological factors driving insect behavior. With a strong interdisciplinary focus\, his work connects fundamental chemical ecology to real-world applications in pest management and conservation.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:134175-21873966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250714T144523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250724T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250724T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Statistical Learning for Recurrent Event and Complex Network Data DESCRIPTION:The development of modern technology has generated large-scale\, complex datasets that pose significant challenges to traditional statistical methods. This dissertation presents novel statistical modeling frameworks and efficient computational methodologies tailored for large-scale recurrent event data and complex network data.\n\nThe first chapter focuses on recurrent event data\, introducing a general framework that models the conditional mean function of the recurrent event process as the solution to an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE). This flexible approach covers a wide range of semi-parametric models\, including both non-homogeneous Poisson processes (NHPPs) and non-Poisson processes. We develop a Sieve Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation (SMPLE) method and establish its consistency\, asymptotic normality\, and semi-parametric efficiency.\n\nThe second chapter addresses signed network data\, where relationships exhibit a complex interplay of positive (e.g.\, liking\, alliances) and negative (e.g.\, disliking\, conflicts) interactions. This chapter presents a novel latent space model that uses non-linear kernel functions to capture the sign-generating pattern of signed networks. Based on this framework\, we identify a new sufficient condition for achieving population-level balance. We develop efficient projected gradient descent (PGD) algorithms to estimate the latent variables and establish non-asymptotic error rates for parameter estimation under both correctly and mis-specified settings.\n\nThe final chapter introduces a latent space model for analyzing longitudinal network data. This approach employs multivariate counting processes to model interaction sequences between node pairs\, with intensity functions depending on static latent variables\, time-varying baseline intensities\, and time-varying edge covariates. We develop an efficient spline-based sieve estimation method and establish the non-asymptotic error rate of the corresponding PGD estimator under both parametric and nonparametric settings. UID:136448-21878713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250705T004817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250727T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250727T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Yoga as Applied Science of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an upcoming talk on Yoga and Consciousness Studies by Pr. Divyanandaprana who is visiting the US from India. All are welcome. The talk will last for one hour\, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.\n\n*Date:* July 27\, 2025 (Sunday) \n*Time:* 3 PM \n*Venue:* Michigan Room – Michigan League (2nd Floor) \n 911 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \n\n*For questions:* vedanta.a2@gmail.com\n*Our website:* https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/VSC\n\n*About the speaker:* Pr. Divyanandaprana is a monastic member of Sri Sarada Math at New Delhi\, India and currently is the editor of the English journal Samvit\, published from New Delhi. She has been the Principal of Nivedita Vidya Mandir School from 2014-2019. She specializes in the areas of Yoga-Vedanta. In addition to studying the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature\, she has extensively studied the Yoga-Vedanta texts based on these twin philosophies which include the Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras\, Raja Yoga\, Upanishads and the Prakarana Granthas (auxiliary scriptures of Vedanta like Vedantasara\, Vivekachudamani etc.) along with their commentaries. Her additional areas of interest include the Brahma Sutras with Sankara's commentary\, works of Ramana Maharishi and the Bhagavad Gita. A gold medalist\, Pr. Divyanandaprana has the unique combination of knowledge in the conventional sciences\, and traditional Yogic and Vedantic texts. Pr. Divyanandaprana has been lecturing all over India since 2010\, including IIT Madras\, IIT Delhi\, IIT Kharagpur\, IIT Mumbai\, IIT Kanpur\, IISc Bangalore\, Delhi University\, Vivekananda International Centre\, Ramakrishna Mission Engineering and Medical Colleges in Mumbai\, Pune and Kolkata and sometimes in schools. She offers courses on Yoga-Vedanta every semester at IIT Delhi. The courses are available on YouTube at IIT’s official channel: NRCVEE IIT Delhi.\n\n Internationally\, she has traveled to hold classes or deliver lectures in South Africa at Cape Town\, Durban\, Ladysmith and Kwa Zulu Natal University among other places. Subsequently\, she traveled to Ireland\, Great Britain\, UAE and recently to Canada for talks\, lectures and scriptural discussions. She has spoken at Imperial College and Logan\nHall\, London University in 2013. In May 2018\, she was in Toronto\, Ottawa\, Halifax and Nova Scotia where she gave a number of talks on Self-Knowledge\, exploring the Subjective Sciences and finding the interface between Subjective-Objective Sciences. She has extensively traveled in the US and addressed Vedanta Societies of Iowa\, Washington DC. Purdue University hosted her talk on Mind Management recently. In October 2022\, she visited California and gave uplifting spiritual talks in Hollywood\, Sacramento\, San Diego. She is also the author of two books (available on Amazon): Science of Happiness and Self Discovery. UID:136343-21878522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136343 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Free,Humanities,India,Interdisciplinary,International,Lecture,Mindfulness,Multicultural,Philosophy,Psychology,Public Health,Talk,Well-being LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T122106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250730T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250730T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nitrogen as a Driver of HABs in the Great Lakes DESCRIPTION:Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can cause fish kills\, foul up nearby coastlines\, and produce conditions that are dangerous to aquatic life\, as well as humans. As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, Dr. Silvia Newell will give a free\, public talk titled “Nitrogen as a Driver of HABs in the Great Lakes.”\n\nNewell is the director of Michigan Sea Grant and a professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. She is a nutrient biogeochemist and microbial ecologist with experience working on Great Lakes issues. Newell researches the effects of excess nutrients from fertilizer and wastewater on inland and coastal waters\, with a focus on harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. She has experience engaging stakeholders to develop realistic pathways for nutrient reduction. She serves on the board for a number of organizations\, including the Earth Science Women’s Network\, the Great Lakes Commission HABs Collaborative\, the Saginaw Bay Monitoring Consortium Advisory Committee\, and is the past president of the Lake Erie Area Research Network. \n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132675-21871554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250722T203704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250805T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250805T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Aquatic Acoustics: Listening to Fish in the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve DESCRIPTION:The Hudson River Estuary supports a wide range of fish\, including a number of migratory and endangered species. Advances in marine ecosystem technologies\, which include the use of passive acoustic monitoring\, have enabled the Hudson River Reserve to address critical management challenges including understanding how fish species use the estuary\, monitoring species population dynamics of protected and endangered animals\, and creating engaging communication tools that inspire public stewardship of key fish species. The management of key fish within the estuary is a priority for the Hudson River Reserve\; data deficiencies and critical questions remain for several key species\, particularly related to spatial\, temporal and seasonal patterns of habitat use. To address these needs\, this collaborative research project implemented a passive acoustic monitoring approach that targeted these information gaps within the reserve sites and adjacent estuarine habitats. \n\nIn this webinar\, members of the project team will share findings\, including characterization of a diverse range of soundscapes across latitudinal and salinity gradients along the Hudson River\, and comparisons of sounds from tributary and wetland habitats to those of the main channel of the river. They will also discuss their collaborative approach and how the project has strengthened relationships among regional partners\, students\, and intended users. UID:136597-21878897@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136597 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250801T094838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250813T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250813T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate Solutions Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Our August Climate Solutions Discussion Group takes place on Wednesday\, August 13 at 7pm. The topic is Home Electrification and Efficiency.\n\nParticipants have an opportunity to attend in-person at an All Electric Home just south of Ann Arbor (near Ellsworth and Lohr Rd) and get a tour of all of the systems! For those who cannot attend in person\, you can join the discussion via Zoom.\n\nSeating is limited so if you plan to attend in person\, please fill out and submit the RSVP form. Home address will be emailed after you RSVP.\n\nRSVP is optional if you plan to attend virtually.\n\nQuestions? Contact annarbor@citizensclimatelobby.org UID:136873-21879293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Efficiency,Electrification,Energy,Environment,In Person,Solar Energy,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T104157 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250827T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250827T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Willow Pond and Wild Rice DESCRIPTION:Water is life and freely nurtures life who then nurture our lives. Healing our relationship with water non-human nations is essential to the well-being of lakes and of our own. This requires communities at the heart of Turtle Island to also heal our relationship with one another. Join us for a short presentation and a guided walk to learn about healing relationships and the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative. Vincent Salgado\, a co-author of Michigan’s state Manoomin plan\, will share more about the significance of restoring Manoomin throughout Michigan.\n\nThe program begins at 5:30 pm in the auditorium at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and includes a brief outdoor walk\, so please dress accordingly.\n\nThis event is part of our Lake Week celebration. Click here to see the full lineup of events: mbgna.umich.edu/lake-week UID:137147-21879811@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137147 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T175540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Value-Added Products and Co-Benefits from GHG Removals DESCRIPTION:This webinar will be the first of a 3-part webinar series titled Foundations for a Successful and Responsible Greenhouse Gas Removals Ecosystem with this conversation addressing questions including:\n\nWhat are the leading economic opportunities for GHGs captured and available for utilization? Where is the current commercial readiness?\nWhat are the key challenges currently facing efforts to develop commercial utilizations of captured GHGs?\nWhat co-benefits can be derived from technologies for capturing GHGs\, either as products\, or co-sited processes?\n \n\nThis conversation will be moderated by Volker Sick (University of Michigan)\, and panelists will include: Alissa Park (UCLA)\, Joshua Schaidle (NREL)\, Joshua Stolaroff (Mote)\, and Jenny Yang (UC Irvine). UID:138030-21881221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138030 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Carbon Neutrality,carbon reduction,climate,Climate Change,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Sustainability,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250821T162650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899 - Jingwen Hu\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hu is a Professor at IOE and a Research Professor at UMTRI. His research interests primarily focus on injury biomechanics and traffic injury prevention by a multidisciplinary approach using a combination of experimental\, numerical\, and epidemiological methods. Dr. Hu is an author of 150+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with four Best Paper Awards. His research has been funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration\, the National Science Foundation\, the National Institute of Justice\, the Department of Defense\, and the Auto Industry.\n\nAbstract:\nRecent literature has shown that there is a growing concern of safety disparity in motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs)\, but technological tools for addressing this issue are limited. In particular\, females\, the elderly\, and obese occupants are among the vulnerable populations who are often at increased risk of death and serious injury compared with mid-size young men in MVCs. This presentation will introduce the parametric finite element (FE) human and vehicle modeling work conducted in the past decade\, along with recent machine-learning models and design optimizations. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of a population-based virtual testing framework on improving safety disparity among the diverse population. UID:137881-21880995@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T105536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250828T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Waterway Relatives DESCRIPTION:We all depend on healthy waterways. When we consider waterways and the complex interdependencies between human and non-human beings\, we build understanding and relationships with place. Selena Smith\, Associate Professor from U-M’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences\, will discuss the human and non-human interdependencies and relationships of resilient waterway systems through the lens of braided western and Indigenous knowledges. Selena will also touch on the “Meet the Mnomen” project\, restoring wild rice to Willow Pond. Participants will explore the plants and animals of Willow Pond\, learn how we monitor the water quality\, and will get to see some of the aquatic organisms that share relationships with Mnomen/Manoomin. \n\nThe program starts at 5:30pm All ages are welcome. Participants will explore water sampling trays to look for aquatic organisms. Please dress for a short outdoor walk. \n\nThis event is part of our Lake Week celebration. Click here to see the full lineup of events: mbgna.umich.edu/lake-week UID:137154-21879818@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Nature,Outdoors LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250802T215004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Emergence of Function and Digital Biology DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk\, I will present work on collective behavior in dynamical systems. I will share numerical and mathematical results on self-synchronizing systems and provide a preview of how this understanding will guide the development of a self-driving laboratory. I will also pose open questions about how these ideas might be applied to digital biology. This work is supported by current and past DARPA grants.\n\nContact: Peter Miller UID:132588-21871312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132588 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T112029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Silvia Newell DESCRIPTION:Nutrient management is a critical part of addressing the harmful algal bloom (HAB) crisis sweeping across the globe.Lake Erie\, like many large\, shallow lakes\, suffers from annual cyanobacterial HABs. While phosphorus to the western basin are codified\, none exist for nitrogen (a key component of toxin structure and biomass)\, in part due to lack of information about processing rates.This talk will discuss the knowledge gaps for nitrogen cycling in Lake Erie and the ways my research group has worked to fill those gaps over the last decade\, including evaluating external and internal nitrogen loading and removal. Additionally\, we are working to address a major knowledge gap—creating a predictive model for toxin concentrations—by applying internal and external nutrient processing rates and loads. UID:137493-21880341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T085953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T175000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | “They Have My *Kundli*”: Understanding Urban Indian Social Media Users’ Beliefs about Social Media Algorithms DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/y1qjR \n\nThis talk will explore how urban Indians make sense of algorithms and the role they play in personalizing and amplifying social media content. Based on interviews with 30 social media users\, it will examine users’ knowledge of\, attitudes toward\, and practices with algorithms. It will detail people’s complex views of algorithms and their social impact\, informed by long-standing cultural beliefs equating technology with globalization and aspiration as well as a degree of critical digital literacy\, especially among younger people. The talk will also highlight users’ beliefs about the role algorithms play in suppressing or amplifying content and how algorithms align with or contravene their content preferences\, including a reflection on how these preferences reinforce deep-seated views about gender and class.\n \n Pranav Malhotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Communication and Media. His research focuses on how the affordances of social and mobile media intersect with cultural and relational norms to influence how people engage with information and each other in mediated spaces\, especially in understudied social and political contexts. In particular\, his work has looked at how urban Indians make sense of their everyday engagement with social media. Malhotra’s research has been published in leading journals like *Social Media+Society*\, *Journal of Computer-mediated Communication*\, *Communication Monographs*\, *Political Communication*\, and *International Journal of Communication*.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137479-21880326@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Digital Culture,India,International,Social Media LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250811T164202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250902T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250902T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Violence\, Borders\, and Silence: How Exiles Confronted Authoritarianism in Argentina and Colombia\, 1970-1991 DESCRIPTION:Beyond Violence\, Borders\, and Silence\" examines how political exiles from Argentina and Colombia navigated repression and displacement between 1970 and 1991. Drawing on archival research and oral histories\, UM Research Fellow Leydy Diossa-Jimenez\, Ph.D.\, explores how exiles organized across borders\, challenged authoritarian regimes\, and fostered transnational solidarity. The talk highlights the ways exile became both a site of political struggle and a catalyst for reimagining democratic futures in Latin America.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at emergingdemocracies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137408-21880209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137408 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Authoritarianism,international relations,politics,Weiser Center For Emerging Democracies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250715T131729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250902T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250902T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Greatest Generation DESCRIPTION:The author of two major oral histories about the major turning points of World War II — the D-Day invasion of Europe as well as the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Japan — Graff will discuss the legacy of the Greatest Generation\, how World War II changed the world\, and the first-person realities of fighting in the greatest conflict humanity has ever known. UID:136458-21878734@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136458 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American History,World War Ii LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T130334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Special Department Colloquium | 2025 State of the Department Address DESCRIPTION:Lu Li\, Interim Chair of the Department of Physics\, will present information about the current environment of the physics department. Students\, staff\, and faculty are encouraged to attend.\n\nThis event will be held in person\; however\, it will also be recorded on Lecture Capture for viewing at a later date.\n\nThe link for the lecture capture recording will be available here after the presentation has taken place. The presentation will not be live-streamed.\nHere is the link to the State of the Department Address: https://leccap.engin.umich.edu/leccap/player/r/9ekMn7\n\nJoin us for a reception at 2:30 p.m. in the Don Meyer Commons\, prior to the lecture. UID:137764-21880726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137764 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Faculty,Graduate Students,Physics,Staff,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T150026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Next UM President: A Town Hall DESCRIPTION:“The Next UM President: A Town Hall” will provide an opportunity for members of the university community to lay out their views about the priorities that the next UM president must pursue. The event seeks to help build a U-M community consensus and to elevate voices that would not otherwise be heard in the search process. It will include short presentations from leaders of student\, faculty\, and staff government\, along with statements from colleagues representing key interests on campus. We will hear also from Judith Wilde\, of George Mason University\, whose work concerns presidential searches and how to run them. The main event page is available here.\n\nThe event is co-organized by the Faculty Senate\, Central Student Government\, and the Ann Arbor Chapter of the AAUP. The event is also part of the Faculty Senate Office’s 2025 Academic Governance Series\, which is a series of discussions related to academic governance at the University of Michigan. To read more about the series\, click here.\n\nAgenda and Speakers\n- 4:00: Welcome & Introduction of Speakers- Moderator: Kentaro Toyama\, W K Kellogg Professor of Community Information\, School of Information\n\n- 4:05: Speaker Remarks- \n+ Judith Wilde\, Research Professor\, Schar School of Policy and Government\, George Mason University 10 minutes\; 5 minutes for questions\n+ Derek Peterson\, Faculty Senate Chair\; Ali Mazrui Collegiate Professor of History and African Studies\, Department of History\, LSA\n+ Nathan Sadowsky\, Treasurer\, University Staff United\; Academic Program Manager\, Earth and Environmental Sciences\, LSA\n+ Eric Veal\, Jr.\, President\, Central Student Government\; Political Science and Secondary Education\, LSA and Marsal Family School of Education\n\n- 4:35: Audience Remarks\n\n- 5:30: Closing Remarks (Moderator Kentaro Toyama)\n\nFor those viewing online\, the Zoom and YouTube links are provided below:\n\nUniversity of Michigan Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97735715185 \n\nYouTube Link: https://youtube.com/live/J-c3RJ-k5Ok UID:138029-21881219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138029 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Leadership LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T123420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:General Mills Information Session DESCRIPTION:General Mills Information Session UID:137795-21880781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:General Mills,Information Session LOCATION:Herbert H. Dow Building - 3166 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250903T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Faith & Fandom DESCRIPTION:Faith & Fandom takes a look at pop culture media as a modern parable to help us explore themes of faith. We'll examine themes from movies\, TV\, books\, anime\, games\, etc. each week.\n​\nEnter the Wesley Foundation through the Tower doors. UID:138706-21883707@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T121450 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIChE Industry Lunch with Eli Lilly DESCRIPTION:AIChE Industry Lunch with Eli Lilly UID:137804-21880786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137804 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aiche LOCATION:Herbert H. Dow Building - 1018 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T110713 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: A Roadmap for Addressing Marine Debris in the NERRS DESCRIPTION:Estuaries are an important link in the chain of trash becoming marine debris. Plastic and other anthropogenic marine debris alter aquatic ecosystems\, contaminating waterways and impacting water quality and habitat resilience. Across the NERRS\, marine debris is an issue of concern for reserves and their surrounding communities. A System-wide survey conducted by the Marine Debris workgroup after the 2019 NERRS/NERRA Annual Meeting revealed an overwhelming desire for NERRS staff to work across sectors on the issue of marine debris and develop coordinated long-term monitoring and public messaging to promote understanding\, behavior-change\, and policy actions. To address this need\, this project facilitated four knowledge transfer workshops across reserves and with the greater Debris Community of Practice (DCoP). These workshops elevated and articulated the NERRS’s niche in addressing marine debris and provided a forum to develop a Roadmap that contains resources for Reserves and DCoP members to address marine debris in individual estuaries. \n\nIn this webinar\, the project team will introduce the Roadmap and describe the process of its development\, explore with participants how it might be applied in Reserve and other specific contexts\, and share insights on how the resource and community of practice can support reserves to make a meaningful impact on marine debris and better protect estuaries. UID:137434-21880236@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137434 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T082052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:Luke’s Title: Characterizing hot Jupiter atmospheres using Keck/KPIC high-resolution spectroscopy\n\nAbstract: High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy (HRCCS) is a technique for characterizing the atmospheres of hot giant exoplanets by treating the system as a spectroscopic binary. Hot Jupiters near conjunction exhibit a rapid change in radial velocity relative to their host star\, which can be used to isolate spectral features associated with the planet from stellar and telluric features. The HRCCS technique can be applied in transmission or emission\, and is the only technique capable of characterizing atmospheres of close-in non-transiting planets. Since HRCCS directly detects planetary spectral features\, this technique can be used to measure atmospheric composition\, particularly the C/O ratio\, and is also sensitive to atmospheric circulation effects via changes to the shapes of planetary spectral lines. Keck/KPIC has obtained HRCCS observations of approximately 20 hot Jupiters in the infrared K band\, and complementary L band observations are ongoing. Initial results of this survey program include the characterization of benchmark hot Jupiters HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b\, measuring the orbital inclination of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b\, and the detection of six ultra-hot Jupiters with strong CO emission features. Ongoing work to combine these data with observations from other optical/infrared high-resolution spectrographs will enable measurement of refractory/volatile ratios for many of these planets. For objects observed at a wide range of orbital phases\, HRCCS is a promising avenue for testing predictions from Global Circulation Models (GCMs) of hot Jupiter atmospheres. \n\nTeresa’s Title: Multi-molecular analysis of turbulent motions during planet formation\n\nAbstract: Turbulence is a key physical process expected to stir the planet-forming material in the early stages of planetary systems and act as an effective viscosity\, aiding the evolution of protoplanetary disks. Even though it is a key phenomena\, expected to have shaped our own Solar System\, detection of turbulent motion has been scarce in the past years. This work presents an observationally motivated methodology that takes advantage of the high spatial and spectral resolution of ALMA observations to measure turbulence through molecular line broadening. By tracing distinct regions of the protoplanetary system through specific molecular tracers\, we are able to resolve vertical variations in turbulent motions\, obtaining the first insights into the physical instabilities that may be driving turbulence in these disks. UID:138324-21882773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T100858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience: Milei's Shock Doctrine and Feminist Resistance in Argentina DESCRIPTION:Argentine sociologist\, researcher\, author\, and member of the feminist collective NiUnaMenos\, Lucía Cavallero explores the intersection of debt\, financial capital\, and gender violence. Join us for a discussion on resisting the Milei government and his supporters in Argentina and beyond.\n\n Presentation will be in Spanish with English translation\n\n\nCo-sponsors:\n Donia Human Rights Center\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, University of Michigan Global Engagement\, Office of the Provost\n\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n Email: -- lacs.office@umich.edu UID:138062-21881614@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138062 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,center of latin american and caribbean studies,Discussion,Gender,Latin America,Lecture,Social Justice,Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T100956 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Carl Phillips DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nCarl Phillips’s latest book of poems is *Scattered Snows\, to the North* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2024). His *Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Award\, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry\, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books\, most recently *My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing* (Yale University Press\, 2022). He lives on Cape Cod\, in Massachusetts.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:135580-21876967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135580 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Free,Graduate,Literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250819T111525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Data & AI in Society Lecture Series | AI Regulation: If\, What\, and How DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe lecture explores the pressing questions surrounding artificial intelligence governance: If AI systems should be regulated\, and if yes\, what kind of regulations should we think about? AI is currently regulated in several countries. The discussion explores the lessons learned for policymakers\, and how organizations should think about the implementation.\n\nMeet Merve Hickok:\nMerve Hickok is the founder of AIethicist.org. She is a globally renowned\, award-winning expert on AI policy\, ethics and governance. Her contributions and perspective have featured in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, CNN\, Forbes\, Bloomberg\, Wired\, Scientific American\, The Atlantic\, Politico\, Protocol\, Vox\, The Economist and MIT Technology Review.\n\nShe is a distinguished educator\, consultant and keynote speaker. Her work focuses on the impact of AI systems on individuals and society – particularly the impact on fundamental rights\, democratic values\, and social justice.\n\nMerve Hickok is the President and Policy Director at Center for AI & Digital Policy (CAIDP)\, deeply engaged in global AI policy and regulatory work. CAIDP educates AI policy practitioners and advocates across 120+ countries. Merve provides AI policy expertise to UNESCO\, the Council of Europe\, OECD\, EU AI Office Working Group\, and Hiroshima AI Friends Group\, GPAI Tokyo Expert Support Center. She has provided testimony to the US Congress\, Turkish National Assembly\, State of California\, New York City and Detroit City councils. She holds Council on Foreign Relations – Hitachi International Affairs Fellow and Chiba Institute of Technology Visiting AI Researcher positions.\n\nAt the University of Michigan\, she is a lecturer at the School of Information\, the Responsible Data and AI Advisor at Michigan Institute for Data Science\, and an affiliated faculty at Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program).\n\nMerve also works with several non-profit organizations globally to advance both the academic and professional She has been recognized by a number of organizations – most recently with Lifetime Achievement Award – Women in AI of the Year – 2023\, Top AI Leaders in Retail (Ethics & Compliance) – 2024\, Runner-up for Responsible AI Leader of the Year – 2022 (Women in AI) and as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ – 2021.\n\nShe provides consultancy and training to C-suite leaders\, and public and private organizations on Responsible AI development\, due diligence and governance. Previously\, Merve held various senior roles in Fortune 100 companies for more than 15 years. UID:137720-21880649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Free,Lecture LOCATION:Dana Building - 440 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T141652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Digging Deeper/Kozma Lecture | Current Work at Vindolanda: Archaeological Leather and the Precarious Future of Organic Evidence DESCRIPTION:Join the Kelsey Museum for our annual Kozma Lecture! This free\, public event will feature a presentation by Dr. Elizabeth M. Greene\, Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology at the University of Western Ontario\, followed by a question-and-answer session.\n\nThe Roman site of Vindolanda on the northern frontier of Britain has provided one of the best assemblages of organic material from anywhere in the empire. Over 8\,000 leather finds—including nearly 5\,000 shoes—and countless wood and bone objects have provided a more complete picture of life in the past than is typical of most sites. However\, this invaluable resource is also under threat from environmental shifts\, and Vindolanda is also leading the way on several initiatives to understand how climate change is affecting archaeological remains. This talk will first present current work on archaeological leather and then focus on its role in assessing the impact of climate change over the past five decades.\n\nDr. Greene’s presentation will take place in the Rackham Amphitheatre\, located on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building (915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109).\n\nThis event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137481-21880329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137481 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Classical Studies,excavation,Free,History,Lecture,Research LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre (4th Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer & Affirming DESCRIPTION:We'll gather for discussion\, Bible or book studies\, and discover the intersection of faith and identity. This group is for the LGBTQIA2S+ community and allies.\n\nOur discussion for this semester is based on Brandan Roberson's new book\, \"Queer & Christian.\" UID:138707-21883721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138707 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T131103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Carl Phillips DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nCarl Phillips’s latest book of poems is *Scattered Snows\, to the North* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2024). His *Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the *Los Angeles Times Book* Award\, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry\, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books\, most recently *My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing* (Yale University Press\, 2022). He lives on Cape Cod\, in Massachusetts.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136923-21879335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136923 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Carl Phillips,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Free,Graduate,Literary,Michigan Union,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson ABCDE CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Amanda Lewan DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Entrepreneurship for this week’s Entrepreneurship Hour (EHour) featuring Amanda Lewan\, co-founder and CEO of Bamboo\, a leading coworking community in Michigan that supports creatives\, founders\, remote workers\, and forward-thinking companies.\n\nLewan launched Bamboo with a $5\,000 loan and has scaled it into a thriving platform with five locations and over 1\,500 members. In addition to growing Bamboo\, she has helped lead community-driven initiatives such as accelerators\, conferences\, and Detroit Startup Week\, which attracts more than 10\,000 attendees annually. Recognized as a Crain’s 20 in Their 20s and 40 in Their 40s honoree and recipient of the Spirit of Detroit Award\, Lewan brings extensive experience in building entrepreneurial ecosystems and increasing access to social and investment capital for founders.\n\nAbout EHour\nEntrepreneurship Hour (EHour) is a weekly speaker series that brings innovators\, founders\, and entrepreneurial leaders to campus to share their stories with the University of Michigan community. UID:138638-21883515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138638 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneurship,Free,Lecture,Networking,Startup LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T124400 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | 2-> n scattering in QCD and Gravity in Regge asymptotics: from amplitudes to shockwaves DESCRIPTION:We discuss the structure of 2-> n scattering in QCD and gravity in high energy Regge asymptotics and outline the remarkable double copies between the two in their construction\, and in emergent shockwave descriptions in the two theories. UID:137249-21879988@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250810T144613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:No AIM Seminar This Week DESCRIPTION:Abstract: AIM seminar participants (especially students) should be encouraged instead to attend the 2025 SIAM Student Mini-Symposium in Applied Mathematics on Saturday\, September 6\, 2025 UID:135806-21877289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135806 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T105843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Junjie Dong DESCRIPTION:Water is fundamental to the Earth’s surface environment. Volcanic outgassing and subduction recycling connect the deep interior with the atmosphere and oceans\, shaping the planet’s long-term habitability. Surface oceans and mantle water are not separate reservoirs\; they are inherently linked to the planet’s thermal and redox evolution.\n\nIn this talk\, I will trace the storage and distribution of water in the mantle. Our earlier work showed that the capacity of the mantle to hold water depends strongly on temperature. A hotter Archean mantle could have held less water than the mantle actually contains today\, suggesting that Earth's early surface might have been covered by larger oceans. The interplay between mantle cooling\, water cycling\, and sea-level stability highlights the importance of the mantle as a dynamic water reservoir. More recently\, we examined how the disproportionation of iron in silicate minerals further regulates mantle water distribution. As the mantle becomes increasingly reduced with depth\, metallic iron stabilizes and reacts with structural water in nominally anhydrous minerals\, producing reduced hydrogen species such as molten FeHx or fluid H₂. This water–iron reaction prevents hydration of mantle silicates and drives hydrogen into metal-rich reservoirs\, thereby altering the form and location of water in the mantle.\n\nTogether\, this research provides a framework for understanding how much water the mantle can store and where it resides. The results suggest that the coevolution of water with Earth’s thermal and redox states governs its deep storage\, distribution\, and cycling\, and\, by extension\, ocean volume\, atmospheric composition\, and the long-term redox evolution of the planet. UID:138242-21882661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138242 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T121405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W6drV\n\nFive decades ago\, the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union launched the Go to Villages Campaign\, in which groups of university students were sent to rural Dalit settlements\, where they were tasked with documenting the conditions of life and labor. In that same decade\, anthropologists and sociologists like Clifford Geertz and Joseph Gusfield fundamentally transformed the social sciences by newly centering attention to writing. This talk asks why Telugu South India similarly saw the emergence of new socio-political writing and documentation practices in the 1970s\, highlighting four examples: the Jana Natya Mandali’s (People’s Theatre Troupe) new documentary song-story compositions\; AP State Harijan Conference reports\; documentation produced by the RSU’s “Go to Villages Campaign”\; and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee’s introduction of regular “fact-finding missions.”\n \n Lisa Mitchell is professor of anthropology & history in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections* (Duke University Press 2023\; Permanent Black 2023) and *Language\, Emotion\, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue* (Indiana University Press 2009\; Permanent Black 2010)\, which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Wenner-Gren Foundation\, Fulbright\, European Research Council\, American Institute for Indian Studies\, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.\n \n This lecture is the keynote address of the CSAS 2025 Graduate Student Conference “New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics.”\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137607-21880462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Center For South Asian Studies,India,Politics,Sociology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Room 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T111816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250908T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250908T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How Health Care Civil Rights Work DESCRIPTION:If discrimination drives health disparities\, then civil rights protections in healthcare settings could help. But bringing our anti-discrimination laws and implementing structures into healthcare operations and insurance is difficult. Organizational practices\, data systems\, professional norms\, and the broader structures of the American political and healthcare systems shape the possibilities of addressing health discrimination. This talk explores how health care civil rights implementation works\, particularly what makes it work when it works\, and why it so often fails. The talk is based on Professor Kirkland’s newly released book\, Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients (University of California Press\, 2025)\, which is available open access at https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.226. UID:138536-21883181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138536 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Science,Social Sciences LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T081515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250908T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250908T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Mind | Artificial Intelligence: How We Got Here\, How It Works\, And What It Means for Our Understanding of the Human Mind DESCRIPTION:Can AI systems like ChatGPT help us understand the human mind\, or are they \"alien intelligences”—technological tools that leverage big data to imitate humans? This talk aims to answer this question\, tracing the history of how AI arrived at this point (spoiler: it wasn't just a sudden development in the tech industry)\, and dispelling some common misconceptions along the way. I'll argue that modern AI is far more than a tool. It is a source of stunning new scientific hypotheses about the nature of the human mind\, and will revolutionize not just technology\, but the psychological\, cognitive and brain sciences as well.\n\nAbout the speaker: Richard Lewis is the John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology\, Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan. The aim of Dr. Lewis's research is to develop computational theories of mind. His work focuses on human language processing\, human decision making\, and reinforcement learning in artificial intelligence. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University\, and has been on the faculty at Michigan for 25 years.\n\nNote that this talk is free and open to the public and will take place at the Ann Arbor District Library's Downtown Branch. UID:136850-21879232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136850 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Language,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T091222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Rising Wealth Concentration and Disparities in Social Outcomes Across the United States\" DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Manuel Schechtl\, Assistant Professor of Public Policy\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and 2025-2026 Visiting Fellow. Dr. Schechtl is a social demographer studying the creation\, persistence\, and reproduction of inequality\, poverty\, and mobility\, with substantive interests in wealth and its intersection with public policy. His research encompasses the quantitative analysis of survey data\, administrative records\, and experimental data. Currently\, Manuel is focusing on multiple facets of wealth inequality and accumulation\, with a particular focus on the impact of inheritances and inheritance taxes.\n\nAbstract: “Wealth inequality in the United States has reached heights not seen since the Gilded Age\, renewing concerns that skyrocketing disparities in economic power may challenge the basic social functioning of society. Yet empirical research linking rising wealth inequality to changes in social outcomes\, be it democratic erosion\, collapsing communities\, or increasing social immobility\, remains scarce. Beyond data limitations\, trying to study wealth inequality as a determinant rather than an outcome comes with substantive challenges for establishing causality. The talk outlines this broader research agenda\, including the development of a shift-share instrument for wealth inequality.” UID:136970-21879382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Economics,Inequality,Interdisciplinary,Social Sciences,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250821T140846 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Chemicals & non-chemicals as stressors in relation to human reproductive health DESCRIPTION:Registration required: https://myumi.ch/y1q8V\n\nThe Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. \n\nDr. Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón is a Spanish epidemiologist and her research focuses on identifying chemical and non-chemical stressors of human fertility\, reproductive and cardiometabolic health with special focus on diet-chemical interactions\, paternal contributions to pregnancy outcomes and chemicals mixtures. Dr. Mínguez-Alarcón is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Lead Investigator at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mínguez-Alarcón received her BPharm from the University of Valencia School of Pharmacy and her MPH and PhD from the University of Murcia School of Medicine. She previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. UID:137902-21881084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137902 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Free,Graduate,Health,Health & Wellness,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Nursing,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Science,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T131703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Ziwet Lectures DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThere will be a reception after the Tuesday Colloquium in the Math Upper Atrium.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\n\n\nTuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThis lecture addresses the historical trade-off between interpretable but expertise-dependent deductive models and scalable but non-interpretable data-driven approaches by introducing hybrid AI frameworks that transcend this divide. We present AI-Descartes (generator-verifier paradigm)\, AI-Hilbert (unified hypothesis generation and testing)\, and AI-Noether (algebraic-geometric theory revision via abductive reasoning) as transformative approaches to mathematical model discovery. These frameworks advocate for conceptual evolution of the scientific method toward deeper AI integration in pursuing both interpretable and universal models.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\nThis lecture introduces a novel tensor-tensor algebra that preserves essential matrix-algebraic properties while overcoming limitations of conventional tensorial frameworks\, culminating in an Eckart-Young-like theorem that resolves a decades-long open problem in tensor analysis. We demonstrate how this framework enables seamless retrofitting of existing computational workflows (Hamiltonian neural networks\, tensor Graph Convolutional Networks) and extends to tensor group symmetry theory for equivariant learning applications. This work opens pathways to new tensorial algebras that can reveal deeper patterns in high-dimensional information previously inaccessible to traditional methods.\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\nThis lecture addresses the modern paradox where unprecedented data accumulation capabilities make selective identification of informative samples more critical than ever for meaningful model development. We review theoretical foundations of experimental design within inverse problems frameworks\, examining strategies for well-posed and ill-posed settings while establishing approaches for design preferences\, budget allocation\, and risk assessment. Through information-theoretic principles\, we demonstrate how optimal experimental design creates a paradigm shift from data volume to information content\, with transformative implications for resource-constrained scientific methodology.\n\nDr. Lior Horesh is a Principal Research Scientist\, Master Inventor and a Senior Manager of the ‎Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (formerly Mathematics of AI) department at IBM Research. His department’s mission is to approach some of the big ‎challenges the field of AI is facing\, from a principled mathematical angle. Additionally\, Dr. Horesh ‎holds an adjunct Associate Professor position at the Computer Science department of Columbia ‎University where he teaches graduate level Advanced Machine Learning and Quantum Computing ‎courses. Dr. Horesh Received his Ph.D. in 2006 from UCL and joined IBM in 2009.\n\nThe Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Ziwet\, Chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lecture series in the department. UID:135252-21876548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,data,Data Science,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Faculty,Free,Generative Ai,Graduate Students,Lecture,Mathematics,symposium,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 1324 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T110959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Should Universities Adopt a Definition of Antisemitism? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Director Jeffrey Veidlinger will moderate an exchange between Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld (CEO of the Zekelman Holocaust Memorial Center) and Kenneth Stern (director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and former director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee)\, exploring the implications of adopting formal definitions of antisemitism in academic settings and the differences between various definitions. UID:136994-21879397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Jewish Studies,Open Inquiry,Social,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250813T114501 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Distinguished Lecture. Putin's Eternal War DESCRIPTION:Vladimir Putin ignites the largest war in Europe by invading Ukraine\, claiming all the while he wants \"peace.\" He helps Iran develop its ballistic missile program\, expands military cooperation with North Korea\, floods Africa with weapons\, and turns Russia into an armed fortress. Putin seems to think war is working for him. Is it? Or could it imperil his country's welfare and his own political survival? Jill Dougherty\, author of *My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin*\, examines the evidence.\n \n Jill Dougherty served as CNN's Moscow Bureau Chief for almost a decade\, as well as covering the White House and U.S. State Department. She currently is CNN's on-air contributor on Russia issues and teaches at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her areas of interest are disinformation and young people in Russia. She travels widely in the region\, with a special focus on the Baltic countries and Georgia.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:136809-21879165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136809 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Public Policy,russia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T124228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Legislative Forum: Threats and Solutions to Clean and Affordable Drinking Water across our Great Lake State. DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a forum on Threats and Solutions to Clean and Affordable Drinking Water across our Great Lake State.\nPanelists will discuss:\nUrban water infrastructure\nWater-related climate threats and solutions\nGreat Lakes water management\nData centers and impacts on water\n*Who is Invited: Legislators\, staff and others concerned about understanding threats to clean and affordable water in Michigan. \n*When: Wednesday September 10th 12-1:30pm. \n\n*Where: 2nd Floor\, One Michigan Avenue Building\,\n1120 N Washington Sq.\, Lansing MI\nSponsored by: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (MLEEaD) Center\nLunch will be provided at 11:30!\n\nPanelists\n*Shawn McElmurry\, Ph.D.\, M.S.\, Wayne State University\n*Azizur Molla\, Ph.D.\, M.P.H.\, Grand Valley State University\n*Mike Shriberg\, Ph.D.\, M.S.\, University of Michigan\n*Ira Anwar\, PhD Student\, University of Michigan\n\nWe hope you can join us on the 10th at noon for this important conversation! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks UID:138269-21882693@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138269 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Ecology,Environment,environmental,Free,Lecture,Public Health,Public Policy,Science,Talk LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250715T103943 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T132000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CCPS Lecture. Polish Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movies DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Zborowska will examine home movies and related oral histories as sources for studying the transformation of the Polish-American diaspora. Her project “Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago” juxtaposes home movies — “ordinary” motion pictures created for family and close friends — with interviews with their creators to uncover the “not-so-ordinary” capabilities of this underused data source for studying and empowering underrepresented groups. Zborowska’s work shows how analogue home movies offer a unique insight into the lives of individuals and families\, as well as the experience of migration\, adaptation to new environments\, and changing lifestyles\, habits\, values\, and norms.\n\n Agata Zborowska is a cultural historian with research interests at the intersection of material and visual cultures\, property relations\, and critical archival studies. Her project “Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago” investigates pre-digital era home movies and related oral histories to challenge and broaden our understanding of evolving migrant and diaspora identities. As a Chicago Film Archives scholar in residence\, she works on the Polish diaspora film collection to increase community access to archival material. Her research has been supported by the European Commission\, Kosciuszko Foundation\, Franke Institute for Humanities at the University of Chicago\, Al Larvick Conservation Fund\, and Polish National Science Centre.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:136416-21878642@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,europe,poland LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T125428 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | S-matrix Bootstrap: Present and Future DESCRIPTION:The modern S-matrix bootstrap carves out the space of 4-point amplitudes compatible with unitarity\, causality\, and locality. In my talk\, I review the current standing and future goals of the bootstrap with an emphasis on three central questions: What features do legal amplitudes have? How can we determine when these 4-point amplitudes extend to n-point S-matrices? To what extent can the bootstrap be applied to amplitudes in the real-world? UID:138890-21884196@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138890 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250821T170759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Perot Jain TechLab Info Session DESCRIPTION:What If You Said Yes to Innovation?\n\nThe Perot Jain TechLab (PJTL) Series is a set of immersive programs designed for ambitious students who want to push the boundaries of what’s possible in technology and entrepreneurship.\n\nPJTL gives students the opportunity to:\nWork on projects in connected and autonomous vehicles\, transportation electrification\, climate change technologies\, healthtech\, and air & space\nCollaborate directly with innovative startup companies and industry experts\nDevelop entrepreneurial skills that prepare you for your career and future ventures\n\nDuring this information session\, you’ll connect with PJTL program staff\, learn about the application process\, and gain a deeper understanding of how the program can help you grow as an innovator and entrepreneur. Lunch is provided.\n\nTuesday\, September 10\n12:00–1:00 PM\nDuderstadt 3358\nLunch provided\n\nRSVP now: https://myumi.ch/NrdjE UID:137908-21881095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Climate,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Design Thinking,Discussion,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Experiential Learning,Food,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,In Person,Information and Technology,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Mobility,Networking,Social Change,Social Impact,Startup,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 3358 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T151524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Colloquium Series. Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy DESCRIPTION:In early modern Islamic history\, women are often excluded from the historical record\, leaving gaps in our understanding of gendered experiences. Professor Babayan explores gendered literacy and female friendship through a seventeenth-century anthology preserved in the library of the Urdubadi family\, a household of poets and bureaucrats in Safavid\, Iran. She argues that this anthology functions as a family archive\, making visible the social world of the household in which it was compiled. Central to this archive is the role of a female family member\, a widow of the Urdubadi\, household whose pilgrimage to Mecca is documented alongside expressions of love for a female companion who was forced to leave Isfahan due to circulating rumors about their relationship. Through this case\, Professor Babayan highlights how a ritual of sisterhood reveals an empathetic community and expands our understanding of premodern female friendships.\n \nKathryn Babayan specializes in the social history and culture of the early-modern Persianate world\, gender studies\, and the history of sexuality. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2024-25. Babayan is the author of two award-winning books\, *Mystics\, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran* (Cambridge\, MA: Harvard University Press\, 2003)\, and *The City as Anthology: Eroticism & Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2021). Babayan has also co-authored *Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran*\, with Sussan Babaie\, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe\, and Massumeh Farhad (London: I.B. Tauris\, 2004)\, and co-edited two books: *Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire* with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Cambridge\, MA: Harvard University Press\, 2008)\, and *An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion* with Michael Pifer (Cham\, Switzerland: Palgarve Macmillan\, 2018).\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- warsansa@umich.edu UID:136786-21879120@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136786 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,International Studies,Islamic Studies,Lecture,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250716T142024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T161000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Non-Thermal Plasmas for Revolutionizing Goods Production DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIt is well-recognized that non-thermal (non-equilibrium) plasmas have played a critical\, if unsung\, role in every day technologies\, and really\, our modern way of life. The microchips and processors that make up our phones\, computers\, and the entire information technology ecosystem all utilized plasma processing at some point in the manufacturing chain. While microfabrication technologies such as etching and sputtering are well developed and commercially deployed\, the next evolution of plasma processing will expand the types and kinds of goods beyond electronics to include fertilizers\, high-value chemicals\, metals\, and more\, helping create a more energy resilient and security robust manufacturing sector. This talk will overview two areas that are primed for great impact based on processing at a plasma-liquid interface. The first is bulk-phase chemical and metal production using plasma electrolysis\, where a plasma in contact with a solution drives useful solution-phase chemistry without the need for catalysts. The second is additive manufacturing\, where a plasma in contact with aerosols containing functional inks accelerates and improves the printing process of functional devices. The talk will overview both fundamental work on the plasma-liquid interface and discuss specific application demonstrations that highlight recent advances\, stressing the need for continued research and development to move the field toward practical technologies.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDavid B. Go is the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Vice President & Associate Provost for Academic Strategy at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his current role\, he was the Chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professor Go has published widely in the areas of plasma science and engineering\, heat transfer and fluid dynamics\, and chemical analysis and holds ten patents or patent applications\, leading to two licensed technologies. Professor Go has been recognized with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Award\, the National Science Foundation CAREER award\, the Electrochemistry Society Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship\, the Electrostatics Society of America Rising Star and Distinguished Service Awards\, and the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society Early Achievement Award. He has also been recognized as a Viskanta Fellow and received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award from Purdue University. Professor Go is an ASME Fellow\, Senior Member of IEEE\, and former President of the Electrostatics Society of America. At U. Notre Dame\, he has received the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce\, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and was a Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow. Prior to joining Notre Dame in 2008\, Professor Go received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame\, M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati\, and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person\, with livestream in Zoom. Check MIPSE website for details:\nhttps://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2526.php UID:136476-21878766@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136476 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,In Person,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T131703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Ziwet Lectures DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThere will be a reception after the Tuesday Colloquium in the Math Upper Atrium.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\n\n\nTuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThis lecture addresses the historical trade-off between interpretable but expertise-dependent deductive models and scalable but non-interpretable data-driven approaches by introducing hybrid AI frameworks that transcend this divide. We present AI-Descartes (generator-verifier paradigm)\, AI-Hilbert (unified hypothesis generation and testing)\, and AI-Noether (algebraic-geometric theory revision via abductive reasoning) as transformative approaches to mathematical model discovery. These frameworks advocate for conceptual evolution of the scientific method toward deeper AI integration in pursuing both interpretable and universal models.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\nThis lecture introduces a novel tensor-tensor algebra that preserves essential matrix-algebraic properties while overcoming limitations of conventional tensorial frameworks\, culminating in an Eckart-Young-like theorem that resolves a decades-long open problem in tensor analysis. We demonstrate how this framework enables seamless retrofitting of existing computational workflows (Hamiltonian neural networks\, tensor Graph Convolutional Networks) and extends to tensor group symmetry theory for equivariant learning applications. This work opens pathways to new tensorial algebras that can reveal deeper patterns in high-dimensional information previously inaccessible to traditional methods.\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\nThis lecture addresses the modern paradox where unprecedented data accumulation capabilities make selective identification of informative samples more critical than ever for meaningful model development. We review theoretical foundations of experimental design within inverse problems frameworks\, examining strategies for well-posed and ill-posed settings while establishing approaches for design preferences\, budget allocation\, and risk assessment. Through information-theoretic principles\, we demonstrate how optimal experimental design creates a paradigm shift from data volume to information content\, with transformative implications for resource-constrained scientific methodology.\n\nDr. Lior Horesh is a Principal Research Scientist\, Master Inventor and a Senior Manager of the ‎Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (formerly Mathematics of AI) department at IBM Research. His department’s mission is to approach some of the big ‎challenges the field of AI is facing\, from a principled mathematical angle. Additionally\, Dr. Horesh ‎holds an adjunct Associate Professor position at the Computer Science department of Columbia ‎University where he teaches graduate level Advanced Machine Learning and Quantum Computing ‎courses. Dr. Horesh Received his Ph.D. in 2006 from UCL and joined IBM in 2009.\n\nThe Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Ziwet\, Chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lecture series in the department. UID:135252-21876549@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,data,Data Science,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Faculty,Free,Generative Ai,Graduate Students,Lecture,Mathematics,symposium,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Faith & Fandom DESCRIPTION:Faith & Fandom takes a look at pop culture media as a modern parable to help us explore themes of faith. We'll examine themes from movies\, TV\, books\, anime\, games\, etc. each week.\n​\nEnter the Wesley Foundation through the Tower doors. UID:138706-21883708@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250723T104632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Water@Michigan September Coffee Talk DESCRIPTION:Talk Description:\nThe Line 5 oil pipeline controversy has been a dominant environmental issue in Michigan for nearly 15 years. Yet the future of the pipeline remains unresolved with pending legal\, political\, and policy battles that have major impacts on water policy\, Indigenous rights\, energy policy\, and states’ rights. UM has played a critical role in shaping this debate at multiple key moments. This panel will discuss the Line 5 controversy and the role of academia/UM in the debate over the future of water rights and energy infrastructure.\n\nAbout the Speakers:\nBeth Wallace\, Director\, Climate and Energy\, National Wildlife Federation\, Great Lakes Region \n\nDave Schwab\, retired NOAA scientist and U-M Water Center researcher\n\nJulie Halpert\, U-M Lecturer & Independent Journalist\n\nMike Shriberg\, U-M Water Center Director & Professor of Practice & Engagement at the School for Environment & Sustainability (SEAS)\n\nAbout Water@Michigan Coffee Talks: \nCoffee Talks provide a monthly opportunity for U-M faculty\, staff\, and students interested in water\, and water-interested people in southeast Michigan to connect with colleagues\, learn about pressing and/or emerging water-related issues\, and meet new partners.\n\nThis academic year\, we are excited to explore the intersection of water + energy and what this nexus means to U-M researchers\, institutes\, and external partners. Please fill out the linked form below to RSVP for the fall series. Upon registration\, you will receive a calendar invite from Sarah Miller (milsar@umich.edu) with meeting-specific information.\n\nCoffee Talks are in-person convenings designed to build connections as part of the U-M Water Center's mission and programs\; we are not recording sessions at this time.\n\nPlease register for Coffee Talks here: https://graham.umich.edu/wateratmichigan/coffee-talks UID:136603-21878909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,climate,Discussion,Energy,environment,environmental justice,freshwater,great lakes LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T102225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:Title: Searching for the First Stars with Stellar Archaeology\n\nAbstract: The first stars formed directly out of pristine big bang material. These metal-free Population III stars are thought to have been unusually massive\, and their lives and deaths set the stage for all subsequent cosmic evolution. The properties of Population III stars cannot be directly determined at high redshift\, but they still can be accessed observationally using nearby relic stars and galaxies that have survived from ancient times with an approach called Stellar Archaeology. The elemental abundances of such old\, metal-poor stars encode otherwise inaccessible information about the first stars. I will present recent insights into the nature of the first stars gleaned from stellar archaeology\, including new observational constraints on the nature of the first supernova explosions and steps towards understanding the initial mass function. I will show that current methods are likely probing only a subset of all Population III stars that existed. These limitations can likely be overcome as we move into the era of industrial stellar spectroscopy and extremely large telescopes. UID:138708-21883735@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138708 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T131703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Ziwet Lectures DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThere will be a reception after the Tuesday Colloquium in the Math Upper Atrium.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\n\n\nTuesday\, September 9\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1324: Science 2.0 - Evolving the Scientific Method in the Age of AI\nThis lecture addresses the historical trade-off between interpretable but expertise-dependent deductive models and scalable but non-interpretable data-driven approaches by introducing hybrid AI frameworks that transcend this divide. We present AI-Descartes (generator-verifier paradigm)\, AI-Hilbert (unified hypothesis generation and testing)\, and AI-Noether (algebraic-geometric theory revision via abductive reasoning) as transformative approaches to mathematical model discovery. These frameworks advocate for conceptual evolution of the scientific method toward deeper AI integration in pursuing both interpretable and universal models.\n\nWednesday\, September 10\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: Matrix-Mimetic Tensor Algebra: Optimal Decompositions and Equivariant Learning\nThis lecture introduces a novel tensor-tensor algebra that preserves essential matrix-algebraic properties while overcoming limitations of conventional tensorial frameworks\, culminating in an Eckart-Young-like theorem that resolves a decades-long open problem in tensor analysis. We demonstrate how this framework enables seamless retrofitting of existing computational workflows (Hamiltonian neural networks\, tensor Graph Convolutional Networks) and extends to tensor group symmetry theory for equivariant learning applications. This work opens pathways to new tensorial algebras that can reveal deeper patterns in high-dimensional information previously inaccessible to traditional methods.\n\nThursday\, September 11\, 4 pm\, East Hall 4448: From Big Data to Right Data: Information-Theoretic Optimal Experimental Design\nThis lecture addresses the modern paradox where unprecedented data accumulation capabilities make selective identification of informative samples more critical than ever for meaningful model development. We review theoretical foundations of experimental design within inverse problems frameworks\, examining strategies for well-posed and ill-posed settings while establishing approaches for design preferences\, budget allocation\, and risk assessment. Through information-theoretic principles\, we demonstrate how optimal experimental design creates a paradigm shift from data volume to information content\, with transformative implications for resource-constrained scientific methodology.\n\nDr. Lior Horesh is a Principal Research Scientist\, Master Inventor and a Senior Manager of the ‎Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (formerly Mathematics of AI) department at IBM Research. His department’s mission is to approach some of the big ‎challenges the field of AI is facing\, from a principled mathematical angle. Additionally\, Dr. Horesh ‎holds an adjunct Associate Professor position at the Computer Science department of Columbia ‎University where he teaches graduate level Advanced Machine Learning and Quantum Computing ‎courses. Dr. Horesh Received his Ph.D. in 2006 from UCL and joined IBM in 2009.\n\nThe Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Ziwet\, Chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lecture series in the department. UID:135252-21876550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,data,Data Science,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Faculty,Free,Generative Ai,Graduate Students,Lecture,Mathematics,symposium,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T113657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Pop after Empire: Disco\, Decolonization\, and the Re-Making of a Music Industry DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Kira Thurman investigates the rise of Black Europeans in popular music since WWII. After the collapse of European empires\, European popular music industries turned to the musical labor of former colonial subjects to reinvent themselves in an increasingly global and English-speaking marketplace. Interpreting many Black European pop stars such as Boney M or Milli Vanilli as Black Americans\, however\, transatlantic listeners often failed to recognize the musicians performing in front of them as belonging to European history. How\, then\, do we account for both the overwhelming presence—and discursive absence—of Black Europeans in modern history? This talk seeks to illuminate how musical producers\, performers\, and their audiences sought to make sense of—and occasionally reject—the category of ‘Black Europe’ in the wake of a newly emerging post-imperial Western Europe.\n\nKira Thurman is an associate professor of History at the University of Michigan\, with affiliations in Germanic Languages & Literatures\, Musicology (School of Music\, Theatre\, and Dance)\, and AfroAmerican and African Studies. Her research explores Europe’s contemporary and historical relationship with the Black diaspora. Her first book\, \"Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach\, Beethoven\, and Brahms\" (Cornell University Press\, 2021) won seven awards\, including the George Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History from the American Historical Association and the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society. NPR selected it as one of their favorite books of 2021.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:136090-21877837@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Social Sciences LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250729T124808 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The 38th Graham Hovey Lecture with NPR's Andrea Hsu DESCRIPTION:A sweeping effort to expand presidential power and overhaul the federal government began the moment Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20\, 2025. Executive orders targeted the federal workforce\, reducing its size and making it more responsive to executive authority. Within a few months\, tens of thousands of federal employees were fired\, and far more resigned amid threats of mass layoffs. While a flurry of lawsuits has slowed those actions\, it’s abundantly clear that the government workforce is not what it was on January 20. What’s unclear is what the government will ultimately become and how the country will be changed in the process.\n\nNPR labor and workplace correspondent Andrea Hsu\, a 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow\, has been closely covering the upheaval inside government agencies and the legal fights surrounding it. She’ll share insights from those still working within federal agencies and those who have recently been pushed out\, and explore what this transformation could mean for how Americans experience and rely on their government.\n\nThis is an in-person event and will not be live-streamed. However\, a recording of the lecture will be available on our website following the event. Reception following the lecture.\n\nAbout the Speaker\nAndrea Hsu began her journalism career as a locally hired researcher for the BBC’s Beijing bureau. She joined NPR’s Washington\, D.C.\, newsroom in 2002\, spending nearly two decades as a producer for “All Things Considered.” In late 2020\, she transitioned to NPR’s business desk\, where she reported on how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the workforce. Since 2021\, she has served as NPR’s labor and workplace correspondent\, focusing on the evolving dynamics of work in the United States.\n\nAbout the Graham Hovey Lecture\nThe annual Graham Hovey Lecture recognizes a Knight-Wallace journalist whose career exemplifies the benefits of a fellowship at the University of Michigan and whose ensuing work is at the forefront of our national conversations. The event is named for the late Graham Hovey\, director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986 and a distinguished journalist for The New York Times. UID:136799-21879131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136799 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,American Politics,Ann Arbor,Communication And Media,Communications,General Public,government,Media LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250817T143543 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Catherine Chalmers DESCRIPTION:Catherine Chalmers’ work lies at the intersection of art\, science\, and nature. She conducts extensive research for each of her long-term\, multimedia projects\, and direct\, physical engagement with the natural world is central to her process. Through her art\, she aims to give form to the richness—as well as the brutality and indifference—that often characterize humanity’s relationship with nature.\n\nChalmers uses the narrative possibilities of the visual arts to bridge the growing divide between humans and the environment\, and to creatively engage with the systems that support life on Earth. She believes that culture is far richer when it includes and considers other life forms.\n\nThough she has worked across media—from engineering and painting to photography\, video\, sculpture\, and drawing—her artistic practice has always centered on one core issue: how to confront and challenge an anthropocentric worldview. Humanity has long drawn lines in the sand to define what belongs and what does not. Perhaps now\, in the dawn of the Anthropocene\, it is time to reconsider those lines—and what lives on the other side.\n\nChalmers’ current work\, Conifer Trees\, Bark Beetles & Fire\, is a deeply personal project that aims to explore the intricate relationship between beetles\, wildfires\, and trees\, while shedding light on the broader consequences of human actions on forest ecology. By revealing both the beauty and the tragedy within these natural processes\, Chalmers hopes to inspire a deeper understanding and appreciation of the complexities of environmental conservation and the vital role art plays in conveying these insights.\n\nCatherine Chalmers holds a B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Painting from the Royal College of Art\, London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world\, including MoMA PS1\, MASS MoCA\, The Drawing Center\, Kunsthalle Vienna\, and the Today Art Museum in Beijing\, among others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Time Out New York\, ArtNews\, Artforum\, and on PBS\, CNN\, NPR\, and the BBC. Two books have been published on her work: FOOD CHAIN (Aperture\, 2000) and AMERICAN COCKROACH (Aperture\, 2004).\n\nChalmers’ video Safari won Best Experimental Short at the SXSW Film Festival in 2008. In 2010\, Chalmers received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and in 2015\, she was awarded a Rauschenberg Residency. Her video Leafcutters won Best Environmental Short at the 2018 Natourale Film Festival in Wiesbaden\, Germany\; in 2019\, it received the Gil Omenn Art &\; Science Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She lives in New York City.\n\nCatherine Chalmers' exhibition\, Conifer Trees\, Bark Beetles\, and Fire\, will be on view at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery from September 11 to October 24\, 2025. An opening reception will follow her Penny Stamps Speaker Series event\, taking place at the gallery from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.\n\nPresented in partnership with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137414-21880217@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250911T120549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Apologetics: Challenge your thinking (over pizza!) with Ratio Christi Thursdays. DESCRIPTION:Hi all\,\nWe are excited to invite you to Ratio Christi Meeting on Thursday 09/11 from 6-7 pm! The question for this week is: \"Does the beginning of the universe point to the existence of God?\" Our meeting will be held at the Study Center at 611 1/2 E. William St. Ann Arbor. This is a safe space for inquiring about religion and faith. Your perspectives are valued in fostering a thoughtful understanding of these subjects. All are welcome!! There will be pizza!\nYou can follow us on Instagram:Ratio Christi Instagram page.\nWe are excited to see you all soon and please feel free to reach out with any questions!\nSincerely\,\nRatio Christi Team 😊 UID:138940-21884268@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138940 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:MCSC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250911T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer & Affirming DESCRIPTION:We'll gather for discussion\, Bible or book studies\, and discover the intersection of faith and identity. This group is for the LGBTQIA2S+ community and allies.\n\nOur discussion for this semester is based on Brandan Roberson's new book\, \"Queer & Christian.\" UID:138707-21883722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138707 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T100444 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Inder Singh DESCRIPTION:Inder Singh has built his career tackling some of the world’s toughest health challenges. As Founder and CEO of Kinsa Health\, he created a groundbreaking infectious disease surveillance and prediction system\, trusted by millions of consumers\, schools\, and health systems. Previously at the Clinton Health Access Initiative\, he helped lower the cost of life-saving medicines by up to 93%\, efforts that expanded treatment for millions globally.\n\nNow\, Inder brings his experience as a Founder\, CEO\, and Executive Coach to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.\n\nThursday\, September 12\n11:30 AM\nStamps Auditorium\, North Campus\n\nJoin us to hear how Inder has combined innovation\, impact\, and leadership to create meaningful change—and how you can do the same. UID:137997-21881117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137997 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Free,In Person,Lecture,North campus,Startup,Talk LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250810T144251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Particle Simulations of Fluids and Plasmas DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The first part of the talk presents simulations of elliptical fluid vortices described by the 2D incompressible Euler equations where an open question is whether such vortices evolve into an axisymmetric state. The second part of the talk presents simulations of collisionless electrostatic plasmas governed by the 1D1V Vlasov-Poisson equations applied to Landau damping and halo formation in an ion beam. The fluid calculations use a recently developed version of Chorin's vortex method and those techniques were adapted to do the plasma simulations. The techniques include (1) a particle/panel representation of the fluid vorticity in physical space and the plasma particle distribution function in phase space\, (2) semi-Lagrangian time-stepping with tree-based adaptive mesh refinement\, (3) regularized integral-based calculation of the velocity field and electric field\, (4) GPU-accelerated barycentric Lagrange treecode.\n\nContact: AIM Seminar Organizers UID:135807-21877290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T123027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its fall 2025 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series\, “Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism\,” with Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes:\n\n“Existential crises hang over the producers of the world’s food. Many of these challenges are self-inflicted. In the banana-growing regions of the Southern Philippines\, which produce fruit for export to Japanese markets\, plantations unleash pesticide drift\, food waste\, water effluent\, and fungal pathogens into the surroundings. The plantocratic elite systematically shirks responsibility for these excesses\, using legal contracts\, scientific conventions\, and standards of trade to frame them as “external” to their supply chains. However\, plantation management is regularly proven wrong in its assumption that the things they try to push downstream will not double back to haunt them. Everyday actors on the plantations’ peripheries transform the devices designed to work against them into openings for intervention. Their efforts implore critical scholars of the environment and of global economies to take seriously the possibility that Big Ag’s increasingly frequent failures to reproduce itself are more than just minor inconveniences to business-as-usual. In this series of lectures\, I trace the afterlives of the externalities that commodity production obscures\, disguises\, or otherwise erases from its ambit of accountability. In so doing\, I offer an ethnographic model for turning the commodity studies model\, inherited from generations of anthropologists\, inside-out.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in 411 West Hall. They are free and open to the public. \n\nFriday\, Sept. 12\nElses and Externalities: The Un/Making of Plantation Capitalism \n\nFriday\, Oct. 10\nRejects: Food Cosmetic Standards and the Geopolitics of Waste\n\nFriday\, Nov. 14\nEffluent: Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River\n\nFriday\, Dec. 5\nForce Majeure: The See-Through Plantation\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nIf you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALYSSA PAREDES\nAlyssa Paredes is an environmental and economic anthropologist with research interests at the intersection of industrial agriculture\, transnational supply chains\, and social mobilization between the Southern Philippines and Japan. Her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “Bananapocalypse: An Ethnography of the Commodity for the 21st Century\,” is under contract with the University of California Press. Additionally\, her work appears in journals in anthropology\, history\, geography\, food studies\, and Asian studies. She is also co-editor of “Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food” (University of Hawaii Press 2025). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. UID:135598-21876978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135598 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Archaeology,Ecology,Environment,History,Southeast Asia LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250820T083719 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Complex Communities DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought-provoking conversation exploring how climate change is transforming the fragile forest ecosystems of the American West. U-M Research Scientist & Lecturer Dr. Stella Cousins will share insights from her fieldwork\, while artist Catherine Chalmers offers a creative lens on the natural world. Moderated by Institute for the Humanities Arts Curator Amanda Krugliak\, this dialogue blends science\, art\, and storytelling to illuminate the urgent challenges within these threatened landscapes.\n\nChalmer's exhibition *Conifer Trees\, Bark Beetles\, and Fire* is on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery Sept. 11 - Oct. 24. For complete details and more related events visit https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/catherine-chalmers.html.\n\nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:\n\nCatherine Chalmers is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. She holds a BS in engineering from Stanford University and an MFA in painting from the Royal College of Art\, London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world\, including MoMA P.S.1\; MassMoca\; The Drawing Center\; Kunsthalle Vienna\; The Today Art Museum\, Beijing\; among others. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Time Out New York\, ArtNews\, Artforum\, and on PBS\, CNN\, NPR\, and the BBC. Two books have been published on her work: *Food Chain* (Aperture 2000) and *American Cockroach* (Aperture 2004). Her video “Safari” won Best Experimental Short at SXSW Film Festival in 2008. In 2010 Chalmers received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in NYC.\n\nDr. Stella Cousins is an ecosystem ecologist interested in understanding how and why forests change. She uses patterns measured in trees and forests such as growth\, mortality\, and community dynamics to reveal how ecosystems respond to human demands and disturbances. Her current research focuses on the drivers of tree mortality in California forests and the transformations that can be expected in ecosystems that experience rapid change. In earlier research she has examined forest carbon processes\, air pollution impacts to montane forests\, provision of watershed services\, and the management of vegetated cultural landscapes. Her work leverages comprehensive surveys conducted by the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program\, long-term monitoring\, and measurements ranging from individual tree rings to whole forest structures. Dr. Cousins is broadly interested in how landscapes can be sustainably managed for multiple benefits\, which often involves collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams and investing in place-based data collection. She is especially interested in social-environmental problems facing the Western United States. Prior to joining SEAS\, Dr. Cousins was an Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University and a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and was a graduate fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). \n\nAmanda Krugliak is a curator and artist known for performative\, conceptual\, and experiential installations\, in charge of programming for the Institute for the Humanities Gallery since 2009. In 2012\, she co-created the internationally recognized installation *State of Exception *with artist Richard Barnes and U-M anthropologist Jason De León based upon De León’s Undocumented Migration Project. She is frequently a guest lecturer and leads workshops on curating scholarship and the gallery as a social justice practice. UID:136658-21878987@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Discussion,Ecology,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Sustainability,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T104316 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Representation Theory of Solitons DESCRIPTION:Non-invertible symmetries are novel transformations of quantum systems that imply new selection rules and constraints on dynamics. We derive the implications of these symmetries on the particle spectrum of two dimensional QFTs. We show that these symmetries often imply degeneracies between particles and solitons and apply our analyses to examples ranging from integrable deformations of minimal models to two-dimensional QCD. UID:137601-21880454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics,Science,Seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T130959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Rebecca Robinson DESCRIPTION:The origins of the glacial-interglacial timescale changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide observed in ice cores spanning the last million years is a decades long debate in the earth and ocean sciences. Reconstructions of nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean have figured prominently in most data driven explanations for ocean uptake of carbon dioxide during ice ages. Amongst these reconstructions\, diatom-bound nitrogen isotope records of nutrient drawdown in the surface ocean are both abundant and considered robust. Groundtruthing of the diatom nitrogen isotope proxy is ongoing. UID:138012-21881146@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138012 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences,Environment LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250912T181528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webster MFA Reading Series: Jared Scribner and Alejandro de la Garza DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and presented in partnership with UMMA\, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.\n \nJared Scribner is a fiction writer from southwest Missouri. He is currently working on a collection of stories and a novella. Jared will be introduced by Sean Cavanaugh\n \nAlejandro de la Garza is a writer from Dobbs Ferry\, New York. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan\, he worked as a journalist covering climate change. Alejandro will be introduced by Sophie Weisskoff.\n \nFriends\, family\, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person at UMMA or live on Zoom. \n \nThis series is free and open to the public. For questions\, accommodation needs\, or the password to attend the event via Zoom\, please contact co-hosts\, Micah Muhammad (micahmuh@umich.edu) and Jennifer Nessel (jnessel@umich.edu).\n UID:137117-21879766@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137117 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250914T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 6:15 pm before the 7:00 pm USO performance. UID:137652-21880503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T131759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE postdoc research talk - Amirhossein Moosavi DESCRIPTION:Seminar Abstract: Healthcare decisions are rarely made with full information: risks evolve\, service durations fluctuate\, and data are often incomplete. Overlooking such uncertainties in the optimization process can compromise safety\, access\, and efficiency. In this seminar\, I will examine key healthcare decision-making problems\, such as ambulatory care appointment scheduling and hospital readmission reduction\, each characterized by different types of uncertainty (observable arrivals\, partially observable health status\, and complex-to-model unpunctuality). I will present cutting-edge solution approaches (e.g.\, approximate dynamic programming\, predict-and-optimize) that translate these uncertainties into actionable decisions. I will also demonstrate their computational efficiency\, performance relative to state-of-the-art benchmarks\, and potential impact in real-world healthcare settings.\n\nPresenter Bio: Amirhossein Moosavi is a Michigan Data Science Fellow at the University of Michigan with a PhD in Management Science and MS/BS in Industrial Engineering. He blends machine learning and advanced analytics to enable robust decisions in healthcare and generate evidence that informs policy. At the University of Michigan\, Amirhossein serves as Postdoctoral Affairs Chair\, and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Off campus\, he serves as one of five national INFORMS representatives and is co-launching an international forum for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars to share their work and expand their networks. His long-term vision is to fuse novel data-driven methods with efficient healthcare delivery to generate insights that inform policymaking. Outside academia\, he enjoys strength training\, cycling\, and kayaking. UID:138763-21883803@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellows LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T103059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Europe and America: Where are we and where are we going? DESCRIPTION:Since the end of World War II\, the United States and Europe have been closely tied together. American security ties with Europe were a fundamental part of overall US security during the Cold War. Europe is the United States’ largest trading partner. The development of Europe after the war has been\, and continues to be\, a key part of America's prosperity for 70 years. Are things changing now? What will the security relationship between the US and Europe look like going forward? What is Russia's place? How will the US balance its relations between Russia and Europe? The Ambassadors Forum will tackle some of the most central issues in this paradigm.\n\nThe US and NATO: \nNATO was essentially a US creation. What is its status now in an era when Russia seems to threaten the West and alleges that it\, in turn\, is threatened by NATO expansion? Can NATO survive whatever outcome there is from the Russo-Ukrainian war and the Trump Administration’s approach to funding the alliance? The Honorable Rose Gottemoeller will reflect on this complex interplay of subjects.\n \nThe US and Europe: \nThe EU has expanded enormously since its hesitant first days in the coal and steel community. It is now a significant economic force\, somewhat weakened by Great Britain's departure. Yet while the European Union is more than a collection of states\, it remains less than a union. Changing American policies are straining ties with Europe just as they are straining those with NATO. The Honorable Catherine Novelli will discuss the size and importance of the US-EU relationship and reflect on where it may be going.\n \nThe US and Russia: \nThe US and Russia were enemies throughout the Cold War\, briefly cooperating colleagues for a short period afterward\, and then increasingly estranged. What shape is the relationship in now\, and where does it seem to go? Ambassador John Beyrle will reflect on the continuing evolution of US-Russian relations.\n\nEvent Speakers:\n\nAmbassador Rose Gottemoeller:\nRose Gottemoeller served as NATO's Deputy Secretary General from 2016 to 2019\, following nearly five years as the U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. In this role\, she advised the Secretary of State on arms control\, nonproliferation\, and political-military issues. She also concurrently served as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control\, Verification and Compliance (2009–2014)\, where she led negotiations for the New START treaty with Russia\, which took effect in 2011. Her work focused on international security cooperation\, peacekeeping policy\, and post-conflict weapons abatement\, especially in Europe and Asia.\n\nEarlier in her career\, Gottemoeller held key roles at the U.S. Department of Energy\, overseeing nuclear nonproliferation efforts with Russia and other former Soviet states. She also worked with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, including as Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Her experience includes time on the National Security Council\, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London\, and as a social scientist at RAND. An expert in Russian security and fluent in Russian\, she has taught at Georgetown University. Born in Columbus\, Ohio\, she holds degrees from Georgetown and George Washington University and is married to retired diplomat Raymond Arnaudo.\n\nAmbassador Catherine A. Novelli:\nCatherine A. Novelli is a Senior Advisor at Shearwater Global and President of Listening for America\, a non-profit focused on reshaping U.S. international trade policy. She also teaches at Georgetown University and served as a Centennial Fellow there from 2018–2019. From 2014 to 2017\, she was Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth\, Energy\, and the Environment\, where she promoted open markets and led significant initiatives like the Our Ocean movement\, which secured $10 billion for ocean conservation\, and the Global Connect Initiative\, aimed at bringing internet access to 1.5 billion people.\n\nBefore her government role\, Novelli was Vice President of Worldwide Government Affairs at Apple Inc.\, managing global public policy. She also worked at the law firm Mayer Brown International and spent much of her earlier career at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. There\, she played a major role in trade agreements with countries in Europe\, the Middle East\, and North Africa\, including key deals with Jordan\, Morocco\, Bahrain\, and Oman. Novelli sits on the boards of the National Wildlife Federation and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Initiative and has received multiple honors\, including the State Department Distinguished Service Award. She holds degrees from Tufts University\, the University of Michigan Law School\, and the University of London.\n\nAmbassador John R.Beyrle:\nAmbassador John Beyrle\, elected Chairman of the U.S. Russia Foundation in October 2018\, served over three decades as a U.S. diplomat with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and the former Soviet Union. He was appointed ambassador to Bulgaria (2005–2008) and Russia (2008–2012)\, where he played a key role in strengthening U.S.-Russia relations through the signing of the START treaty\, supporting Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization\, and easing visa restrictions. Beyrle also held senior diplomatic roles in Moscow\, Prague\, and Washington\, including as deputy chief of mission and director for Russian\, Ukrainian\, and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council.\n\nIn addition to his diplomatic service\, Beyrle served as a special adviser to the Secretary of State\, participated in arms control negotiations\, and was a staff officer for Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker. He also advised Senator Paul Simon as a Pearson Fellow. His distinguished service earned him honors from both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama\, as well as Secretary Hillary Clinton. Beyrle retired from the Foreign Service in 2012 and now provides consulting services to nonprofit and corporate clients. A Michigan native\, he holds degrees from Grand Valley State University and the National War College\, where he also taught. He speaks five languages and is married to retired Foreign Service officer Jocelyn Greene. They have two daughters.\n\nAmbassador Ronald E. Neumann:\nAmbassador Ronald E. Neumann is President of the American Academy of Diplomacy\, an organization of former senior diplomats dedicated to strengthening American diplomacy. Formerly a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East\, Neumann served three times as Ambassador\; to Algeria\, Bahrain and finally to Afghanistan from July 2005 to April 2007. Much of his early career focused on the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula including service in Iraq (2004-05)\, working extensively with the military.\n\nSince his service in Afghanistan\, he has returned there frequently and writes and speaks extensively on the subject. He has authored a book on his time in Afghanistan titled The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan\, as well as wrote Three Embassies\, Four Wars\; A Personal Memoir. In earlier postings\, he served as Director of the Office for Iran and Iraq\, Deputy Chief of Mission in the United Arab Emirates\, and in Yemen\, and Principal Officer in Tabriz\, Iran. In 2018\, he received the American Foreign Service Association’s award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy. He holds a B.A. in history and an M.A. in political science and was an infantry officer in Vietnam (’69-70). He is married to the former M. Elaine Grimm. They have two children. UID:138586-21883431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138586 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,betty ford,Diplomacy,europe,ford school,ford school of public policy,Free,General Public,gerald r. ford school of public policy,Global,In Person,International,International Affairs,international policy,international relations,Leadership,Nato,Open To All Majors,Public Policy,Russia,Weiser Center For Europe And Eurasia,Weiser Diplomacy Center,Weiser Diplomacy Center For Europe And Eurasia LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T120326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250915T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Europe and America: Where are we and where are we going? DESCRIPTION:Ambassadors Forum\, presented by the Weiser Diplomacy Center (WDC) in partnership with the American Academy of Diplomacy\, and co-sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE)\n\nAbout the Event:\n\nSince the end of World War II\, the United States and Europe have been closely tied together. American security ties with Europe were a fundamental part of overall US security during the Cold War. Europe is the United States’ largest trading partner. The development of Europe after the war has been\, and continues to be\, a key part of America's prosperity for 70 years. Are things changing now? What will the security relationship between the US and Europe look like going forward? What is Russia's place? How will the US balance its relations between Russia and Europe? The Ambassadors Forum will tackle some of the most central issues in this paradigm. UID:138625-21883504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138625 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:America And Europe,gerald r. ford school of public policy,international policy,Nato LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (Room 1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T101927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Jake Grumbach\, an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.\n\nAbstract: “Compared to those of other countries\, politicians in the United States are among the oldest. We investigate the role of money in politics in maintaining age inequality in political influence and office-holding. Using record linkage\, we create a novel dataset that combines administrative data on the age of voters\, donors\, and candidates. Descriptively\, we find that the median dollar in the U.S. campaign finance system comes from a 66-year-old donor—significantly older than the median voter\, candidate\, or elected official—and that older donors are much more ideologically conservative than younger donors. We then investigate whether candidate age matters to donors. Results from within-district and within-donor analyses suggest that individuals are more likely to donate and donate more to candidates closer to their age. We conclude with a discussion of how various campaign finance policies might affect the age distribution of money in politics.” UID:136545-21878813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Democracy,Discussion,Inequality,Political Economy,Political Science,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T094546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IBL Lunch DESCRIPTION:Come talk about teaching with IBL\, interactive\, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes\, thoughts\, and your appetite. Lunch will be provided. UID:138237-21882648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250911T095457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: Dr. Zaher Hani- On Hilbert’s sixth problem DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We will discuss a recent joint work with Yu Deng (Chicago) and Xiao Ma (Michigan) which gave the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann and fluid equations from Newton's laws. This executed the so-called \"Hilbert’s Program\"\, proposed in Hilbert's sixth problem from 1900\, which asked for the derivation of fluid equations (like Euler’s and Navier-Stokes’) using Boltzmann’s kinetic theory as an intermediate step. The result follows parallel progress (by Deng and myself) in the wave setting\, where colliding particles are replaced by interacting waves.\n\nBio: Dr. Hani is the Frederick W. and Lois B. Gehring Professor of Mathematics and his research is in the area of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). Particularly\, I study equations modeling wave-type phenomena\, which are often called nonlinear dispersive PDE. UID:137382-21880188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137382 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T175204 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Constitution and the Second Trump Administration's Assault on Immigrants' Rights DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture commemorating Constitution Day. Lee Gelernt\, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project\, will speak on \"The Constitution and the Second Trump Administration's Assault on Immigrants' Rights.\" Mr. Gelernt\, drawing on his three decades of experience doing civil rights work at the ACLU\, will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the Trump II policies and the ongoing high-profile litigation around immigrants’ rights. There will be particular focus on the Trump Administration’s unprecedented – and in his view unconstitutional – use of the Alien Enemies Act. UID:137426-21880229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137426 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Immigration,In Person,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,International,Law,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Multicultural,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Staff,Talk LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T155822 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EARTH Career Conversations DESCRIPTION:What exactly is a career in environmental consulting? \nWhat skills do you need to be competitive for jobs?\nHow do you network? \nDo you need to do an internship?\n\nPlease join us for a conversation with EARTH alumni who are successful environmental consultants to discuss the skills you need to be competitive for internships and jobs as well as strategies for networking with alumni and companies.\n\n*Please note: this event is geared towards undergraduate students\, but all are welcome!\n\nAnne Fitzpatrick is a senior principal scientist at Geosyntec focused on sediment remediation\, ecological toxicology\, feasibility studies\, remedy selection\, and compliance monitoring. She manages projects under a variety of regulatory programs with oversight from regulators\, the media\, and the public.\n\nDan Wiitala is co-founder and vice president of North Jackson Company where he specializes in groundwater/surface water resources evaluation\; water supply well and systems design\; environmental impact assessment and permitting\; environmental monitoring database management and remote\, automated hydrological data acquisition. Dan is a licensed professional geologist (P.G.) in WI and MN.\n\nForrest Gilfoy is a geologist at North Jackson Company with seven years of experience including a focus on environmental remediation including plume delineation and water quality testing for a variety of analytes\, including PFOS/PFAS\, wetland delineation and stream characterization\, and remote sensing. UID:138849-21884110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138849 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T194411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading: Operation MInd\, A Brief Documentary Account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And Why It Matters Now. DESCRIPTION:Literati Bookstore celebrates the release of a new edition of Operation Mind\, featuring readings by Silke-Maria Weineck and Alan Wald.\n\nTuesday\, SEPTEMBER 16\, 2025 - 6:30pm\nLiterati Bookstore\n124 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\n\nAbout the book: \nNatalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan’s Operation Mind is a body of evidence\, a prophetic warning\, and a call to action about the urgency of doing all we can to prevent thought control in America. In 1952\, this meticulously researched pamphlet documented the House Committee on Un-American Activities’ attacks and impact. The HUAC abused its charge to intimidate and silence academics\, union members\, social critics\, scientists\, artists\, teachers\, political opponents\, rabbis and other religious leaders\, to make them appear suspect and “un-American” in the eyes of the American people.\n\nThe 2025 reprint of Operation Mind offers a foreword by comparatist Silke-Maria Weineck and an essay by historian Alan Wald connecting Operation Mind’s history of McCarthyism with present-day attacks on academic freedom.\n\nSilke-Maria Weineck is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is interested in figurations of power\, be they literary\, cultural\, or institutional.\n\nAlan Wald is H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. The author of nine books on the US literary and intellectual Left\, he is a member of the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace and the University of Michigan Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. UID:138928-21884251@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Books,Faculty,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Law,Politics,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,African Studies,Afroamerican,Art,Black America,Blackness,Caribbean,History,Humanities,Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T135719 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | BPS Black Holes in AdS3xS3xS3xS1 and Beyond DESCRIPTION:The Bekenstein–Hawking formula gives a coarse-grained count of the number of microstates of a black hole\, and it is remarkable that it may sometimes be reproduced from a microscopic count in string theory. However\, the standard approach neglects quantum effects in the bulk which lead to pathologies for both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric black holes\, such as the breakdown of thermodynamics at sufficiently low temperatures. \nIn this talk\, we will explain how a more careful treatment of the gravitational path integral resolves these tensions and leads to new and surprising effects that are completely invisible classically.\nFor extended supersymmetry\, we will find that physically sensible black holes can preserve at most 4 supercharges\, with the most exceptional example being black holes in AdS3xS3xS3xS1. This notoriously poorly understood background in string theory has a nonlinear large N=4 superconformal symmetry\, but we are nevertheless able to make novel predictions for the BPS and near-BPS spectrum from gravity. Notably\, we find discrete jumps in the BPS spectrum as a continuous parameter is adjusted-- a quantum gravity effect for which no microscopic derivation is currently known. This result is corroborated by constructing a family of non-extremal supersymmetric black holes that contribute to a supersymmetric index yet possess a temperature-dependent free energy. UID:138990-21884495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T112314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Colloquium Series. Labor of Love: The Poor First Son of Bitches DESCRIPTION:Between the two world wars\, millions of Egyptians experienced industrial work and urban life for the first time\, transitioning from rural\, handcraft traditions to factory systems. *Industrial Sexuality* by Hanan Hammad explores this transformation through the lives of working-class men\, women\, and children in al-Mahalla al-Kubra\, home to Egypt’s largest textile factory. Drawing from previously untapped archival sources\, Hammad reveals how industrialization reshaped gender roles\, sexuality\, and public morality. The factory environment intensified issues like harassment\, exploitation\, and the public exposure of private relationships. Yet\, these workers played an active role in shaping modern Egyptian urban life\, challenging elite-centered narratives of modernity.\n \n Hanan Hammad is a social and cultural historian of modern Egypt whose work focuses on gender\, sexuality\, working classes\, and popular culture. She is the author of enormous academic publications\, most notably *Industrial Sexuality: Gender\, Urbanization\, and Social Transformation in Egypt* from the UT Press 2016 and *Unknown Past: Layla Murad\, The Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt* from Stanford University Press. Her work has won prizes from the National Women's Studies Association\, the Association for Middle East Women's Studies\, MESA\, the Arab American Book Awards\, and the Journal of Social History. Hammad is The Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and Director of the AAEF Center of Arab Studies at the University of Houston.\n \n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- warsansa@umich.edu UID:136787-21879121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,Lecture,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250914T132034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Hodge-Tate decomposition for abelian varieties with good reduction DESCRIPTION:The Hodge-Tate decomposition for an abelian variety is a p-adic analogue of the Hodge decomposition of a complex algebraic variety which allows us to relate the étale cohomology of a variety to its Hodge cohomology groups. In this talk\, we sketch a proof of this decomposition for H^1 of an abelian variety over a p-adic field with good reduction. The only prerequisites are the basic facts about p-adic fields and abelian varieties. UID:139309-21885266@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139309 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Number Theory LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251023T180142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SARAH WINANS NEWMAN LECTURE DESCRIPTION:You're invited to a special seminar titled \"Design Principles of Living Membranes\,\" presented by Dr. Ilya Levental\, Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at the University of Virginia. The event will take place on Wednesday\, September 17\, 2025\, at 4:00 PM in the Kahn Auditorium of the Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB). Dr. Levental will explore the structure and function of cellular membranes\, offering insights into the fundamental design principles that govern these essential biological systems. A reception will follow the seminar in the ABC Seminar Rooms\, providing an opportunity to continue the conversation and connect with others in the community. All are welcome to attend. UID:136874-21879294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136874 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,biophysics,Biosciences,conference,Free,Lecture,Research,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Lecture in Kahn Auditorium followed by a reception in the ABC Seminar Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T171758 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The State of U.S. Democracy DESCRIPTION:Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins award-winning journalist Kara Swisher for a discussion on the state of U.S. democracy\, politics\, and more\, at this live taping of the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast.\n\nSince leaving office\, Buttigieg has been using his voice to criticize many of the actions undertaken by President Donald Trump and his administration\, while reaching out and engaging with people who might disagree with him. Swisher will delve into topics like threats to U.S. democracy\, the state of political discourse\, and prospects for the 2026 and 2028 elections.\n\nSwisher is a Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence for Autumn 2025. Read about the appointment here.\"\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability\, Wallace House Center for Journalists\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. UID:138430-21882935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Democracy,ford school of public policy,Free,General Public,gerald r. ford school of public policy,Public Policy,sustainability,taubman college LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T113623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate Solutions Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Please join our September Climate Solutions Discussion Group. This month’s topic is about the carbon impact of foods and how to reduce your “carbon FOODprint”. Our food production and distribution system accounts for about one-quarter to one-third of total global greenhouse gas emissions. This includes emissions from land use\, farming\, processing\, transportation\, packaging\, and the waste of food. \n\nCome to share your experiences\, your thoughts and resources you’ve found that can help reduce our impact on the climate through our eating choices and purchasing behaviors. Come to learn from others.\n\nQuestions? Contact annarbor@citizensclimatelobby.org\n\nFind Zoom link below. UID:139051-21884685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139051 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Carbon Footprint,Climate Change,Discussion,Free,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T104222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T220000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Constitution Day | What's at Stake Series: DESCRIPTION:In honor of Constitution Day on September 17\, join U-M faculty experts for a discussion on some of the Constitution’s most important features: executive orders\, separation of powers and control over elections\, due process and habeas corpus\, the rule of law—its meaning\, importance\, and challenges.\n\nEven if you think you know the Constitution\, this event will give you new insights. Come with your curiosity\, questions\, and concerns.\n\nFree pizza + free pocket Constitutions (limited supply)! UID:139043-21884677@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Food,Free,Graduate,History,In Person,Politics,Public Policy,Social Impact,Undergraduate LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Faith & Fandom DESCRIPTION:Faith & Fandom takes a look at pop culture media as a modern parable to help us explore themes of faith. We'll examine themes from movies\, TV\, books\, anime\, games\, etc. each week.\n​\nEnter the Wesley Foundation through the Tower doors. UID:138706-21883709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance. UID:137653-21880504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137653 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T082353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Countering Gender Apartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening DESCRIPTION:This conference will focus on strategies for the codification and application of the emerging international legal concept of gender apartheid.\n\nThe gender apartheid framework is about developing a more effective response to the situation of Afghan women and girls under draconian Taliban rule\, as well as other situations of de jure subjugation of women\, such as in Iran.\n\nRegistration is required for virtual attendance. To register\, visit: https://tinyurl.com/bdze45ae.\n\nFor a complete schedule\, please visit https://tinyurl.com/4bw9atzb. UID:138227-21882631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138227 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Asia,conference,Free,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,International,Law,Lecture,Multicultural,Muslim,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Rackham,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Women's Studies LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1225 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall 555\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/D8z9M\n \n When Pan American Airways began regular commercial service to Tokyo in 1947\, it caused a tremendous stir in Occupied Japan (1945-1952). Although Pan Am was not the first American carrier to fly to Japan\, the airline brought prestige and influence unmatched by any other in the world. Pan Am’s Jet Age became Japan’s as well. Based upon interviews\, archival research\, and media analysis\, this talk examines the airline’s activities in Japan from 1947 through 1986\, when Pan Am sold its Pacific routes to United Airlines and subsequently went bankrupt in 1991. Professor Yano will examine both the role of Japan within Pan Am’s business strategy and the role of Pan Am in establishing Japan’s own “Jet-Age nationhood.” What did Japan’s Jet-Age nationhood look like\, and how did Pan Am help shape it? The intertwining of Pan Am and Japan during the postwar years served as a critical cross-national bond\, as an American corporation within the Japanese political sphere. Pan Am thus became Japan’s global icon\, through its dominance of the international airline industry and its domestic media presence.\n\nProfessor Yano will also deliver a lecture on Saturday\, September 20\, as part of the series \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" For details\, please visit: https://myumi.ch/154PJ.\n \n Christine R. Yano has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. Her publications include *Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song* (Harvard\, 2002)\, *Crowning the Nice Girl\; Gender\, Ethnicity\, and Culture in Hawaii’s Cherry Blossom Festival* (Hawaii\, 2006)\, *Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways* (Duke\, 2011)\, and *Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty and its Trek Across the Pacific* (Duke\, 2013). In 2020-2021\, she served as the President of the Association for Asian Studies\, and in 2024-2026\, she serves as President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology.\n \n This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at sarachit@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137318-21880137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137318 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T130314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899 - Brad Sturt\, University of Illinois Chicago DESCRIPTION:Presenter Bio:\n\nBrad Sturt is an assistant professor of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research uses the methodologies of stochastic programming and robust optimization to develop solutions for operational problems in business and government. Recent applications have included election security\, data-driven assortment planning\, and high-dimensional options pricing. His research has received several recognitions\, including the Roger J-B Wets Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming\, second place in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition\, and second place in the INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition. Outside of academia\, he is a co-founder of BallotIQ\, an elections administration startup based in Ann Arbor.\n\nAbstract:\n\nFor more than a century\, election officials across the United States have inspected voting machines before elections using a procedure called Logic and Accuracy Testing (LAT). This procedure consists of officials casting a test deck of ballots into each machine and confirming the machine produces the expected vote totals. In this talk\, I will bring a scientific perspective to LAT by introducing a robust optimization approach to designing test decks with rigorous security guarantees. To facilitate deployment at scale\, we develop a practically efficient custom algorithm for solving our robust optimization problems based on the cutting-plane method. In partnership with the Michigan Bureau of Elections\, we retrospectively applied our approach to the November 2022 election\, which revealed that our test decks would have required only 1.2% more ballots than the current practice. Our approach has since been deployed by Michigan in real-world elections to improve election security and increase public confidence. UID:138830-21883979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138830 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T085029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:Jayatee’s Title: Warm chemistry in planet-forming disks\n\nAbstract: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revolutionizes our understanding of planet-forming disks\, offering unprecedented insights into their physical and chemical structures. Here\, I present the results from JWST MIRI/MRS spectra of disks around very low-mass stars known to have a higher occurrence rate of planets\, revealing dust features and\, a rich array of large molecules such as C6H6\, C4H2\, C3H4\, C2H6\, HC3N\, C2H2\, CO2 etc. and isotopologues such as 13CCH2 and 13CO2. By leveraging the recently developed extended hydrocarbon chemical network that can form simple aromatics such as C6H6 and using the thermo-chemical disk models\, I check if these molecular detections are consistent with our astro-chemical understanding in the high-density inner regions of the disks. As we predominantly observe hydrocarbons in the disk\, varying the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio leads to the formation of these detected species in the surface layers of the disk. There still are unidentified spectral features in the spectra that led me to employ these models to predict additional detectable species. We need the spectrum for these predicted species to confirm or rule out their presence. I then use thermo-chemical disk models to place the slab model results into a larger context and identify the 2D geometry conducive to those conditions. My study paves the way for a deeper understanding of the spectra. It provides new constraints for planet formation in disks around VLMS and highlights the instrumental role of JWST in providing insights into the origins of planetary systems.\n\n\nYisheng’s Title: Magnetic Pressure Driven Outflows: Lightly Loaded Jets and Dense Disk Winds in Protostellar Systems \n\nAbstract: Jets and outflows in young stellar objects (YSOs) play a critical role in connecting the inner disk environment with large-scale observables\, yet their launching mechanisms remain poorly understood. Observations of both symmetric and asymmetric\, including uni-polar\, jets raise important questions about the physical processes that govern jet morphology. To investigate these processes\, we conduct non-ideal MHD simulations that naturally give rise to three distinct outflow components: (1) a fast\, magnetically driven jet along the rotation axis\; (2) an MRI-active turbulent disk wind at intermediate cylindrical radii\; and (3) a slower\, laminar disk wind at larger radii. We find that jets are lightly mass-loaded and launched by toroidal magnetic pressure\, bridging features of both classical magneto-centrifugal and magnetic tower models. Crucially\, whether MRI-driven turbulent winds fill the polar region and suppress jet launching in one hemisphere\, thereby producing asymmetric or uni-polar jets\, depends on the interplay between the stellar magnetosphere and the large-scale disk magnetic field. In cases where the disk field dominates\, jets are more likely to be one-sided\; conversely\, a strong\, rotating stellar magnetosphere suppresses polar MRI activity and facilitates the launching of symmetric\, bipolar jets. This sensitivity to magnetic field topology provides an observational handle for probing the relative roles of stellar and disk magnetism. UID:139320-21885281@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139320 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Roberto Lugo DESCRIPTION:Roberto Lugo creates defiant genre-mixing works that confront the function and subject matter of high art objects from Classical Antiquity\, East Asia\, the Italian Renaissance\, seventeenth-century Europe\, and beyond. Using the ancient medium of clay as his canvas\, Lugo draws attention to intergenerational experiences of racial injustice while honoring African American and Latino culture.\nCeramics hold particular significance for Lugo due to their deep anthropological context. Over the course of history\, finely-crafted ceramic objects stood as a symbol of class\, privilege\, and the aristocracy. Lugo intervenes in these histories\, and countless more\, to create a new mode of storytelling that blends narrative and portraiture with cross-disciplinary techniques and time-honored forms in order to introduce those notably absent from the art historical canon. The result is distinctive works in clay unified by Lugo’s call for representation.\nRoberto Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York\, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, including a 2019 Pew Fellowship\, the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize\, a US Artists Award\, and\, most recently\, the Heinz Award for the Arts. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; Philadelphia Museum of Art\; High Museum of Art\; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\; Brooklyn Museum\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\; Walters Art Museum\; and more.\nPresented with support from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137415-21880218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137415 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T101033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times* Notable Book\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136976-21879387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Book Discussion,Books,Creative Writing,Culture,Free,Garth Greenwell,Graduate,Literary,Literary Arts,Literati,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250804T114600 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times Notable Book*\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\nGreenwell’s new novel\, *Small Rain* won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award and was longlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His cultural criticism appears widely\, and he writes regularly about books\, music\, and film for the Substack newsletter *To a Green Thought*. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Princeton University\, Grinnell College\, and the University of Mississippi\, where he was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, he is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:135581-21876968@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135581 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Book Discussion,Books,Contemporary Literature,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Fiction,Free,Graduate,Literary,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T120530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ratio Christi Weekly Meeting DESCRIPTION:Ratio Christi is a student and faculty led apologetics club at the University of Michigan. The club is open to students of all faiths\, and it seeks to provide a forum for respectful and thoughtful dialog about the Christian faith.\nThis week's topic is the fine-tuning argument: \"Are the laws of physics in the universe perfectly arranged to allow life? UID:139315-21885274@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139315 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:The Michigan Christian Study Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250918T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer & Affirming DESCRIPTION:We'll gather for discussion\, Bible or book studies\, and discover the intersection of faith and identity. This group is for the LGBTQIA2S+ community and allies.\n\nOur discussion for this semester is based on Brandan Roberson's new book\, \"Queer & Christian.\" UID:138707-21883723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138707 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250803T204551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: Daddy Augustine: Against “Autofiction” by Garth Greenwell DESCRIPTION:*IN-PERSON ONLY*\n\nGarth Greenwell is the author of *What Belongs to You*\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for many other awards\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the *LA Times* Book Prize\, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His second book\, *Cleanness*\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and the Prix Sade\, among others. A *New York Times* Notable Book\, it was named a Best Book of 2020 by over thirty publications. \n\n\"The term “autofiction” is often applied to my books\; I think it’s meaningless\,\" Garth Greenwell says of his craft lecture \"Daddy Augustine: Against “Autofiction.” \"In this talk\, I hope to think a little about the actual sources of the tradition to which I aspire\, that of the novel of consciousness: the radical reflexivity of St. Augustine’s Confessions.\"\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136924-21879336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Culture,Fiction,Free,Garth Greenwell,Graduate,Literature,Writing LOCATION:Michigan Union - Wolverine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T092831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Kurt Skifstad DESCRIPTION:Meet Kurt Skifstad\, startup veteran\, five-time founder\, and the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. With hands-on experience leading venture-backed tech companies\, Kurt knows the highs and lows of launching and scaling startups.\n\nBut Kurt’s true passion? Sharing what he’s learned and mentoring future entrepreneurs. Whether you’re just curious or ready to build your own venture\, his insights are for everyone.\n\nDon’t miss your chance to learn from one of the best at EHour! Join us Friday\, September 19\, 11:30AM at Stamps Auditorium. See you there! UID:138918-21884238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138918 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneurship,Free,Lecture,Talk LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T093631 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Domesticated: Unlocking inter-species integration via biomolecules DESCRIPTION:Over the last two decades\, archaeological research across north-central Asia has led to a clarification of the timing of the introduction of domesticated animals and plants. As economies in this region shifted from foraging to the use of ruminant livestock\, to horse dairying and riding\, and finally to the cultivation of grains\, these marked major thresholds in human history. As part of my forthcoming book\, a new model is proposed for the stages of integration of cultivated species into societies—from the initial introduction of domesticated animals or plants to their acceptance\, solidification or complete incorporation\, and finally intensification. The delineation of these varied stages depends on novel biomolecular techniques to refine these broader narratives\, including proteomics\, ancient DNA\, and isotopic analyses. Resulting findings suggest that there were multiple trajectories and timelines for cooperation between species\, as domestic species were integrated into societies there were shifts in landscape use\, knowledge systems\, and the structures of social systems that encompassed cultivated species. UID:139324-21885284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology LOCATION:School of Education - 1322 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T162512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: http://myumi.ch/xwZ2d.\n\nThis talk addresses the first decades of U.S. colonization of the Philippines and institutions of botanical research aimed to scale up plantation-style production. It\, however\, extends beyond colonial conceits by offering a contrapuntal story by following a U.S. anthropologist conducting fieldwork among a Bagobo community in the Davao Gulf of Mindananao and the knowledge of weavers this anthropologist obtained. Combined\, the narratives present vernaculars of plant knowing within and outside of botany's disciplinary bounds and their transformations found within colonial agricultural expansion. This talk draws from the recently published *Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines* (Duke\, 2025) by Kathleen Cruz Gutierez (History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz).\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at valdezjo@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137613-21880477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Asian Languages And Cultures,Colonialism,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T171953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Axions in QFT and Quantum Gravity DESCRIPTION:The QCD axion is well-studied as a solution to the Strong CP problem and a dark matter candidate. At the same time\, one often hears that axions are ubiquitous in top-down string theory models of particle physics. I will discuss how both bottom-up and top-down considerations favor axion models where the axion is a mode of a higher-dimensional gauge field. I will provide a viewpoint on why the existence of axions could follow from general principles of quantum gravity\, and what we might expect the QCD axion's properties to be. UID:137250-21879989@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137250 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T140038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Donald Canfield DESCRIPTION:The production and utilization of oxygen supports most life on the modern Earth. Indeed\, most modern animals need quite elevated amounts and would not survive in the Earth’s atmosphere 700 million years ago. In this talk I will trace the key developments in the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth. These developments will be placed in the context of the evolving biosphere with a focus on interactions between oxygen and Eukaryote evolution. I will place special emphasis on the evolution of early animals and use physiological experiments to constrain how their evolution was impacted by the history of oxygen. I will also discuss how sponges cycle oxygen internally\, providing possible clues as to how animals have evolved to both cope with and exploit the elevated levels of atmospheric oxygen we enjoy today. UID:138014-21881156@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250817T143825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Dana Miller and John Yau DESCRIPTION:This event brings together curator Dana Miller and poet and art critic John Yau for a special Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series event exploring the histories of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, two groundbreaking artists of American abstraction. Miller and Yau will discuss the way each artist’s very different path converged to form a sustaining friendship and dive into Herrera and Smith’s work on view in the UMMA exhibition Both Sides of the Line. Despite forging a creative dialogue that spanned decades\, their work has never been presented side-by-side at this scale\, until now.\n\nDana Miller\, guest curator of the UMMA exhibition\, is an art historian and independent curator based in Seattle. Previously she was the DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, where she worked for two decades. Among her many projects there were major exhibitions and catalogues devoted to Jay DeFeo\, Buckminster Fuller\, and Claes Oldenburg. In 2016 she curated Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight\, the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York City in twenty years. She has also contributed to the publications Carmen Herrera: Estructuras (2021)\, Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space (2019)\, and Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight (2021). At the Whitney\, Miller curated numerous collection installations\, including co-curating America is Hard to See\, which inaugurated the Whitney’s downtown building in 2015. She also edited the accompanying 432-page publication\, Handbook of the Collection. She has written and lectured on artists ranging from Ruth Asawa and Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Isamu Noguchi and Edward Hopper. Miller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University and received her master’s from Columbia University\, where she studied for her Ph.D. in Art History. \n\nJohn Yau is a poet who has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He has authored and contributed to numerous monographs\, including Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal\, Liu Xiaodong\, Thomas Nozkowski\, Catherine Murphy\, John Pai: Liquid Steel\, Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert\, A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns\, and Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956–1992. He was the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Prize in Poetry\, and his recent books of poetry include Tell It Slant (2023) and Genghis Chan on Drums (2021). Since 2012\, his weekly reviews have appeared in the online magazine\, Hyperallergic. He received a 2019 Rabkin Prize for his art criticism and a 2024 American Book Award for his book of essays\, Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art. Yau is the author of Leon Polk Smith: Constellations (2018) and a contributor to the exhibition catalogue Both Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera &\; Leon Polk Smith. He is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and lives in Beacon\, New York.\n\nBoth Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith is on view at UMMA August 30\, 2025 - January 4\, 2026. Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137416-21880219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T181531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T201500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Art and Lives of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, a conversation with Curator Dana Miller and Poet John Yau DESCRIPTION:This event brings together curator Dana Miller and poet and art critic John Yau for a special Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series event exploring the histories of Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith\, two groundbreaking artists of American abstraction. Miller and Yau will discuss the way each artist’s very different path converged to form a sustaining friendship and dive into Herrera and Smith’s work on view in the UMMA exhibition Both Sides of the Line. Despite forging a creative dialogue that spanned decades\, their work has never been presented side-by-side at this scale\, until now.\n \n​Free and open to the public\, no registration required.\n UID:137119-21879768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137119 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T181707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“In Honor of William P. Malm: Facilitating Global Musical Encounters\,” Christine R. Yano DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nJoin us for a lecture by Christine R. Yano\, Professor Emerita of Anthropology\, University of Hawaiʻi and President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology.\n\nWhat does it mean to encounter one another through unfamiliar musics? How do relative power dynamics frame the encounter? What are the contexts for the encounter and its numerous aftermaths? This talk takes Professor William Malm’s 1959 milestone book\, *Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments*\, as a historical touchstone that allows us to consider various framings of the global musical encounter. Written while a graduate student in his fourth month of PhD fieldwork in Japan\, this book became a classic\, introducing the English-speaking world to various forms of Japanese music and its instruments\, and remaining on the market from 1959 until 1993. In fact\, it is still taught in many ethnomusicology classrooms.\n\nHere\, I ask\, what can we still learn from Malm’s *Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments*? What kind of cross-cultural phenomenon has it been and perhaps continues to be? What is the nature of such global musical encounters\, then and now? In the introduction to the updated version of the book\, Malm says that he wrote it “with innocence and youthful enthusiasm.” What is the role of the naïve encounter\, the improvisational encounter\, the creative encounter\, even the colonial encounter between musical systems and new audiences? I propose that we consider our numerous musical encounters\, then and now (including perhaps tonight’s concert) as a juxtaposition of sound systems\, aesthetic hierarchies\, and affective frameworks. We are a jumble of differences striving for some tenuous legibility. Here is where Malm and other facilitators like him assist and even inspire in that bid to “get it.” Lastly\, let us zoom forward to an era that pays rapt attention to both the message and the politics of the messenger\, I suggest that we consider the contrastive and potentially dialogic role of the indigenous performer\, the home audience\, the knowing listener as our necessary interlocutors. In the process of considering these historicized musical meeting grounds\, how do we embrace new and critical possibilities of global musical encounters?\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nChristine R. Yano has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. Her publications include *Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song* (Harvard\, 2002)\, *Crowning the Nice Girl\; Gender\, Ethnicity\, and Culture in Hawaii’s Cherry Blossom Festival* (Hawaii\, 2006)\, *Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways* (Duke\, 2011)\, and *Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty and its Trek Across the Pacific* (Duke\, 2013). In 2020-2021\, she served as the President of the Association for Asian Studies\, and in 2024-2026\, she serves as President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology.\n\n*Co-organized by: Center for Japanese Studies\; Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. Co-sponsorship from: School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\; International Institute\; Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\; Nam Center for Korean Studies\; Center for South Asian Studies\; and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.* \n\n*Sponsored in part by the William P. Malm Stearns Collection Concert Series & Instrument Preservation Fund and the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series Endowment.* UID:138004-21881134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Diversity,Free,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T181644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250920T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture on Japanese Music & Dance DESCRIPTION:*Presented as part of a series: \"A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm.\" View the complete schedule at: https://myumi.ch/79rM5*\n\nJoin us for a Pre-Concert Lecture with guest artists David Furumoto (Onoe Kikunobuhide)\, David Kansuke Wheeler\, and Tsukasa Taiko.\n\nProfessor William P. Malm was one of the foremost ethnomusicologists of Japanese music and one of the founding figures of ethnomusicology in the United States. His pioneering work has influenced countless musicians\, scholars\, and students. A faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 1996\, Professor Malm authored the first English-language study of Japanese music and instruments\, and developed a distinguished graduate program that brought international perspectives to the field. As director of the university's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments\, he brought together high level scholarship\, curation\, and performance\; acquired important instruments including the first commercially made Moog Synthesizer\; and founded the U-M Gamelan Ensemble. He contributed significantly to the understanding of music across Asia through research and teaching\, and was recognized with numerous honors\, including the Fumio Koizumi Prize in Ethnomusicology and the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS\n\nDavid Furumoto is a professor emeritus from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University Wisconsin-Madison\, where he taught in the acting and directing program for 21 years. He earned both his A.B. and M.F.A. at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa\, focusing on traditional Asian theatre performance. While a student\, he performed in numerous English-language premieres of Kabuki plays\, including notable roles such as Benkei in *Kanjincho* and Yuranosuke in *Chushingura*. In 1982\, he received the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship to study as a special observer at the National Theatre of Japan’s kabuki training class. He also holds a professional title from the Onoe School of Classical Japanese Dance.\n\nMusician and musicologist David Kansuke Wheeler spent twenty years in Japan studying and performing the shakuhachi with traditional masters and ensembles\, beginning in Tokyo in 1977 under Kinko ryū master Junsuke Kawase III (Kansuke I). In 2008\, in recognition of three decades of performing\, producing\, and teaching\, he received the performance name Kansuke II. Wheeler has played a central role in every major world shakuhachi festival since 1994. In 1999\, he co-founded the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies\, which held its 26th camp in June 2024. Now based in Boulder\, he aims to cross musical and artistic barriers both within and outside of the Japanese traditional performing arts world.\n\nTsukasa Taiko\, a program of the nonprofit organization Asian Improv aRts Midwest\, aims to preserve\, develop\, and pass on traditional concepts of Japanese art as a cultural legacy\, while also expanding taiko as an art form. Its professional unit\, Gintenkai\, inherits compositions from Tokyo’s 1970s underground theater and music scene\, bringing them to the contemporary stage with complex\, refined arrangements. These works emphasize musical phrasing over rhythmic patterns and feature choreographic dance to retain an authentic Japanese aesthetic. Tsukasa reincorporates geza music using shamisen and shinobue\, reinforcing historical ties between music\, dance\, and theater. Performers include Kioto Aoki\, Miyumi Aoki\, and Neil Ducklow. UID:138005-21881135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138005 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Dance,Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T180501 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250922T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Monday Meeting 9/22 DESCRIPTION:Show up to the Design Lab #2 in the Dude to get organized into groups and learn how to make beats! UID:139687-21885906@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139687 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Duderstadt CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T102228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Perceptions of Sex Discrimination by Gender and Race at U.S. Universities\, 1994 – 2014” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Vida Maralani\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Cornell University. Dr. Maralani is a sociologist and demographer who studies social inequality and how it comes about. She has topical expertise in gender\, education\, work outcomes\, child investment\, and health disparities.\n\nAbstract: “Perceptions of discrimination based on social categories such as gender and race are an important part of understanding inequality and social stratification. This study asks two questions: (1) What types of experiences do individuals perceive as discriminatory in federal Title IX claims filed against universities\, and how do these vary by gender and race? (2) Why do people perceive these experiences or interactions as discriminatory? We answer these questions using an original dataset constructed from 1\,363 Title IX claims filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) between 1994 and 2014. Findings highlight how individuals interpret and contest experiences and interactions in university settings\, and show how routine parts of academic life\, when situated in specific contexts\, can activate perceptions of discrimination in postsecondary environments.” UID:139507-21885651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Gender,Gender Studies,Health Equity,Race,Social Sciences,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250808T120654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/9py49\n\nChina’s “zero-COVID policy” (“qingling zhengce”) has provoked global debates\, but the existing social scientific literature on the COVID crisis has paid more attention to the implementation of the policy than the “elephant in the room”\, the policy itself\, including its origin\, evolvement\, and underlying political logic. Dr. Xu adopts the “performative approach” to address this gap in a study as part of his ongoing book project about disaster politics in China. Xu argues that the “zero-COVID” policy was not an exception but a case that represented China’s public policy paradigm\, especially its strong state image and its general goal to eliminate social problems—hence\, “zero”. The zero goal was intensified rather than altered in various state actors’ reactions to changing situations during the pandemic period\, but it was eventually botched due to its high economic\, political\, and social costs. This analysis provides a new approach to public policies and crisis responses in China and beyond by emphasizing the performative aspect\, that is\, as symbolic and expressive actions to project the state’s self-images in front of various audiences.\n \n Bin Xu is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests are the intersection between politics and culture\, including civil society\, collective memory\, symbolic politics\, and disaster. He is the author of *The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity 2022)\, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China* (Cambridge 2021)\, and *The Politics of Compassion: the Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China* (Stanford 2017). His articles have appeared in leading journals in sociology and China studies. He is currently working on two book projects: one is about mourning and memorialization of the COVID pandemic\, and the other is about disaster politics in China. UID:137321-21880140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137321 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T130505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T161500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Engaging with Cultural Ecosystem Services in the NERRS to Support Thriving Human and Natural Communities DESCRIPTION:Cultural ecosystem services (CES) – or the non-material benefits that result from human relationships with the environment – support and maintain place-based values\, worldviews\, cultural identity\, and well-being. Given their potential to reveal relationships between human and environmental well-being\, the inclusion of CES in natural resource planning and decision making processes is critical to successful long-term application of stewardship and management strategies. Despite being one of four main categories of ecosystem services\, CES are not often assessed due to a range of theoretical and practical gaps in identification and evaluation methods.\n\nThis project addressed the need to fill these knowledge gaps by establishing a sustainable network of CES practitioners that support each other\, engage others through their CES experiences\, and share approaches for identifying and working within the unique socio-ecological contexts present across the Reserve System. In this webinar\, the project team will showcase three examples from their new Resource Guide that highlight how Reserves have engaged with CES across all sectors through internship and fellowship experiences\, research protocols\, and evaluation.\n\nPlease note: The duration of this webinar has been extended by 15 minutes to accommodate additional Q&A time at the end of the session. UID:139064-21884713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139064 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T171246 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Data and the Federal Government: A Conversation with Erie Meyer DESCRIPTION:In this talk and meet-and-greet\, Erie Meyer will be discussing the role of data in the Federal Government. She will be sharing insights from her own career: as the chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\, and as co-founder of the United States Digital Service (USDS\, now renamed \"DOGE'\"). This event will be open to the UM community\, including faculty\, students\, and postdocs.\n\nBiography\n\nErie Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and the Georgetown Institute for Tech and Society where she focuses on the intersection of technology\, artificial intelligence\, and regulation. She has spent her career modernizing government services and working to enforce the law against corporate repeat offenders. \n\nMost recently\, she served as Chief Technologist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)\, where she helped lead efforts to address Big Tech’s lurch into financial services\, and was part of the original team that launched the agency. There\, she helped set up the consumer complaint system and release open data. Before returning to the CFPB\, Ms. Meyer served as Chief Technologist and Director of Policy Planning for FTC Chair Lina Khan\, and was Technology Advisor to then-Commissioner Rohit Chopra. \n\nShe also co-founded and wrote the first line of code at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House. Earlier\, she was a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House\, a Senior Director at Code for America\, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Ms. Meyer began her public service in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office during the financial crisis\, building open-source tools to help protect Ohioans' consumer rights. She holds a B.A. in journalism and government from American University and is a contributor to open source software. She is the 2025 recipient of the EFF Award for Protecting Americans' Data\, and a proud mom. UID:139387-21885376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139387 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:data,Data Management,Data Science,Federal Government,Government,Political Science,Politics LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250921T203339 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Borel-Moore homology DESCRIPTION:We will review the definition and properties of Borel-Moore homology. It will be slow and nice like grandpa's hand patting your head. UID:139671-21885880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T230014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Go Back and Fetch It DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Grammy Award–winning musician Rhiannon Giddens\, University of Michigan Artist-in-Residence\, and acclaimed writer Kristina R. Gaddy as they discuss their new book Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo (UNC Press\, 2025) in a conversation moderated by Mark Clague\, Executive Director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. The talk will be followed by a dessert reception\, with books available for purchase and signing.\n\n 5:00 p.m. – Doors open\n 5:30 p.m. – Authors talk begins\n 6:30 p.m. – Dessert reception and book signing\n\nPlease register at: arts.umich.edu/giddens\n\nLearn more about the book from University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/9781469690575/go-back-and-fetch-it/ \n\nPreorder your copy of Go Back and Fetch It through Schuler Books. https://www.schulerbooks.com/book/9781469690575 UID:138676-21883596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,arts,Arts Initiative,Book Talk,Culture,Diversity,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250822T181642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CWPS Faculty Lecture with Amy Chavasse: \"Contact Improvisation at the edge of democracy: improvising new steps from south to north\" DESCRIPTION:Amy Chavasse will discuss their nine-month collaborative project\, supported by the Center for World Performance Studies\, exploring the evolution of Contact Improvisation (CI) in Argentina – where it arose after the dictatorship’s end in 1985 – as a lens for examining democracy\, resistance\, and artmaking amid social upheaval. Through workshops\, lectures\, and community events in Buenos Aires with Argentinian CI leaders Marina Tampini and Cristina Turdo and U-M alum Sarah Konner\, the team mapped the South-North dynamics of the dance’s history\, using archival video and interviews to spark reflection on democracy\, authoritarianism\, and cultural exchange\, while highlighting how CI has become a vibrant\, activist art form deeply tied to Argentina’s sociopolitical context.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nFACULTY BIO:\n\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/amy-chavasse/ UID:138035-21881381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138035 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Faculty,Free,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,North Campus,Scholarship,Talk LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T155738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EARTH Career Conversations DESCRIPTION:How many published papers do you need? Do you need teaching experience? How much? \nHow do you network to get your name out there?\nDo you need a postdoc? Does it matter where? Or is with whom more important?\nCan you just do what your PhD advisor does?\n\nPlease join us for a conversation with EARTH alumni who have served as Department Chair at Research-1 (R1) universities and led the search for and hiring of several dozen early career faculty. \n\n*Please note: this event is geared towards graduate students\, but all are welcome!\n\nTracy Frank runs a research and teaching program focused on carbonate sedimentology and petrography\, low temperature geochemistry\, paleoclimate\, and paleoceanography with a special interest in mass extinctions. She spent two years at Penn State as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to her first faculty position at the University of Queensland in Australia. She then moved to the University of Nebraska where she was Rosowski Professor and Chair. Tracy is now department chair at the University of Connecticut. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland in 2019.\n\nJohn Geissman runs a research and teaching program focused on the structural evolution of the Basin and Range Province\, Triassic paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau\, and deformation in the Himalaya. John spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before starting his faculty career at the Colorado School of Mines. He then moved to the University of New Mexico and was department chair at the University of Texas at Dallas. John served as President of the Geological Society of America in 2011-2012 and in various advisory roles for the National Science Foundation. UID:138858-21884143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T181523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Subject Matters: Buying Art? In this Economy??! DESCRIPTION:What makes art valuable? And who decides what it’s worth? Join UMMA Curator Dave Choberka\, Curator of Art in Public Spaces Jennifer Carty\, and Ross School of Business Professor Tom Buchmueller for a dive into the strange\, fascinating world of the art market. From how UMMA has built its own collection to the wild forces that shape global art prices\, this 90-minute session unpacks the dollars and decisions behind the art you see on the walls.\n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required.\n UID:137765-21880721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137765 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T112541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | Living on the edge: a non perturbative resolution to the negativity of bulk entropies DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will discuss two entropic puzzles in JT gravity and their resolution\, which requires taking into account non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral. In JT gravity\, which is dual to a random matrix ensemble\, the gravitational thermal entropy becomes negative at very low temperatures. This puzzle arises when computing the annealed (instead of quenched) entropy\, corresponding to an incorrect averaging procedure in the dual matrix model. After defining an “intermediate” quantity\, the semi-quenched entropy\, I will explain how the positivity of entropy can be rescued. From the bulk perspective\, both a resummation of higher-genus topologies and wormhole effects are crucial. From the matrix model perspective\, the resolution relies on the statistics of eigenvalues near the edge\, governed\, in different regimes\, by the Airy distribution or by 1-eigenvalue instantons. A related puzzle arises where the entanglement entropy across a two-sided black hole can become negative when inserting a large number of matter excitations behind the black hole horizon. First posed by Lin\, Maldacena\, Rosenberg\, and Shan in two-sided BPS black holes in SUSY JT gravity\, I will show this paradox extends to non-SUSY JT gravity with matter as well and demonstrate how positivity is rescued in both cases. Finally\, I will discuss a tensor network toy model with the same features. UID:138994-21884497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T151343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Colloquium Series. Confronting Silence and Invisibility: The Forgotten Genocide in Libya DESCRIPTION:Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida presents a powerful subaltern narrative of genocide in Libya\, grounded in survivor testimonies\, oral history\, and archival research. His recent book uncovers a suppressed chapter of Italian Fascism\, challenging Eurocentric scholarship and official memory in Libya\, Italy\, and the U.S. Through multilingual fieldwork across three continents\, he redefines how colonial violence and its silences are studied. This work offers a new paradigm for understanding genocide\, memory\, and modern North African history.\n\nAli Abdullatif Ahmida\, a Libyan-born scholar and founding chair of Political Science at the University of New England\, focuses on power\, resistance\, and colonial violence in North Africa. He is the author of The Making of Modern Libya and the award-winning Genocide in Libya: Shar\, A Hidden Colonial History (2021). His work bridges political theory\, historical sociology\, and postcolonial studies.\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- warsansa@umich.edu UID:136801-21879133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136801 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,International Studies,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T121522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Visiting Artist Presentation: Toni Meštrović DESCRIPTION:Video and sound installation artist Toni Meštrović\, a Roman J. Witt short term Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Stamps School of Art &\; Design\, will give a presentation on his work on Wednesday\, September 23 at 2 p.m. in room 1258 of the Art &\; Architecture building (with support from the Arts Initiative Course Connections program).\nMeštrović holds a degree in Graphic Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb\, as well as a diploma in Media Art from the Academy of Media Arts\, Cologne\, and studied Video/Digital Imaging with Valie Export at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg. Video\, sound\, and audio-visual installations produced during Meštrović's postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea and the island where he grew up. Recent projects involve transforming eccentric sites from tunnels in Croatia's capital to the space underneath a civic theater into instruments and sonic spaces. Meštrović lives in Rijeka and Kaštela\, and is Professor at the Arts Academy University of Split in the Department of Film and Video. UID:139403-21885410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139403 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T105617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MICDE: Nobel Prize Lectures DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry spotlight the reciprocal influence between artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. This MICDE special event examines the science and scientists recognized for foundational advances in neural networks that underpin modern machine learning (Physics)\, and for AI-enabled breakthroughs in protein structure prediction and computational protein design (Chemistry). The lectures will be followed by a moderated panel and an open\, cross-disciplinary discussion.\n\nSpeakers:\n- Charles Brooks\, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry\, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics\, will talk about the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.\n\n- Veera Sundararaghavan\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory\, will talk about the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics.\n\n\nThe panel discussion\, followed by the lectures\, will address questions such as: What can AI do for science? How can it support existing ideas and create new ones? What can science do for AI?\n\nPanelists:\n- James Wells\, Professor of Physics\, University of Michigan\n\n- Indika Rajapakse\, Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics\, and Professor of Mathematics\, University of Michigan\n\n- Charles Brooks\, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry\, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics\n\n- Veera Sundararaghavan\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory\n\nModerator:\n- Karthik Duraisamy\, Professor of Aerospace Engineering\, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Samir and Puja Kaul Director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering UID:137247-21879987@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137247 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Aerospace Engineering,Ai In Science And Engineering,Artificial Intelligence,Biomedical Engineering,Biophysics,Chemistry,Computation,Computational Science,high performance computing,Micde,Micde Seminar LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T125739 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CAS Guest Lecture. Unknown Land: Armenian Studies in the Context of Acentric Medieval History DESCRIPTION:Lecture Abstract: Can we bring together Persian poetry\, Georgian romance\, Shi'i ḥadīth collections\, Greek patriography\, Arabic conquest narrative\, Hebrew correspondence\, Syriac history\, and Armenian hagiography to the same page? What happens if we embrace the complexities of medieval sources and reject any single organizational schema such as academic field\, (discipline?) language\, chronology\, religion\, or genre? This talk presents an acentric and collagic model for thinking about medieval history\, shorn of ingrained modern hierarchies that we typically use to organize the past. It presents descriptions of medieval marriage to demonstrate the methodological opportunities of challenging linear organizational models. In particular\, it reveals what this type of history can offer to the field of Armenian studies\, moving past the liminality implied in the “between Byzantium and Islam” or “between Rome and Iran” paradigms.\n \n Speaker Bio: Alison M. Vacca holds the Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia University\, where she teaches courses related to early Islamic and medieval Armenian history. Her work relies on Arabic and Armenian sources to explore Armenia and Caucasian Albania under the rule of the Umayyad (r. 661-750) and ʿAbbasid (r. 750-1258) Caliphates. She recently published *An Armenian Futūḥ Narrative*\, co-authored with Sergio La Porta\, which received the Best Edition and Translation book award from the Mediterranean Studies Seminar.\n \n Zoom Webinar ID: 930 2649 2938\n https://umich.zoom.us/j/93026492938\n\nCo-sponsors:\n National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\, Medieval and Early Modern Studies\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu UID:137788-21880772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Discussion,history,International,Lecture LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250830T193136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Café: Pollinator Power DESCRIPTION:They power our ecosystems and put food on our tables\, but pollinators are under threat from climate change\, habitat loss\, invasive species\, and more. \nJoin us at the first Science Café of the semester to learn how researchers on campus and in local communities are collaborating to protect pollinators\, especially one of the most recognizable pollinators in North America: the monarch butterfly.\nJoin Alyson Oostdyk\, Natural Areas Manager for the University of Michigan\, and Maggie Halpern from the City of Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability & Innovations to learn about pollinator aware lawncare and new native planting strategies to support biodiversity on UM's campus. \n\nHors d’oeuvres will be served at 5:30 p.m.\, and the program begins at 6:00 p.m.\nSeating is limited—come early.\n\nFree and open to the public. \nUMMNH would like to thank Conor O’Neill’s for 15+ years of support for our Science Cafés. UID:138550-21883198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Ecology,Environment,Science,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250924T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Faith & Fandom DESCRIPTION:Faith & Fandom takes a look at pop culture media as a modern parable to help us explore themes of faith. We'll examine themes from movies\, TV\, books\, anime\, games\, etc. each week.\n​\nEnter the Wesley Foundation through the Tower doors. UID:138706-21883710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250812T092639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | THE SOUND OF MANGA: From Erotica to Sitcom in Gengoroh Tagame's Oeuvre DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall 555\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/VVrJ3\n \n In this talk\, Gengoroh Tagame's longtime translator Anne Ishii will demonstrate why sound effects are encoded to specific manga genre tropes. Following the evolution of manga delivery platforms\, we will discover how manga narrative has moved away from world-building to character development over the past thirty years in tandem with the development of smartphone technology.\n \n Anne Ishii is a writer\, translator\, and musician based in Philadelphia. She is the program director of United States Artists\, a grantmaking and research entity supporting artists of all disciplines across all stages of career. She is also the co-founder and owner of MASSIVE GOODS\, a clearinghouse agency of queer and feminist Japanese art responsible for producing dozens of erotic manga titles by Gengoroh Tagame and JIRAIYA\, most notably. She has been published as a cultural essayist in a variety of magazines and blogs that have tragically closed shop in the past ten years.\n \n This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137427-21880232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137427 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asian Languages And Cultures,Free,japan,Japanese Studies,Manga LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T133256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Moving Beyond Response Rates to Understand Nonresponse Bias DESCRIPTION:This ISR Insights talk will provide results from a standing Survey Research Center (SRC) Future of Surveys committee's ongoing work on more modern alternatives to the simple response rate for attempting to understand the nonresponse bias associated with a given survey estimate. We will review several modern alternatives to the simple response rate\, and clarify that in an era of declining response rates\, there are better alternatives for understanding whether estimates based on a survey with a low response rate are really subject to nonresponse bias. UID:139323-21885283@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139323 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Science,Social Sciences,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T110852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Book Discussion WITH Mel Chen of Intoxicated: Race\, Disability\, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 25th\, 2025 (1:30 PM-3 PM)\n\nAngell Hall 3241\n\nIn anticipation of Mel Chen's Heberle Lecture\, we will be reading their latest book\, Intoxicated: Race\, Disability\, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire and discussing it with them. We encourage you to read as much as you can and join us in giving Professor Chen a warm (and intellectually stimulating!) welcome to the Environmental Humanities world(s) at UM. Bring your questions\, wonderings\, and excitements alike. \n\nIf you encounter issues accessing a copy of the text\, please email either Patricia Jewell (jewellp@umich.edu) or Jace Jung (jacejung@umich.edu) UID:138610-21883489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book discussion,book event,Books,climate,Disability,Discussion,Ecology,English Department,English Language & Literataure,Environment,environmental,Environmental Humanities,Graduate,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Reading,Scholarship,Workshop LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T113507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ChE SEMINAR: Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\nABSTRACT:\nMagnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a new molecular imaging technology capable of unambiguous and quantitative tomographic imaging of the distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticle tracers in vivo. While the term MPI is reminiscent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)\, the two rely on distinct physics. In MPI\, a tomographic image of the distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticles is constructed by scanning a so-called field free region (FFR) through the domain of interest. Magnetic nanoparticles inside the FFR give rise to a signal due to their nonlinear dynamic magnetization response to an alternating magnetic field. Outside the FFR there is a quasi-static bias field strong enough to saturate the magnetic moments of the nanoparticles\, abrogating their response to the excitation field. At the field amplitudes and frequencies used in MPI there is no appreciable attenuation in signal strength due to tissue. Further\, while there are magnetic species in the body (e.g.\, ferritin)\, they do not contribute an appreciable signal for MPI\, allowing for unambiguous imaging of the distribution of one of the superparamagnetic nanoparticle tracers. This talk will explain the physics of MPI in relation to design of high sensitivity and resolution magnetic nanoparticle tracers\, as well as applications of MPI in tracking nanoparticles and cell therapies in the context of cancer\, traumatic brain injury\, and other conditions.\n\nBIO:\nCarlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also an Affiliate Faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a member of the UF Health Cancer Center. Dr. Rinaldi-Ramos’s research spans synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications and evaluation of nanoparticle transport and diffusion in biological fluids. Current efforts focus on developing tracers for magnetic particle imaging (MPI)\, a new biomedical imaging modality that allows for non-invasive\, unambiguous\, and quantitative imaging of the in vivo distribution of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle tracers. UID:139686-21885905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139686 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:graduate students,seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250905T093125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899 - Albert S. Berahas\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Presenter Bio:\n\nAlbert S. Berahas is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). Prior to joining the UM in 2020\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Lehigh University. Berahas received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 2018. Berahas’ research broadly focuses on designing\, developing\, and analyzing algorithms for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization problems. Specifically\, he is interested in and has explored several sub-fields of nonlinear optimization\, such as: (i) constrained optimization\, (ii) optimization algorithms for machine learning\, (iii) stochastic optimization\, (iv) derivative-free optimization\, and (v) distributed optimization. His research is funded by the Office of Naval Research and a Young Investigator Program grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Berahas served as the vice-chair of the Nonlinear Optimization cluster for the INFORMS Optimization Society (2020-2022) and as the president of the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (2023-2024). Berahas was awarded the 2022 Charles Broyden Prize\, the 2024 IISE Excellence in Teaching of Operations Research Award\, and the Martin Luther King Jr Spirit Award for Community Building & Impact in 2024.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nOptimization is everywhere! Specifically\, nonlinear\, noisy\, constrained\, and nonconvex optimization problems arise in a plethora of science and engineering applications\, for example\, machine learning\, robotics\, logistics\, and computational physics. In this talk\, we discuss the use\, analysis\, and implementation of state-of-the-art adaptive optimization paradigms\, such as line search and trust region\, in the presence of noise. We introduce three distinct noise oracles that capture a broad range of practical scenarios and present corresponding convergence results. Numerical experiments are provided to highlight the robustness and efficiency of adaptive algorithms in challenging settings. Finally\, we briefly discuss a complementary project\, carried out in collaboration with the University of Michigan Men’s and Women’s soccer teams. UID:138852-21884111@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T115915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"White dwarfs as probes of convective overshoot and evolved exoplanetary systems\"\n\nAbstract: White dwarfs are the stellar remnants left behind by the majority of stars. In 30-50% of the population\, material such as asteroids\, comets\, moons and even planets from their disrupted planetary systems can be identified by metal absorption lines detected in the white dwarf atmosphere. These stellar remnants thus offer the unique window through which to infer the bulk composition of exoplanetary material\, but this method depends upon accurate models of the white dwarf atmosphere. Most white dwarfs have surface convection zones\, and one key uncertainty here and throughout stellar evolution theory is in the treatment of convection\, in particular convective overshoot\, which provides enhanced mixing outside of the convection zone. I will present the first 3D radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of white dwarfs with passive scalar particles that provide a characterisation of the additional mixing caused by convective overshoot. As a test of these models\, I have recently confirmed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory that the canonical metal-polluted white dwarf\, G29–38\, is a source of soft X-rays. This discovery provides the first independent measurement of the accretion rate at a metal-polluted white dwarf\, and opens the opportunity for a new window through which to study these systems. I will present this result\, along with recent and ongoing X-ray observations which provide a further test of these models\, as well as recent population synthesis results aimed at constraining the mass distributions of the local population of white dwarfs and their evolved planetary systems. UID:139397-21885405@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139397 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T153433 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED: DISCO Network Presents - Fear of Asian Tech: Chips\, Platforms\, and Social Networks DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING. \n\nFear and suspicion of Asian technology-- from DeepSeek AI\, to social media platforms like TikTok\, to Taiwanese semiconductor giants like TSMC that supply the world with chips-- is higher in the U.S. than it has been for decades. This panel brings together leading Asian American researchers\, artists\, and filmmakers to explore Asia’s role in building today’s high technology. We will also examine how rising anxiety around Asian tech impacts Asian American communities in the U.S. today.\n\nFree boba from Unitea will be provided for the first 100 attendees! \n\nAll are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. Advance registration is recommended: \n\nRegister to attend in person: https://myumi.ch/3RMW2\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/NrVjD\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING.\n\nMeet the Panelists\n\nChristopher Fan is an Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine\, Director of UCI Global Asias\, and co-director of the Geographers at UCI Research Cluster. Dr. Fan holds courtesy appointments in Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies. He is a senior editor at Hyphen magazine\, which he co-founded\, and serves on the editorial board of the journal American Literary History. Dr. Fan is the author of Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia University Press\, 2024) and co-editor of Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions (Rutgers University Press\, 2025). He is currently working on two books\, one about the trope of China’s rise in fiction and film and another about a cultural history of semiconductors\, centering on the industry’s emergence in Taiwan.\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet\, writer\, and independent scholar from the San Francisco Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land). She is the author of the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA\, Inc.\, 2016)\, along with two other chapbooks. Sapigao contributed three entries to The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Arts Resident in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. Sapigao also co-founded Santa Clara County’s Youth Poet Laureate Program and Sunday Jump Open Mic in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown. She is working on a novel and a non-fiction manuscript on Philippine American archives.\n\nTony Shyu is an award-winning filmmaker\, founder of Neu Wave AI Films\, and CEO of Himalaya Entertainment\, with over 20 years of experience directing across commercials\, narrative films\, and documentaries. After earning his BFA and MFA in Film from Art Center College of Design\, he began his career directing high-profile campaigns for brands like Doordash\, Mastercard\, Volvo\, and Uni-President earning Advertising Awards and the 2016 Videographer Award for API Vote\, featuring George Takei and Constance Wu. His feature debut with Lions Gate and acclaimed documentaries for PBS\, including The Race Epidemic and Builders of the Silicon Dream\, showcase his talent for impactful storytelling. As a pioneer in AI filmmaking\, Tony has directed cutting-edge AI-generated films and founded the Neu Wave AI Film Festival and Cinemarket.AI to support and mentor the next wave of creators.\n\nMeet The Moderator\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011)\; Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007)\; Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002)\; and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.\"\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE IN THE SPRING. UID:136188-21878002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136188 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian American Studies,Digital Culture,Digital Media,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T100814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost\, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A.\n\n“Vernacular Religion in Robert Frank's The Americans” by Deborah Dash Moore (Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts).\n\n“How the Brain Regulates Body Weight” by Roger Cone (Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute\; Tadataka Yamada Distinguished Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology\, Medical School).\n\n“The AI of the Beholder in Medical Imaging” by Jeff Fessler (William L. Root Distinguished University Professor\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, College of Engineering\; Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, College of Engineering\; Professor of Radiology\, Medical School). UID:138084-21881916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,dup,Free,lecture,Reception LOCATION:Ruthven Administration Building - University Hall, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T111959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Whither the Center-Right?\" DESCRIPTION:Join Robert Doar\, the president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)\, one of the United States' premier public policy think tanks\, for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes. Topics discussed will include the place of the center-right in the American conservative movement amid the current populist moment\, the role of evidence-based policy institutions in American politics today\, and the broader importance of conversations across ideological differences.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nRobert Doar is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Doar became AEI’s 12th president in July 2019\, leading one of the nation’s oldest and most respected public policy think tanks. Since becoming president of AEI\, Doar has recruited dozens of leading scholars and fellows across multiple issue areas and launched a new research division focused on Social\, Cultural\, and Constitutional Studies. He joined AEI in 2014 to lead the Institute’s opportunity and mobility studies program after serving for more than 20 years in leadership positions in the social service programs of New York state and New York City. UID:138613-21883491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ford school,ford school of public policy,Free,General Public,gerald r. ford school of public policy,leadership,policy,politics,public policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T113933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Better Writing\, Less Waste DESCRIPTION:In his book *Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World*\, journalist Edward Humes employs engaging investigative storytelling to link our waste crisis to bigger issues in the humanities like ethics\, community\, culture\, and our relationships with each other and the environment. He'll talk about his writing process and how the everyday choices we make and the systems we rely on contribute to the overwhelming problem of waste. \n\nEdward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and narrative nonfiction writer who spends months embedded in the lives of his subjects in order to investigate and research his incredible stories about the justice system\, science\, nature\, and sustainability. His seventeen books include *Door to Door: The Magnificent\, Maddening\, Mysterious World of Transportation*\, *Mississippi Mud*\, *No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court*\, and *Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash*.\n\nIn *Garbology*\, the prequel to *Total Garbage*\, Humes focused on what we throw away – and how we are so much more “trashy” than we imagined. Humes’s message of reducing and reinventing our approach to what we roll to the curb each week resonated strongly with student and sustainability-minded audiences\, who selected Garbology as a “One Book” community read over 30 times\, including at colleges such as Georgia Institute of Technology\, California State University Northridge\, Rowan University\, University of Central Florida\, and such cities as Portland\, OR\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, Palos Verdes\, California\, and Atlanta\, GA.\n\nNow\, Humes returns with *Total Garbage* to tackle the wider world of waste: in which our fossil fuel power plants squander two-thirds of our energy\, our gasoline-powered cars waste 80 percent of our fuel\, and 40 percent of our food—and all the energy\, water\, chemicals and fertilizer used to produce it—goes to waste. From Georgia to Minnesota\, Maine to California\, Humes found the game-changers and ordinary people tackling this waste and the environmental catastrophes it drives—all while saving (and even making) money doing it.\n\nHumes is also a popular true crime writer. His bestseller\, *Mississippi Mud*\, a murder mystery set in a historic Gulf Coast city steeped in corruption\, is currently being developed as a series by Immersive Pictures. *Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t*\, is a gripping investigative narrative into a young mother’s sentencing for killing her three children in a house fire\, and the flawed\, so-called “forensic fire science” behind it. Humes’s investigative work in *Burned *helped lead to her release and took readers inside the world of the California Innocence Project that challenged the conviction. His latest in the genre\, *The Forever Witness*\, is about the disappearance and murder of a young couple\, a 32-year-old cold-case investigation\, and the emergence of a revolutionary new crime-fighting science\, genetic genealogy. It’s also being developed as a documentary streaming series.\n\nHumes received his Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the military\, and a PEN Award for Nonfiction for *No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court*. He has taught writing\, journalism\, and literary nonfiction at graduate and undergraduate levels\, and has written for *The New York Times*\, *The Los Angeles Times*\, *Sierra Magazine*\, and *Los Angeles Magazine*. A graduate of Hampshire College\, he lives in Southern California with his family\, two rescued greyhounds\, and a rescue collie. UID:136650-21878935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136650 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture,Sustainability,Writing LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T113338 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Nature of Spanish Empire DESCRIPTION:When Spain sought dominion over vast early modern landscapes—from islands to highlands\, deserts to rainforests—it faced a crisis of knowledge. To transform diverse natures into imperial wealth\, the court launched the relaciones geográficas\, questionnaires designed to impose informational order. Yet local informants proved unruly. They both learned the imperial vernacular and embedded their own agendas within responses\, destabilizing Spanish categories. Challenging simplistic binaries of success and failure\, this lecture reveals how attempts to govern nature sparked dialectics of authority and resistance\, drawing on insights from Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue (Lever\, 2025).\n\nMackenzie Cooley is a historian of nature’s entanglement with power. A scholar of early modern Italy\, Spain\, and the Spanish Empire\, her first book\, The Perfection of Nature (2022)\, reveals how Renaissance breeding shaped ideas of race\, human potential\, and dominion over animals. She co-edited the books \"Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds\" (2023) and \"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue\" (2025). She leads Historical Pharmacopeias\, a digital humanities project mapping the evolution of medical knowledge across cultures. She is an associate professor at Hamilton College\, and a 2025 winner of the Dan David Prize.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:136094-21877841@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136094 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Social Sciences LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250919T143209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:FAST Lecture | Updates from IPAMAA Students DESCRIPTION:FAST is kicking off the semester with presentations from three IPAMAA graduate students: Erica Venturo\, Laurel Fricker\, and Lauren Alberti. Light refreshments will be provided at 5:30 PM\, with the talk to begin at 6:00 PM. \n\nErica is a fourth-year PhD candidate in IPAMAA who studies wine\, pottery production and reuse\, and trade within the economy of the Roman world. This summer\, Erica participated in several field projects in Italy and Greece\, including Tulane University’s I.14 Project in Pompeii. Region I Insula (city block) 14 is located on the southeastern side of Pompeii\, just inside the Porta Nocera. Tulane’s I.14 Project aims to address questions surrounding domestic economic activity and infrastructure. As part of the team\, Erica analyzed some of the ceramic material excavated from the past two seasons\, including a series of vessels that were essential to the commercial activity that occurred within this space.\n\nLaurel Fricker is a PhD candidate in IPAMAA\, writing her dissertation on the experiences that children had growing up in ancient Greek houses. As a long-time team member of the Olynthos Project\, a field project centered on the classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece\, she has been tasked with publishing the loom weights from the excavations and field survey. This summer\, she visited the Archaeological Museum of Polygyros in Greece and participated in a study season at Olynthos to help move toward the publication of these artifacts.\n\nLauren Alberti is a graduate student in IPAMAA with interests in prehistoric cult practices in the Aegean. She has completed a fourth year assisting Professor Natalie Abell and her team on a project that explores the metallurgical traditions of Ayia Irini\, a Bronze Age settlement on the island of Kea in Greece. For this talk\, Lauren will highlight how the team looks for evidence of metallurgy as well as what the team accomplished this past season.\n\nFAST (Field Archaeology Series on Thursday) Lectures are free and open to the public. This event will take place in Room 125 of the Kelsey Museum’s Newberry Hall.\n\nIf you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:139591-21885759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139591 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Greece,Ancient Rome,Archaeology,excavation,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Mediterranean LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Newberry Hall, Room 125 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T101427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Rhiannon Giddens DESCRIPTION:Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular\, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music\, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities\, into just about every field imaginable. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist\, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient\, Pulitzer Prize winner\, and composer of opera\, ballet\, and film\, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased\, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.\n\nA founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops\, and the all-female banjo supergroup\, Our Native Daughters\, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator. She is the current Artistic Director of the Yo-Yo Ma-founded Silkroad Ensemble\, hosts a TV show on PBS\, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens\, and has hosted two podcasts (Aria Code from New York City’s NPR affiliate station WQXR\, which ran for three seasons\, and American Railroad from Silkroad). Giddens has published two children's books and written and performed music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II\, one of the best-selling video games of all time. She appeared as a recurring cast member on ABC's hit drama Nashville and as a music history expert on Ken Burns’ Country Music series on PBS. This year\, she launched her own music festival in Durham\, NC called Biscuits &\; Banjos\, to celebrate Black culture outside the mainstream.\n\nAs Pitchfork once said\, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”\nGiddens has released three albums under her own name and two in collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi\, all on Nonesuch Records. American Railroad\, her first album in collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble\, was released in November 2024\, and her most recent album\, a collaboration with Justin Robinson\, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow\, was released in April 2025.\n\nRhiannon Giddens serves as the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative.\n\nPresented in partnership with the Arts Initiative. \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:137417-21880220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137417 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Michigan Arts Festival LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T101602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Data & AI in Society Lecture Series | AI’s Role in Upskilling Medical Practice DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n“Hey Siri\, Can you measure my left ventricle ejection fraction?” Despite having full control over the zeitgeist\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has yet to live up to its promise in many fields. Medicine\, in particular\, has significant upside potential with AI—with hospitals closing\, a shortage of physicians and other medical professionals\, and an instrinsically difficult domain\, AI has a unique opportunity to upskill practice\, bringing better care and better training to everyone. This talk will explore the problem\, potential value\, and early methods in upskilling medical practitioners along two axes. First\, I will describe how visual AI methods are already impacting the cardiothoracic surgical domain via technical and non-technical assessment for more objective training and review. Second\, I will describe how interactive\, physically-grounded AI guidance can upskill medical practitioners and bring state of the art care into rural settings\, which are among the most challenging settings for healthcare delivery. Ultimately\, this talk will provide concrete evidence of the potential AI has in upskilling medical practice.\n\nMeet Jason Corso:\nDr. Jason Corso is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Robotics at the University of Michigan and Co-Founder / CSO of the AI startup Voxel51. He received his PhD and MSE degrees at The Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and 2002\, respectively\, and the BS Degree with honors from Loyola College In Maryland in 2000\, all in Computer Science. He is the recipient of a U Michigan EECS Outstanding Achievement Award 2018\, Google Faculty Research Award 2015\, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award 2010\, National Science Foundation CAREER award 2009\, SUNY Buffalo Young Investigator Award 2011\, a member of the 2009 DARPA Computer Science Study Group\, and a recipient of the Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training 2003. Corso has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and hundreds of thousands of lines of open-source code on topics of his interest including computer vision\, robotics\, data science\, and general computing. He is a member of the AAAI\, ACM\, MAA and a senior member of the IEEE. UID:137729-21880650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137729 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Free,Lecture LOCATION:Dana Building - 440 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T093753 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics: Thirty Years of Engaging\, Educating\, and Entertaining the Public DESCRIPTION:Physics is fundamental to our world\, impacting all of our lives every single day. For thirty years U-M’s Saturday Morning Physics has been exploring cosmic mysteries and answering practical problems with the public through striking experiments and live lectures. Professor of Physics and Biomedical Engineering Timothy Chupp has been a key part of the program since its start and will share its history and discuss how public science is more important now than ever.\n\nRefreshments will be provided. UID:139742-21885993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley historical library,Education,educational,free,history,lecture,Making Michigan,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T101931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250925T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer & Affirming DESCRIPTION:We'll gather for discussion\, Bible or book studies\, and discover the intersection of faith and identity. This group is for the LGBTQIA2S+ community and allies.\n\nOur discussion for this semester is based on Brandan Roberson's new book\, \"Queer & Christian.\" UID:138707-21883724@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138707 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Pine Room (Lower Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T153846 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Heberle Award and Lecture DESCRIPTION:Mel Y. Chen (they/them+) is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California\, Berkeley. Their training spans the humanities\, social sciences\, and sciences\, with a doctorate degree in linguistics that they transitioned to from computer engineering. For more about Mel Y. Chen: https://gws.berkeley.edu/people/mel-y-chen UID:130829-21867129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130829 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Lecture LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 (Robert Hayden Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T122437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T122000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHour: Candice Ammori DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Entrepreneurship for EHour with Candice Ammori\, founder of Climate Vine. Ammori is a U-M alum and community builder who has dedicated her career to advancing climate innovation. She previously led the On Deck Climate Tech Fellowship\, supporting hundreds of founders worldwide\, and now leads Climate Vine\, a global community that brings together leaders across technology\, policy\, and investment to tackle the climate crisis.\n\nAbout EHour\nEntrepreneurship Hour (EHour) is a weekly speaker series that brings innovators\, founders\, and entrepreneurial leaders to campus to share their stories with the University of Michigan community. UID:138652-21883531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Climate,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Discussion,Entrepreneurship,Free,Lecture LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T111658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Musealizing Atrocity: Memory\, Heritagization and Exhibition Practices in Post-War Kosova DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the Krusha e Madhe Massacre Museum within the wider field of museum practice in Kosova\, analyzing how processes of heritagization transform sites of atrocity into spaces of collective memory. By situating the museum in relation to broader debates on the musealization of trauma\, the talk considers how exhibitionary forms mediate the tensions between commemoration\, pedagogy\, and political legitimacy in post-war societies.\n\nArsim Canolli is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Prishtina\, Kosova\, where he\nalso serves as the founding Director of the Institute of Anthropology and Editor-in-Chief of peer- reviewed journal \"Kosova Anthropologica\". A graduate of the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL)\, his work bridges material culture\, collective memory\, and heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Kosova and the wider Balkan region. He has published several books\, along with numerous chapters and peer-reviewed articles in English\, French\, and Albanian\, and has translated a number of works into Albanian. Over the past decade\, his research has centered on collective memory\, leading and mentoring seven major projects. His most recent project documented the experiences of survivors of the village of Krusha e Madhe massacre of 1999\, resulting in the establishment of the Krusha e Madhe Massacre Museum. He is currently preparing a book on museum exhibitions in Kosova. UID:139684-21885904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139684 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology LOCATION:School of Education - 1322 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T130523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Families and Children’s Development through Age 4: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study DESCRIPTION:The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Families and Children’s Development through Age 4: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study\nKatherine Magnuson\, Director\, Institute for Research on Poverty\; Professor\, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Social Work\nFriday\, September 26\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138510-21883148@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138510 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Economics,Food,Free,Health Data,Humanities,In Person,Lecture,Livestream,policy,Population Studies Center,Poverty,poverty and inequality,Poverty Solutions,Pre-Health,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Social Impact,Social Science,Social Sciences,Talk LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250909T090938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T154000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cherry Award Finalist Keynote: \"Learning to Look: Cultivating the Anatomical Gaze” DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melissa Gross\, associate professor of movement science and director of the Behavioral Biomechanics Laboratory\, is one of three finalists selected for Baylor University’s 2026 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. The Cherry Award is the only national teaching award – with the single largest monetary reward of $250\,000 – presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching. The winning professor will be announced by Baylor in spring 2026.\n\nDr. Gross will present her Cherry Award finalist keynote\, \"Learning to Look: Cultivating the Anatomical Gaze\,” on Friday\, Sept. 26\, from 2:30-3:40 p.m. in the School of Kinesiology Building\, rooms 2600 and 2080 (overflow seating). Open to the public\; no RSVP needed.\n\nAbout the finalist: A biomechanics researcher noted for her interdisciplinary work\, Dr. Melissa Gross has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and served on the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Biomechanics. A past president and fellow of the American Society of Biomechanics\, she has secured over $1.5 million in grant funding from NIH\, NSF\, and Veterans Affairs. In 2014\, Gross received the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship\, which recognizes tenured U-M faculty whose commitment to and investment in undergraduate teaching has had a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of their students. She has held leadership roles in academic innovation and digital education\, including serving as director of the School of Kinesiology's Innovative Teaching and Learning initiative (2013-2019) and U-M's Women in Science and Engineering program (2019-2024). Gross currently serves on the executive committee for the U-M Center for Interprofessional Education. UID:139037-21884668@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139037 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Basic Science,Free,Interdisciplinary,Kinesiology,Lecture,Science,Talk LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 2600 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T162326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Variational methods in fracture mechanics DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The widely used phase-field approach for modeling fracture is based on the Griffith criterion\, which says that the elastic energy released is proportional to the length of the crack formed. Mathematically\, this is posed as the minimization of the Griffith energy that penalizes both bulk (elastic) and surface (crack) contributions. The goal of this talk is to understand the existence and structure of minimizers of this energy. We will discuss existence of strong solutions\, which have concentrated cracks that cannot \"pulverize\" the material. Further\, in dimension 2\, we dramatically improve our understanding of the minimal cracks: We show that the crack is given by a regular surface outside of a singular set of points with dimension strictly less than 1.\n\nContact: Ian Tobasco UID:135808-21877291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135808 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T143648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 1 DESCRIPTION:Did Arctic and Siberian Indigenous literacy truly begin with alphabets introduced by Russian missionaries and Soviet modernizers? This talk challenges that assumption by examining non-alphabetic traditions (ideographic and pictographic signs and texts) historically and today across Indigenous communities in Siberia and the Arctic\, revealing alternative literacies.\n\nThe Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan is proud to launch a new lecture series spotlighting the rich multicultural and multilingual traditions of the regions we study and teach.\n\nThe series challenges the field’s longstanding Slavic-centric focus by highlighting historically understudied communities that\, by default—as seen in the very term “Slavic studies” as a common synonym for Eastern European regional studies—have too often been overlooked or excluded. Distinguished scholars will present on these cultures’ histories\, languages\, and artistic contributions.\n\nFor online (Zoom) attendance\, please register here: https://myumi.ch/E82N5 UID:139831-21886102@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139831 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Crees,Discussion,eastern europe,Language,Slavic,Talk LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T140112 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Megan Whitney DESCRIPTION:The acquisition of mammal-like features is a classic case study in step-wise gradualism. This pattern has emerged from the robust fossil record documenting these transitions in non-mammalian synapsids. Along this transitionary series\, however\, an emerging dichotomy between 'specialized' and 'derived' mammalian features and 'simple' and 'ancestral' reptilian features has prevailed. As a result\, we tend to insinuate complexity and specialization as an inherently mammalian feature which negates the diversity of features and complexity found in other vertebrate groups\, especially reptiles. Using histological details of the dentition\, my research in non-mammalian synapsids dismantles this dichotomy and suggests alternative hypotheses than just step-wise gradualism alone as potential drivers in the acquisition of 'mammalress'. UID:138015-21881157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138015 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T115938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS 2025 Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Spectral Conversions: Becoming Muslim in Late-Seventeenth-Century Mughal India DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/bVgNy\n\nIn Spring 2024\, parts of Maharashtra were rocked by riots following calls by Hindu nationalist groups to exhume the remains of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb ʿAlamgir (*r.* 1658–1707). At the heart of this controversy is a long-standing accusation: that Aurangzeb was a violent zealot who forcibly converted large numbers of Hindus to Islam. This lecture reconsiders that claim by drawing on the *Akhbarat*—a rich set of imperial newsletters—and places the question of conversion within the broader context of Mughal political and religious life. How have historians approached conversion in the Mughal Empire? Why were the Mughals\, including Aurangzeb\, largely uninterested in conversion? And how can we think about the motives\, meanings\, and limits of conversion at the Mughal court? The lecture concludes with the story of Hidayatkesh Khan\, a convert to Islam who rose to become Aurangzeb’s private secretary\, revealing both the opportunities and constraints that conversion could entail under Mughal rule.\n \n Munis D. Faruqui is a historian in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. His focus is on the Muslim experience in South Asia\, especially during the Mughal period. His books include *Princes of the Mughal Empire\, 1504–1719* (Cambridge University Press\, 2012)\, *Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History*\, co-edited with Richard Eaton\, David Gilmartin\, and Sunil Kumar (Cambridge University Press\, 2013)\, and *Religious Interactions in Mughal India*\, co-edited with Vasudha Dalmia (Oxford University Press\, 2014). He has recently completed a book (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) focused on the life and reign of Emperor Aurangzeb ʿAlamgir (1618–1707) and Mughal Empire in the latter half of the seventeenth and first decades of the eighteenth century.\n \n The Center for South Asian Studies Fall 2025 beginning-of-school year reception will follow after the lecture in the same venue.\n\n The recording of this lecture will not be uploaded to YouTube. Please attend either in person or via Zoom in real time.\n \n The lecture will end at 5:30 PM\, to be followed by the reception\, which will end by 7:00 PM.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137480-21880327@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137480 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,History,India,International LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T124838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kirby Conrod received their BA in Linguistics and Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, and their MA and PhD in Linguistics at the University of Washington. Their dissertation\, Pronouns Raising and Emerging\, is a sociosyntactic analysis of a change in progress around the specific use of singular they. Their recent work focuses on nonbinary pronouns and other sociolinguistic approaches to morphosyntax. They are currently an assistant professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College\, where they lead the Socially Contextualized Syntax (SoCS) Lab. Their upcoming book\, How to Nonbinary a Language (OUP\, 2028) explores the diverse linguistic strategies employed by nonbinary people around the world.\n\nTitle: How to Nonbinary a Language\n\nAbstract: How do nonbinary people use the morphosyntactic and lexical resources across the world's languages to craft a nonbinary linguistic gender presentation? I identify four major strategies: semantic shift\; analogical extension\; compounds / blending\; and pragmatic strategies. Examples from English\, German\, Russian\, Spanish\, Czech\, Hebrew\, ASL\, French\, Mandarin\, and more show how nonbinary people use and combine these strategies. (NB: a preview of my upcoming book!) UID:138079-21881737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138079 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Talk LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T164741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250926T220000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Celestial Footprints: Latin American Voices in U.S. Astronomy DESCRIPTION:The Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory is excited to host U-M Astronomy for a talk and Q&A on Hispanic and Latin American astronomers and observatories. The talk will begin at 7:00 PM and will last 1 hour in total. Afterwards\, attendees will be welcome to tour the original 1854 Detroit Observatory and observe the night sky through its historic telescope.\n\nTelescope observing is weather dependent. Registration is encouraged but walk-ins are welcome! UID:139840-21886112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139840 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Education,educational,free,Latinx Heritage Month,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescopes LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T132327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together DESCRIPTION:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together\nWawa Gatheru | Founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist\nMonday\, September 29\, 10:30 a.m. at the Michigan Union in the Pendleton Room (2nd Floor)\nPlease RSVP for this talk: https://forms.gle/59U25HpR7GT2P5k66\n\nWawa Gatheru delves into the interconnectedness of climate and social justice\, unpacking how systemic failures across education\, housing\, and labor perpetuate poverty and environmental risk. Drawing upon the energy and vision of youth activism\, she urges the climate leaders of tomorrow to pursue intersectional\, systems-level approaches. Her message\, rooted in the values of justice and solidarity\, reflects U-M Climate Week’s momentum-building message: “Together for Tomorrow.”\n\nThis event is a part of U-M Climate Week 2025: Together for Tomorrow\, cosponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Office of Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action.\n\n#UMCW25\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together. UID:138512-21883154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Advocacy,Civic Engagement,climate,Climate Change,Climate Week,community health,Community Organizing,Ecology,Environment,environmental justice,environmental policy,Free,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Poverty,poverty and inequality,Poverty Solutions,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Science,Social Sciences,Sociology,Sustainability,Umcw25 LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T092226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sex and the QT Interval DESCRIPTION:An excessively long QT interval on an electrocardiogram indicates risk of a rare but dangerous arrythmia known as Torsades des Pointes\, which can lead to fainting spells and sudden cardiac death. There exists a small average difference in QT interval length between women and men. Connected with the widely publicized downfall of the blockbuster drug Seldane in the 1990s\, women’s purportedly prolonged QT interval became a touchstone example of the potentially deadly consequences of conducting drug testing only in men.\n\nRevisiting the canonical story of the QT interval\, Seldane\, and sex differences in adverse drug events\, this talk examines this iconic sex difference fact in the history of women’s health and drug safety testing. Applying a sex contextualist framework (Richardson 2022)\, I show how contextual judgments about whether and when sex is relevant occur all along the pathway of reasoning about how to best predict the safety profile of a drug\, including when designing model systems in non-human animals\, in vitro\, and in silico screens.\n\nSarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality at Harvard University\, where she has taught since 2010. Her courses include gender and science\, feminist science studies\, interdisciplinary research methods in gender studies\, bias\, hype\, and objectivity in science\, heredity and reproduction\, postgenomics\, medical management of the female body\, and sex\, gender\, and evolution. \n\nAn expert in the history and philosophy of the sciences of sex\, gender\, sexuality\, and reproduction\, she also writes and teaches about race and science\, history and philosophy of biology (in particular\, genomics and evolutionary biology)\, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science\, and the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. She currently serves on the Harvard Standing Committees for Degrees in Social Studies and for the Mind\, Brain\, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. \n\nThis talk has been generously cosponsored by the Center for History\, Humanities\, Arts\, Social Sciences\, and Ethics in Medicine and Women and Gender Studies. UID:138913-21884241@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138913 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Science,Social Sciences LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250912T144531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Library Presents: Phimmasone Owens\, Founder of Refugee Garden Initiatives DESCRIPTION:Michigan alum Phimmasone Kym Owens\, director of the Refugee Garden Initiative\, will speak on her experience as a refugee and as the creator of an interconnected space active in sustaining community\, culture\, and relationships with the Earth through gardening.\n\nDuring U-M Climate Week\, we hope to empower you to use resources at hand to creatively respond to local sustainability issues. Learn about ways to support refugee communities and the international community at large through campus organizations. Our hope is that\, through this engagement opportunity\, students and others will understand that our globally connected campus can be a model for change at the local level.\n\nJoin us in person for the talk\, followed by light fare catered by Siam Square. Or\, join via Zoom (https://myumi.ch/z9389). UID:138917-21884239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T104159 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dedication to Diplomacy: Lives & Legacies in the Foreign Service DESCRIPTION:With one of the longest-standing partnerships in the Asia-Pacific\, spanning more than seven decades\, the United States and the Republic of Korea have built a lasting economic partnership and security alliance that has prevailed throughout a variety of challenges and shifts in administrative priorities. This alliance continues to remain a central part of both nations' security\, economic\, and cultural ties. What goes into building such an alliance? What is the state of this relationship today?\n \n Please join the Nam Center for Korean Studies as we welcome two speakers for a discussion of U.S.-Korea relations\, life in the foreign service and experiences at Washington D.C. think tanks.\n \n The event will feature Henry Haggard\, Former Minister Counselor for Political Affairs\, U.S. Embassy Seoul\, and Director for UK and the Eastern Mediterranean\, National Security Council. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Baker Institute\, Rice University\, Senior Associate of the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Centre for Security\, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) and U.S. Senior Advisor at AMCHAM Korea. He completed a 25-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 2024\, retiring as a member of the Senior Foreign Service\, rank of Counselor. From 2021-23 he served as the top advisor on Korean politics and managed our bilateral security relationship at the U.S. Embassy in South Korea. Prior to that\, he served as director at the National Security Council under both the Trump and Biden administration\, coordinating our policy engagement with Turkey and the UK.\n \n The discussion will be moderated by Ellen Kim\, director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute. Previously\, she was the deputy director and senior fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\, and holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California.\n \n This event is possible through the support of the KEI's academic outreach program\, which aims to raise understanding of the important relationship between the United States and South Korea.\n \n Light refreshments will be provided during the event.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:139327-21885300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Economics,global engagement,international studies,Korean Studies,political science,Politics LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250902T113031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Development and decarbonization: Competing energy futures DESCRIPTION:The panel will examine several issues facing the country as two powerful forces seem to be at odds. How much power infrastructure do we need to build to decarbonize and meet growing data center and other power demand\, and can it be done? Do well-intended laws and processes enacted over the last 50 years even allow large scale infrastructure development anymore? Can the development be done consistent with societal environmental and labor standards?\n\nThis event is a part of U-M Climate Week 2025: Together for Tomorrow\, cosponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Office of Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action.\n\n#UMCW25\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nRob Gramlich is President of Grid Strategies LLC\, a Washington DC-based consultancy focused on transmission and power markets for a reliable\, affordable\, and sustainable power system. He co-founded Americans for a Clean Energy Grid\, Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT Coalition)\, Advancing Modern Powerlines\, the Macro Grid Initiative\, and the Future Power Markets Forum. Rob has been invited to testify by both parties before Congress\, FERC\, and state agencies. He has earned awards from FERC as Exemplar of Public Service\, the Energy Systems Integration Group for contributions to market design and transmission planning\, The Hill Magazine for lobbying\, and the American Wind Energy Association for Technical Achievement. Rob previously oversaw transmission and power market policy for the American Wind Energy Association as SVP and Interim CEO\, served as Economic Advisor to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III\, and was Senior Economist at PJM Interconnection. Rob has a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from UC Berkeley and a BA with Honors in Economics from Colby College.\n\nCatherine H. Hausman is an associate professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics. Recent projects have looked at inequality and environmental quality\, the natural gas sector's role in methane leaks\, the impact of climate change on the electricity grid\, and the effects of nuclear power plant closures. Her research has appeared in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics\, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy\, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity\, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to her graduate studies\, Catherine studied in Peru under a Fulbright grant. She has taught statistics\, a policy seminar on energy and the environment\, and a course on government regulation of industry and the environment. She holds a BA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California\, Berkeley.\n\nKaitlin Raimi is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School. As a social/environmental psychologist\, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies. She has three broad areas of research: (1) how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to others\, (2) how adopting one pro-environmental behavior affects later action\, and (3) how climate change communication affects people’s understanding\, behaviors\, and support for climate policies and technologies.\n\nAlexandra B. Klass is the James G. Degnan Professor of Law at Michigan Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of energy law\, environmental law\, natural resources law\, tort law\, and property law. From April 2022 to July 2023\, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as deputy general counsel for energy efficiency and clean energy demonstrations at the US Department of Energy. Klass’s recent scholarly work\, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals\, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric transmission grid\, siting and eminent domain issues surrounding interstate electric transmission lines and oil and gas pipelines\, and applications of the public trust doctrine to modern environmental law challenges. UID:138620-21883499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate Change,climate policy,Energy,Energy And The Environment,environment,environmental policy,ford school,ford school of public policy,Free,General Public,gerald r. ford school of public policy,policy,public policy,Science,Science And Technology,Science Technology And Public Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T143806 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Economic Policy Paradigms in China: Bureaucratic Politics and the Many “China Models” DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: \nhttps://myumi.ch/794P5\n\nDr. Wang’s recent book\, *Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State*\, provides a fresh account of China’s economic reform over the past four decades\, highlighting the pivotal role of mid-level bureaucrats in shaping China’s development trajectories and global ambition. In contrast to the conventional view of China’s development strategy as linear\, top-down\, and coherent\, this book uncovers the contradictions and conflicts inherent in China’s economic policy paradigms\, rooted in the social logic of bureaucratic competition\, generational shifts\, and network coalitions in the Chinese state. The book won the 2005 Sociology of Development Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association.\n \n Yingyao Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She works at the intersection of economic sociology\, political sociology\, and development. She has published articles on corruption\, taxation\, and China’s industrial policy and financial market development. Currently\, she is working on projects related to China’s outward foreign direct investment\, how China study other parts of the world\, and the relationship between corruption\, finance\, and the making of market frontiers. Besides her empirical work\, she also writes about social and organizational theory. UID:137270-21880012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137270 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,business in china,China,Economics LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T115009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer Love\, Soviet Summers: Bringing Pioneer Summer into English DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and conversation with translator Anne Fisher\, moderated by Alex Averbuch. Pioneer Summer—the #1 TikTok bestseller by Elena Malisova and Katerina Silvanova—tells the story of a forbidden gay romance at a Soviet pioneer camp in 1986. Banned in Russia for its LGBTQ themes\, the novel became a global phenomenon and a powerful symbol of resistance to censorship. UID:139815-21886092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139815 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Author,book discussion,Slavic,Talk,Translation,World Literature LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250929T140256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DSI Lecture Series | Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies: The Politics of Smart Tech and Liberation Dreams DESCRIPTION:We will be offering a free copy of *Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen* to the first 25 in-person attendees!\n\nIn this talk\, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin will discuss their recent book and edited volume\, *Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen*\, published by Duke University Press in May 2025. New and emerging technologies\, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces\, relations\, homes\, and bodies\, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. The book introduces a feminist theory of creep\, substantiating it through critical engagement with smart homes\, smart dust\, smart desires\, and smart forests\, toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured\, assumed\, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies\, such as border surveillance and China’s credit system\, as well as sexcams and home assistants\, the volume’s essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen\, privacy/surveillance\, or harmful/useful.\n\nNeda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park and Associate Director of Education for the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Atanasoski’s interdisciplinary research has focused on feminism and AI\, feminist and critical race approaches to science and technology studies\, AI and the future of work\, militarism\, and human rights and humanitarianism. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013)\, co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)\, and co-editor of Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution (2022) and Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025).\n\nNassim Parvin is a Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Information School where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion\, Diversity\, Equity\, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Dr. Parvin’s interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic scholarship and design-based inquiry. Her papers have appeared in design\, HCI\, and STS venues. Her designs have been deployed at nonprofit organizations and exhibited in venues such as the Smithsonian Museum. She is the co-author and co-editor of the book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025). She is an award-winning educator and served as one of the lead coeditors of Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience from 2018-2023.\n\nWe strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.\n\nPlease register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://myumi.ch/QwGnk\n\nPlease register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus here: https://myumi.ch/794by\n\nCART (live captioning) services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.\n\nCo-Sponsors: Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\; DISCO Network\; Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; Institute for Research on Women and Gender\; Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program UID:137444-21880247@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137444 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:digital,Digital Culture,Digital Cultures,digital humanities,Digital Media,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,digitalization,digitization,Discussion LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 (10th Floor Event Space) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250929T085943 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: Hannah Larson- Cohomology of moduli spaces of curves DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The moduli space M_g of genus g curves (or Riemann surfaces) is a central object of study in algebraic geometry. Its cohomology is important in many fields. For example\, the cohomology of M_g is the same as the cohomology of the mapping class group\, and is also related to spaces of modular forms. Using its properties as a moduli space\, Mumford defined a distinguished subring of the cohomology of M_g called the tautological ring. The definition of the tautological ring was later extended to the compactification M_g-bar and the moduli spaces with marked points M_{g\,n}-bar. While the full cohomology ring of M_{g\,n}-bar is quite mysterious\, the tautological subring is relatively well understood\, and conjecturally completely understood. In this talk\, I'll discuss several results about the cohomology groups of M_{g\,n}-bar\, particularly regarding when they are tautological or not. This is joint work with Samir Canning\, Sam Payne\, and Thomas Willwacher.\n\nBio: Hannah Larson is an Assistant Professor and Clay Research Fellow at University of California\, Berkeley. She received her PhD from Stanford University\, where she was advised by Ravi Vakil. Her research centers around algebraic curves and their moduli spaces and has been recognized with a 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize. UID:137392-21880197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137392 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Mathematics,seminar,Talk LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T163441 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Elections Against the Grain: A Roundtable with Emerging Democracies Authors DESCRIPTION:This roundtable features authors from the University of Michigan’s Emerging Democracies book series and explores the complexities of elections in emerging democracies\, with a focus on issues such as authoritarian restrictions\, strategic boycotts\, and incumbent bias. The discussion will center on the question: how can we understand elections when they don't necessarily provide voters with straightforward opportunities to hold politicians accountable?\n\nWebinar link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yq1P80rvS7KoSKQwSKY5mA\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at rrazmi@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:138205-21882579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138205 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Author,democracy LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251002T093238 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Is Tolerance Enough? DESCRIPTION:Part of the Samantha Woll Dialogues\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute Executive Committee member Karla Goldman (Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan) will moderate an exchange between Andrew Murphy (professor and chair of political science at the University of Michigan and author of Toleration: A Very Short Introduction) and Amir Hussain (Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University) as they examine the challenges of religious tolerance and interfaith engagement in today’s world and discuss ways of fostering deeper understanding\, inclusion\, and mutual respect within our pluralistic society. UID:136999-21879398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Discussion,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Open Inquiry,Social Justice,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan Union - Union Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250820T132945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:23rd Annual Wege Lecture on Sustainability featuring former U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm DESCRIPTION:This inspiring fireside chat features Jennifer Granholm\, former U.S. Energy Secretary and Governor of Michigan. Join us as she addresses the urgent sustainability challenges of our time\, from clean energy transitions to climate change.\n\nThis ticketed event is free and open to the public.\n*A free ticket\, along with a photo ID\, will be required for entry.\nTickets will be available through the Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO). UID:136857-21879239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136857 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate,climate change,climate policy,energy,environment,environmental,environmental policy,sustainability,sustainable energy LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T181621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250930T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Concert Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Concert Band performance. UID:137654-21880505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250917T082117 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Panel | The Hazards of Reporting On Human Rights Abuses: Reports from the Field DESCRIPTION:Please join Clavel Rangel Jimenez (Venezuela) and Tenzin Pema (Tibet)\, two of this year's Knight-Wallace Fellows\, as they discuss the challenges of reporting on human rights abuses by governments and other actors. Our panelists will offer comparative insights from their field experience and lessons for all of us seeking to understand violations happening beyond our borders.\n \n Moderator: Lynette Clemetson\n \n Lynette Clemetson is director of U-M's Wallace House Center for Journalists. She served previously as a director of new initiatives at NPR\; domestic correspondent for The New York Times\; and correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and in Hong Kong. She works actively in support of global press freedom issues\, serving on boards of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\, PBS Frontline\, the Knight Press Freedom Fellowship\, and Forbidden Stories\, an international news organization dedicated to completing the work of reporters who have been killed or threatened for their journalism.\n \n Knight-Wallace Fellows:\n \n Clavel Rangel Jimenez\n \n Clavel Rangel Jimenez is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering labor unions\, migration\, human rights\, climate\, corruption and extractive industries in Venezuela and across the Americas. She co-founded the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network\, an initiative that promotes investigative journalism\, knowledge exchange and collaboration among reporters. Rangel began her career as a reporter and editor at Correo del Caroní\, an award-winning regional newspaper in southern Venezuela\, where she extensively covered the region. She later served as a correspondent at El Nacional and El Pitazo\; as Editor-in-Chief of the firts Spanish-language newsletter Arepita\; and as a Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington\, D.C. Her work has been featured in The Guardian\, Chicago Health Magazine\, and Armando.info. Originally from Venezuela\, she now resides in the United States.\n \n Tenzin Pema\n \nTenzin Pema is a journalist of Tibetan origin with over two decades of experience as a reporter\, editor\, and newsroom leader in global media firms. She was most recently the Director of Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan Service\, where she led critical and sensitive reporting on Tibet across multiple formats and platforms\, including groundbreaking coverage of the Dege dam protests in 2024 that led to mass arrests\, as well as transnational repression across borders and the erasure of Tibetan language and cultural identity in Tibetan monasteries and schools\, and at the global level. She served as Editor of Strategic Initiatives at Economic Times and as Editorial Head at YourStory Media. She spent a decade with Reuters\, where she was an Editor-in-Charge of teams covering different regions\; there\, she spearheaded the creation of a dual-language Middle East news team – a first for its Bengaluru newsroom. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in India.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:138600-21883433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138600 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China,Human Rights,Latin America LOCATION:Michigan League - 3rd Floor - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250923T004903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Brown Bag Seminar | Bootstrapping Holographic Theories DESCRIPTION:Holographic conformal field theories provide a window into quantum gravity. However\, these field theories are difficult in their own right\, and to make progress on them we need new non-perturbative methods. I will describe a general technique for combining the conformal bootstrap method with constraints from supersymmetric localization. This dramatically improves the ability of the bootstrap to constrain holographic theories. I will describe results for N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory\, for which this technique enables qualitatively new studies of observables as a function of the Yang-Mills coupling. I will also describe substantial improvements in the bootstrap of 3D ABJM theory\, which enables a precise numerical study of higher-derivative corrections in M-theory. UID:138997-21884500@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138997 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR