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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251006T110000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Seminar Series in Human Genetics - Monday\, October 6\, 11:00 am
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, October 6\, 2025 \n11:00am - 12:00pm\nNLH\n\n“Harnessing my daughter’s diagnosis to drive novel ASO treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders”\n\nMadeleine J. Oudin\, PhD \nTiampo Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Tufts University\n\nHosted By: \nMiriam Meisler\, PhD \nThe Department of Human Genetics\, University of Michigan Medical School
UID:138608-21883439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138608
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall, MSII
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DTSTAMP:20251017T234155
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T100000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:On perturbation of completely integrable PDEs
DESCRIPTION:We revisit the perturbative theory of infinite-dimensional integrable systems developed by P. Deift and X. Zhou\, aiming to provide new and simpler proofs of some key L∞ bounds and Lᵖ a priori estimates. Our proofs emphasize a further step towards understanding focusing problems and extend the applicability to other integrable models. As a concrete application\, we examine the perturbation of the one-dimensional defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and modified KdV equations.
UID:140303-21886897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251006T072114
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Government Procurement and Small Business: Evidence from the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies the long-term effects of government procurement on small business growth\, using a novel matched dataset that links federal contracts awarded to small businesses and bidding data from construction procurements with firm-level outcomes from restricted Census administrative data. Using a matched difference-in-differences approach and a winner-versus-losers design\, the study documents several findings. First\, procurement contracts lead to sustained increases in small business revenue\, employment\, and earnings\, with effects persisting for up to five years beyond the contract period. These effects are not primarily explained by repeat contracting or long-duration contracts. Firms also experience short-run crowding out of private sales\, which later recover and exceed pre-contract levels. Using micro-level credit scores and labor share data\, the study shows that financially constrained and capital-intensive firms exhibit stronger post-contract growth. A dynamic investment model with financial frictions and government contracting demonstrates that a one-time procurement shock can rationalize these effects through a combination of productivity gains and relaxed financial constraints\, thereby enabling irreversible investment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that this persistence primarily reflects productivity gains rather than short-run easing of financing constraints.
UID:140320-21886918@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140320
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
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DTSTAMP:20250902T103153
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Settlers’ Republic: Land\, Infrastructure\, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States\, 1789-1862
DESCRIPTION:In April 1792\, George and Rachel Ewing packed the whole of their household belongings onto a flat boat and set out on the Ohio River. Among their party was Thomas\, just over two years old. Together the Ewings—George\, Rachel\, Thomas\, and Thomas’s older brother and sister—floated one hundred miles downriver to settle near Olive Green Creek in what is now Ohio. There\, in the midst of the Northwest Indian War and living on land speculatively purchased and resold to Revolutionary War veterans like his father\, little Thomas would be raised. A little over fifty years later\, Thomas Ewing would be appointed the first Secretary of the Department of Interior. This book tells the story of how settlers like the Ewings built the American state and\, in the process\, contributed towards the making of political and economic modernity. It puts land at the center of American state formation to rethink the meaning of the United States’ founding and make visible the settler origins of American political and economic development. Its chapters trace the evolution of federal land policy\, the emergence of early administrative agencies such as the General Land Office and the Department of Interior\, and the increasingly fraught conflicts over territorial governance in the pre-Civil War period to chart the rise\, fall\, and afterlives of the United States as a settlers’ republic.\nThis analysis shows how it was through managing land that early Americans developed the administrative institutions\, special expertise\, and mode of seeing like a state that allowed the concrete management of land to turn into the abstract government of economy and society. Today\, we take for granted that we live in territorial nation-states governed by bureaucratic apparatuses empowered to make decisions in the name of a public good. Settlers’ Republic demonstrates the settler colonial origins of this modern state\, and makes visible the contradictions\, trade-offs\, and exclusions constitutive of how this political and economic formation came to be.
UID:138605-21883437@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20250902T211523
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 CPOD Seminar Series: \"A primate genetic model organism\"
DESCRIPTION:Mark Krasnow\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\nProfessor\nBiochemistry\nStanford University
UID:138699-21883636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138699
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20251001T112811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T100000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SCSAP Hosts: Stellaromics Inc. Tech Talk
DESCRIPTION:IN-PERSON SEMINAR\n3D Spatial Multi-Omics for Neuroscience\, Oncology\, and More\nHOSTED BY SCSAP\nDATE: OCTOBER 8\, 2025\nTIME: 9:00 - 10:00 AM \nLOCATION: NCRC Building 10 –G00S030 South Atrium\n\nThis free tech talk will feature Stellaromics and their Pyxa platform\, the first 3D\, high-plex\, confocal spatial system!! Please come and hear more about how Pyxa can help advance your spatial research!!! Come and meet the team!\n\nFree seminar for everyone!\nFood and Refreshments will be served!! \n\nPlease register to ensure there is enough food for everyone
UID:140131-21886661@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - South Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20250827T160102
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor Seminar: Wednesday\, October 8
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UID:138291-21882722@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138291
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20250930T111816
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Chris Voigt\, MIT
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nProfessor Voigt obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He continued his postdoctoral research in Bioengineering at the University of California\, Berkeley. His academic career commenced as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California\, San Francisco. Chris Voigt joined MIT's Department of Biological Engineering as an Associate Professor in 2011.
UID:138604-21883436@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138604
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251002T093741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:This article introduces a regression discontinuity design for distribution-valued outcomes (R3D)\, extending the standard RDD framework to settings where outcomes are entire distributions rather than single values. This arises when treatment is assigned at the group level (e.g.\, firms\, schools) but the objects of interest are within-group distributions (e.g.\, employee wages\, student test scores). Standard RDDs are not designed for this two-level structure\, as they assume scalar outcomes observed at the same level as treatment assignment. To address this\, I develop a novel approach based on random distributions and show that\, under a mild continuity condition on the average quantile function\, the jump at the cutoff identifies a local average quantile treatment effect. To estimate it\, I propose a distribution-valued local polynomial estimator\, which fits the full quantile curve with a single bandwidth\, avoids quantile crossing\, and yields a meaningful “average distribution”. I derive uniform asymptotic normality\, valid multiplier bootstrap confidence bands\, and a data-driven bandwidth selection method. Simulations demonstrate strong performance and reveal that standard quantile RDD is biased and inconsistent in this setting. An application to U.S. gubernatorial close elections (1984–2010) uncovers an equality–efficiency trade-off under Democratic control\, driven by income reductions at the top of the distribution.
UID:140189-21886718@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251006T130615
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 - Vijay G. Subramanian
DESCRIPTION:Presenter Bio:\n\nVijay Subramanian is a Professor in the ECE Division of the EECS Department at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\; from Fall 2014 to Summer 2024\, he was an Associate Professor at the same institution. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\,  Champaign\, IL\, USA\, in 1999. He worked at Motorola Inc.\, the Hamilton Institute\, Maynooth\, Ireland\, and the EECS Department\, Northwestern University\, Evanston\, IL\, USA\; he also held an Adjunct Research Associate Professor in CSL and ECE at UIUC. His current research interests are in stochastic analysis\, random graphs\, multi-agent systems\, and game theory (mechanism and information design) with applications to social\, economic\, and technological networks.\n\nAbstract:\n\nMulti-agent systems appear in many engineering and socioeconomic settings\, wherein a group of agents or controllers interact with each other in a shared and possibly non-stationary environment\, and make sequential decisions based on their own information using a (causal) interaction mechanism. \n\nIn this talk\, we focus attention on cooperative sequential decision making under uncertainty—a decentralized team\, where a fixed finite number of agents act as a team with the common goal of minimizing a long-term cost function. We investigate the general situation where one long-term (objective) cost must be minimized\, while maintaining multiple other long-term (constraint) costs within prescribed limits via a cooperative Multi-Agent Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (MAC-POMDP) model. Such constrained sequential team decision problems arise in several real-world applications where efficient operation must be balanced with maintaining safe operating margins—such considerations arise in communication networks\, traffic management\, energy-grid optimization\, e-commerce pricing\, environmental monitoring\, etc.\n\nWe focus on the discounted cost criterion\, and start by establishing general results on Lagrangian duality and the existence of a global saddle-point. Next\, we consider decentralized policy-profiles and their mixtures\, and establish that when agents mix jointly over their policy-profiles\, there is no (Lagrangian) duality gap\, and a global saddle point exists under the Slater's condition. However\, when agents mix independently over their policy-profiles\, we show (through a concrete counterexample) that a non-zero duality gap can exist. Then\, we consider coordination policies and their mixtures\, and establish that\, except for pure coordination policies\, they are all equivalent to joint mixtures of decentralized policy-profiles. This equivalence result helps reformulate the original multi-agent constrained optimization problem into a single-agent constrained optimization problem\, which is then used to propose a primal-dual framework for model-based optimal control. Finally\, we extend the notion of a Multi-Agent Approximate Information State (MA-AIS) to constrained decision making\, and formalize MA-AIS based coordination policies and their mixtures. We establish through a concrete counter-example that\, (in contrast to behavioral coordination policies)\, MA-AIS based behavioral coordination policies and their mixtures are not equivalent. We also establish approximate optimality of mixtures of MA-AIS based coordination policies\, and use this result to guide the development of a data-driven alternative for the aforementioned model-based primal-dual framework.\n\nThis is joint work with Nouman Khan\, Amazon Search\, Seattle\, WA\, which was carried out when he was a PhD student at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor.
UID:139488-21885618@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20251002T082037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe nascent field of microrobotics is experiencing a “Cambrian explosion” before our very eyes. Potential applications for these diminutive devices span an array of fields\, including healthcare\, exploration\, environmental monitoring\, search and rescue\, industrial maintenance\, and digital agriculture. However\, the design of microrobotics systems is inherently tied to scaling-law constraints\; as length scales decrease\, surface forces and viscous forces (among others) begin to dominate inertial forces. This leads to fabrication bottlenecks\, struggles with energy/power autonomy\, and the need for specialized and often unconventional actuators. \n\nIn this talk\, I will present three unconventional microactuators developed in my own group. Each leverages distinct physical principles to achieve high forces\, frequencies\, power densities\, and integration potential in microrobotic platforms. These innovations highlight both the limitations imposed by microscale regimes and the opportunities that emerge when we embrace nontraditional transduction mechanisms for locomotion and manipulation.
UID:140186-21886714@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140186
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20250926T160236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - From Retirement to Reuse: Unlocking the Full Potential of EV Batteries in Stationary Storage
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMillions of electric vehicle (EV) batteries are projected to retire over the next decade\, often retaining substantial capacity left. Repurposing these batteries offers a promising solution to address challenges in the battery industry\, including raw material scarcity\, supply chain constraints\, and the need for a circular economy. However\, current EV batteries mainly retire after their performance becomes unsatisfactory\, leading to heterogeneous health conditions that diversify lifetime during second use. There is a clear need for guidance on reuse strategies to maximize their whole-lifecycle value\, including reuse in lower-demand applications. Here\, we assess over 101\,000 active retirement-reuse-retirement scenarios for EV batteries across popular stationary energy storage applications. The whole-lifecycle value of EV batteries is quantified using real-world data from EV batteries and their digital twins. For EV batteries retired at different mileages\, we simulated their remaining useful life under realistic second-use applications. The tradeoff between first-life benefits and second-lifetime benefits is analyzed\, and recommendations for selecting second-use applications based on first-life usage conditions are investigated. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of repurposing retired EV batteries and underscore the importance of whole-lifecycle management to enhance circular economy.\n\nBiography:\nZiyou Song is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and Ph.D. degree with the highest honors in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University\, China\, in 2011 and 2016\, respectively. Prior to joining the University of Michigan\, Dr. Song served as an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and worked as a battery algorithm engineer at Apple. Dr. Song’s research focuses on modeling\, estimation\, optimization\, and control of energy storage systems\, especially for the electrified transportation and renewable energy sectors. Dr. Song has received several paper awards\, including Automotive Innovation Best Paper Award\, Applied Energy Highly Cited Paper Award\, NSK Outstanding Paper Award of Mechanical Engineering\, and IEEE VPPC Best Student Paper Award. Dr. Song serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Member for IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification\, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\, Applied Energy\, and eTransportation\, and received the Outstanding Associate Editor award from IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
UID:138900-21884217@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138900
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251002T124227
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Technology of Liberation or Control?: The Asymmetric Effects of the Internet on Political Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two decades\, the internet and social media have expanded rapidly to all corners of the world. While these new technologies have liberalized access to information and communication channels\, they have also introduced new platforms for surveillance and propaganda. As such\, the internet can be characterized as a ``double-edged sword'' for society\, introducing new freedoms as well as oppressions. This duality is perhaps most evident in the case of Myanmar\, where a majority of the population was first exposed to the internet within the past ten years. In this paper\, we estimate the effects of the internet empirically by exploiting geographic variation in access as well as temporal shocks to exposure. We find that reducing internet access leads to a reduction in the prevalence of demonstrations---but not other forms of political conflict---during the months following a military coup. However\, as internet freedoms are eroded\, the effect on protest activity disappears\, and we argue that this shift can be explained by a change in the nature of political discourse online. Moreover\, in the long run\, we find that internet access is associated with more political violence and higher levels of military control across Myanmar. Taken together\, our results show that the internet can serve as both a tool of liberalization and oppression\, conditional on the government's capacity to monitor and exert influence over the network. These findings are especially relevant for developing economies in which widespread internet access is relatively recent\, as these advances may not necessarily be beneficial for democracy movements.
UID:140222-21886753@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140222
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251007T080349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale\, Selection\, and Variety
DESCRIPTION:Centralized procurement intends to increase efficiency by reducing upstream market power through scale effects but may decrease variety and thus fail to accommodate buyers with heterogeneous preferences. Moreover\, buyer voluntary participation may result in adverse selection into intermediation when costs are heterogeneous\, limiting its gains. We study these mechanisms in the context of drug public procurement in Chile. Through a combination of reduced-form analyses and a structural model\, we find sizable scale effects\, substantial preference heterogeneity\, and cost heterogeneity. We use our model to evaluate the impacts of voluntary centralized procurement and the desirability of introducing minimum centralized procurement mandates.
UID:138478-21883114@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138478
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20250910T135655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Qing Qu\, Assistant Professor\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Recent empirical studies have shown that diffusion models possess a unique reproducibility property\, transiting from memorization to generalization as the number of training samples increases. This demonstrates that diffusion models can effectively learn image distributions and generate new samples. Remarkably\, these models achieve this even with a small number of training samples\, despite the challenge of large image dimensions\, effectively circumventing the curse of dimensionality. In this work\, we provide theoretical insights into this phenomenon by leveraging two key empirical observations: (i) the low intrinsic dimensionality of image datasets and (ii) the low-rank property of the denoising autoencoder in trained diffusion models. With these setups\, we rigorously demonstrate that optimizing the training loss of diffusion models is equivalent to solving the canonical subspace clustering problem across the training samples. This insight has practical implications for training and controlling diffusion models. Specifically\, it enables us to precisely characterize the minimal number of samples necessary for accurately learning the low-rank data support\, shedding light on the phase transition from memorization to generalization. Additionally\, we empirically establish a correspondence between the subspaces and the semantic representations of image data\, which enables one-step\, transferrable\, efficient image editing. Moreover\, our results have profound practical implications for training efficiency and model safety\, and they also open up numerous intriguing theoretical questions for future research.
UID:139186-21885015@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139186
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20251007T081316
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Score-Augmented Frobenius Distance and Its Applications in Causal Inference
DESCRIPTION:This paper proposes a novel method for causal inference in panel settings with network-valued outcomes by introducing the score augmented Frobenius distance\, a metric that compares networks after sorting their adjacency matrices by node-level structural scores. These scores\, which incorporate both observed covariates and structural features (e.g.\, centrality)\, serve to align nodes across networks under the assumption that structural roles\, rather than identities\, drive treatment effects. This sorting induces an equivalence class over node permutations\, allowing valid comparisons between networks with unobserved heterogeneity. This paper demonstrates how score-augmented Frobenius distance can be applied to extend standard difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods to settings where observations are networks. The framework applies to a variety of empirical settings\, including social networks\, trade networks\, and institutional relationships\, where interventions affect structural properties rather than specific node labels.
UID:140369-21886994@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140369
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251007T075335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Strategic Learning with Asymmetric Rationality
DESCRIPTION:This paper analyzes the dynamic interaction between a fully rational\, privately informed sender and a boundedly rational\, uninformed receiver with memory constraints. The receiver designs an information-processing and decision-making protocol\, modeled as a finite-state machine\, that governs how information is interpreted\, how internal memory states evolve\, and when and what decisions are made. We characterize optimal protocols that balance learning with robustness to strategic manipulation and quantify the extent of both learning and manipulation through payoff bounds for each party. A simple class of protocols disciplines the sender and gives rise to behavioral patterns such as opinion polarization and decision avoidance. The model offers an expressive framework for strategic learning and decision-making under asymmetric rationality\, with applications to regulatory review and media distrust.
UID:138485-21883145@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138485
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251002T114741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T162000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Does Urban Biodiversity Matter? Evidence from NYC’s Street Tree Changes
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UID:140194-21886727@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Jeff T. Blau Hall - B4584
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DTSTAMP:20250929T132218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Christos Maravelias\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\nSystems Engineering for Renewable Energy System Design and Operation\n\nAfter a brief overview of the different classes of problems addressed in the three main subareas of process systems engineering\, the first part of the talk presents methods for “operational” planning of process and energy systems\, with special emphasis placed on real-time optimization of large-scale systems. The second part of the talk discusses how systems engineering can facilitate the development of novel strategies to produce renewable fuels and chemicals and\, importantly\, how “systems thinking” can be used to identify technological and economic drivers\, and\, ultimately\, guide future research efforts. We also discuss how the synthesis of systems based on renewable power leads\, naturally\, to new types of problems for which traditional approaches are insufficient\; and outline progress towards the development of novel methods to address these challenges.  Finally\, we briefly discuss the computational challenges associated with the design and operation of new energy and chemical production systems\, and discuss recent advances\, including approaches that use AI techniques.
UID:138621-21883500@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138621
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20250826T002000
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint Econometrics Seminar and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics
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UID:138142-21882400@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138142
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250930T082551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks\, joint with Martin Almuzara\, Manuel Arellano\, and Richard Blundell
DESCRIPTION:We propose a nonlinear framework to study the dynamic transmission of aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to household income that exploits both macro and micro data. Combining macro time series for the U.S. and a time series of household panels from the PSID\, we find that business-cycle fluctuations modulate the persistence of heterogeneous individual histories and the risk faced by households. We document how aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks propagate over time for households in dif- ferent macro and micro states. Lastly\, we quantify the welfare cost of aggregate and idiosyncratic risk.
UID:138292-21882723@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138292
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251003T074234
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Engineering Native Biological Complexity from the Inside–out and Outside–in\nAbstract:\nEngineering heterogenous multicellular tissue with native complexity remains one of the holy grails of regenerative medicine and basic biological research. As success in this regard would yield powerful bioengineered constructs useful in functional transplantation\, high-throughput drug screening\, and fundamental biology investigation\, research efforts in our lab have centered around developing and implementing tools to spatiotemporally customize living cell function both from the “outside–in” and from the “inside–out”. In this talk\, I will discuss some of our group’s recent successes in reversibly modifying the chemical and physical aspects of synthetic cell culture platforms with user-defined and grayscale control\, regulating cell-biomaterial interactions through user-programmable Boolean logic\, engineering microvascular networks that span nearly all size scales of native human vasculature (including capillaries)\, irreversibly photoassembling bioactive proteins within living cells\, and driving biomolecular condensate formation using de novo-designed proteins. Results will highlight our ability to modulate intricate cellular behavior including stem cell differentiation\, protein secretion\, and cell-cell interactions in 4D.
UID:140254-21886827@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140254
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20251001T121431
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Thin-Film Photovoltaics: from Lab to Scale
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Max Shtein \n\nAbstract: \nClean energy generation from photovoltaics (PV) has grown at a historic pace\, reaching 7% of global electricity generation (2000 TWh) in 2024. PV is on track to be the largest renewable energy source by 2029. Today\, silicon PV accounts for roughly 97% of the market share while thin-film PV (mainly CdTe) accounts for the remaining 3%. Silicon PV module prices recently reached a global average low price of <$0.15 per Watt (mainly driven by module production in China)\, making PV a competitive energy source compared to fossil fuels.\n\nResearch and development advances in thin-film PV (with focus on perovskite-based thin-film PV) suggest that novel thin-film PV technologies can not only offer even cheaper PV deployment but also at a lower carbon footprint compared to silicon PV. Perovskite-based thin- film PV has reached record efficiencies of 26.95%\, approaching the silicon single-junction record of 27.81%.\n\nThe prospect of even more affordable PV technology will create new possibilities in emerging green and low-carbon markets.\n\nBiography:\nVera Steinmann is a trained physicist with a Ph.D. in organic photovoltaics from Cologne University in Germany. She developed emerging inorganic thin-film absorbers during her postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vera joined Kateeva (a Silicon Valley startup in the OLED display industry) in 2016\, and has been with First Solar since 2019\, working on emerging technologies. Vera has helped build and lead the internal perovskite team. Since 2022\, Vera leads the external R&D investment program.
UID:138901-21884218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138901
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251009T125103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T190000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CDI Community Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Caswell Diabetes Institute is bringing diabetes research and information to the community! Join us for the first talk of the series\, Diabetes 101: Understanding Causes\, Types\, and Hope for the Future.\n\nDuring this session\, we break down what diabetes is\, why it happens\, and how it affects our daily lives—no medical degree required. We’ll clarify the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes\, unpack common risk factors\, and explore the exciting ways University of Michigan experts are leading the way in prevention\, treatment\, and the search for a cure.\n\nPeter Arvan\, MD\, PhD\nProfessor of Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology\nUniversity of Michigan Medical School
UID:140487-21887216@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140487
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251015T084202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Samet Oymak\, Associate Professor\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk introduces recent theoretical advancements on the in-context learning (ICL) capability of sequence models\, focusing on the interplay of data characteristics\, architectural design\, and the associated learning algorithms. We discuss how diverse architectural designs—ranging from linear attention to state-space models to gating mechanisms—implicitly emulate optimization algorithms that operate on the context and draw connections to variations of gradient descent and expectation maximization. We elucidate the critical influence of data characteristics\, such as distributional alignment\, task correlation\, and the presence of unlabeled examples\, on ICL performance\, quantifying their benefits and revealing the mechanisms through which models leverage such information. Furthermore\, we will explore the optimization landscapes governing ICL\, establishing conditions for unique global minima and highlighting the architectural features (e.g.\, depth and dynamic gating) that enable sophisticated algorithmic emulation. As a central message\, we advocate that the power of architectural primitives can be gauged from their capability to handle in-context regression tasks with varying sophistication.
UID:140276-21886864@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250926T151636
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MDCB Seminar> Plant Immune Signaling
DESCRIPTION:Host: Ping He
UID:139944-21886386@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139944
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250912T123303
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T123000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:16th Annual Diane Baker Alumni Award & Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Kate Emery\, MS\, CGC\, is a licensed and certified genetic counselor and the Senior Clinical Program Manager of Genomics at Providence Health\, one of the largest community hospital networks in the US. Kate graduated from the UMGCP in 2015\, having previously earned her B.A. in Biology from the University of San Diego in 2013. She began her genetic counseling career in pediatric genetics and newborn screening before transitioning to her longstanding interest in cancer genetics\, where she provided genetic counseling and participated in multidisciplinary care for patients in Southern California. While in direct patient care\, Kate had the opportunity to develop and oversee screening protocols to identify and refer patients eligible for germline genetic testing at multiple points of care\, including during mammography encounters and from tumor molecular pathology. In 2021\, she moved into a research role at Providence\, coordinating the Genomic Medicine For Everyone (Geno4ME) study\, a pilot project involving research-based whole genome sequencing with a clinical return of results panel. \n\nKate now manages a portfolio of population-scale genetics programs that serve the entire seven-state Providence health system. These programs include inherited cancer and cardiovascular disease screening\, pharmacogenomics\, population sequencing\, and precision oncology initiatives. As part of Providence's Institute for Clinical Innovation\, she and her colleagues are also actively engaged in outcomes and health services research to drive clinical program improvement and innovation.\n\nKate is passionate about community healthcare and utilizing novel service delivery methods to ensure that high-quality genetics services and research opportunities are accessible to all patients. She draws on her background as a genetic counselor and her patient care experiences to maintain a compassionate\, patient-centered approach in her work within population health genetics.
UID:139269-21885218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139269
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall at Palmer Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251017T082434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251020T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tax Preferential Treatment of Residential Housing and Migration
DESCRIPTION:This paper evaluates how household location decisions are impacted by federal deductions of location-specific costs\, including state and local taxes and mortgage interest. When these expenses are tax deductible\, they reduce the after-tax cost differential in house prices and taxes across states and metropolitan areas. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) reduced the benefits of these deductions by increasing the standard deduction and capping state and local tax deductions at $10\,000. Using a difference-in-differences methodology that exploits variation in exposure to the TCJA and a panel of household residences\, I find that the reduction in deduction benefits increased the probability of high-income households moving to a different metropolitan area. Conditional on moving\, these households sought out lower-tax destinations.
UID:140762-21887584@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140762
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20251108T110935
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T100000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:On the geometric approach to the Painlevé equivalence problem
DESCRIPTION:We show how the techniques from the Okamoto-Sakai geometric theory of Painlevé equations can be used to solve the Painlevé equivalence\, i.e.\, how to recognize an equation as a Painlevé equation and find an explicit change of variables transforming it into some canonical form. We illustrate the geometric approach by considering two examples recently obtained by M. van der Put and J. Top in their study of a certain ansatz of isomonodromic deformations of linear ODEs. We provide explicit coordinate transformations identifying these examples with standard form of some Painlevé equations and also explicitly identify their Hamiltonians.
UID:140866-21887750@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140866
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T140614
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Homework in Climate Economics: Household Production\, Environmental Preferences\, and Climate Policy (with Hannah Rhodenhiser and David Lagakos)
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies emissions from household energy use\, which account for one third of U.S. emissions. We draw on a new survey to document that some households purchase energy-saving equipment because\, in addition to cutting energy costs\, they want to reduce emissions. We build a macro-environmental model in which emissions result from home production tasks involving either clean or dirty equipment\, and some households have distaste for their own emissions. We analyze the most cost-effective subsidy on clean equipment. We show that changes in households'  emissions distaste have similar effects on household emissions as a modest sized carbon tax.
UID:138105-21881973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138105
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251007T131929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and vasomotor symptoms among midlife women
DESCRIPTION:Zoom registration required https://myumi.ch/jJQRz\n\nM-LEEaD's 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\nRachael Brooks and Jiaxin Wu are doctoral students working with Dr. Sung Kyun Park in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Their research focuses on the potential impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on women's health\, particularly during midlife\, and explores the roles that social determinants may play in these associations.
UID:140391-21887022@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140391
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T102014
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251021T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry Seminar: Control theory\, subRiemannian geometry\, and variational principles
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will describe some partial solutions to open problems in subRiemannian geometry and in the 3-body problem.  Variational methods are central to both.  I will relate the problems to the ``control theoretic'' perspective.  I will  point out the (large) remaining parts of these problems which remain to be solved.
UID:140683-21887493@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140683
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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DTSTAMP:20250826T100527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frontier Knowledge in College and Student Success
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies the teaching of frontier knowledge in higher education and its impact on students. Using text analysis on 2 million course syllabi and 20 million academic articles\, we develop a measure called “frontier knowledge proximity\,” capturing how closely course content aligns with current scholarly research. We document significant variation in frontier knowledge proximity across courses\, even within the same institution\, and demonstrate that these differences substantially affect student outcomes. Linking syllabi to individual student records from Texas and leveraging unexpected syllabus updates\, we show that increases in proximity improves both educational outcomes (graduation\, major retention\, and graduate school enrollment) and earnings. Educational gains are notably larger among median-ability and lower-income students\, whereas earnings benefits disproportionately accrue to higher-ability and higher-income students. These findings indicate that frontier knowledge exposure can narrow socioeconomic disparities in education but remains complementary to students’ existing resources. We conclude by showing that instructors\, particularly research-active faculty\, are the main drivers of differences in frontier knowledge proximity
UID:136584-21878882@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250825T185257
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The nature of the Chinese firm: unincorporated joint stock companies in the Qing dynasty and Republican period
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UID:138131-21881989@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251008T085458
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Building Bridges – U.S. Fusion Energy Sciences Vision\, Strategy\, and Roadmap
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe U.S. Department of Energy’s vision\, strategy\, and ongoing roadmap development effort toward the accelerated development of fusion energy will be discussed. The presentation will cover a range of topics\, including the restructured Fusion Energy Sciences in the Office of Science (SC-FES) and its supporting programs\, public-private partnerships and new programs bridging science to supporting a fusion power industry in the U.S.\, and international collaborations. Emphasis will be placed on outlining key challenges and gaps being defined in the Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap under development by SC-FES in areas of materials\, internal components\, and fusion nuclear sciences.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Jean Paul Allain is the Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) in the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC). With an annual budget of approximately $800M\, Dr. Allain leads the FES with multiple areas including enabling and foundational burning plasma science including advanced tokamaks\, theoretical and simulations\, and long-pulse fusion plasmas. In addition\, FES supports research in fusion materials and nuclear science\, discovery plasma science and plasma technology\, high-energy density plasmas and inertial fusion energy. FES also supports the US participation in ITER and public-private partnerships. Prior to joining FES in July 2023\, Dr. Allain was Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He was associate head in the Department of Nuclear\, Plasma\, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, and associate professor at Purdue University. Dr. Allain led the Radiation Surface Science and Engineering Laboratory (RSSEL) conducting research in plasma-material interactions and authored over 350 peer-reviewed and proceedings papers in experimental and computational modeling work in particle and plasma-surface interactions with high-temperature materials in nuclear fusion\, plasma medicine and nanomaterials. Dr Allain was also Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow at UIUC with over 10 patents in advanced materials\, founder of Editekk Inc\, Energy Driven Technologies LLC\, and a Fulbright fellowship in tech innovation.\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:139873-21886260@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251020T122328
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Xinyue Liu\, Michigan State University
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\nXinyue Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021\, and her bachelor’s degree from Sichuan University in 2015. Her research group currently focuses on hydrogel materials and devices as the new paradigm to control mass transport and light transmission for biomedical and environmental applications. She was awarded Forbes Asia 30 Under 30\, MRS Graduate Student Award\, and Emerging Investigator in\nJMCB.\n\nDesigning soft materials is often a balancing act: when we make a material tougher\, we usually sacrifice other properties that are equally important. For example\, tough materials tend to scatter light and lose transparency\, or resist breakdown and become environmentally persistent. These trade-offs are not just academic curiosities\, but they limit progress in healthcare and sustainability technologies. In this talk\, I will share our efforts to rethink this challenge by building a toolbox that links molecular design\, network topology\, and multiscale structures in polymers. Using this approach\, we have\ndeveloped materials that are simultaneously tough and transparent for optical applications\, as well as materials that are tough yet still programmable to degrade on demand. Beyond these case studies\, I will show how this materials-by-design strategy opens a pathway to multifunctional soft matter systems that can adapt to biological environments\, assist in sustainable manufacturing\, and enable next-generation medical and environmental\ntechnologies.
UID:138624-21883503@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138624
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251015T091740
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The clock is ticking – why it’s time to engineer biorhythms in vitro\nAbstract:\nThe mechanistic study of pathophysiology and therapeutic action has long relied upon the use of engineered in vitro cell culture systems. These systems\, however\, lack the periodic fluctuations\, or biorhythms\, in the cellular microenvironment that effectively integrate “time” into these culture platforms by providing physiological inputs necessary for cellular synchronization and circadian rhythms. Given the central role that circadian rhythms play in health and disease\, this absence is puzzling. For example\, cardiovascular disease\, diabetes\, osteoarthritis\, and asthma\, are just a few diseases with known circadian rhythm effects. Moreover\, more than half of the top 100 selling drugs target the product of a circadian gene\, and multiple clinical trials have retrospectively shown the impact of time-of-day dosing on improved outcomes and increased patient lifespan. The underlying reason conventional systems largely do not integrate temporal dynamics in vitro is because they either require the use of poorly scalable external flow control systems or manual fluid exchanges. In this talk\, I will discuss my group’s research focusing on the development of microfluidic technologies to address the challenges of embedding time within scalable in vitro systems using microfluidic circuits. Additionally\, I will describe microfluidic systems we have developed for the scalable production of microgels for use in packed bed reactors that allow us to perform rhythmic fluidic exchanges in 3D tissue cultures.
UID:140721-21887529@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140721
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251001T122323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Industrial Ecology Perspectives on the Electric Vehicle Transition – October 23\, 2025 — Co-organized with the Center for Sustainable Systems
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Greg Keoliean\n\nAbstract:\nThe field of industrial ecology has long sought to understand the flows of resources and waste through our human-made systems and technologies\, often with some intention of anticipating and avoiding unintended consequences. This perspective is particularly relevant to decarbonization strategies\, where we have great urgency to change the technologies and operations of our energy and transport systems to meet climate targets\, but which require a life cycle perspective to understand their true capacity to reduce emissions and to understand their other environmental\, social or governance issues. In this talk I will discuss the use of life cycle assessment and material flow analysis for improving the transition to a decarbonized future with particular focus on electric vehicles and their batteries as a key\, but not complete\, solution for decarbonization of the transport sector.\n\nBiography:\nProf. Alissa Kendall holds a degree in Environmental Engineering from Duke University (B.S.E. 2000)\, and a PhD jointly conferred in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Policy from University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2007) for work conducted at the Center for Sustainable Systems. Prior to pursuing her graduate education\, she worked as an automotive product development engineer focusing on hybrid and electric vehicles. She joined UC Davis as an assistant professor in 2007 and is now the Ray B. Krone Endowed Professor of Environmental Engineering in the UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. During her time at UC Davis\, she co-founded and chaired the Energy Graduate Group\, an interdisciplinary Energy Systems degree program\, and created the graduate certificate in Industrial Ecology.\nAs an industrial ecology scholar\, her research focuses on understanding and reducing the environmental effects of many the key systems our modern world relies on including transport\, civil infrastructure\, and agriculture. She has authored and co-authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles\, and her research has been honored with several awards including the Laudis Medal from the International Society of Industrial Ecology\, UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow award\, and the UC Davis College of Engineering’s Mid-Career Research Award (2023).
UID:138903-21884219@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138903
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources  Building - 2315
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DTSTAMP:20251017T085642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Immigration\, Identity Choices\, and Cultural Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Does immigration challenge the identities and cultural diversity of receiving societies? This paper investigates this question by analyzing the impact of immigration on cultural diversity in Europe between 2004 and 2018. It combines regional cultural diversity indices derived from the European Social Survey with immigration shares from the European Labor Force Survey. The findings indicate that immigration increases the salience of birthplace along cultural lines and fosters a shift toward nativist identities and nationalism among the population. In response to the perceived challenge of cultural diversity\, natives increasingly align their norms and values with those of the broader native-identified population.
UID:138325-21882774@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251017T144859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T213000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 23 at 7:00 PM\nMichigan Theater - Screening Room\n603 E Liberty St\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48104. \n\nFilm | Documentary | NR | 1h 36m | 2025\n\nCracking the Code\, narrated by Mark Ruffalo\, is an inspiring story of vision\, perseverance\, and the power of science to change the world. Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution\, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.\n\nFeaturing a post-film Q&A with a panel presented by the University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine and U-M Innovation Partnerships\n\nPanelists include:\n\nDr. Amanda Garner - Charles Walgreen Jr Professor\, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director\, Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry\, College of Pharmacy\n\nDr. Muneesh Tewari - Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence M Sprague Memorial Research Professor\, Professor of Internal Medicine\, Associate Division Chief\, Basic Research\, Medical School and Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Medical School and College of Engineering\n\nDr. Nils Walter - Francis S Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry\, Biophysics and Biological Chemistry\, Professor of Chemistry\, Professor of Biophysics\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, Program Associate\, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Professor of Biological Chemistry\, Medical School\n\nKate Remus\, Senior Associate Director & Business Development Group Lead\, University of Michigan Innovation Partnerships\n\nAdditional panelists TBD\n\nSpecial offer for current U-M students!\nUse the promo code UMRNA to unlock the Complimentary Ticket option. Good for one ticket\, while supplies last. Must show current U-M Student ID for entry.
UID:139238-21885177@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139238
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater Main Screening Room
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DTSTAMP:20251020T152505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Investment\, Productivity\, and Selection in the U.S. Shale Boom
DESCRIPTION:Why was the U.S. shale oil and gas revolution so revolutionary? As the U.S. Energy Information Administration quipped in 2024\, ``the U.S. produces more crude oil than any country\, ever''. The current\, record\, rate of production has been achieved though increases in the industry's oil and gas production per well\, which have out-weighed a decrease in the drilling of new wells since the onset of the boom in 2010. This project asks how\, why\, and when the industry achieved these gains. Our primary focus\, at least for now\, is on decomposing the evolution of output per well into changes due to drilling site selection versus changes due to firms' adoption of improved technologies or fracking inputs. Site selection could be positive (better geologic locations are drilled first)\, negative (firms learn over time which locations are best)\, or some of both. We evaluate these possibilities by developing and estimating a joint model of oil production and drilling decisions. While the model is tailored to the shale oil and gas setting\, its core ideas are applicable to other settings in which the productive outcome of an investment is a function of both the investment's location and the investing firm's skill in executing the project\, conditional on location. The model uses local variation in land leasing difficulty as identifying variation that shifts the timing of firms' first well drilled in each location. And it accounts for firms' ability to learn from previously drilled wells' production realizations before deciding whether to drill additional wells in the same location. Using data from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota\, we find evidence of positive selection early in the boom and negative selection later\, but these effects are swamped by a large increase (~0.5 log points) in output per well that is driven by changes in firms' inputs and application of technology\, conditional on location. Most of this increase occurred shortly after the sharp fall in oil prices and drilling activity in late 2014\, consistent with ``slack time'' theories of innovation.
UID:138479-21883115@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138479
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251013T115409
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jing Lei\, Professor\, Department of Statistics & Data Science\, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Cross-validation is one of the most widely used tools for model quality assessment and comparison. When combined with appropriate notions of stability\, cross-validation can be adapted to solve many interesting inference problems. In this talk\, I will describe two examples. The first is a variant of cross-validation\, called \"rolling validation\,\" which can achieve superior model selection accuracy for batch data and is naturally extendable to online problems. The second is the construction of confidence sets in discrete population comparison or model selection problems.
UID:140278-21886866@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140278
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250926T154235
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MDCB Seminar> Mystery at the Membrane: Discovering Copper’s Entry Route into Bacteria and Other Copper Tales
DESCRIPTION:Host: Ariangela Kozik
UID:139946-21886391@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139946
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251021T082807
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Local cohomology modules supported at determinantal nullcones
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We will discuss the local cohomology modules supported at the nullcone ideal for the classical actions of the linear algebraic groups. We calculate the arithmetic rank of the nullcone ideals in every characteristic and establish sharp vanishing results for local cohomology modules supported at these ideals over any commutative Notherian ring which mirror the corresponding results for determinantal ideals. This is joint work with Jack Jeffries\, Anurag Singh\, and Uli Walther.
UID:140936-21887829@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140936
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH3088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251015T190808
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251027T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Impact of Privatization: Evidence from the Hospital Sector
DESCRIPTION:Government ownership in the U.S. hospital sector\, which accounts for 5.3% of U.S. GDP\, has steadily declined for decades.  A key driver has been the privatization of hospitals owned by local governments. Theory predicts that privatization will improve hospital profitability\, but may be socially inefficient. We test these predictions empirically by leveraging all 254 privatizations that occurred between 2001 and 2018. Privatization increases hospital profitability\,  eliminating the need for subsidies. However\, we also find a reduction in access for Medicaid patients and an increase in mortality among elderly Medicare patients. On average\, privatization generates $0.6 million in savings per additional death.
UID:140763-21887585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251022T001648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Time-Varying Risk Premia and Heterogeneous Labor Market Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Using U.S. administrative data on worker earnings\, we show that increases in risk premia lead to lower labor earnings\, particularly for lower-paid workers. These declines are primarily driven by job separations. We build an equilibrium model of labor market search that quantitatively replicates the observed heterogeneity in labor market dynamics across worker earnings levels. Our findings underscore the role of time-varying risk premia as a key driver of labor market fluctuations and highlight the importance of both the job creation and the job destruction margins in understanding the heterogeneity in worker outcomes over the business cycle.
UID:138106-21881974@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138106
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251022T003435
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T142000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Incentive Design with Spillovers
DESCRIPTION:A principal uses payments conditioned on stochastic outcomes of a team project to elicit costly effort from the team members. We develop a multi-agent generalization of a classic first-order approach to contract optimization by leveraging methods from network games. The main results characterize the optimal allocation of incentive pay across agents and outcomes. Incentive optimality requires equalizing\, across agents\, a product of (i) individual productivity (ii) organizational centrality and (iii) responsiveness to monetary incentives.
UID:138508-21883146@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138508
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250825T185551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Wars\, Veterans\, and Innovation in Assistive Technologies
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UID:138132-21881990@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138132
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251021T131311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jeff Fessler\, William L. Root Distinguished University Professor\, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Diffusion models can learn strong image priors and use them to solve inverse problems. However\, standard methods come with many challenges in medical and scientific applications: they are computationally expensive\, they require lots of training data\, and they may not be robust to distribution shifts between the training data and the test data. This talk will describe methods for tackling these challenges\, focusing on medical imaging inverse problems like MRI and low-dose Xray CT image reconstruction. Work with Jason Hu\, Bowen Song\, Xiaojian Xu and Liyue Shen.
UID:140282-21886869@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140282
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250827T160735
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor Seminar: Wednesday\, October 29
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:138294-21882724@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138294
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251009T171142
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Surgical Ergonomic Challenges of Microsurgery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk with Dr. Kris Chrouser\, Professor of Urology and the S. Matthew Berge Research Professor at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor. Dr. Chrouser’s work focuses on improving surgeon performance\, teamwork\, and well-being in the operating room. In this session\, she’ll discuss the often-overlooked ergonomic challenges surgeons face\, how operating room design impacts surgeon health\, and what can be done to reduce musculoskeletal pain and improve surgical careers.
UID:140504-21887247@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140504
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251029T203606
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Intelligent and Accessible Sensing and Neurotechnology Platforms for Next-Generation Medicine\nAbstract:\nDespite major advances in consumer electronics such as smartphones\, modern healthcare systems still lag behind in accessibility\, sophistication\, and data integration. For much of the global population\, medical and their analytical tools remain far less advanced than the technologies used in daily life. To bridge this gap between everyday devices and medical innovation\, my research centers on three major themes: First\, I will present the development of a low-cost\, point-of-care automated diagnostic platform that enables multiplexed biochemical testing with an order-of-magnitude reduction in cost compared to currently available commercial platforms. Second\, I will discuss machine learning-enhanced biosensing for cancer diagnostics\, where our recent work demonstrates thousand-fold precision improvements through full-spectrum and multi-resonance modeling compared to conventional one-dimensional fittings. Finally\, I will introduce hybrid dynamic optogenetic–electrophysiology neural interfaces\, combining metasurface-based beam steering with minimally invasive carbon-fiber arrays for adaptive and chronic closed-loop neuromodulation.
UID:140768-21887593@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251029T084321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CANCELLED: IES Energy Seminar Series - AI-Based Analytics and Energy Modeling Frameworks for Characterizing Urban Energy Systems
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This seminar is cancelled until further notice. We have received notice that Rawad El Kontar will not be able to travel for the 10/30 seminar due to the government shutdown. We intend to reschedule Rawad’s seminar for a later date. Thank you for your understanding!\n\nHosted by Raed Al Kontar \n\nAbstract:\nUrban energy systems are growing in complexity as they respond to the challenges of planning location-specific energy transitions. However\, current modeling approaches often fail to capture the physical\, behavioral\, and systemic diversity required for effective localized planning and decision-making.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present integrated frameworks that combine bottom-up physics-based modeling with AI-driven analytics for characterizing urban energy systems. I will first show how the URBANopt platform has developed capabilities that enable coordinated analysis and co-design across buildings\, DERs\, and the grid. I will then discuss an AI-driven framework that automates input generation and supports dynamic scenario exploration.\n\nThese capabilities transform urban energy system planning by reducing the labor required for model generation\, scaling scenario exploration\, and improving accuracy for localized analysis. Together\, they form a scalable and adaptable framework that provides stakeholders with actionable insights for planning reliable and efficient energy transitions.\n\nBiography:\nDr. Rawad El Kontar is a Senior Research Engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He is the lead developer of URBANopt\, DOE’s open-source urban energy modeling platform\, and the creator of the Urban Systems Generator\, an AI-driven framework that automates building-level data completion and scenario generation for city-scale energy modeling. With a multidisciplinary background spanning architecture\, building science\, and data science\, Rawad develops analytics and software platforms that integrate machine learning\, AI\, and energy simulation to accelerate the co-design and optimization of buildings\, distributed energy resources (DERs)\, and grid systems. His work supports stakeholders in advancing reliable and efficient energy.
UID:138904-21884221@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138904
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251029T214540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Impact of Large Loans on Microenterprises and their Customers
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:138326-21882775@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138326
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250926T160559
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MDCB Seminar> SPRINGing off the lock: chaperone-mediated activation of proteases in homeostatic pathways
DESCRIPTION:Host: Ming Li
UID:139950-21886399@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251024T135432
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Human Trust and Performance in AI-Assisted Decision-Making: From Healthcare Applications to Theoretical Foundations
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Abstract:\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into safety-critical domains\, offering benefits but also introducing challenges in human-AI interaction. Jinyong’s research examines human trust and performance in AI-assisted decision-making under uncertainty\, with healthcare as a primary application. In this seminar\, Jinyong will present collaborative work with pharmacists\, examining how communicating AI uncertainty information influences trust and performance in medication verification. Expanding this applied research\, Jinyong developed a theoretical human-AI error categorization framework that moves beyond binary decision frameworks to capture complex\, multi-class AI error patterns. Together\, these studies advance both the theoretical understanding and practical guidance for designing trustworthy\, human-centered AI systems.\n\nPresenter Bio:\nJinyong Kim is a PhD Candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan\, advised by Dr. Jessie Yang. His research is centered on human trust and performance in AI-assisted decision-making\, with a primary application in healthcare. He aims to extend this agenda to guide the design of AI that supports safe decision-making. Jinyong contributes to the IOE community through service on the Graduate Application Mentoring Program (GAMP) planning committee\, the IOE Community Engagement committee\, and the IOE Student Leadership Board.
UID:141093-21888126@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141093
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251103T112825
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Late-time tails and nonlinear Price's law for semilinear wave equations in 3-D
DESCRIPTION:I will present sharp late-time pointwise asymptotics for semilinear wave equations with power nonlinearities on stationary\, asymptotically flat spacetimes (including black hole exteriors). Under standard spectral and local energy decay hypotheses for perturbations of black-hole backgrounds\, we show a clean dichotomy: cubic nonlinearities generate a nonlinear t^{-2} tail with an explicit coefficient\, while for powers p \ge 4 the linear Price's law t^{-3} decay holds with a modified coefficient\; in both regimes we identify the leading term throughout the forward causal domain via a blend of radiation-field methods and low-energy resolvent analysis. Joint work with Haoren Xiong.
UID:141352-21888670@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141352
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251015T192217
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251103T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Never-Realized Capital Gains
DESCRIPTION:--
UID:140764-21887588@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140764
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T074849
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How Monetary Policy Redistributes (joint with Marcus Hagedorn\, Iourii Manovskii\, and Kurt Mitman)
DESCRIPTION:This paper develops a novel methodology to measure the redistributive effects of monetary policy. In addition to pure measurement\, our methodology provides an assessment of whether and how much the redistributive effects of monetary policy matter for the aggregate effects of monetary policy. We apply our methodology to measure the redistribution between different groups in the U.S. economy\, based on labor and asset income\, age\, gender and race. We find that the redistribution across such demographic groups induced by monetary policy is large in the data.
UID:138107-21881975@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251027T134645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T125000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:A Double Hit to Health: Mixture Effects of Early-Life Heavy Metal and Psychosocial Exposures on Health Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Sara Stein\, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor\, Health Behavior & Health Equity\, University of Michigan School of Public Health\; and an M-LEEaD Scientist.\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. We hope you can join us!\n\nM-LEEaD is the University of Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center.\n\nRegistration required.\nhttps://myumi.ch/bV13W
UID:141185-21888309@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141185
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250825T185823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Broke\, But Not Out Of Luck: Bankruptcy Regulation and Economic Activity
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UID:138133-21881991@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138133
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T090033
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251104T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Colloquium: Matthew Ballard- Trust and Proof in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: For most of its history\, mathematics has been informal: proofs are written in natural language to convince human experts. This process has served us well -- but as AI begins to generate persuasive mathematical text\, it becomes harder to tell genuine insight from convincing error.\n\nFormal verification offers a foundation for trust. These tools\, first built for verifying hardware and software\, now reach deep into research mathematics through projects like Mathlib.\n\nFormalization and AI together hold great promise for mathematicians: verified automation of routine reasoning\, new connections between disparate areas\, and trustworthy collaboration and exploration. I will outline the current state and discuss ongoing efforts to help realize this vision.\n\nBio: Matthew Robert Ballard is Professor of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina and Associate Director at the Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics. A Fellow of the American Mathematical Society\, Ballard is also a maintainer of Mathlib\, the library of formalized mathematics in Lean. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2008.
UID:141218-21888411@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141218
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251022T003009
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gendered Spheres of Learning and Household Decision-Making over Fertility
DESCRIPTION:While men and women make joint decisions about fertility\, women give birth and are more likely to learn about a significant cost of childbearing—maternal health risk. Within couples in Zambia\, men have systematically lower awareness of maternal risk factors and higher desire for children than their wives. We develop a model in which information asymmetries between partners over maternal health risk can persist in equilibrium as the result of strategic incentives and can generate disagreement over fertility that cannot be resolved with transfers. To study the effect of communication barriers on fertility\, we design an experiment that varies whether the husband or the wife receives information about maternal health risk. One year after the intervention\, men told about such risk exhibit significant gains in knowledge\, report lower demand for children\, and communicate this information to their wives\, who also update their beliefs. Pregnancy falls significantly\, while transfers remain unchanged relative to the control group. Meanwhile\, when women are told about risk\, they update their beliefs\, but are unable to transmit the information to their husbands\, who do not change their demand for children. While pregnancy also falls among these couples\, the decline is accompanied by a significant reduction in transfers and support to the wife. When childbearing costs\, particularly those borne by one party\, cannot be easily communicated within the household\, targeting information can help overcome asymmetries and improve household decision-making.
UID:136583-21878881@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136583
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250716T150004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Plasma Physics Modeling and Simulations of Electric Propulsion Over the Last Two Decades at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe first ion engines were launched into orbit in the 1960s but it was not until the 1990s that their commercial use began in the U.S.\, followed by the first NASA flight on Deep Space 1 in 1998. Hall thrusters (HTs) followed a similarly long trajectory from the lab to deep-space flight. Since the 1970s thousands of HTs have flown in near-Earth orbit\, yet it was not until NASA’s Psyche mission in 2023 that HTs were used as primary propulsion beyond lunar orbit. Two challenges contributed to this protracted path. First\, HTs are low-thrust\, high-exhaust-speed devices that achieve large ΔVs but must operate for years in space. Flight qualification in vacuum facilities can be prohibitively costly and time-consuming. Challenges in qualifying a technology by test alone are not unique to electric propulsion (EP). Certification of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile now relies on physics-based modeling and simulations (M&S) requiring large investments. The second challenge is that investment in M&S for EP has been limited. Their inherently complex physics prohibited the advancement of first-principles M&S tools to a level that could make major impact on development. Instead\, technology advancement depended largely on empirical scaling and laboratory testing. A focused effort on physics-based M&S began in the 2000’s in the EP Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In this presentation I will highlight achievements made at JPL in the M&S of plasmas in EP\, and discuss their impact on development\, maturation and flight qualification of EP for NASA deep-space missions.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Ioannis (Yiangos) G. Mikellides is a Senior Research Scientist and Principal Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University. In over three decades his theoretical investigations of applied plasma physics\, supported by extensive numerical simulation\, have spanned applications as diverse as high-pressure discharge chambers and hypersonic nozzles\, ablative thrusters\, magnetic nozzles in fusion propulsion\, MHD shocks\, rarefied EP plumes and astrophysical plasmas. He has developed OrCa2D and Hall2De\, two novel scientific plasma codes that have been supporting the qualification of hollow cathodes and HTs for NASA’s EP missions since he joined JPL in 2003. Hall2De has also been licensed to various institutions of government\, academia and the private sector nationwide. His theoretical work has led to notable advances in our understanding of EP plasmas such as the prediction of ion acoustic turbulence in cathode discharges and the development of the first principles of magnetic shielding in HTs. He has published more than 60 refereed articles in aerospace engineering\, applied physics\, planetary/space sciences and astrophysics journals\, and co-authored the 2023 book “Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion”. He is a Fellow of the AIAA and the recipient of multiple recognitions including the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal and the JPL Lew Allen and Edward Stone Awards.\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:136478-21878768@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136478
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250905T090354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Genuinely Robust Inference for Clustered Data
DESCRIPTION:Conventional methods for cluster-robust inference are inconsistent when clusters of unignorably large size are present. We formalize this issue by deriving a necessary and sufficient condition for consistency\, a condition frequently violated in empirical studies. Specifically\, 77% of empirical research articles published in American Economic Review and Econometrica during 2020–2021 do not satisfy this condition. To address this limitation\, we propose two alternative approaches: (i) score subsampling and (ii) sizeadjusted reweighting. Both methods ensure uniform size control across broad classes of data-generating processes where conventional methods fail. The first approach (i) has the advantage of ensuring robustness while retaining the original estimator. The second approach (ii) modifies the estimator but is readily implementable by practitioners using statistical software such as Stata and remains uniformly valid even when the cluster size distribution follows Zipf’s law. Extensive simulation studies support our findings\, demonstrating the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
UID:138144-21882401@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138144
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251029T205843
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 - Dr. Chandra Sripada
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Chandra Sripada\, Theophile Raphael Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Michigan\, for a seminar exploring the neuroscience of executive functions—the brain’s abilities to think\, reason\, plan\, and regulate behavior. Drawing on recent advances in computational cognitive science and neuroscience\, Dr. Sripada will examine how new understandings of these mechanisms shed light on both healthy and disordered cognition. He will also discuss emerging opportunities for applying these insights to operations engineering\, highlighting how knowledge of executive function can inform models of decision-making\, planning\, and performance in complex systems.
UID:141216-21888403@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141216
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251001T123034
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - The Social Impacts of Energo-Waste
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this paper\, my co-author Sisty Basil and I explore the social impacts of energy-related detritus\, what we call “energo-waste\,” from failed or outmoded energy projects in rural Tanzania. The problem of electronic waste (e-waste) has captured public and scholarly attention\, especially in sites like Agbogbloshie in Accra\, Ghana with its dystopian vista of discarded computers\, televisions and other electronic trash. Energo-waste creates similar yet different problems and takes many different forms. Some can easily be classified as e-waste\, such as solar lanterns that no longer provide light\, power banks that no longer provide back-up power for mobile phones\, or batteries for solar panels that no longer store energy. These can accumulate in the corners of rooms or in trash pits behind homes to be buried or burned\, leaving a negative environmental impact either way. Others continue to mark landscapes with their presence: windmills and solar mini-grids that no longer produce power\, electric poles that no longer transmit or distribute power\, mini hydro projects decommissioned for being financially unviable. Far less obvious forms of energo-waste include the tens of thousands of acres appropriated from rural smallholders and transferred to foreign companies for the purpose of growing jatropha\, a crop once hailed as a clean biodiesel option but which quickly fell out of favor leaving large-scale land acquisitions sitting idle\; or the tens of thousands of acres of forest sequestered for carbon offset projects (REDD+) that similarly deprived local communities of their use but are now labeled “another failed conservation fad.” Drawing on long-term community-engaged work\, participant observation and interview data\, we ask: What are the social impacts of and responses to energo-waste? What harms and/or benefits does it produce\, and for whom\, both in the present and for the future?\n\nBiography:\nKelly Askew is the Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. Current research projects and publications focus on rural water and energy access\, postsocialist poetics\, pastoralism\, Indigenous political movements\, and land rights in Tanzania. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
UID:138905-21884222@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138905
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251030T122624
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Evolution in Space: Incorporating Geography into Statistical Methods for Population Genetics
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - One of the fundamental goals of evolutionary biology is to quantify patterns of genetic diversity between populations and study the processes that shape them. However\, the development of key statistical methods in population genetics lags behind the generation of datasets that require them for analysis. In particular\, methods for studying population history\, structure\, admixture\, demography\, and selection in continuous space are still lacking\, leading to a gap in our ability to answer basic questions in evolutionary biology. This talk will celebrate Dr. Bradburd's promotion to tenure (woohoo!) and present several vignettes on how geography can be incorporated into population genetics to better understand the processes generating the diversity of life.
UID:137281-21880021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137281
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20251119T082125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T110000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Linjun Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Statistics\, Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly gaining enormous popularity in recent years. However\, the training of LLMs has raised significant privacy and legal concerns\, particularly regarding the inclusion of copyrighted materials in their training data without proper attribution or licensing\, which falls under the broader issue of data misappropriation. In this article\, we focus on a specific problem of data misappropriation detection\, namely\, to determine whether a given LLM has incorporated data generated by another LLM. To address this issue\, we propose embedding watermarks into the copyrighted training data and formulating the detection of data misappropriation as a hypothesis testing problem. We develop a general statistical testing framework\, construct a pivotal statistic\, determine the optimal rejection threshold\, and explicitly control the type I and type II errors. Furthermore\, we establish the asymptotic optimality properties of the proposed tests\, and demonstrate its empirical effectiveness through intensive numerical experiments.
UID:141339-21888653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141339
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20251017T091336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MDCB Seminar> How cell lifecycles drive adaptive organ states
DESCRIPTION:Host: Tyler Huycke
UID:140810-21887680@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140810
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20251030T150527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Roadblocks to Organizational Change: Managing Knowing and the Production of Ignorance in Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Raising awareness and closing information gaps are seen as critical for organizational change. However\, this process is far from straightforward. Research on denial and ignorance has begun to highlight the tactics and everyday practices that enable distancing\, ignoring\, and evasion\, uncovering the ways fields\, organizations\, and individuals continually – and often creatively – arrive at not-knowing. Despite being pervasive and socially consequential\, ignorance is understudied. Leveraging in-depth interviews and observations of participants in a women’s leadership development program at a large non-profit organization over a three-year period\, we outline a new theoretical approach for understanding how not-knowing is produced and sustained. In this talk\, we share insights into ‘managing knowing\,’ or how relevant but unwelcome\, uncomfortable\, or problematic information is not attended to\, actively ignored\, and kept out of mind. Through the framework of ‘managing knowing\,’ we illuminate a hard-to-see barrier that can prevent organizational members from seeing and responding to difficult issues and stymies organizational change.
UID:139864-21886182@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139864
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210
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DTSTAMP:20251029T080603
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Auctions as Experiments (with Ryota Iijima\, Yuhta Ishii\, and Nicholas Wu)
DESCRIPTION:We study a seller who does not know the distribution of buyers’ values\, but can learn from observing their bids in an auction. Which auction formats provide better information about the value distribution? We show that among a large class of standard auctions (e.g.\, kth-price\, all-pay)\, the first-price auction is (Lehmann) most informative. Thus\, while all these auction formats yield the same expected static revenue\, the first-price auction is preferred by a seller who can use today’s bid observations to optimize revenue tomorrow.
UID:138509-21883147@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138509
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251106T140954
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, November 10th at 11am in ABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB. Please distribute.\n--\n \nSeminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, November 10\, 2025\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB\n \nRonald Wek\, PhD\nShowalter Professor of Biochemistry\, Molecular Biology\, and Pharmacology\; Indiana University School of Medicine \n“Integrated Stress Response in Health and Disease”\n \nHosted By: Noah Helton\, Department of Human Genetics
UID:141595-21889068@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141595
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20251104T141037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Quantifying the Real-World Impacts of Vehicle Electrification :  From Passenger Cars to Transit Buses
DESCRIPTION:Electrification is transforming road transport\, yet its impacts and benefits vary widely across vehicle types\, use cases\, and regional conditions. This talk will provide an overview of our ongoing research quantifying the environmental and operational implications of vehicle electrification across different segments. We examine how electric passenger cars\, delivery vans\, and transit buses differ in their energy use\, emissions\, and cost trajectories using a combination of data-driven modeling\, optimization\, and system analysis. Example studies I will introduce in this talk include regional life cycle emissions assessment for passenger cars\, real-world energy consumption prediction for delivery fleets\, and transition planning for clean bus networks using a multi-stage stochastic optimization model . Together\, these studies demonstrate how analytical and data-driven methods can help us investigate vehicle performance\, fleet operations\, and system-level emissions outcomes\, providing actionable insights.\n---\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Tuğçe Yüksel is an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University\, Istanbul\, Turkey. She earned her B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2010) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University\, Turkey. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 as a member of Vehicle Electrification Group and Design Decisions Laboratory. Her research focuses on evaluating the performance\, cost and environmental benefits of technology and operation conditions in vehicle electrification.
UID:141499-21888933@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141499
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - Room 139
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DTSTAMP:20251029T080703
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251110T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Global Working Hours (joint with Emmanuel Saez)
DESCRIPTION:This paper uses labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97% of the world population in cross section. We also construct time series spanning over 20 years in 86 countries. Hours worked per adult are slightly bell-shaped with GDP per capita but weakly correlated with development overall. Hours worked by the young (aged 15-19) and elderly (aged 60+) decline with development\, driven by growing school attendance and public pension coverage. Hours worked among prime-age adults (aged 20-59) are mildly bell-shaped with development for men while they are increasing for women. The fall in male hours in middle-to-higher income countries is driven by reduced hours per worker and is offset by increases in female labor force participation. These two forces have exactly compensated each other in many countries\, leading to a remarkable long-run stability of prime-age hours worked. Labor taxes are strongly negatively correlated with prime-age hours worked both in international comparisons and overtime within countries. Controlling for government transfers only partly reduces the link between labor taxes and prime-age hours\, ruling out substitution and income effects on labor supply as the only driver. Controlling for working hours regulations and the size of the formal sector eliminates this link\, suggesting that regulations also play a large role in reducing intensive hours in higher-income countries.
UID:141222-21888414@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141222
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251108T110941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T100000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The partition function of β-ensembles with complex potentials
DESCRIPTION:The asymptotic behaviour of the partition function is one of the central questions of statistical mechanics. In our work we consider this problem when the external potential is complex valued and for a particular statistical-mechanical model\, a β-ensemble. We prove a full 1/N expansion of the logarithm of the partition function\, the so-called free energy. Our method can be regarded as an infinite dimensional version of the method of steepest descent for contour integrals. This is joint work with A. Guionnet and K. Kozlowski.
UID:141676-21889170@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141676
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251029T081114
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pricing Inequality
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies household inequality and product market power in dynamic\, general equilibrium. In our model\, households’ price elasticities of demand endogenously vary with wealth. Heterogeneous firms set their price as oligopolistic competitors given the endogenous distribution of demand. A firm’s market power varies with the distribution of demand as households with different elasticities sort into high- and low-price varieties. Under standard preferences\, larger firms’ products are more appealing\, sell at higher prices\, to more households\, and a relatively richer customer base\, face less elastic demand\, and set higher markups. Quantitatively (a) our model rationalizes a wide set of recent empirical studies in the cross-section of households and firms\, (b) we find household heterogeneity to be a dominant source of markup variation across firms\, and (c) a one-time fiscal transfer of one percent of GDP to households leads to a 0.3 percentage point increase in the aggregate markup.
UID:138110-21881976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138110
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251107T110531
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Learning and Living with Wildfire Smoke: Creating Clean Air Environments through Youth Participatory Action Research
DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/A1eQZ\n\nPlease join us on Zoom for a Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks at 12' webinar on environment\, health and community\, organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD.\n\nSpeakers include: Savannah D’Evelyn\, PhD (University of Colorado Denver) and Callum Orr (Grand Junction High School\, Grand Junction\, CO).\nModerated by Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn).
UID:141632-21889116@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141632
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251024T114212
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:YOLOgraphy: A New Way to Extract 3D Kinematic Information from 2D Images
DESCRIPTION:This talk summarizes our recent efforts in extracting high-precision motion information from camera images. We present our methodology which is developed to extract 3D vehicle kinematic information from roadside cameras using deep learning. Ground truth data are collected with the help of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in terms of top view bounding boxes\, providing vehicle position\, size\, orientation\, and velocity information with high precision. These can be converted to roadside view bounding boxes using homography transformation. The ground truth data and the roadside view images are used to train a modified YOLO neural network\, and thus\, to learn the homography transformation matrix. The output of the neural network is high-precision vehicle kinematic information which can be visualized in both the top view and the roadside view. Once the neural network is trained\, only the roadside cameras are needed to extract the kinematic information.\n\nMore on this research: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/research/u-m/generating-high-accuracy-transportation-datasets-with-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/\n---\nAbout the speaker: Gabor Orosz received an MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the Budapest University of Technology\, Hungary\, in 2002\, and a PhD degree in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol\, UK\, in 2006. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Exeter\, UK\, and at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In 2010\, he joined the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor where he is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. From 2017 to 2018 he was a Visiting Professor in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. In 2022 he was a Distinguished Guest Researcher in Applied Mechanics at the Budapest University of Technology and from 2023 to 2024 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the same institution. He served as an associate editor for Transportation Research Part C from 2018 to 2023. He has been serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology since 2021\, and for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2022. He served as the general chair for the 17th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay System and for the 3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles\, Connected and Automated Vehicles. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and control\, time delay systems\, machine learning and data-driven systems\, with applications to connected and automated vehicles\, and traffic flow.
UID:141089-21888122@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141089
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - 139
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DTSTAMP:20250825T190131
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic History Seminar: Tuesday\, November 11
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UID:138134-21881992@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138134
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20250829T121632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Innovations often combine several components to achieve outcomes greater than the “sum of the parts.” We argue that such combination innovations can introduce an understudied inefficiency—a positive market expansion externality that benefits the owners of the components. We demonstrate the importance of this externality in the market for pharmaceutical cancer treatments\, where drug combination therapies have proven highly effective. Using data on clinical trial investments\, we document several facts consistent with inefficiently low private innovation: firms are less likely than publicly funded researchers to trial combinations\, firms are less likely to trial combinations including other firms’ drugs than those including their own drugs\, and firms often wait to trial combinations including other firms’ drugs until those drugs experience generic entry. Using microdata on drug prices and utilization\, we quantify the externalities that arise from new combinations and find that the market expansion externality often dominates the standard negative business stealing externality\, suggesting too little innovation in combination therapies. As a result\, firms may have incentives to free ride off others’ innovation\, which we analyze with a dynamic structural model of innovation decisions. We use the model to design cost-effective policies that advance combination innovation. Redirecting publicly funded innovation toward combinations with high predicted market expansion or consumer surplus spillovers minimizes crowd out of private investments\, increasing the rate of combination innovation and total welfare while remaining budget neutral.
UID:138480-21883116@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138480
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20251112T094900
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mathematics Undergraduate Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Typically\, Brownian Motion is constructed from the set of continuous functions from [0\, \infty) into \mathbb{R}. However\, can we modify Brownian Motion such that we can construct it from the set of all paths in \mathbb{R} rather than the continuous ones? In this talk\, we will explore this notion\, along with other concepts in stochastic analysis.
UID:141800-21889376@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141800
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 2851, Nesbitt Room
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DTSTAMP:20260107T161837
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MPSDS / JPSM Seminar Series: Achieving Fairness in AI with Synthetic Data
DESCRIPTION:MPSDS / JPSM Seminar Series\nMPSDS M3 Series: Mastery\, Methodology\, Meetups\n\nIn person\, room 1070\, Institute for Social Research and via Zoom. \nThe Zoom call be be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation. \nPlease note that many of the links have changed.\n\nAchieving Fairness in AI with Synthetic Data\nArtificial intelligence and machine learning increasingly inform decisions in hiring\, lending\, healthcare\, and justice. Yet real-world datasets often encode historical bias\, and models trained on them can reproduce or amplify inequities. Pre-processing via fair synthetic data is a promising: if we can generate data that mitigates bias at the source while preserving signal\, downstream models can be both fair and useful. This talk introduces FDA (Fair synthetic data via Data Augmentation)\, a statistically principled framework that makes the fairness–faithfulness trade-off explicit and controllable. FDA jointly models a fair submodel and a faithful submodel\, coupled by a single parameter $\alpha \in [0\,1]$ that quantifies the fraction of bias removed. We prove clear operating points: $\alpha=0$ yields maximal fairness (with larger deviation from the original distribution)\, $\alpha=1$ recovers the original data in probability (hence in distribution)\, and intermediate $\alpha$ values guarantee calibrated compromises with interpretable bounds. Practically\, FDA samples directly from simple predictive distributions\, avoiding heavy black-box training. We further provide theory connecting FDA’s $\alpha$ to fairness of downstream models. Together\, these results deliver a transparent\, efficient\, and deployable path to generating fair synthetic data without sacrificing essential statistical structure.\n\nDr. Bei Jiang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta\, a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)\, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 2014\, followed by a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Biostatistics at Columbia University (2014–2015)\, before joining the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Dr. Jiang has authored more than 50 journal articles—including in the Annals of Statistics\, Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Machine Learning Research and over 20 peer-reviewed conference papers at venues such as NeurIPS\, ICML\, ICLR\, and AAAI. Her research focuses on Bayesian hierarchical modeling\, statistical learning methods that advance privacy and fairness\, and federated statistical inference. Dr. Jiang has an extensive record of service to the statistical community. She is currently serving on the SSC Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion Committee\, the CANSSI Showcase Organizing Committee\, the Committee of the COPSS Presidents’ Award\, and the JSM 2026 Program Committee. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Jiang is the 2025 recipient of the COPSS Emerging Leaders Award\, recognizing early-career statistical scientists whose leadership and scholarship are shaping the field.
UID:141461-21888827@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141461
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 1070, Institute for Social Research
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DTSTAMP:20251106T131550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251112T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Diversity Paradox: Evidence from College Coeducation
DESCRIPTION:How novel ideas are adopted and recognized is crucial to scientific progress\, but not all ideas from all groups are equally recognized. This paper studies whether and how increasing gender diversity at universities may lead to greater inclusion and recognition of research traditionally associated with women. Leveraging the transitions to coeducation of 88 all-male universities and novel text-based measures of research content\, we show that coeducation led to overall modest shifts toward female-associated research. This aggregate effect masks substantial heterogeneity across fields: in disciplines with higher early female representation\, we observe a pronounced increase in female-associated research driven by both existing faculty and new entrants. Male-dominated fields\, by contrast\, exhibit little change or even declines in female-associated research\, primarily due to changes in hiring practices. These findings highlight that while diversity can foster innovation\, its effects may only be concentrated in areas already receptive to the new perspectives.
UID:138295-21882726@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138295
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251015T151134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 - Dr. Daniel Freund
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Daniel Freund\, Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management\, for a seminar examining how scheduling policies shape efficiency and fairness in the U.S. asylum system. Drawing on recent collaborative work\, Dr. Freund will explore the operational dynamics of immigration court dockets and asylum interview scheduling—highlighting how nontraditional approaches like LIFO and the Dedicated Docket influence case outcomes\, processing times\, and equity in decision-making.
UID:140741-21887556@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140741
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20251103T114457
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:When the Air We Breathe Ages Our Arteries: Mechanisms of Vascular Injury from Fire Smoke Inhalation\nAbstract:\nCardiovascular aging reflects the gradual loss of vascular compliance and serves as a powerful indicator of overall cardiovascular health. Hallmarks of this process include inflammation\, oxidative stress\, endothelial dysfunction\, and aortic stiffening\, all of which compromise the ability of large arteries to regulate blood flow and pressure\, increasing susceptibility to disease. Our research program seeks to uncover the molecular mechanisms that drive these functional shifts and to determine how environmental stressors accelerate vascular aging. In this seminar\, I will first highlight recent findings from our work mapping the trajectory of aortic aging in mice. Using single-cell transcriptomics and mechanical testing\, we identified immune cell accumulation\, extracellular matrix remodeling\, and altered Piezo-1 signaling as key processes that increase aortic stiffness with age. I will then discuss how chronic exposure to wildfire smoke\, an increasingly common environmental hazard\, can recapitulate age-associated vascular maladaptation. Through a mouse model scaled to the exposure of wildland firefighters\, we demonstrated that repeated inhalation of Douglas Fir smoke induces inflammation\, oxidative and nitrosative stress\, endothelial dysfunction\, and fibrotic remodeling of the aortic wall\, leading to vascular stiffening and elevated blood pressure. Collectively\, these studies frame vascular aging as a unifying lens through which to understand the cardiovascular consequences of environmental exposures and highlight pathways that may guide future prevention and intervention strategies.
UID:141406-21888772@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141406
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20251021T090113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series -  Democratizing Access to Power Grid Data and Models
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Power grid operations have been profoundly influenced by innovations in data analytics\, optimization\, and control — all thriving on the availability of power grid data and models. However\, as power grids contain much proprietary data and increasingly become targets of cyberattacks\, releasing information from power systems now requires carefully balancing grid transparency\, data owner privacy\, and security objectives. The last two are often prioritized by conservative grid operators at the expense of the former. How can we systematically balance grid transparency with the privacy and cyber resilience of power systems?\n\nIn this talk\, I will provide algorithmic answers to this question that quantify and control information disclosures from power systems while ensuring that the source system and its actors are not exposed to cyber and privacy risks. They are based on the fusion of power grid engineering\, operations research\, differential privacy\, and diffusion models\, various combinations of which enable controllable data disclosures in various contexts. Our solutions aim to set new standards for trustworthy data sharing in the power systems industry\, enabling frequent and targeted data sharing\, creating new opportunities for third-party analytics\, and enabling public oversight of grid and market operations.\n\nBio: Vladimir Dvorkin is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative and LIDS from 2021–2023\, and as a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 2021. His research focuses on power systems design\, operation\, and control\, viewed through the lenses of optimization and machine learning\, energy economics\, and algorithmic data privacy. His work has received numerous recognitions\, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship\, the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Best Paper Award\, and the INFORMS ENRE Early Career Best Paper Award.
UID:138907-21884224@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138907
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251029T215741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algorithmic Steering and Advertising on Platforms.
DESCRIPTION:We analyze steering/self-preferencing by a retail platform\, using both economic theory and simulations of AI algorithms. When the platform does not sell advertising slots to merchants (which guarantee the merchant will be displayed to consumers)\, the platform has incentives to exclude merchants when its commission rate is in a lower range\, but not when its commission rate is higher. Facing the threat of not being displayed\, the merchant's optimal response is to raise its price on the platform\, so as to reduce the substitution threat it poses to the platform's own product. Thus\, even when the equilibrium outcome is for the merchant to be displayed\, the self-preferencing possibility raises overall prices and harms competition. We then introduce an advertising option\, and show that this can lead to lower prices while still ensuring the merchant is displayed to consumers. However\, the merchant need not gain from the introduction of advertising. Various extensions are considered.
UID:138481-21883117@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138481
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20251112T075125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T150000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:International Day Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the one-day conference hosted by Michigan International Economics on Friday\, November 14 at the Lorch Hall in room 201. RSVP is not required.\n\nThe conference program is below:\n\n10:00 – 11:00 AM  Federico Huneeus (Duke) \"Production Network Formation\, Trade\, and Welfare\"\nAbstract: We study the aggregate implications of production network formation in a quantitative multi-location general equilibrium trade model. Firms search for suppliers and buyers across locations subject to matching frictions\, generating a gravity structure of production networks. We develop sufficient statistics for global and regional welfare and characterize the deviations from the fixed network environment\, including the role of inefficiency and amplification effects of search and matching. We calibrate our multi-sector model to Chilean domestic and international firm-to-firm trade data and show that our model can rationalize the observed increase in domestic supplier linkages after Chile’s recent trade agreements. Abstracting from endogenous networks reduces Chile’s aggregate welfare losses by 20 percent when import costs are raised to their pre-agreement levels\, consistent with inefficiently low equilibrium levels of search. Fixing the trade elasticity\, the welfare gains from trade relative to municipality autarky drop by 40 percent due to amplification effects of search.\n\n11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break	\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Enghin Atalay (Philadelphia Fed) \"Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy\"\nAbstract: We evaluate a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firmlevel balance-sheet data along with data on the domestic production network\, we first assess the policy’s direct and indirect impacts. We identify increased economic activity in industry-province pairs targeted by the subsidies\, with positive spillovers to firms’ customers and suppliers. Using a dynamic multi-region multi-industry general equilibrium model\, we assess the program’s aggregate impacts. According to the calibrated model\, the subsidy program reduces inequality between the relatively underdeveloped and more prosperous portions of the country. However\, trade\, migration\, and investment spillovers blunt the policy’s impact on regional inequality.\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM Xiang Ding (Georgetown)  \"The Costs of Market Disintegration: Evidence from the India-Pakistan Border\"\nAbstract: This paper constructs the first global dataset on inter-sectoral capital service flows. I use this data to disaggregate capital services and intermediate inputs in a dynamic multi-sector model of global production. Steady state allocations and responses to shocks are determined by a capital-augmented global input-output matrix. Two properties of the capital services network deliver larger long-run consumption impacts of globalization than existing estimates\, and larger impacts in more capital-intensive countries. First\, more consumption-influential producers use capital from more trade-exposed suppliers. Second\, heterogeneity in the network reallocates sectoral expenditures towards producers with the largest respective declines in capital service costs. These reallocations raise capital incomes for producers and lower price indices for consumers.
UID:141746-21889254@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141746
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251119T081903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yao Xie\, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair & Professor\, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\, Georgia Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Generative models such as normalizing flows and diffusion processes have transformed how we represent complex\, high-dimensional data\, yet their statistical and mathematical foundations remain less understood. In this talk\, I will present a unified framework that views generative modeling as flows in probability space\, continuous transformations between distributions that reveal the geometric structure underlying learning and inference. I will begin with the JKO-flow generative model\, inspired by the Jordan–Kinderlehrer–Otto (JKO) scheme for Wasserstein gradient flows\, which interprets density learning as proximal gradient descent in the space of probability measures. This perspective offers provable convergence guarantees and connects generative modeling with classical principles of statistical inference. Building on this foundation\, I will discuss recent extensions using guided flow generative models that incorporate data- or risk-driven guidance fields to achieve robustness\, domain adaptation\, and inference under uncertainty. Together\, these results form a framework that bridges statistics\, optimization\, and machine learning\, bringing classical inferential ideas toward a principled foundation for trustworthy generative AI.
UID:141492-21888919@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141492
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251107T154537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CANCELLED: MDCB Seminar> The impact of genetic cheating on mammalian reproduction and speciation
DESCRIPTION:Host: JK Nandakumar\n\nThis seminar has been cancelled. Unfortunately\, Takashi Akera is furloughed from the NIH due to the US government shut down. We hope to have Dr. Akera visit on a future date.
UID:139955-21886411@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139955
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T091835
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Building Real Utopias: The Theory and Practice of Healthcare System Transformation
DESCRIPTION:What does it take to achieve durable change in healthcare systems? Positioned as a model that will transform healthcare delivery\, the Learning Health System has been steadily adopted since 2007 as a method for aligning interest-holders\, integrating data from clinical research and the electronic health record\, and organizing healthcare improvement work. As the Learning Health System nears 20 years of implementation\, the field is moving from initial demonstrations of feasibility to a concerted focus on conceptual foundations\, including social science approaches to culture\, equity\, and policy. This presentation will provide a brief history of the Learning Health System and a critical consideration of the model’s potential for healthcare systems transformation. Working in the traditions of problem-solving sociology and the real utopias project\, I will draw from ethnographic research and practice-based work to extend the conceptual foundations of the Learning Health System model and discuss how these new foundations can facilitate transformative change.
UID:140678-21887488@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140678
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210
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DTSTAMP:20251026T204630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quality Incentives and Upgrading in Uganda’s Coffee Supply Chain (joint with Jie Bai\, Ameet Morjaria\, Russell Morton\, and Yulu Tang)
DESCRIPTION:Quality upgrading to attain export premia is a key development strategy in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). However\, in many supply chains in LMICs\, producers do not sell directly to the world market\; instead\, they sell through multiple layers of domestic intermediation. We study how these chains of intermediation affect incentives for quality production in the context of the Uganda coffee supply chain. We first map out the supply chain linking farm gate and export gate\, documenting that coffee changes hands\, on average\, two times before reaching export markets. Next\, leveraging high-frequency transaction-level data throughout the supply chain\, including prices and lab quality assessments\, we show that quality premium diminishes upstream. We build a model highlighting two key economic mechanisms that may drive these diminished quality premia upstream. First\, barriers to entry to high-quality intermediation enable greater buyer power in the high-quality segment\; resulting differential markdowns squeeze the quality premium upstream. Second\, both producers and intermediaries engage in quality investments\, with the degree of substitutability of these investments mediating the downstream’s demand for high quality from the upstream. Both mechanisms have distributional implications for farmer surplus\, but only the former dampens aggregate quality production.  To separately quantify the two\, we conduct an experiment that offers randomized coffee production contracts to induce quality-specific demand shocks throughout the supply chain to identify the key cost parameters of our model. We use the estimated model to examine the efficiency implications and distributional consequences of market power and productive substitutability\, as well as how they interact to affect quality production and surplus distribution along the chain. Finally\, we apply the model to investigate policy counterfactuals.
UID:138320-21882769@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138320
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251106T140311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, November 17th at 11am in North Lecture Hall\, MSII. Please distribute.\n--\n \nSeminar Series in Human Genetics\nMonday\, November 17\, 2025\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nNorth Lecture Hall\, MSII\n \nMatthew D. Simon\nAssociate Professor\nMolecular Biophysics & Biochemistry\nInstitute of Biomolecular Design & Discovery\nYale University \n\n“Using RNA chemistry to reveal regulation at the transcription start site by established (H3K27me3) and newly discovered (H4Kacme) chromatin modifications.”\n \nHosted By: Sundeep Kalantry\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics
UID:141594-21889067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141594
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20251128T114336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From entropic propagation of chaos to concentration bounds for stochastic particle systems
DESCRIPTION:We shall discuss about weakly interacting stochastic particle systems with possibly singular pairwise interactions. In this setting\, we observe a connection between entropic propagation of chaos (proved by Jabin and Wang\, 2018) and exponential concentration bounds for the empirical measure of the system. In particular\, we will show how to establish a variational upper bound for the probability of a certain rare event\, and then use this upper bound to show that ''controlled\" entropic propagation of chaos implies an exponential concentration bound for the empirical measure.
UID:141912-21889627@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141912
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
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DTSTAMP:20251104T101617
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:When Resources Meet Relationships: The Returns to Personalized Supports for Low-Income Students
DESCRIPTION:Children from low-income families face persistent educational and economic disadvantages that contribute to long-run earnings gaps. This paper studies Communities in Schools (CIS)\, a program that places coordinators in high-poverty schools to connect struggling students with individualized support. CIS is the largest program of its kind in the U.S.\, serving nearly 2 million students annually. We find that CIS improves test scores\, attendance\, and behavior for struggling students\, and that these gains persist\, leading to higher rates of high school graduation\, college attendance\, and adult earnings. These long-run effects can be closely forecast from changes in short-run outcomes\, with non-cognitive measures playing a central role. CIS delivers returns that compare favorably to other major education interventions\, such as class-size reductions. Our results suggest that programs like CIS—combining traditional school resources with mentorship and social capital—can produce lasting improvements in education and economic mobility for disadvantaged students.
UID:140765-21887589@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140765
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250902T102606
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Oil\, Inflation Expectations\, and Household Characteristics: A Nonlinear Heterogeneous Agent VAR Approach
DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, we develop a scalable micro-macro modeling framework that integrates linear multivariate time series models with nonlinear panel models to investigate to what extent oil supply shocks affect household inflation expectations in the Euro area in a heterogeneous and nonlinear way. We rely on a unique and very rich multi-country micro dataset of quantitative inflation expectations from the European Commission’s monthly business and consumer survey that allows us to construct pseudo individuals based on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. To capture nonlinearities in group-level dynamics\, we explicitly model the responses of our pseudo individuals as nonlinear functions of area-wide macroeconomic aggregates using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART). We find pronounced asymmetries in the response of aggregate inflation expectations to large oil supply shocks and a considerable degree of heterogeneity across countries\, gender\, income\, and age groups. We explore several economic mechanisms to explain cross-country and group-level differences in the adjustment of inflation expectations to oil supply shocks of different magnitude and sign.
UID:138111-21881977@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138111
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20250825T190456
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor Reallocation and Recessions: Re-Evaluating Unemployment in Interwar Britain
DESCRIPTION:How does labor reallocation across industries impact recessions? This paper takes up this question for interwar Britain\, where the Great Depression coincided with significant structural shifts resulting from World War I and the return to the gold standard. The extent to which workers reallocated across industries in response to these allocative shocks is examined using historical data on relative changes in employment and unemployment by industry. Impediments to worker reallocation are found to have played a substantial role in the interwar unemployment crisis\, but labor market fluidity varied considerably across sectors\, regions\, and gender. The Great Depression intensified these patterns\, but leaving the gold standard was associated with only a modest improvement in fluidity. Differences in worker reallocation across demographic\, industrial\, and regional groups shape our understanding of the causes of interwar unemployment and may have implications for modern policymaking regarding labor reallocation and recessions.
UID:138135-21881993@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138135
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251119T082050
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Will Wei Sun\, Associate Professor\, Department of Quantitative Methods\, Department of Statistics (by courtesy)\, Purdue University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as the leading approach to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Despite its success\, two challenges remain fundamental: feedback is costly and heterogeneous across annotators\, and the resulting reward models often lack principled measures of uncertainty. This talk presents recent advances that address these challenges by integrating tools from optimal design and statistical inference into the RLHF framework. First\, I introduce a dual active learning approach\, inspired by optimal design\, that adaptively selects both conversations and annotators to maximize information gain\, improving the efficiency of limited feedback budgets. Second\, I present a framework for uncertainty quantification in reward learning\, enabling valid statistical comparisons across LLM models and more reliable best-of-n alignment policies. Together\, these results illustrate how statistics can help trustworthy and data-efficient LLM alignment.
UID:141342-21888654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141342
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251020T140116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Allie Obermeyer\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\nAllie Obermeyer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. The Obermeyer Group harnesses the biological and polymeric properties of proteins to create new materials. These studies blend approaches from chemical and synthetic biology\, protein engineering\, and polymer physics. Allie obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Rice University and performed undergraduate research in the laboratory of Seiichi P.T. Matsuda. She then joined the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and earned a PhD degree under the guidance of Matthew Francis as a part of the Chemical Biology Graduate Program. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral training in the Chemical Engineering department at MIT as an Arnold Beckman postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Bradley Olsen. In 2017\, she started her independent career at Columbia University. She has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER and NIH MIRA award as well as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award and a Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association. \n\nProtein de-mixing is essential to the organization of cellular components. These phase separated membraneless organelles\, termed biomolecular condensates\, create distinct environments that are essential to cellular processes ranging from signaling to gene expression and stress response. Equilibrium theories reasonably describe the formation of and biomolecule partitioning in these biomolecular condensates\, but cellular activities regularly create unstable nonequilibrium compositions. Here I share our efforts to understand how model biomolecular condensates respond when forced out of equilibrium. We create model condensates via the complex coacervation of an enzyme and a polyion. The phase behavior of the resulting liquid-like drops is coupled to their catalytic activity via the local pH. Reaction with chemical “fuel” lowers the pH\, creating unstable nonequilibrium conditions\, ultimately triggering the formation of internal vacuoles and size dependent droplet dissolution. These responses depend on the rate of reaction-induced pH changes relative to relaxation mechanisms inside the drops. Slow changes are controlled by equilibrium thermodynamics\; faster pH changes couple to macromolecule transport on the drop scale. Finally\, we demonstrate that these findings translate to more biologically relevant condensates.
UID:138628-21883506@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138628
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251020T114937
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 - Dr. Karen B. Chen
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Karen B. Chen\, Associate Professor in the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University\, for a seminar exploring how virtual and augmented reality technologies can enhance human performance and learning. Drawing from her research in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory\, Dr. Chen will discuss how immersive environments can both expand educational opportunities and introduce new attentional challenges. Through case studies such as SCALE-VR\, which addresses misconceptions of size and scale in STEM learning\, and recent work integrating large language models and gesture-based interaction\, she will highlight the critical role of aligning human capabilities with technology design to optimize user experience and outcomes in virtual environments.
UID:140898-21887783@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140898
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20251112T144925
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Stress testing simulation and machine learning models for virtual screening\nAbstract:\nGenerative AI has lead to breakthroughs in protein structure prediction and design\, building on high-quality data from the Protein DataBank and Sequence Read Archive. An outstanding question is\, how effective will GenAI be for small molecule drug discovery\, and what data will these models train on? First\, I will describe our work in physics based ultra-large scale virtual screening and preliminary benchmarking of state-of-the-art co-folding methods for virtual screening. Then I will describe our work in exploring challenges and opportunities in leveraging diverse bioactivity data as training data: Large-scale data curation\, and developing large-scale synthetic data sets\, and a statistical framework for testing the impact of data contamination.
UID:141815-21889454@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141815
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20251103T150814
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Developing Resilient Complex Energy Systems under Data Scarcity/Abundancy Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Resilience implies the ability of a system to withstand adverse events and recover from the effects of the adverse events. Inspired by resilient activities in ecology and other non-engineering fields in responding to and recovering from catastrophic adverse events\, the research objective is to adapt resilience to engineering design and operation domains in order to create failure resilient energy systems. To realize engineered resilience\, a new paradigm for engineering design under uncertainty is developed\, which enables concurrent development of reliable system functions and proactive prognosis of function failures. Failure prognosis plays an important role in realizing engineered resilience since it detects\, diagnoses\, and predicts system-wide effects of adverse events\, therefore enables a proactive approach to deal with system failures. This talk will introduce the resilience concept and system design and operational challenges\, and then present recent advances achieved in design\, especially under different scenarios when data related to system failures is rare or abundantly but indirectly available. Practical engineering applications on battery energy storage systems at different scales will be used to demonstrate the advances. \n\nBio:  Dr. Pingfeng Wang is currently a professor and holds the Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar and the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois. Dr. Wang’s expertise lies in the field of engineering design for reliability and failure resilience\, and prognostics and health management\, where he focuses on developing new design methods and computational tools to improve resilience of engineered systems. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the ASME design automation Young Investigator Award. Dr. Wang’s research is currently supported by NSF\, DOD\, DOE\, DOT\, and private industry and nonprofit sponsors. Dr. Wang is the review editor for journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and the Associate Editor for Journal of Mechanical Design.
UID:138910-21884229@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138910
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20250810T100307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Dealing with anthropogenic environments:  why some species thrive and how we make the best of marginal habitats
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Why do some species thrive in novel\, anthropogenic environments\, and others do not? How can a basic understanding of ecology\, evolution and behavior inform conservation efforts in human -dominated environments? In this seminar\, I highlight a range of studies from the Snell-Rood lab over the last few years. We have used butterflies to explore costs and constraints in the evolution of plasticity and brain size\, and the role of stress responses in dealing with new toxins. I will review some of our work on roadsides as habitat for pollinators to show how an understanding of behavior\, genetic variation\, and movement of pollutants through ecosystems can inform conservation in marginal habitats. Finally\, I will share some of our recent efforts to expand the power of bio-inspired design in the classroom and in human applications\, from robotics to architecture.
UID:137383-21880189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137383
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20251113T080149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Institutional Uncertainty and State Building: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Nepal (with Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi)\, Rohini Pande (Yale)\, Soledad Prillaman (Stanford)\, Jonathan Weigel (Berkeley)\, Noam Yuchtman (LSE))
DESCRIPTION:Institutions anchor expectations about how power will be exercised\; when these expectations are widely shared\, they create the predictability needed for economic exchange\, cooperation\, and long-term investment (North 1990\, 1991). We report results from a nationwide field experiment testing whether beliefs about the durability and inclusiveness of political institutions causally shape investments in state capacity. While canonical theories in political science and economics propose this mechanism (e.g.\, North\, Wallis\, and Weingast\, 2009\; Olson 1993)\, there is limited direct measurement of these beliefs and\, to our knowledge\, no causal evidence on this relationship. We conduct an experiment with 4\,400 local politicians and bureaucrats in Nepal -- a nascent federal democracy at an institutional critical juncture -- who were randomly exposed to accurate information about political stability or inclusion. Treatments effectively updated beliefs about future institutions\, including expectations of continuity in future rules for executive selection\, protections for minority rights\, and media freedom. Participants were then given the opportunity to perform a real-effort task: collecting data on births\, deaths\, and marriages to support the national civil registration system. Participants systematically underestimated Nepal’s current political stability\, so receiving the World Bank score (in the 50th percentile globally) typically constituted a positive and surprising update. This treatment increased confidence in institutional quality and durability and raised participation in the state-building task from 22% in the control group to 26% in the treatment group (p < 0.05). In contrast\, information highlighting the underrepresentation of women and historically underrepresented castes reduced optimism about future institutions and dampened task effort among these subgroups. These results indicate that perceptions of state fragility causally affect investments in state capacity. They also reveal that beliefs about political inclusion also affect policy maker investments in state capacity\, offering an efficiency rationale for inclusion distinct from social justice concerns.
UID:138511-21883149@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251116T232036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Desirable Ranking
DESCRIPTION:We study the problem of aggregating individual preferences over alternatives into a collective ranking. A distinctive feature of our setting is that agents are matched to alternatives. Applications include rankings of colleges or academic journals. The foundation of our approach is that alternatives agents desire---that is\, those they rank above their match---should also be ranked higher socially. We introduce axioms to formalize this idea and call rankings that satisfy them desirable. We develop an algorithm to construct desirable rankings and prove that\, as the market becomes large\, desirable rankings converge to the true underlying ranking of the alternatives by quality. We support this convergence result through simulations and demonstrate the practical usefulness of our approach by ranking Chilean medical programs with data from their centralized admission system. Finally\, we compare performance and show that our approach outperforms two benchmarks: revealed preference rankings and Borda counts.
UID:139590-21885758@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139590
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251111T141947
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T132000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 101 - Susie Pilibosian
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Susie Pilibosian will provide an insider's look at Ernst & Young consulting\, outlining its strategic focus and the skills needed to succeed in the firm's Technology Consulting Practice. She will detail her own career trajectory from her U-M IOE roots to her current leadership role\, highlighting key pivots and providing a practical guide for U-M students charting their own course\, with actionable lessons learned and personal reflections.
UID:141775-21889346@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141775
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251014T100524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
DESCRIPTION:In 2015\, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy\, uncovering the mechanics behind the invisible\, mundane networks of lawyers\, accountants\, company secretaries\, and fixers who facilitate the illicit movement of wealth across borders and around the globe. Kimberly Kay Hoang traveled more than 350\,000 miles and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with private wealth managers\, fund managers\, entrepreneurs\, C-suite executives\, bankers\, auditors\, and other financial professionals. She traces the flow of capital from offshore funds in places like the Cayman Islands\, Samoa\, and Panama to special-purpose vehicles and holding companies in Singapore and Hong Kong\, and how it finds its way into risky markets onshore in Vietnam and Myanmar. Hoang reveals the strategies behind spiderweb capitalism and examines the moral dilemmas of making money in legal\, financial\, and political gray zones. Spiderweb Capitalism sheds critical light on how global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets\, and deepens our understanding of the paradoxical ways in which global economic growth is sustained through states where the line separating the legal from the corrupt is not always clear.
UID:140681-21887492@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140681
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251103T115640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T153000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:14th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter\, MD\, Lectureship in Medical Genetics
DESCRIPTION:14th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter\, MD\, Lectureship in Medical Genetics\nFriday\, November 21\, 2025\n2:00pm - 3:30pm\nForum Hall\, Palmer Commons\n \nDavid Reich\, PhD\nProfessor of Genetics & Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard Medical School\nKeynote Address: “Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation”. \n\nHosted By: Jacob L Mueller\, PhD\, and Ann Marie Lawson\nDepartment of Human Genetics
UID:141293-21888547@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141293
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251116T230559
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Friend or Foe? Delegating to an AI whose Alignment is Unknown (with Drew Fudenberg)
DESCRIPTION:AI systems have the potential to improve decision-making\, but decision makers face the risk that the AI may be misaligned with their objectives\, which can lead them to restrict the information that the AI can use. We study the resulting \"covariate-design'' problem in the context of a treatment decision\, where a designer decides which patient attributes to reveal to an AI before receiving a prediction of the patient's need for treatment. Providing the AI with more information  increases the benefits of an aligned AI but also amplifies the harm from a misaligned one. We characterize how the designer should select attributes to balance these competing forces\, depending on their beliefs about the AI's reliability. We show that the designer should optimally disclose attributes that identify rare segments of the population in which the need for treatment is high\, and pool the remaining patients.
UID:138145-21882402@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138145
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251105T130134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding Human Behavior in Interaction with Autonomous Vehicles
DESCRIPTION:Join Doo Won Han\, Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan\, for a seminar on advancing trustworthy and human-centered autonomy in the context of automated vehicles. Doo Won will discuss his research on how drivers interact with vehicle automation\, focusing on behavioral responses and trust calibration during takeover scenarios. He will present a comprehensive framework for evaluating takeover performance and explore how different system errors influence driver trust and behavior. Extending beyond on-road driving\, his work also examines external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) for automated guided vehicles in industrial environments\, emphasizing transparency and safety in human–automation collaboration.
UID:141541-21888987@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251015T203433
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251124T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, November 24
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UID:140766-21887591@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140766
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20251125T101901
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251125T190000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:2025 MPSDS Master's Program Information Session
DESCRIPTION:November 25\, 2025\n6:00PM - 7:00PM (EST)\nRegistration Required\n\nThe Michigan Program of Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) trains future generations of survey and data scientists at the intersection of social research and data science. Join us for our virtual information session to learn more about our master's program and the admissions process. \n\nThe Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources\, including survey data\, social media posts\, sensor data\, and administrative records\, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. We bring a strong focus on data quality — something often missing in traditional data science programs.\n\nFind out additional information about the program and our admissions process on our website or contact the program at MPSDS.isr@umich.edu. \n\nThis session will be recorded and posted on the department's website following the conclusion of the event.
UID:142189-21890190@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T085657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that Stephan Frangakis\, MD\, PhD\, will be joining our Department of Human Genetics in December as a secondary faculty member! We invite you to attend his seminar on Monday\, December 1st\, at 11:00 AM in the North Lecture Hall\, MSII.\n\n“The Michigan Genomics Initiative as a Platform for Complex Trait Genetics: Examples from Postsurgical Pain\, Fibromyalgia\, and Opioid Use Disorder.”
UID:142188-21890189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142188
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251118T092838
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Family Formation and Migration: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic
DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, we examine how the opioid epidemic affected family formation and migration decisions in the United States. Leveraging variation in local exposure to the epidemic—driven by Purdue Pharma’s targeted marketing of OxyContin and proxied by 1996 cancer mortality rates—we find that commuting zones with greater exposure experienced a significant rise in fertility\, primarily among unmarried\, noncollege- educated women in their late twenties. This increase was accompanied by changes in migration patterns: exposure prompted selective out-migration of college-educated women\, who tend to have lower expected fertility early in life. Our findings suggest that the epidemic altered local population composition and contributed to long-term demographic divergence across commuting zones.
UID:140767-21887592@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140767
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251204T193519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gaussian fluctuations for the open one-dimensional KPZ equation
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we consider the open one-dimensional KPZ equation on the interval $[0\,L]$ with Neumann boundary conditions. For $L \sim t^{\alpha}$ and stationary initial conditions\,  we obtain matching upper and lower bounds on the variance of the height function for $\alpha \in [0\,\frac23]$ for different choices of the boundary parameters. Additionally\, for fixed $L$ and an arbitrary probability measure as initial conditions\, we show Gaussian fluctuations for the height function as $t\to \infty$. Joint work with Sayan Das and Antonios Zitridis.
UID:142244-21890267@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142244
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251130T142656
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251201T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Generically Artinian modules and duality
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The talk treats joint work of Yongwei Yao and the speaker that is in progress. Let $R$ be a Noetherian ring\, let $P \in \Spec(R)$\, and let $A:= R/P$. We discuss a theory of generically Artinian modules for $R$ at $P$ when $P$ is a prime that need not be maximal: results similar to Matlis duality hold on a *Zariski neighborhood of* $P$.  We introduce the notion of a *generically Artinian module at* $P$\, of a *generically injective module at* $P$\,  and of a *generically injective hull* $E$ for $R/P$.  When it exists\, $E$ turns out to be unique up to non-unique isomorphism after possibly passing to a smaller Zariski neighborhood of $P$. The results are proved under mild conditions on $R$. The key results  show that many statements from classical duality theory hold after localizing at just *one* element of $R \setminus P$.  Here is one example.  If $H$ is any generically Artinian module at $P$  then\, after localizing at one element  $g \in R \setminus P$\, the associated graded module of $H_g$\, namely\, $\bigoplus_{t = 0} ^\infty {{\Ann_{H_g}P^{t+1}}\over{\Ann_{H_g} P^t}}$\, is free over $A_g$: in fact\, all of its graded components are $A_g$-free. This parallels classical results of Grothendieck on generic freeness in EGA\, but the strength of this and several other results is surprising\, because the modules considered typically have neither ACC nor DCC.  It turns out that under mild conditions on $R$\, the local cohomology modules $H^i_P(M)$ for a Noetherian $R$-module $M$ are generically Artinian. These results recover\, in a much more general framework\, earlier work of the authors\, which generalized results of Karen Smith and J\'anos Koll\'ar. The authors have used these ideas to settle long standing questions in tight closure theory.
UID:142253-21890273@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142253
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T090751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Are Fiscal Transfers Inflationary?
DESCRIPTION:We assess the inflationary effects of fiscal transfers by leveraging advances in the identification of fiscal policy shocks within the recently proposed rotational invariant time-varying structural vector autoregression. Our analysis suggests that the fiscal transfers shocks can explain the bulk of the contributions to the post-pandemic in- creases inflation until mid 2021. Thereafter\, inflation has been mainly driven by supply chain and demand shocks. In addition\, we find that fiscal transfers were essential for preventing a decline in real output per capita similar to the one experienced during the Great Depression.
UID:139863-21886181@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250825T190838
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Separation of Powers or Division of Labor: Efficiency and Fairness in the Resolution of Patent Interference Disputes\, 1836-1940.
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UID:138136-21881994@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138136
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251119T082914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Ethan Xingyuan Fang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We present a unified offline decision-making framework. In the first part\, we consider a class of assortment optimization problems in an offline data-driven setting. A firm does not know the underlying customer choice model but has access to an offline dataset consisting of the historically offered assortment set\, customer choice\, and revenue. The objective is to use the offline dataset to find an optimal assortment. Due to the combinatorial nature of assortment optimization\, the problem of insufficient data coverage is likely to occur in the offline dataset. Therefore\, designing a provably efficient offline learning algorithm becomes a significant challenge. To this end\, we propose an algorithm referred to as Pessimistic ASsortment opTimizAtion (PASTA) following the spirit of pessimism. We show that the algorithm identifies the optimal assortment by only requiring the offline data to cover the optimal assortment under general settings. In particular\, we establish a regret bound for the offline assortment optimization problem under the celebrated multinomial logit model and its generalizations\, where the regret is shown to be minimax optimal. We will also discuss other novel combinatorial uncertainty quantification problems of assortment optimization.
UID:141343-21888655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T103050
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251202T190000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:2025 MPSDS PhD Program Information Session
DESCRIPTION:December 2\, 2025\n6:00PM-7:00PM\nRegistration Required\n\nThe Michigan Program of Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) trains future generations of survey and data scientists at the intersection of social research and data science. Join us for our virtual information session to learn more about our master's program and the admissions process.\n\nThe Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources\, including survey data\, social media posts\, sensor data\, and administrative records\, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. We bring a strong focus on data quality — something often missing in traditional data science programs.\n\nFind out additional information about the program and our admissions process on our website or contact the program at MPSDS.isr@umich.edu.\n\nThis session will be recorded and posted on the department's website following the conclusion of the event.
UID:142192-21890194@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142192
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250716T150510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T143000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | What do Fusion Technology\, Physical Vapor Deposition and EUV Lithography Have in Common?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nSo what do fusion technology\, physical vapor deposition and EUV lithography have in common? The answer is\, “plasma-material interactions” (PMI) and in particular\, sputtering. The key to a fusion energy device delivering energy is getting out the heat without destroying the walls. Afterall you are putting the sun in a metal can and should expect a similar heat flux! How that plasma interacts with the surfaces is paramount. We developed a way to use flowing molten lithium as the plasma facing component. To create thin films for microelectronics\, magnetron sputtering is the most common form of physical vapor deposition. We developed a new system for magnetron sputtering which reverses the potential on the target allowing detailed control of the ion energy reaching the material to be coated. Finally\, in EUV lithography the primary factor limiting the power is “tin management”. To make 13.5 nm EUV light\, 30-μm-diameter molten Sn droplets are hit by a laser at up to 80\,000 times per second. The Sn vaporizes and becomes a dense warm plasma which emits EUV light. The tin ends up everywhere including on the Bragg-reflector mirrors. Removing the tin without damaging the mirrors is a delicate balance of PMI. We developed surface-wave-plasma sources which produce hydrogen radicals and a locally higher ion density which turns the Sn to SnH4 which is pumped away. This talk will hit the highlights in each of these areas and show how they are all being used in industry.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDavid Neil Ruzic is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Nuclear\, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow in four societies and has been awarded the Gaede-Langmuir award from AVS (2020) and the Fusion Technology Prize from IEEE (2020)\, the University of Michigan Plasma Prize (2024) and the International Award in Technology from IVSTA (2025). Even though “retired” his current group consists of 1 postdoc\, 16 graduate and 25 undergraduate research assistants. He founded and is the Director of the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions and the Illinois Plasma Institute. His research covers the fusion technology\, plasma deposition\, plasma etching\, EUV lithography and atmospheric-pressure plasma processing.\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:136479-21878769@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136479
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - 3213 (Johnson Rooms)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251203T072106
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor and Product Market Power\, Endogenous Quality\, and the Consolidation of the US Hospital Industry
DESCRIPTION:Existing structural analyses of the harmful effects of market consolidation focus on either product or labor markets in isolation\, ignoring that product market competitors often compete for workers as well. This paper develops a unified framework for merger evaluation\, finding that firms’ simultaneous exercise of oligopoly power in the product market and oligopsony power in the labor market amplifies the harm from mergers to both consumers and workers. The model also demonstrates how merger-induced gains in labor market power incentivize firms to reduce product quality\, highlighting an additional channel for consumer harm. The model’s predictions are tested and quantified in the context of the recent consolidation of the US hospital industry. Linking panel data from several sources on all US hospitals from 1996- 2022\, a difference-in-differences design is estimated for nearly 150 high-concentration within market mergers. Hospital mergers significantly reduce patient volume\, increase prices\, reduce employment\, lower wages\, and deteriorate quality of care\, resulting in higher patient mortality. After recovering the structural parameters\, the estimated model replicates observed merger impacts. Counterfactual exercises reveal that ignoring increased labor (product) concentration would lead one to under-predict the harm of mergers to consumers (workers).
UID:138152-21882408@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138152
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250908T121519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Heather Kulik\, MIT
DESCRIPTION:A reception with light refreshments will be held in the B10 lobby before each seminar from 1-1:30 p.m.\n\nAbstract: Machine learning in transition metal catalysis is more challenging than other areas of chemistry due to the combination of diversity of chemical bonding and limitations in high quality data sets\, experimental or computational. I will describe our efforts to overcome these limitations to accelerate the discovery of novel transition metal containing materials using machine learning. I will discuss how we have leveraged experimental data sets through both text mining and semantic embedding to uncover relationships between structure and function\, disseminating high quality datasets of transition metal complexes with known function. I will describe how we've used these data sets to build machine learning models that predict the structure of transition metal complexes. Then I will describe how we have leveraged large datasets of synthesized materials to uncover those with novel function in polymer networks. I will demonstrate the success of our design strategy through macroscopically visible changes in network scale properties of polymers once our transition metal complexes are incorporated. Finally\, I will conclude with some outstanding challenges for the field.
UID:138629-21883508@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251114T091653
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Developing a novel in-silico tool for heterochiral macrocycle design\nAbstract:\nAntibodies and small molecules have been powerful tools in targeting disease-related proteins. However\, there remain many challenging targets—such as flat or featureless intracellular surfaces—that are often inaccessible to these modalities. This is where peptides come in. Peptides are particularly exciting because they can be synthesized via solid-phase methods\, penetrate cells\, and bind to flat protein interfaces that are otherwise undruggable. Despite this promise\, designing effective peptides has remained a significant challenge. In our lab\, we’re developing new computational and experimental tools to overcome these limitations. Today\, I’ll be talking about CyclicCEA and CyclicMPNN\, two current methods for rapid generation of Gly or Ala cycles. If time permits\, I will also talk about their use as a binder design.
UID:141865-21889545@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251001T124743
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Electrified pathways to carbon valorization into sustainable fuels and chemicals
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nUnderstanding and advancing the carbon-energy-water nexus is critical for a sustainable energy future and solving many related environmental issues we face today. Due to the rapid decrease in the cost of renewable energy\, it is now practical to design new electrified carbon conversion systems that use renewable electrons to drive the molecular transformation of CO2 and other waste feedstock (wastewater\, food waste\, biomass) into high-value fuels and chemicals while also recovering important resources such as water\, nutrients\, and energy. These new green technologies can help displace fossil fuels in various sectors and redirect resource flows within a new circular carbon economy. This presentation will discuss opportunities to leverage cutting-edge electrochemical and biohybrid technologies in environmental and chemical applications\, including water and CO2 electrolysis\, sustainable chemical manufacturing\, bioproduct and biofuel synthesis\, and food waste valorization. Lab-scale experiments have demonstrated competitive production rates\, titer\, and energy efficiencies. Efforts towards improving reactor scalability\, expanding the portfolio of products\, and integrating new types of waste streams are ongoing.\n\nBiography:\nJoshua Jack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on developing electrified approaches to molecular synthesis and resource recovery. Specifically\, his lab focuses on using renewable electricity to convert abundant small molecules and waste feedstocks into valuable chemicals and materials that can address emerging challenges in energy storage\, environmental remediation\, and circular manufacturing. Joshua previously served as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment at Princeton University and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Colorado\, Boulder. During his graduate studies\, Joshua obtained extensive interdisciplinary research experience at both the DOE- National Renewable Energy Laboratory and NASA Langley Research Center. Please see Prof. Jack’s departmental profile for more details.
UID:138911-21884230@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138911
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251201T075342
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Identification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models when Observed and  Unobserved Characteristics are  Correlated
DESCRIPTION:The standard Berry\, Levinsohn\, and Pakes (1995) (BLP) approach to estimation of demand and supply parameters assumes that the product characteristic observed by consumers and producers but not the researcher is conditionally mean independent of observed characteristics. We extend BLP to allow all product characteristics to be endogenous\, so the unobserved characteristic can be correlated with the observed char- acteristics. We derive moment conditions based on the assumption that firms choose product characteristics to maximize expected profits given their beliefs at that time about market conditions and that the “mistake” in the amount of the characteristic that is revealed once all products are on the market is conditionally mean independent of the firm’s information set. Using the original BLP dataset we find that observed and unobserved product characteristics are highly positively correlated\, biasing demand elasticities upward\, as average estimated price elasticities double in absolute value and average markups fall by 50%.
UID:142273-21890314@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142273
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251126T084026
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Graduating Student Speaker: Shihao Wu\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Statistics\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Data that represent relations and interactions are ubiquitous in science\, engineering\, business\, and medicine. Traditional analytical methods for such data primarily focus on pairwise relations\; however\, real-world interactions often involve more than two entities and are inherently multi-way. In current practice\, these multi-way interactions are typically projected into pairwise relations before analysis\, which causes substantial information loss. Directly studying hypergraphs\, which naturally encode general multi-way interactions\, allows for more effective extraction of information from such relational data. In this talk\, I will discuss our development of generative models for hypergraphs. The first part introduces a general latent embedding framework that overcomes key limitations of existing hypergraph modeling methods. We establish identifiability of the latent embedding space and develop a likelihood-based estimator for the latent embeddings. We further derive consistency guarantees and asymptotic distributions for the parameter estimates\, enabling efficient inference from an observed hypergraph. Building on these results\, the second part of the talk introduces Denoising Diffused Embeddings (DDE)\, a generative architecture for hypergraphs that produces new hyperlinks not seen in the observed data. DDE connects discrete hyperlinks to a continuous latent space through a conditional hyperlink likelihood model\, and then reconstructs that space using a denoising diffusion process. Compared with existing generative models\, DDE is computationally efficient to train and sample from\, and it offers interpretability from the likelihood perspective. Our theoretical and empirical studies demonstrate its advantages as a general generative modeling framework. Together\, these results address core challenges in modeling multi-way interactions in relational data and illustrate how rigorous statistical modeling can contribute to building more efficient and trustworthy generative AI.
UID:142231-21890249@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142231
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20251024T084909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Risk Protection Value of Moral Hazard
DESCRIPTION:Health insurance lowers the out-of-pocket price of healthcare\, and it is well-established that this leads to higher utilization of care. This type of “moral hazard” is typically viewed as a social cost of insurance. Within a standard model\, we show that there are two important ways in which the consumer’s ability to change her behavior in response to insurance can play a central role in the ability of insurance to protect her from risk. These are (i) by allowing optimal exploitation of real income gained in bad states\, and (ii) by enabling more resources to be shifted from good states to bad states than otherwise could be. We provide a theoretical characterization of these cases and quantify their importance empirically. Under standard parameterizations of demand for healthcare and health insurance\, estimates in the literature imply that moral hazard accounts for as much as half of the total value of risk protection derived from insurance. Preventing consumers from changing their behavior in response to insurance would lower healthcare spending\, but also result in a major loss of risk protection\, on-net reducing social and consumer welfare in the population we study. Our results suggest that under-utilization of healthcare may thus be an equally important threat to welfare as over-utilization.
UID:138482-21883120@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138482
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251119T133021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Long-term Planning and Operations for the Electric Power Sector: Methods\, Applications\, and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe electric power sector is experiencing rapid changes and greater uncertainty than in many years. Electricity demand is projected to increase at a faster rate than previous decades due to electrification and data centers. Increasing wind and solar capacities and thermal generator retirements will likely increase short-term forecast errors and require greater system flexibility. Energy storage costs are decreasing rapidly\, and batteries are likely to play a larger role in system operations\, but questions remain about how much storage capacity will be deployed\, what duration they will offer\, and how to effectively manage a fleet of storage\, particularly in regions with wholesale markets. Finally\, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that disrupt system operations present reliability challenges because they induce greater spatial and temporal correlations in forced outage rates of system components.\n\nThis talk will overview several research projects on the planning and operations of power systems under uncertainty. The talk will present the problem of long-term generation and transmission planning under uncertainty\, including the range of methods used and recent improvements. The talk will also present the corresponding challenges to electricity markets from the changes in the resource mix\, including several recent research projects on this topic. Finally\, the talk will frame several remaining challenges for practical methods for both planning and for markets/operations under greater uncertainty\, and future research directions that arise from these challenges.\n\nBiography:\nMort Webster is a Professor of Energy Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research develops methods for managing uncertainty for electric power systems planning\, operations\, and electricity market design\, with a focus on stochastic optimization methods. Current projects include the development of stochastic optimization methods for solving multi-stage adaptive expansion planning (generation and/or transmission)\, methods for managing large high-dimensional scenario space\, and real-time market designs to manage uncertainty and incentivize flexible resources. Prof. Webster has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in engineering\, operations research\, and economic journals\, and has served on several national and international panels. Prior to joining Penn State\, Prof. Webster was Assistant and Associate Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006-2013) and Assistant Professor of public policy in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001-2006). He received a Ph.D. (2000) in Engineering Systems and a M.S. (1996) in Technology and Policy from MIT\, and a B.S.E. (1988) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
UID:141978-21889724@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141978
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T120435
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T132000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 101 - Kristin Toth
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Kristin Toth will share her journey from U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering to leading\, scaling\, and advising high-growth companies. Drawing on her experience as an operator\, board member\, and founder\, she’ll reflect on the lessons\, turning points\, and systems mindset that shaped her path from engineer to entrepreneur.
UID:142198-21890199@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251103T104724
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accounting for Socialization: Professional Education and Quantitative Governance
DESCRIPTION:“Accountability” has become an increasingly prominent form of governance across the globe.  However\, we know little about how the people who craft and implement such policies learn the rationale of accountability.  How do future policy professionals learn accountability?  That is\, how is accountability\, as a form of governance\, taught and learned?  These questions pertain to professional socialization and are key to understanding the spread and implementation of accountability policies across organizations.  To answer these questions\, we draw from a 2-year ethnography of a cohort of students at a highly regarded Masters of Public Affairs (MPA) program. Utilizing an inhabited institutional approach\, we find that the students learn accountability indirectly through an emphasis on the quantitative techniques that facilitate accountability. Instead of directly debating forms of governance such as accountability\, the students become versed in quantitative “language” and “tools\,” which in different ways support or actively promote forms of accountability in their careers. As an institutional rationale and form of governance\, accountability is inhabited by policy professionals who have been socialized into quantitative language and tools.
UID:141402-21888762@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141402
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251204T193646
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Connection formulas for the Heun equation from Painlevé theory
DESCRIPTION:Heun equation is the second order differential equation with 4 regular singularities and it plays important role in theoretical physics. Unlike the hypergeometric equation\, which has 3 regular singularities\, the connection formulas for Heun equation don't have expressions in terms of elementary functions. Recently they were written in terms of semiclassical conformal blocks by Bonelli-Iossa-Lichtig-Tanzini. We derive these formulas using the interplay between Heun equations and Painlevé equations. This computation in particular provides the expression for the semiclassical conformal blocks within the Painlevé theory. This is the joint work with Harini Desiraju\, Promit Ghosal\, and Oleg Lisovyy.
UID:142407-21890804@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251207T213548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HSL Numbers of Toric Face Rings
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Hartshorne-Speiser-Lyubeznik numbers (HSL numbers) are a measure of nilpotency of the action of Frobenius on the local cohomology modules of a commutative Noetherian ring of positive characteristic. By the Hartshorne-Speiser-Lyubeznik theorem these HSL numbers are finite\, but in general an explicit upper bound for these numbers is not known. In this talk we present an explicit upper bound for the HSL numbers of toric face rings and semigroup rings\, and discuss the differences in these two bounds.
UID:142436-21890955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142436
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T093923
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251208T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, December 8
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UID:141221-21888413@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141221
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251208T112100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Artificial Turf and Children's Environmental Health\, presented by Homero Harari\, ScD (Icahn School of Medicine\, Mount Sinai)
DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/mRqd3\n\nPlease join us for the final webinar in the Fall 2025 series\, Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks at 12'\, which focus on environment\, health and community. \nNote: this webinar will not be recorded. Stay tuned for more seminars in 2026!
UID:142452-21890972@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142452
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250825T191406
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Greatest Revenue Generation
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UID:138137-21881995@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138137
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250902T211924
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 CPOD Seminar Series: “Plasma lipids are regulators of energy expenditure”
DESCRIPTION:Judith Simcox\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nBiochemistry\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
UID:138700-21883637@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138700
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Buhl Res Cen for Human Genetics - 5915 Buhl
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251130T234112
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251210T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251210T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Meritocracy Across Countries
DESCRIPTION:We study the micro sources and macro consequences of worker–job matching across coun- tries with large income differences. Using internationally comparable data on over 120\,000 in- dividuals in 30 countries\, we document that workers’ skills align more closely with their jobs’ skill requirements in higher-income countries\, indicative of more meritocratic labor market matching. We interpret this fact through an equilibrium matching model with cross-country differences in three fundamentals: (i) endowments of worker skills and job requirements de- termining match feasibility\; (ii) technology determining the returns to matching\; and (iii) id- iosyncratic frictions capturing how nonproductive traits affect matching. A development- accounting exercise based on the model\, estimated separately for each country\, shows that variation in matching frictions explains only a small share of cross-country output gaps. How- ever\, improved worker–job matching substantially amplifies the gains from adopting frontier endowments and technology.
UID:138154-21882409@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138154
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251125T103618
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251217T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251217T210000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:2025 MPSDS Master's Program Information Session
DESCRIPTION:December 17\, 2025\n8:00AM - 9:00AM (EST)\nRegistration Required\n\nThe Michigan Program of Survey and Data Science (MPSDS) trains future generations of survey and data scientists at the intersection of social research and data science. Join us for our virtual information session to learn more about our master's program and the admissions process.\n\nThe Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science curriculum is concerned with a broad set of data sources\, including survey data\, social media posts\, sensor data\, and administrative records\, as well as analytic methods for working with these new data sources. We bring a strong focus on data quality — something often missing in traditional data science programs.\n\nFind out additional information about the program and our admissions process on our website or contact the program at MPSDS.isr@umich.edu.\n\nThis session will be recorded and posted on the department's website following the conclusion of the event.
UID:142190-21890191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251203T140131
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T190000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Community Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:As we prepare to close out the year\, we invite you to join us for the final session of our new Community Seminar Series: Diabetes Research That Matters\, featuring Dr. Scott Soleimanpour. \n\nDiabetes Innovation: From Breakthrough Research to Everyday Solutions\n\nIn this session\, we’ll explore how pioneering breakthroughs—from stem cell therapies to the latest wearable tech and smart insulin delivery—are shaping both potential cures and daily life for people with diabetes. Join us to discover the science and innovations making diabetes care smarter\, easier\, and more accessible for everyone.
UID:142357-21890742@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260106T082528
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Global Women's Health Innovation\nAbstract:\nDhanu Thiyag\, MD MPH FACOG is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Affiliate Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. As a clinician-scientist\, she focuses on designing and clinically evaluating medical devices and simulation-based educational programming specifically for the goal of women’s health equity. This is crucial as medical devices and programming not designed for the context of use are typically neither sustained nor disseminated. Examples of her work include devices for cervical cancer screening to diagnosing postpartum hemorrhage as well as simulation-based education to prevent cesarean deliveries to conducting less invasive gynecology surgery. She also focuses efforts on capacity building for women in engineering and clinical research with efforts in Ghana\, Rwanda\, and the USA. She has been recognized for her efforts with a University of Michigan Outstanding International Collaboration Award and as a STAT Wunderkind.  She will be presenting on her utilization of a human-centered design process from the needs assessment to validation testing. She will be using one of her devices and one of her simulation projects as an example.
UID:143252-21892552@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143252
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251216T161640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260108T165000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Boundary combinatorics and topology of the Vakil--Zinger space
DESCRIPTION:The Vakil--Zinger space is a normal crossings compactification of the mapping space from smooth elliptic curves to projective space. In this talk\, I will discuss how the modular interpretation of the space given by Ranganathan--Santos-Parker--Wise leads to a description of its boundary stratification and a calculation of its cohomology. Partly joint work with Siddarth Kannan.
UID:141911-21889626@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141911
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251117T080145
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: \"Uncovering defect mechanisms and apical polarity cues in neural tube organoids\"
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Tidball\, Ph.D.\nResearch Assistant Professor\nNeurology\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141937-21889654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141937
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260109T103909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Implementing EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface Access to Commercial Speech Generating Devices\nAbstract:\nBrain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have long been considered a promising option for people with complex communication needs.  However\, most BCIs remain in the laboratory and the few BCIs on the market are not integrated into the clinically useful augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices available from long-established companies.  With small business funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders\, Dr. Jane Huggins from the University of Michigan and Dr. Katya Hill from Gannon University have been working closely with an AAC device manufacturer to create wearable BCI access to an existing product line of speech generating devices.  These efforts have produced a BCI add-on accessory that can access the language features of the speech generating devices. Laboratory and in-home testing focused on realistic communication tasks shows the effectiveness of the BCI for real-world communication and challenges and areas for future improvements. \nBio:\nDr. Huggins has been active in brain-computer interface (BCI) research since 1994. Her dissertation research on electrocorticogram (ECoG) for BCI access to assistive technology resulted in the founding of the University of Michigan Direct Brain Interface Laboratory\, which she has led since 2007.  Dr. Huggins trained in computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan. She also completed a clinical rehabilitation engineering internship at the University of Michigan\, giving her a unique combination of skills for the development of BCI access to assistive technology and augmentative and alternative communication.  Her current focus is on making electroencephalogram (EEG)-based BCIs interfaces practical for people who need them. Ongoing research directions include interfacing BCIs to commercially available assistive technologies\, improving BCI response time and no-control performance\, identifying features and support necessary for successful independent BCI use by people with physical impairments\, identifying the design preferences and priorities of potential BCI users\, BCI applications in cognitive testing\, and the identification and accommodation of user-specific characteristics that affect BCI function. She is particularly interested in the often ignored topic of how BCIs can remain available for communication but unobtrusive during periods when the user is not actively trying to make selections. Dr. Huggins was a founding member of the board of directors of the Brain-Computer Interface Society and now serves on the BCI Society's Communications Committee. Outside the lab\, Dr. Huggins enjoys knitting\, genealogy\, birdwatching\, cooking for her husband\, and being Mom to her college-age children.
UID:143584-21893424@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260109T114337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jian Kang\, Professor & Associate Chair for Research\, Biostatistics\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Deep generative models\, such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and diffusion probabilistic models\, have transformed high-dimensional data modeling. However\, these approaches often rely on variational approximations or computationally intensive ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers\, trading exact Bayesian inference for scalability. In this talk\, I present the Bayesian Deep Noise Neural Network (B-DeepNoise)\, a framework originally developed for density regression that possesses inherent yet under-explored generative capabilities. Unlike standard Bayesian neural networks that place priors only on network weights\, the B-DeepNoise framework injects stochastic noise into every hidden layer of a deep architecture. We show that this construction is mathematically equivalent to a deep hierarchical latent variable model\, yielding rich conditional distributions through layer-wise noise propagation. By exploiting piecewise-linear activation functions\, specifically ReLU function\, we derive a closed-form Gibbs sampling algorithm that enables asymptotically exact posterior inference\, avoiding the approximation errors commonly associated with variational methods. I will demonstrate how this framework unifies three closely related tasks: (1) uncertainty quantification in regression\, (2) density regression for complex conditional distributions\, and (3) extensions to generative modeling\, where layer-wise noise injection enables flexible sample generation and data imputation. These results bridge flexible deep learning architectures with rigorous Bayesian inference and computational statistics\, providing a principled approach to density learning and generative modeling.
UID:143254-21892556@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143254
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251111T102735
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Determinants of Norm Compliance: Moral Similarity and Group Identification
DESCRIPTION:What determines whether someone complies with a social norm? The social identity approach offers a mechanism for norm compliance: a person who feels similar to a group identifies more with that group and\, in turn\, complies with the group’s norms. Using an experiment\, we test whether similarity in values increases identification and adherence to a group rule. To do so\, we varied the similarity/dissimilarity between the values of an individual and members of a social group and measured group identification and rule compliance. We find that similarity in values increased group identification\, and group identification increased rule compliance. We show that this behavior change was due to increased group norm sensitivity rather than changes in norms to follow rules when they come from similar or dissimilar groups. We advance the study of social identity by establishing a causal pathway between group identification and behavior change. We also contribute to the management literature by showing that aligning organizational values with those of the workforce is a viable and implementable mechanism for increasing policy and guideline adherence.
UID:141747-21889255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141747
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220
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DTSTAMP:20251222T160148
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Exposure Assessment to Community Intervention: Advancing Metabolic Health in Informal E-Waste Settings
DESCRIPTION:Registration required https://myumi.ch/9p7bd\n\nDr. Sylvia Akpene Takyi is a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Health and Equity\, University of Michigan. She has over a decade of experience in environmental epidemiology\, community-engaged research\, and public health interventions\, with a focus on vulnerable populations\, including women and children exposed to environmental hazards. Dr. Takyi leads research on the health impacts of informal e-waste recycling\, environmental exposures\, and metabolic health outcomes\, and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications.
UID:143072-21892017@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143072
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251113T152512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: “Circadian regulation of metabolism shapes adipose remodeling”
DESCRIPTION:Chelsea Hepler\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nMolecular & Integrative Physiology\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141854-21889531@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141854
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20251223T095234
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Breaking Newton’s Law: Using Dusty Plasma to Investigate Anisotropic Forces
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe stability of structures and transport of energy are affected by the forces acting between elements in the system. We are used to thinking of forces in terms of Newton’s third law: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. However\, there are some systems where the forces appear to be non-reciprocal\; the objects exert different forces on each other. Such an interaction is possible when the interaction is anisotropic. In this case\, the force between two particles depends on their relative orientation. Anisotropic interactions are known to arise in some of the most interesting complex systems\, including proteins\, electrorheological (ER) fluids\, and liquid crystals. Here\, we study anisotropic interactions in a complex\, or dusty\, plasma. We use numerical models of the interactions between ions and dust to learn the form of the anisotropic interaction potential. We can then use this potential to model the dynamics of interacting dust particles without modeling the ions. We compare the results of our models to experimental data collected in laboratory experiments conducted here on earth and on the International Space Station.\nThis work was supported by the US Department of Energy\, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (DE-SC0024681) and National Science Foundation (PHY-2308742\, PHY-2308743).\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nLorin Swint Matthews is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Baylor University and Associate Director of the Center for Astrophysics\, Space Physics\, and Engineering Research. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Baylor University in 1998. She worked for Raytheon Aircraft Integration Systems from 1998-2000 as a multi-disciplined engineer in the Flight Sciences Department\, where she worked on NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) aircraft. In 2000\, she joined the faculty at Baylor University. Her areas of research include numerical modeling and experimental investigations of the charging and dynamics of dust in astrophysical and laboratory plasma environments\, for which she received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.\n\nThis seminar is free and open to the public. It will be conducted in person and on Zoom\, please check MIPSE website for details: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2526.php
UID:143080-21892025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143080
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
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DTSTAMP:20260112T112056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Non-invasive Histotripsy Cancer Treatment: The Road from Bench to Bedside\nAbstract:\nHistotripsy is the first non-invasive\, non-ionizing\, and non-thermal ablation technology that is based on ultrasound and invented by Dr. Xu and her colleagues at the University of Michigan. Imagine ultrasound delivered from outside the body is used to generate bubbles and destroy the target tumor\, without incision or injury. Pre-clinical studies have shown that ultrasound image-guided histotripsy can non-invasively and mechanically disrupt the target tumor into acellular debris while preserving large normal vessels\, nerves\, and bile ducts. Histotripsy tumor acellular debris is absorbed by the body\, resulting in tumor regression and increased survival benefit. Histotripsy induces significant innate and adaptive immune response and abscopal effect (shrinkage of off-target tumors) in murine tumor models. Multi-center clinical trials confirm that histotripsy produces tumor regression and provides evidence of abscopal effect in patients with primary and metastatic liver tumors. In October 2023\, the Edison histotripsy platform (HistoSonics) was approved by FDA for non-invasive treatment of liver tumors. The Edison system is based on the technology licensed from Dr. Xu’s lab and manufactured by HistoSonics\, a company co-founded by Dr. Xu. To Date\, histotripsy has been used to treat 3000 patients with liver tumors in 70+ hospitals. There are ongoing clinical trials in the U.S. and Europe on histotripsy treatment of renal tumors and pancreatic tumors. Dr. Xu will talk about the mechanism and instrumentation of histotripsy\, the latest pre-clinical and clinical progress\, and her journal to bring this technology from bench to bedside. \nBio:\nDr. Zhen Xu is the Li Ka Shing Endowed Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, and Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI. Her research focuses on ultrasound therapy and imaging. She is a pioneer and world leader of histotripsy. She has developed histotripsy for cancer\, neurological\, and cardiovascular applications. Her work has led to the FDA approval of histotripsy treatment of liver tumors. She has been elected as Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)\, American Institute of Medicine and Bioengineering (AIMBE)\, and IEEE. She received the IEEE Ultrasonics\, Ferroelectrics\, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Outstanding Paper Award in 2006\, Frederic Lizzi Award from the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in 2015\, Lockhart Memorial Prize for Cancer Research in 2020\, and IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award in 2024. She has published 140 peer-reviewed journal papers and has been awarded $50+ millions of external grant funding. She has 36 issued US and international patents. She is a principal investigator of grants funded by NIH\, Office of Navy Research\, American Cancer Association\, and Focused Ultrasound Foundation. She is the co-founder of HistoSonics. HistoSonics is valued at $3 billions through a recent private acquisition.
UID:143705-21893683@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143705
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T123804
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Bur oak evolution and its impact on the forest
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a foundation of eastern North American forests and savannas. It is massive\, long-lived\, strong\, and enormously variable. But the bur oak is no lone wolf: it exchanges genes with other oak species from the Black Hills to Vermont\, and from northern Minnesota to Texas. This talk will provide an overview of ongoing rangewide and reciprocal transplant studies of bur oaks undertaken as part of a collaborative NSF - NSFC Dimensions of Biodiversity project\, “Consequences of diversity in Asian and American tree syngameons for functional variation\, adaptation and symbiont biodiversity.” It will present analyses of genomic\, trait\, mycorrhizal\, and gall wasp data to provide an integrative view of how bur oaks and their relatives shape the forest.
UID:137385-21880191@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137385
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260116T151511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Donglin Zeng\, Professor\, Department of Biostatistics\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) are sequential decisions over one or more stages that tailor treatments to individual characteristics and their intermediate outcomes. For many chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D)\, benefit-risk tradeoff is usually an important concern for decision making in the sense that treatments with a higher benefit may lead to an increased risk of adverse outcomes (e.g.\, more intensive insulin treatment may lead to more hypoglycemia events). It is thus desirable to learn the optimal DTRs while constraining the risk to be within a tolerable range. In this talk\, we propose a learning framework for this purpose.  The framework allows the risk constraint to be imposed either at each stage for an acute risk outcome\, or cumulatively over all the stages for a long-term risk outcome. Using surrogate loss functions in empirical risk minimization\, the optimal DTRs are obtained by solving a sequence of weighted support vector machine problems in a backward fashion.  Theoretically\, we show that the estimated DTRs are Fisher consistent and we further provide the convergence rates for the value and risk functions associated with the estimated DTRs. Lastly\, the proposed method is demonstrated via simulation studies and an application to a two-stage clinical trial for treating T2D.
UID:144000-21894509@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144000
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260114T125704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB RMC Friday Seminar Series - The Nature of Oak Species
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Plant biologists have debated the nature of oak species for more than 200 years. Opinions range from the view that oak species hybridize relatively rarely to the view that related oaks form syngameons\, near-freely interbreeding complexes of species. Understanding species boundaries and gene flow in oaks is essential to conserving the ca. 425 global oak species on which humans and hundreds to thousands of arthropod\, fungus\, vertebrate\, and plant species depend. In this talk\, I provide an overview of how our understanding of oak species boundaries and hybrids has grown from the early 19th Century to today. Molecular data from the past two decades show that individual oaks exhibit a wide range of mixed-species ancestry\, with as many as 20% of individuals averaged across studies admixed at a level of 10% or higher. This means that hybridization is quite common in many oak species\, and some of the resulting gene flow may play a role in population adaptation and species migration. Nonetheless\, oaks form genetically distinct species\, and that species diversity is crucial to the function of forests\, savannas\, and other oak-dominated forests across much of the northern hemisphere. The lecture will include both historic and recent research.
UID:143896-21894229@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143896
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Research Museums Center - Demo Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260119T102724
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Specialization\, the Division of Labor\, and Explorations in Property Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Specialization is a process where individuals\, groups\, or organizations focus on one task or area of knowledge. It drives economic development\, organizational growth\, and increases in social complexity\, capacity\, and heterogeneity. Discussions of specialization in the social sciences contain an undocumented but significant ambiguity. The term specialization is used to refer to both the division of labor\, in which tasks are divided into complementary processes or components\, and differentiation\, in which units choose tasks that are different from each other. Despite a long history in which the two types of coordination are used interchangeably under the term ‘specialization\,’ we demonstrate that the division of labor and differentiation thrive in opposite social conditions. Using computational models\, we found that variation in basic social conditions had opposite effects for the two different coordination processes: increasing social density encouraged the division of labor and inhibited differentiation and increasing the number of specializations encouraged differentiation and inhibited the division of labor. Since specialization is central to economic development\, there is value in understanding the conditions that foster it. We show that encouraging specialization requires disambiguating the two distinct types of coordination.
UID:142378-21890773@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142378
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260112T165447
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | CFT Data\, QFT RG Flows\, and the Fuzzy Sphere
DESCRIPTION:The CFT data -- scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients -- of high dimension operators contains valuable information about the theory and its deformations\, but is traditionally unobtainable outside of integrable models. We will review how the fuzzy sphere regulator allows numeric access to much of this data in the 3d Ising model\, and show how to exploit the emergent conformal generators of the theory to significantly improve it.  We discuss some of the applications of this data\, including tests of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and the spectrum of masses of the QFTs in the vicinity of the critical point.
UID:143130-21892186@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143130
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260120T231803
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Painlevé Universality class for the maximal amplitude solution of the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with randomness
DESCRIPTION:In this work\, we establish universality results for the $N$-soliton solution of the focusing NLS equation at maximal amplitude. Specifically\, we choose the associated normalization constants so that the solution achieves its maximal peak\, which\, in the large-$N$ limit\, satisfies a Painlevé-type equation independently of the distribution of the (random) discrete eigenvalues. We identify two distinct universality classes\, determined by the structure of the discrete eigenvalues: the \textit{Painlevé--III} and \textit{Painlevé--V} rogue-wave solutions. In the Painlevé--III case\, the eigenvalues take the form $\lambda_j = v_j + i \mu_j$\, while for Painlevé--V they satisfy $\lambda_j = -\zeta \\, j + v_j + i \mu_j$\, with $0 < \zeta < 1$. In both cases\, $v_j$ and $\mu_j$ are sub-exponential random variables. Universality can then be summarized as follows: regardless of the specific realizations of the amplitudes and velocities\, provided they are sub-exponential random variables and the normalization constants are chosen to maximize the \(N\)-soliton solution\, the resulting maximal peak always corresponds to either a Painlevé--III or Painlevé--V rogue-wave profile in the large-$N$ limit.
UID:142833-21891725@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142833
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251118T133619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260127T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: “Visualizing gene regulation post traumatic brain injury with spatial epigenetics”
DESCRIPTION:Yang Xiao\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nPathology\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141985-21889737@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141985
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T161642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MPSDS / JPSM Seminar Series:  Sensitivity Analyses for Nonignorable Selection Bias When Estimating Subgroup Parameters in Nonprobability Samples: A Weighting Approach
DESCRIPTION:MPSDS / JPSM Seminar Series\nMPSDS M3 Series: Mastery\, Methodology\, Meetups\n\nIn person\, room 1070 Institute for Social Research\, and via Zoom. \nThe Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation.\n\nSensitivity Analyses for Nonignorable Selection Bias When Estimating Subgroup Parameters in Nonprobability Samples: A Weighting Approach\n\nSelection bias in survey estimates is a major concern\, affecting both nonprobability samples and probability samples with low response rates. The proxy-pattern mixture model (PPMM) offers a method for conducting a sensitivity that assumes a nonignorable selection mechanism\, where selection depends on survey outcomes of interest. This approach requires summary-level auxiliary information for the target population of interest from a reference data source. While PPMM methods have been successfully applied to derive overall population-level estimates\, extension to domain-level estimates is challenging when population-level summaries for the specific subgroup are unavailable. This occurs when the domain indicator is observed only in the survey\, or for complex intersectional subgroups where stable/reliable population-level auxiliary variable estimates are unavailable. To combat this issue\, we propose a novel approach: creating nonignorable selection weights based on the PPMM based on a re-expression of the PPMM as a selection model. These weights can be directly applied to calculate domain-level estimates\, circumventing the need for domain-specific population-level summaries of auxiliary variables. They rely on a single sensitivity parameter (ranging from 0 to 1) that captures a spectrum of nonresponse assumptions\, ranging from an ignorable mechanism to an extreme nonignorable mechanism. We discuss differences in weight construction for continuous versus binary outcomes\, describe the necessary assumptions for these weights to produce informative domain-level estimates\, and illustrate properties through simulation. We then apply the approach to the Census Household Pulse Survey to estimate various subgroup quantities under a range of assumptions on the selection mechanism.\n\nRebecca R. Andridge\, PhD\nThe Ohio State University\nCollege of Public Health\, Division of Biostatistics\nAssociate Dean for Undergraduate Studies\nProfessor of Biostatistics\n\nDr. Andridge's research is focused on imputation methods for missing data\, primarily when missingness is driven by the missing values themselves (missing not at random)\, and on measures of selection bias for nonprobability samples. She also works on statistical challenges that arise in analysis of data from group-randomized trials. She collaborates with researchers across campus\, including the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research\, the Nisonger Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities\, and The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center\, and serves as Lead Methodologist for several state-sponsored population-based surveys. She is an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2020).
UID:143425-21893147@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143425
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 1070, Institute for Social Research
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251201T162504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MICDE - Mechanical Engineering Seminar - Elif Ertekin\, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Predictive materials simulation has long been rooted in first-principles descriptions of physical mechanisms\, grounded in quantum mechanics but limited by tractable length scales\, sampling challenges\, and the accuracy-cost tradeoff. Today\, machine-learning methods seek to transform materials science by revealing patterns in data extending beyond conventional modeling. My talk will explore how these two paradigms\, mechanistic simulation and data-driven learning\, can act synergistically to accelerate materials discovery and understanding. I will begin by outlining what first-principles simulations can currently achieve and where their limitations arise\, using examples from our work in thermoelectrics\, wide-band-gap semiconductors\, ion-transport materials\, and structural alloys. Building on this foundation\, I will show how machine-learning approaches\, when designed with materials-specific considerations such as symmetries and invariances\, can enhance traditional methods. Examples include symmetry-aware generative models for inorganic crystalline solids and machine-learning solutions to the many-body electronic-structure problem that rival high-accuracy quantum methods. Together\, these examples highlight how integrating mechanisms and patterns can help advance predictive materials simulations.\n\n\nBio: Elif Ertekin is an Andersen Faculty Scholar\, Associate Professor\, and Associate Head for Graduate Programs in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL). Her research interests center on the theory and modeling of materials\, with an emphasis on probabilistic and stochastic methods. She focuses on developing a microscopic understanding of atomic and electronic-scale processes in materials\, with applications in thermal transport\, energy conversion\, and defect chemistry. She received BS degrees in Mathematics and in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State\, a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley\, and she carried out post-doctoral work at the Berkeley Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics and a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.
UID:142220-21890232@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142220
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - 3213ABC
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260106T152104
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Learning What Matters: Neural Mechanisms of Flexible Navigation\nAbstract:\nGoal-directed navigation in a dynamic world requires quickly identifying important locations and adapting behavioral plans to new information. In this talk I will describe neural circuit mechanisms of rapid spatial learning and of adapting to new information to guide navigation. Identifying crucial locations in a new environment depends on neural computations that rapidly represent locations and connect location information to key outcomes like food\, however the mechanisms to trigger these computations at behaviorally relevant locations is not well understood. We find that inhibitory interneurons in hippocampal CA3 play a causal role in identifying and exploiting new food locations. Inhibitory interneurons in CA3 drastically reduce firing on approach to and in goal locations. Sparse optogenetic stimulation to prevent goal-related decreases in interneuron firing impaired learning of goal locations and disrupted neural representations of goal locations. These results reveal that goal-selective decreases in inhibitory activity enable learning important locations. Navigation also requires rapidly updating choices in the face of new information. In hippocampus and prefrontal cortex\, neural activity representing future goals is theorized to support navigation planning. Yet how prospective goal representations incorporate new\, pivotal information is unknown. Using virtual reality\, we precisely introduced new crucial information during navigation and recorded neural activity as mice flexibly adapted their planned destinations. We found that new information triggered increased prospective representations and reorganization to rapidly shift to the new choice. This prospective code updating depended on the degree of behavioral adaptation needed. These studies reveal new mechanisms by which animals rapidly learn crucial new locations and adapt to new information that requires updating navigation plans.\n\nBio:\nDr. Annabelle Singer is the McCamish Foundation Early Career Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Her research seeks to understand how neural activity produces memories and regulates brain immune function\, with the goal of developing new therapies for brain disease. Dr. Singer’s work has shown that coordinated electrical activity across hippocampal neurons encodes memories and fails in models of Alzheimer’s disease. She discovered that driving specific patterns of neural activity\, such as gamma oscillations\, reduces Alzheimer’s pathology and alters brain immune function. Using non-invasive sensory stimulation\, she is translating these discoveries from rodents to humans to pioneer radically new treatments for disease.\n\nDr. Singer is a Packard Fellow\, Kavli Fellow\, and recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Gilbreth Lectureship\, the Society for Neuroscience’s Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award\, and the American Neurological Association’s Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award. Her discoveries have inspired more than 20 clinical trials of brain stimulation across multiple diseases and have been featured on PBS\, Nature News\, Quanta Magazine\, The New York Times\, Radiolab\, and multiple documentaries. Dr. Singer trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Ed Boyden’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT and earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UCSF.
UID:143328-21892907@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143328
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T112441
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - The evolutionary implications of ecological interactions: lessons from agent-based models
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Eco-evolutionary feedbacks play a powerful role in shaping the trajectory of change in ecological communities. Developing general theory to predict these trajectories would enable a wide variety of innovations in fields ranging from evolutionary medicine to agriculture. I will discuss two vignettes from my lab's work towards developing this theory. First\, a critical step is identifying the ecological interactions that are currently occurring. To this end\, we are exploring the possibility of identifying game theoretic interactions among cancer cells via spatial pattern analysis. A necessary second component is predicting how co-evolution will shape ecological interactions over time. We are studying this problem in the context of host-endosymbiont co-evolution\, using an agent-based computational model. Specifically\, I will present our results on the impact of partner choice on the de novo evolution and stability of mutualism\, and how this impact is affected by the mutational landscape of the trait governing partner choice.
UID:143476-21893252@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143476
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260119T101618
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Pierre Bellec\, Associate Professor\, Department of Statistics\, Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The talk will explore properties of the iterates obtained from iterative algorithms in high-dimensional linear regression problems\, in the regime where the feature dimension is comparable with the sample size.  Examples of common iterative algorithms covered by the analysis include Gradient Descent (GD)\, proximal GD and their accelerated variants such as Fast Iterative Soft-Thresholding (FISTA)\, as well as Stochastic Gradient Descent (SDG). For these estimators\, we will introduce estimators for the generalization error of the iterate for any fixed iteration along the trajectory. These estimators are proved to be root-n consistent under Gaussian designs.  Applications to early-stopping are provided: when the generalization error of the iterates is a U-shape function of the iterations\, the estimates allow to select from the data an iteration that achieves the smallest generalization error along the trajectory.  Time permitting\, we will introduce debiasing corrections and valid confidence intervals for the components of the true coefficient vector from the iterate at any finite iteration.
UID:143257-21892564@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143257
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260206T030401
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Energy Correlators in Particle Physics\, QFT and Gravity
DESCRIPTION:Detector operators\, of which the average null energy operator provides the most famous example\, arise as direct theoretical models of asymptotic measurements in collider experiments. In QFT\, detector operators are expressed in terms of \"light-ray operators\"\, whose correlation functions provide an interesting class of non-perturbatively well-defined observables. \n\nIn this talk\, I will give an overview of light-ray/ detector operators\, and attempt highlight the different perspectives and motivations for studying these operators\, coming from the CFT\, amplitudes and phenomenological communities. I will then present recent measurements of these correlators in experiment\, as well as applications to positivity bounds on OPE coefficients.
UID:143131-21892188@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260118T213612
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Camassa-Holm Equations with an internal symmetry
DESCRIPTION:In the first part of my talk\, I will revisit my work on the scalar Camassa–Holm equation\, which will set the stage for the second part. There\, I will outline a construction of spinor analogs of the Camassa–Holm equation. In essence\, each orthogonal group gives rise to a Camassa–Holm–type equation with intricate internal dynamics. I will motivate this generalization using spectral deformations of the Euler–Bernoulli beam problem\, which corresponds to the Clifford algebra on two generators with Minkowski signature. The dynamics of solutions of this Clifford extension are far more intricate than in the scalar case\, a contrast I will illustrate with concrete examples. The talk is based on recent joint work with R. Beals and ongoing research with A. Hone and V. Novikov.
UID:142888-21891768@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142888
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260203T090856
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Energy landscape analysis of multivariate time series via the Ising model | Winter Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:I present energy landscape analysis for multivariate time series. We infer an effective energy landscape from the data by fitting the inverse Ising model (also called a Boltzmann machine and pairwise maximum entropy model) and represent each observed system state as the position of a \"ball\" constrained to move on that surface. From the estimated landscape we compute\, statistical-physics‑inspired indices\, such as basin structure\, barrier heights\, dwell times\, transition rates\, and susceptibilities\, to characterize collective organization\, metastability\, and transition dynamics in the original time series. I illustrate the approach with neuroimaging examples in health and disease.
UID:143615-21893556@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 747
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DTSTAMP:20260112T113742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transition to Green Technology along the Supply Chain
DESCRIPTION:We analyze a model of green technological transition along a supply chain. The model generates a unique equilibrium for given initial conditions but multiple steady- states. We show that: (i) even in the presence of Pigouvian environmental taxation\, targeted sectoral subsidies are generally necessary to implement the social optimum\; (ii) small\, targeted industrial policy may bring large welfare gains\; (iii) a government which is unable to subsidize greenification in more than one sector or price carbon at its true social cost should primarily target downstream sectors\; (iv) overinvesting in greenification in the wrong upstream branch may derail the overall transition towards greenification. Finally\, we calibrate our model to decarbonization of heavy duty transportation (trucking\, aviation\, etc.) via hydrogen. We find that\, absent industrial policy\, the economy can get stuck in the “wrong” steady-state with CO2 emissions vastly above the social optimum even with a Pigouvian carbon price in place.
UID:143290-21892647@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20251114T080201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: \"Engineering regenerative microenvironments: Guiding cell plasticity through niche design and nanoscale mediators\"
DESCRIPTION:Jae-Won Shin\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\nDentistry-Biologic & Materials Science\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141861-21889542@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141861
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251223T102619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Plasma and Gas Optics for Ultra-Intense Lasers
DESCRIPTION:MIPSE Early Career Award 2025-2026\n\nAbstract: \nOur ability to build lasers of higher peak power into higher-intensity regimes of laser science is fundamentally limited by the optical damage thresholds of the dielectric coatings\, glass\, and metal that make up modern optics. Although we would like to have lasers capable of probing Schwinger-limit fields or accelerating large plasma volumes to relativistic speeds\, current laser technology cannot be scaled much beyond the ten-petawatt level without prohibitive cost. Plasma physics offers a solution: plasma can tolerate light intensities far beyond the damage thresholds of solid-state optics. In principle\, the use of plasmas as optics allows the construction of compact ultra-high-power lasers\, but a range of plasma physics and engineering problems must first be solved. We will discuss how gases and plasmas can be shaped into precision optics suitable for our most powerful and energetic lasers\, providing ultra-high damage thresholds and resistance to the neutron and debris fluxes that would be present in an inertial fusion plant. We will show experimental\, computational\, and analytic results on the performance of gas and plasma diffraction gratings and lenses\, including demonstrations of efficiency and stability comparable to standard solid-state optics. We will then discuss designs for plasma-based laser systems and how plasma optics could enable compact lasers with multi-petawatt to exawatt peak powers.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nMatthew Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received BSE\, MA\, and PhD degrees from Princeton University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. From 2019 to 2022 he was a Lawrence Fellow in the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research applies high-power lasers to the development of optical diagnostics for fluids and plasmas\, the study of intense light-matter interactions\, and the construction of compact light and particle sources\, combining adaptive high-repetition-rate experiments and large-scale simulations to explore new regimes in fluid mechanics\, thermodynamics\, materials science\, and plasma physics.\n\nThis seminar is free and open to the public. It will be conducted in person and on Zoom\, please check MIPSE website for details: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2526.php
UID:143085-21892041@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143085
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
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DTSTAMP:20260127T070323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Brain tumors are organized as active nematic liquid crystals\n\nAbstract:\nWhether gliomas consist of random accumulations of cells or are self-organizing remains unknown.  If large scale order exists\, it should manifest as invariant structures across different tumors. Recently\, we described the existence of oncostreams\, fascicles of elongated mesenchymal-like cells that are found in gliomas in both rodent and human tumors. In this presentation\, I will discuss that glioma brain tumors in vivo\, and in vitro\, are structured as active nematic liquid crystals. Building on our previous work that gliomas exhibit self-organized\, aligned\, multicellular structures\, termed oncostreams\, I will show that gliomas display nematic order\, topological defects\, disclinations\, and quasi-long range order in 2D and in 3D. Significantly\, the amount of nematic order scales with tumor aggression - suggesting crystalline order contributes to tumor malignancy - constituting a novel potential therapeutic target for this incurable cancer. Potential novel therapeutic approaches based on this new understanding of the structure of gliomas will be discussed. \n\nBio:\nDr. Lowenstein graduated MD\, Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires\, Argentina. Following postdoctoral work at The Johns Hopkins University\, NIH\, and Oxford University he opened his first lab at the University of Dundee\, Scotland. Subsequently\, he has taught and researched at the University of Wales\, Cardiff\, the University of Manchester\, UK\, and UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, in Los Angeles\, CA. He has been at the University of Michigan since 2011. His interests lie in understanding and curing brain tumors. Most recently\, he has been exploring the physical organization of brain tumors\, as will be discussed during his presentation.
UID:144608-21895563@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144608
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20260129T125956
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Ann Lee\, Professor\, Department of Statistics & Data Science\, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Scientific inference often involves inferring internal key parameters that determine the outcome of a complex physical phenomenon. The data themselves may come in the form of a labeled set that implicitly encodes the likelihood function\; for example\, in the form of (i) pairs of parameters and observable data according to a mechanistic (simulator) model\, or as (ii) observed data and parameters 'measured' with high precision via an auxiliary experiment. We refer to inference in both intractable likelihood settings as \"Likelihood-Free Inference'\" (LFI). The application of neural density estimators and generative models to scientific LFI settings is becoming increasingly widespread. However\, high-posterior density (HPD) regions derived from these density estimators do not necessarily have a high probability of including the true parameter of interest\, even if the posterior is well-estimated and the labeled data have the same distribution as the target distribution. Furthermore\, if the prior distribution is poorly specified\, then the HPD regions could severely undercover and/or be biased\, thereby leading to misleading scientific conclusions. In this talk\, I will present new LFI methodology and algorithms for leveraging neural density estimators to produce confidence regions that have (i) nominal frequentist coverage for any value of the (unknown) parameter\, even with just one observation (sample size n=1)\, and (ii) smaller average area (yielding higher constraining power) if the prior is well-specified. I will illustrate our methods on examples from astronomy and high-energy physics\, and discuss where we stand and what challenges still remain.
UID:143585-21893425@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143585
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260119T103027
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Realizing the potential of community-led\, science-driven participatory modeling: A case in green infrastructure planning
DESCRIPTION:Participatory modeling (PM) is particularly well-suited to address complex socio-environmental problems like climate hazards and their implications on sustainable resource management and landscape planning. Despite its potential to inform planning and policy\, particularly in conflictive contexts\, PM has yet to become a mainstream practice for decision-making. While most of the PM research and development has focused on modeling tools and engagement techniques\, multiple other dimensions must be recognized and articulated for impactful planning support. I present a PM platform\, Fora.ai\, that is supportive of the iterative steps in PM: problem definition and goal setting\, preference elicitation\, collaborative scenario-building\, simulation\, tradeoff deliberation\, and solution-building. I demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness when embedded in a stakeholder-led process that integrates diverse knowledge\, data sources\, and values in pursuit of impactful green infrastructure (GI) planning to address flooding. I show how the combination of specific facilitation practices and platform features leveraged the power of data\, computational modeling\, and social complexity to contribute to collaborative learning\, creative and convergent solution-building for urban sustainability and climate resilience.
UID:141748-21889269@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141748
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240
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DTSTAMP:20260204T205537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Continuum Calogero--Moser models
DESCRIPTION:The focusing CCM equation is a completely integrable PDE that describes a continuum limit of a particle gas interacting pairwise through an inverse-square potential.  This system is well-posed below the mass of the soliton\, but above this threshold there are solutions that blow up in finite time.\n\nThe defocusing model arises as a modulation equation for internal waves in a deep stratified fluid.  In this setting\, it is a member of a family of systems known as the intermediate nonlinear Schrödinger equations.\n\nIn this talk\, we will discuss some recent well-posedness results for the continuum Calogero--Moser and intermediate nonlinear Schrödinger equations.  This is based on joint works with Andreia Chapouto\, Justin Forlano\, Rowan Killip\, and Monica Visan.
UID:143077-21892023@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143077
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260205T134723
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RESET Demonstration Project: Overview and Technical Background
DESCRIPTION:The seminar will provide an overview and technical background for the Re-Engineering Statistics using Economic Transactions Demonstration Project (RESET DP). This project proposes a new architecture for building official measures of inflation and spending from granular\, item-level transactions data\, offering internally consistent measures of real expenditures and inflation. The RESET architecture aims to replace the existing 20th century infrastructure for official statistics\, which relies on disparate surveys and enumerations\, with one built upon 21st century information systems. The RESET DP will release real-time monthly indices of inflation and sales covering most retail goods in the United States—accounting for almost ten percent of GDP.\n\nItem-level transactions data yield cost-of-living indices that can account for quality change and consumer substitution. Transactions data require confronting the rapid turnover of items because prices of new and existing products are interrelated in equilibrium. The attached paper “Quality Adjustment at Scale: Hedonic vs. Exact Demand-Based Price Indices” evaluates multiple approaches to measuring quality change at scale. It shows that a hedonic superlative approach—using econometrics or machine learning for hedonic estimation combined with index formulas that require simultaneous observation of item-level price and expenditure—yields improved measures of the cost of living. Accounting for ubiquitous quality change and for consumer substitution yields lower measures of inflation than traditional\, official methods.
UID:143291-21892648@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143291
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260203T135705
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Steroid Hormones: Endocrine disruption of pancreatic function and development
DESCRIPTION:The 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. This seminar is being presented by Karilyn E. Sant\, MPH\, PhD (Associate Professor\, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology\, Michigan State University).
UID:144987-21896242@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144987
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251114T080452
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: \"When red cells talk to bone ‒ Crosstalk mechanisms in musculoskeletal disorders\"
DESCRIPTION:Annemarie Lang\, D.V.M.\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nOrthopaedic Surgery\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141862-21889543@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20260204T104352
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:From Concept to Care: Leading R&D and Operations in the Medical Device Industry\nAbstract:\nThis seminar focuses on the career journey and real-world experiences of a Vice President of R&D and Operations Engineering in the medical device industry. Students will gain insight into how careers evolve across engineering\, innovation\, operations\, and leadership\, and what skills\, mindsets\, and decisions enable long-term success. The session offers practical guidance on navigating industry roles\, learning from early career choices\, and building a path at the intersection of engineering\, healthcare\, and business impact.\n\nBio:\nWith more than 25 years in the medical device industry\, Carlos M. Ortega (Vice President of R&D and Operations Engineering) has built a career at the intersection of innovation\, engineering execution\, and clinical impact. Having held leadership and functional roles at companies such as Terumo\, Medtronic\, and Johnson & Johnson\, he has contributed to the development and commercialization of technologies across cardiovascular\, neurovascular\, aortic\, and peripheral vascular therapies.\n\nHis experience spans predominantly R&D leadership\, complemented by roles in operations engineering and product marketing\, giving him a unique perspective on how ideas translate into manufacturable\, clinically meaningful products. Throughout his career\, he has led multidisciplinary teams\, navigated complex regulatory environments\, and helped organizations align technology development with patient and business needs.\n\nHe is passionate about the impact medical devices have on the lives or the patients they serve and in mentoring the next generation of professionals by sharing practical insights into building impactful careers in the medical device industry.
UID:145043-21896577@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260108T115719
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - The Ties That Bind: Evolutionary linkages between hosts\, viruses\, and genomes
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Many evolutionary processes are linked\, such that patterns in one unit inform patterns in the other. Identifying and understanding those linkages across biological scales is essential for predicting patterns of biodiversity\, disease\, and evolution\, among other variables. Here\, I integrate phylogenetic\, ecological\, and genomic approaches to examine linked evolution of mammals\, viruses\, and genomes. Specifically\, I will (1) assess the phylogenetic distribution of virus diversity across the Class Mammalia\, relative to host species richness\; (2) integrate host-virus suitability landscapes to gauge multi-annual level of risk for Choclo hantavirus and its rodent host (Oligoryzomys)\; and (3) test how mito-nuclear linkages shape hybrid dynamics in red-backed voles (Clethrionomys). Collectively\, these analyses demonstrate that evolutionary patterns in hosts\, viruses\, and genomes are tightly coupled\, such that processes operating across deep phylogeny\, geographic space\, and within-species genomic architecture mutually inform one another.
UID:143481-21893254@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143481
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260210T082234
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Luke Miratrix\, Professor of Education\, Faculty Director Doctor of Education Leadership Program\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Matching promises simple and transparent causal inferences for observational data\, making it an attractive approach in many settings\, especially given its easily communicated and intuitive rationale. Matching methods “match” treated units to control units with similar covariates\, with the goal of achieving joint covariate balance between treated and control units\, as would be expected in a randomized experiment. In practice\, however\, standard matching methods often perform poorly compared to more recent approaches such as response-surface modeling and balancing. Finding close matches for treated units becomes particularly challenging when there are many covariates and overlap is low\, which can lead to imbalanced matched treatment groups\, biased effect estimates\, or low effective sample sizes. Building on a host of literature\, including synthetic control methods\, classic matching approaches\, and coarsened exact matching\, we propose Caliper Synthetic Matching (CSM) to address challenges with finding quality matches while preserving simple and transparent matching diagnostics. CSM\, a version of radial matching\, is an adaptive caliper matching method that utilizes locally built synthetic controls to adjust for inexact matches. By combining adaptive calipers and synthetic controls\, CSM produces data-driven bounds on potential extrapolation biases while exploiting local linearity to interpolate in a principled manner. Due to the local nature of CSM\, we can also detect which units are more difficult to match and assess degree of overlap.  We can even locally adapt caliper width to more tightly control bias in information dense regions. We show that CSM belongs to the monotonic imbalance bounding (MIB) class of matching methods\, and that it improves upon the bias bounds for popular MIB methods such as coarsened exact matching. We finally give theoretical results on an inferential strategy that allows for reuse of controls by different treated units (matching with replacement).
UID:144783-21895841@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144783
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260203T122553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Friday Seminar Series - Extended axes of modern collections
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Extended axes of modern collections
UID:144785-21895843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Research Museums Center - Demo Room
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DTSTAMP:20260113T145343
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> When Division Leaves a Message: Midbody Remnants as a New Type of Actively Translating Extracellular Vesicle
DESCRIPTION:The midbody remnant (MBR) is now recognized as a unique\, large extracellular vesicle (EV) that originates from the midbody structure formed during cytokinesis. Recent studies show that MBRs harbor active translation machinery and a distinctive set of RNAs and proteins\, including key cell fate\, pluripotency\, and oncogenic transcripts. Unlike canonical small EVs\, these post-abscission MBRs maintain regulated protein synthesis and can influence recipient cell behavior\, indicative of their novel role in intercellular communication. The identification of MBRs as translating EVs not only broadens our understanding of EV diversity but also offers new opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in cancer\, stem cell biology\, and tissue regeneration.\n\nHost: Babli Adhikary\, MCDB Community Engagement Committee
UID:143850-21894123@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143850
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260119T103007
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AI as Self-Discovery: How Large Language Models Reveal the Essence of the Human Mind\, and Why It Matters
DESCRIPTION:Most discussions of artificial intelligence center on its instrumental role—how it will transform industries and economies. But it may do something even more radical: reveal who we are. As artificial minds become more capable\, they will expose the deep principles underlying human thought—how reasoning\, agency\, and creativity actually work. AI thus offers not just a technological revolution but a humanistic one. This new self-understanding\, I argue\, will force us to rethink core ideas about mind\, agency\, and the basis of praise and blame.
UID:141750-21889311@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141750
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240
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DTSTAMP:20260130T181944
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transition Asymptotics for the Real Solutions of the sinh-Gordon Painlev\'e III
DESCRIPTION:We consider solutions of the sinh-Gordon Painlev\'e III equation\n\[\nu_{xx} + \frac{1}{x} u_x = \sinh u\n\]\nthat are real on \((0\, \infty)\). They are parametrized by the monodromy parameter \( p \in \overline{\mathbb C} \)\, \( |p|>1 \)\, and an additional real parameter \( s^{\mathbb R} \) when \( p=\infty \). We describe the transition between singular solutions (\( |p|<\infty \)) and smooth solutions (\( p=\infty \))\, as \( x \to +\infty \) and \( p \to \infty \) given that \( 2\Im(p)=-s^\R\).\nThis presentation is based on the ongoing work with Maxim Yattselev.
UID:143022-21891955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143022
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
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DTSTAMP:20260123T083225
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability (with Philippe Aghion\,  Timo Boppart\,  Michael Peters\, and Matthew Schwartzman)
DESCRIPTION:We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production to quality improvements. Consumers derive utility from goods with differing environmental footprints: necessities are material-intensive and polluting\, while luxuries are more service-based and emit less. Innovation can be directed toward either material productivity or product~quality. Because demand for luxuries is more sensitive to quality\, the economy gradually becomes “weightless”: growth is driven by quality improvements\, services become the dominant employment sector\, and material production stabilizes at a finite level. This structural transformation enables rising living standards with declining environmental intensity\, providing an endogenous path to degrowth in material output without compromising economic progress. Policy can accelerate the transition\, but its burden is uneven\, falling more heavily on the poor than on the rich.
UID:143292-21892649@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143292
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260203T134930
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T125000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Right to Food\, Right to Grow in Washtenaw County
DESCRIPTION:Zoom registration required https://myumi.ch/Qw4E8\n\nThe Residents & Researchers 'Tuesday Talks' are webinars\, which focus on environment\, health and community. \nThis discussion features Julius Buzzard (Growing Hope) and Dr. Francesca Williamson (University of Michigan Medical School) with Natalie Sampson (University of Michigan Dearborn) moderating.
UID:144986-21896241@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144986
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250924T145336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Rethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden
DESCRIPTION:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series\nMPSDS M3 Series\n\nFebruary 18\, 2026\n12:00 - 1:00 pm EST\nIn person\, room 1070 Institute for Social Research\, and via Zoom. The Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes are the start of the presentation.\n\nRethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden\n\nIn addition to regularly surveying the American public\, Pew Research Center fields cross-national public opinion surveys in more than 20 countries annually as part of its Global Attitudes Project (GAP). The Center’s International Methods team focuses on designing\, implementing\, monitoring\, and improving these surveys throughout the year. In this talk\, we present two research projects from 2025 in Australia and Sweden.\n\nMany surveys around the world\, across modes and methods\, have tended to show a slight left-leaning political bias. Weighting to past vote or party affiliation is a common solution\, but these corrections alone may create excessive variance inflation. We faced this problem in our surveys fielded on the mixed-mode Life in Australia probability panel\, administered by the Australian National University’s Social Research Centre. To combat this bias\, we tested a “voting-adjusted” sampling approach recommended by our partners at SRC\, in parallel with our previous standard stratified sampling design. Taking advantage of panel information and recent Australian elections\, the new method incorporates self-reported 2022 vote into individual weights which are used as a measure of size for PPS sampling. After reviewing the technical details behind this approach\, we’ll discuss our findings on its impact on variance and substantive estimates compared to the standard design.\n\nPush-to-web (P2W) designs are gaining traction in Europe as an alternative to costly – and methodologically challenged – interviewer-administered approaches. For instance\, the European Social Survey announced that by 2027 online and paper self-administered surveys will be their primary means of data collection replacing their traditional face-to-face approach. To better understand this mode and its potential for future waves of GAP\, we recently piloted an ABS-style\, sequential P2W survey in Sweden to compare with our traditional dual-frame phone design (DFRDD). Our presentation will compare P2W and DFRDD sample outcomes in terms of data quality (such as response rates\, response differentiation\, survey engagement\, and open-ended answer quality)\, representativeness (versus demographic parameters for gender\, education\, age and geography) and attitudinal estimates (considering the viability of long-term data trends if mode transitioned in Sweden). The P2W survey included an unconditional incentive experiment as well as a paper questionnaire mailing\, allowing us to present findings regarding the value of these design elements. This section of the talk concludes with key takeaways and recommendations for future mode-transition trials. \n\nSofi Sinozich is a research methodologist in international methods at Pew Research Center. She advises on complex sample design\, survey implementation\, and data quality assessment for international projects across the Center. Prior to joining the Center\, she was a senior research analyst at Langer Research Associates\, where she managed and contributed to a wide variety of survey projects\, including serving as lead analyst on the ABC News/Washington Post poll. She holds a master's degree in survey methodology from JPSM and is a member of the WAPOR Professional Standards committee.\n\nPatrick Moynihan is the associate director of international methods at Pew Research Center. Prior to joining the Center\, Patrick was the survey methodologist in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research (INR/OPN)\, assistant director of the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University\, and senior polling analyst at ABC News. He is a past president of the New England Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)\, served on multiple national AAPOR committees\, and is currently a member of the Committee on Professional Standards for the World Association for Public Opinion Research. Moynihan received his doctorate in sociology from SUNY Stony Brook.
UID:139829-21886103@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139829
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 1070, Institute for Social Research
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DTSTAMP:20260127T104706
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Charlyn Partridge
DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae\, HWA) is a small invasive insect threatening hemlock forests throughout the eastern United States and Canada. Eastern hemlocks are a foundation tree species found in sensitive coastal dunes and riparian zones. Once infested\, HWA feeds on the nutrients of hemlocks\, often resulting in hemlock mortality within 4 – 10 years. This can lead to landscape-level changes in biodiversity as infestations progress. Management efforts in Michigan are underway to control this invasive pest with a key focus on early detection. Current monitoring methods involve visual assessment of hemlocks for the presence of HWA ovisacs. However\, this is a demanding task considering there are an estimated 170 million hemlock trees in Michigan. Our lab is using a combination of airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) methods and population genomics analysis to help detect new infestations and gain insight into the historical spread of HWA throughout eastern North America. The information we gain from our work\, will hopefully contribute to faster detections and more accurate range expansion models as HWA continues to spread throughout the Great Lakes region.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Charlyn Partridge is an Associate Professor at Annis Water Resources Institute – Grand Valley State University. Her research uses genetic and genomic tools to aid in conservation and management efforts. Her current projects involve using environmental DNA approaches for targeted species detection and understanding how invasive species rapidly adapt to new environments.\n\nAs of July 2025 the GLERL facility can no longer accept visitors for the Great Lakes Seminar Series due to staffing shortages. Please attend virtually using the link above.
UID:144613-21895569@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144613
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260109T094551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Extreme Matters\, Pressure to Explore New Worlds\, Exotic Solids\, and Star Power
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nA science revolution is underway with the discovery of thousands of planets outside of our solar system\, the creation of revolutionary materials\, and the potential for harnessing fusion energy. Unlocking these discoveries hinges on our ability to understand and manipulate matter to and beyond atomic pressures\, conditions that alter the nature of atoms themselves. At such conditions our intuition for matter begins to breakdown\, with hydrogen becoming a metal and perhaps a superconducting super-fluid\, water becoming superionic where protons flow through a compact oxygen crystal\, and unbound electrons getting squeezed interior to core orbitals of an atom. I will show how laboratory laser experiments are opening this science frontier at light speed\, revealing how we might make transparent aluminum-like in Star Trek\, a new exploration into the nature and implications of planets-potential platforms for life throughout the universe\, and controlled thermonuclear fusion. You might take a look at one of our videos as a primer to our discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqabT21d8VM\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nGilbert ‘Rip’ Collins is Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy\, and Associate Director for the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University. From 1989 to 2016\, he held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, including Group Leader\, Physics Associate Division Leader\, Director for the Center for High Energy Density Physics\, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. Rip works with a world-class team of scientists exploring the nature and implications of matter at conditions where external forces overwhelm the quantum forces of the atom and the microphysics leading to thermonuclear fusion. He is the Director of the NSF Physics Frontier Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures. He holds visiting Professorships at Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the Bridgman Award\, APS Fellow\, AAAS Fellow\, APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics\, DOE Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award\, NNSA Award for Excellence for Stockpile Stewardship Program\, and NNSA Science and Technology Award.\n\nThis seminar is free and open to the public. It will be conducted in person and on Zoom\, please check MIPSE website for details: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2526.php
UID:143572-21893406@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143572
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
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DTSTAMP:20260209T112338
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T113000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> How do glia develop and shape the nervous system?
DESCRIPTION:MCDB Special Seminar: How do glia develop and shape the nervous system?
UID:145251-21896929@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260210T142826
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Advancing Ultrasound Therapy and Imaging: Towards High-Precision\, Real-time Solutions\n\nAbstract:\nAchieving high-precision diagnosis and therapy with ultrasound is challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of biological tissues. This seminar will present recent technological advances in ultrasound to improve both imaging performance and therapeutic capability.\n\nThe first part of the seminar will introduce transcranial histotripsy as a non-invasive brain therapy. Histotripsy is a non-thermal\, non-ionizing ultrasound therapy that mechanically fractionates target tissue through acoustic cavitation generated by short\, high-intensity ultrasound pulses. Transcranial histotripsy is particularly challenging because the intact human skull introduces severe attenuation and phase aberration. This seminar will discuss the specialized instrumentation for transcranial histotripsy\, methods to ensure precise targeting and real-time monitoring (including skull aberration correction and cavitation imaging)\, and feasibility and safety evaluation of transcranial histotripsy in preclinical studies.\n\nThe second half of the seminar will focus on ultrafast ultrasound imaging using large-aperture arrays. By combining ultrafast acquisition techniques with parallel computing\, this approach enables high-resolution volumetric imaging over a large field of view at video-rate frame rates. Two clinically relevant applications will be presented: panoramic spine imaging for diagnosis and interventional guidance\, and breast ultrasound tomography for early cancer screening. Finally\, we will discuss remaining technical challenges for clinical translation and highlight how advances in ultrafast imaging can be integrated with histotripsy to enable safer\, more precise therapies.\n\nBio:\nDr. Ning Lu is a Senior Ultrasound Engineer at United Imaging Healthcare North America in Bellevue\, Washington. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University under the mentorship of Prof. Katherine W. Ferrara\, where she developed high-resolution 3D ultrasound imaging techniques for diagnostic and interventional guidance. Dr. Lu received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Scientific Computing (joint degree) from the University of Michigan in 2023\, working with Prof. Zhen Xu on MR-guided transcranial histotripsy for non-invasive brain therapy. Her research interests include biomedical ultrasound\, medical instrumentation\, parallel computing\, and AI-driven imaging science. Her long-term career goal is to develop high-precision\, affordable\, personalized ultrasound solutions for therapy\, diagnosis\, and health monitoring.
UID:145330-21897104@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145330
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20260213T151659
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - The Reactor Around the Corner: Understanding Advanced Nuclear Energy Futures
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nSmall modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced nuclear technologies are gaining attention as key solutions to climate change\, energy insecurity\, and the growing energy needs of data centers. However\, the potential expansion of the global nuclear industry introduces—and in some cases reinforces—problems that technological solutions alone will not be able to fix. To help ensure that advanced nuclear energy serves the public interest rather than predominantly corporate and geopolitical actors\, we must have robust governance frameworks in place before the widespread implementation of SMRs. \n\nThis presentation will highlight the findings of the recent Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy (STPP) program’s Technology Assessment Project (TAP) report\, “The Reactor Around the Corner: Understanding Advanced Nuclear Energy Futures.” We will discuss our research approach\, in which we use the analogical case study (ACS) method to examine historical and contemporary technology parallels. By analyzing past technologies similar in form\, function\, or impact\, we can identify repeating social patterns and anticipate the social\, environmental\, ethical\, equity\, economic\, and geopolitical implications of emerging technologies.\n\nOur analysis reveals that without robust governance frameworks\, the widespread adoption of SMRs risks entrenching global disparities\, privileging private interests over public good\, overlooking local and Indigenous knowledge\, intensifying environmental injustices\, and failing to deliver on promises of local empowerment. We present policy recommendations for responsible governance of SMRs and the uranium supply chain to maximize benefits and minimize harms.\n\nThis interdisciplinary collaboration between the Ford School’s Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy (STPP) program and the College of Engineering’s Fastest Path to Zero Initiative (FPTZ) in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences demonstrates how policy and engineering expertise can be effectively integrated to address complex sociotechnical challenges.\n\nDenia Djokić Biography:\nDenia Djokić is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan’s Fastest Path to Zero Initiative in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. Her research focuses on the social\, political\, equity\, and environmental justice aspects of nuclear waste management\, advanced nuclear energy technology\, and energy systems more broadly. Dr. Djokić holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she was a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Graduate Student Fellow\, and a BS in physics from Carnegie Mellon University.\n\nMolly Kleinman Biography:\nMolly Kleinman serves as the Managing Director of the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. In this role\, she has co-authored reports on equitable community partnerships\, generative AI\, facial recognition\, and vaccine hesitancy. Dr. Kleinman received her PhD in Higher Education Policy from the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education\, her MS in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information\, and her BA in English from Bryn Mawr College.
UID:145462-21897377@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145462
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1303
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DTSTAMP:20260120T123657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Phytochemical diversity regulates resiliency to herbivory and environmental stressors
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Plants exist in a complex chemical world\, producing diverse blends of metabolites that shape interactions with herbivores\, microbes\, and the broader ecological community. My research program integrates chemical ecology\, metabolomics\, and community ecology to understand how phytochemical diversity—both within and among plant species—governs ecological stability across natural and managed ecosystems. Using Phragmites australis in threatened U.S. wetlands and solanaceous crops such as tomato and potato in agricultural systems\, my work examines how phytochemical diversity and variation mediate competition\, defense\, and mutualisms across multiple trophic levels.\nAcross wetlands\, I investigate how native and invasive lineages of P. australis differ in chemical trait expression\, how environmental stress gradients shape metabolic plasticity\, and how these differences influence competitive outcomes and invasion dynamics. In agricultural systems\, I test how terpene complexity alters herbivore and natural enemy behavior\, revealing general principles of how insects interpret multicomponent odor cues. Together\, these approaches demonstrate how chemical diversity structures ecological networks\, affects biocontrol efficacy\, and shapes ecosystem resilience.\nBy linking mechanistic plant chemistry with ecological processes\, my research provides a trait-based framework for predicting species coexistence\, improving ecosystem management\, and designing sustainable\, chemically informed strategies for conservation and agriculture.
UID:137386-21880192@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137386
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260213T092615
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Fred Feinberg\, Handleman Professor of Management\, Ross School of Business\, Professor of Statistics (by courtesy)\, Department of Statistics\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Expert adjudications are ubiquitous in high-stakes decision-making\, from grant reviews and academic hiring to elite evaluations in the arts and athletics. In these settings\, panels of judges score candidates across sequential stages\, and these scores are aggregated into a consensus ranking. Standard practice typically employs arithmetic averaging\, often supplemented with ad-hoc \"corrections\" for outliers or scale differences. However\, such approaches suffer from three core statistical problems: (1) Scale Heterogeneity\, where judges exhibit varying levels of discrimination and range-restriction\; (2) Information Loss\, where the longitudinal \"trajectory\" of a candidate is sidestepped in favor of stage-specific snapshots\; and (3) Nonignorable Missingness\, where conflict-of-interest (COI) recusals can introduce systematic bias.\n\nWe develop a hierarchical Bayesian framework that addresses these issues simultaneously. First\, we treat observed scores as generators of ordinal tie-blocks\, bypassing the \"cardinality fallacy\" and modeling the probability of observed ranks. Second\, we link sequential rounds via a fusion model with LKJ correlation priors\, allowing the model to borrow strength across the tournament while regularizing the latent covariance. Third\, we introduce a novel Informative Missing Data Likelihood (MDL) that treats COI recusals as a form of informative censoring. When judges abstain from rating their own students or collaborators\, standard approaches invoke a \"Missing Completely at Random\" (MCAR) assumption. Our MDL instead retains recused candidates in the \"risk set\" as censored alternatives\, correcting for the potential bias in win probabilities that occurs when high-caliber competitors are systematically excluded from a judge’s denominator. The model combines a Plackett–Luce formulation for tied data (implemented via Elementary Symmetric Polynomials) with judge-specific discrimination parameters that automatically downweight poorly-calibrated raters\, and the full posterior can be efficiently sampled via Hamiltonian Monte Carlo\, allowing full uncertainty quantification in downstream estimands.\n\nWe apply this framework to a high-stakes international competition — to be revealed during the talk! — featuring dozens of candidates\, multiple rounds\, and nearly 20 elite judges. Analysis suggests that the standard scoring method and the MDL-augmented model produce distinctly different results: they disagree on the winner and posterior advancement probabilities\, driven almost entirely by the differential treatment of collaborator-based recusals. Sensitivity analysis reveals that these outcomes are largely contingent on the assumed missing data mechanism. By making these untestable assumptions explicit\, we provide a more transparent and principled foundation for high-stakes adjudication in grant panels\, hiring committees\, and both athletic and artistic judging.
UID:144784-21895842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144784
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260122T155433
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Statistics and machine learning for studying air pollution using low-cost sensors (Environmental Statistics Day Symposium)
DESCRIPTION:Symposium Schedule\nAll events taking place in the School of Public Health (1415 Washington Heights)\n\n11:00 am -12:00 pm\nKeynote Lecture\n1655 SPH 1\n\n12:00-1:30 pm\nPosters and Lunch\n1680 SPH 1 (Cornely Community Room)\n\n1:30-2:30 pm\nLightning Talks and Q&A\n1680 SPH 1 (Cornely Community Room)\n\n2:45 pm\nAwards \nBest Oral Presentation and Best Poster
UID:144320-21895161@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144320
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Public Health I (Vaughan Building) - 1655
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DTSTAMP:20260130T150414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> A network mechanism for perceptual learning
DESCRIPTION:Organisms continually tune their perceptual systems to the features they encounter in their environment. We have studied how this experience reorganizes the synaptic connectivity of neurons in the olfactory (piriform) cortex of the mouse. We developed an approach to measure synaptic connectivity in vivo\, training a deep convolutional network to reliably identify monosynaptic connections from the spike-time cross-correlograms of 4.4 million single-unit pairs. This revealed that excitatory piriform neurons with similar odor tuning are more likely to be connected. We asked whether experience enhances this like-to-like connectivity\, but found that it was unaffected by odor exposure. Experience did\, however\, alter the logic of interneuron connectivity. Following repeated encounters with a set of odorants\, inhibitory neurons that responded differentially to these stimuli exhibited a high degree of both incoming and outgoing synaptic connections within the cortical network. This reorganization depended only on the odor tuning of the inhibitory interneuron and not on the tuning of its pre- or postsynaptic partners. A computational model of this reorganized connectivity predicts that it increases the dimensionality of the entire network’s responses to familiar stimuli\, thereby enhancing their discriminability. We confirmed that this network-level property is present in physiological measurements\, which showed increased dimensionality and separability of the evoked responses to familiar versus novel odorants. Thus a simple\, non-Hebbian reorganization of interneuron connectivity may selectively enhance an organism’s discrimination of the features of its environment.
UID:144862-21896053@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260223T100141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Semiclassical Soliton Ensembles for the Intermediate Long Wave and Korteweg-de Vries Equations
DESCRIPTION:Semiclassical soliton ensembles (SSE) in the small dispersion limit are initially coherent collections of many solitons that well-approximate some initial profile. Evolving forward in time\, the profile will eventually undergo wave breaking\, shedding the solitons and generating a dispersive shock wave. We study this phenomenon for two PDE. The first SSE\, for the intermediate long wave equation\, is constructed to approximate general smooth Klaus-Shaw initial data. We first conduct a heuristic WKB approximation to determine the approximate scattering data and then rigorously study the inverse scattering problem using the methods of Lax and Levermore. We show the initial condition is recovered in the limit and the solution up until wave breaking approaches that of Invicid Burgers' equation in an L^2 sense. The second SSE is the sech^2 initial condition for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Inverse scattering is done via a Reimann-Hilbert problem and the method of nonlinear steepest descent is employed. This project is joint work with K. Schmidt (University of Central Florida) and R. Buckingham (University of Cincinnati).
UID:143638-21893567@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143638
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - EH 1866
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DTSTAMP:20260211T083450
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HANK’s Response to Aggregate Uncertainty in an Estimated Business Cycle Model
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies a HANK model with agents who respond to both idiosyncratic and aggregate uncertainty. Since aggregate uncertainty is modeled as ambiguity\, it affects the steady state and linearized dynamics\, allowing for fast computation and estimation. The interaction of aggregate uncertainty shocks and portfolio frictions generates a high capital premium as well as most cyclical comovement in macroeconomic aggregates. Heterogeneity in portfolios is crucial: when it is shut down\, the model fails to explain investment dynamics and the capital premium disappears. Cautious price and wage setting by firms in anticipation of aggregate uncertainty shapes employment and inflation dynamics.
UID:143293-21892650@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143293
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260223T120038
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:System of Self? The Role of Slave-holding in Political Behavior
DESCRIPTION:Understanding politicians’ behavior is especially important for the Late Antebellum\, when that generation may have ‘blundered’ into a bloody conflict: the US Civil War.  We link the Washington Post’s database of congressional slaveholding to voting in the US House of Representatives in 1839-1861.  As a summary\, we examine standard voting-ideology scores and also key legislation.  While slaveholding is a powerful predictor of voting\, this relationship nearly vanishes if we control for representing a slave state.  Relatedly\, in slave states\, the overwhelming majority of congressmen were slaveholders\, even though the vast majority of eligible voters in that region were not.  Case studies illustrate how ‘crossover’ politicians (e.g. nonslaveholders in slave states) conformed to dominant voting behavior.  Our analysis favors systemic interpretations for regional differences in congressional voting\, rather than this specific form of self-interest.  The system brought its peculiar interests to the forefront.
UID:145829-21897860@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145829
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20251114T080730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: \"How cells force the gut into shape\"
DESCRIPTION:Tyler Huycke\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nMolecular\, Cellular\, & Developmental Biology\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141863-21889544@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20260218T093228
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Dissertation Defense Seminar> Revisiting the role of DNA polymerase I in maintaining the genome integrity of Bacillus subtilis
DESCRIPTION:One of the essential biological findings of the past century was the discovery of DNA polymerase\, which revealed the core mechanism by which DNA is faithfully replicated and repaired in cells. While polymerases were first described in bacteria\, homologous proteins are present in all domains and contribute to multi-faceted systems that employ multiple DNA polymerases to optimize both fidelity and processivity. Of these\, one of the most adaptable enzymes is the originally discovered bacterial polymerase\, DNA polymerase I (Pol I). This protein has three distinct domains that confer different functions: a 5′-3′ flap endonuclease (FEN) for removing downstream nucleic acids\, a 3′-5′ exonuclease for proofreading the nascent strand\, and a 5′-3′ polymerase for synthesizing DNA. These three activities allow Pol I to contribute broadly to DNA repair and replication\, though its canonical roles are primer removal and Okazaki fragment maturation. \n\nThe role of Pol I in primer removal\, however\, was established using Pol I from the gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and does not consider diverging functions that may have developed as bacterial lineages evolved separately. Using genetic screens and biochemical assays\, we characterized Pol I and a Pol I-independent FEN from Bacillus subtilis (FEN\, formerly YpcP). We demonstrate that FEN is actively involved in Okazaki fragment maturation in vivo\, as cells lacking fenA are sensitive to the accumulation of RNA-DNA hybrids and this phenotype is not rescued by over-expression of polA. Using a variety of substrates\, we show that FEN is a more active nuclease than Pol I. FEN showed significant activity on substrates mimicking intermediates formed during Okazaki fragment maturation (5′\, 3′ double-flap\, 5′ flap\, nicked duplex\, and 3′ overhang)\, whereas Pol I preferentially acted on DNA-only nicked and 3′ overhang structures. These substrate preferences indicate that the major role of FEN is Okazaki fragment maturation while Pol I nuclease function is more important for DNA repair. As Pol I nuclease activity was not stimulated by concurrent DNA synthesis\, we propose that in bacteria that encode a second\, active FEN\, RNA primers are primarily removed by FEN rather than Pol I. \n\nA more recent repair activity attributed to A-family polymerases\, such as Pol I\, is RNA-templated lesion bypass. As our FEN data suggest that the primary role of BsPol I is in DNA repair\, we investigated whether Pol I could use ribonucleotides as a template for DNA synthesis. Since RNA is often found incorporated in DNA\, either as part of R-patches or R-tracts\, this category of damage represents a significant barrier to successful replication. We show that BsPol I performs efficient primer extension using both a template composed entirely of RNA or a DNA template containing embedded ribonucleotides. We also assayed other bacterial Pol Is and found that they possess similar capabilities as BsPol I\, though the efficiency of this synthesis varies by species. This activity is not performed by the B. subtilis replicative polymerases\, PolC and DnaE\, as we found that neither are capable of sustained synthesis using a template that contains ribonucleotides. PolC was arrested by the inclusion of a single ribonucleotide in the template\, while DnaE was able to synthesize DNA using a template that contained a stretch of 5 ribonucleotides. Together\, these data support RNA-templated DNA synthesis by Pol I as a viable pathway for replication forks to navigate ribonucleotides incorporated in DNA.
UID:145240-21896916@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145240
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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