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DTSTAMP:20251212T105136
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World
DESCRIPTION:View a diverse array of artifacts which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\n\nHowever\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \n\nThis exhibit was a collaboration\, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It was curated by Abigail Staub\, PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology.\n\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\, U-M associate professor of history\, will talk about \"Healing the Womb: Uterine Amulets in the Roman World\" (https://events.umich.edu/event/142418) on January 16.
UID:142417-21890931@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142417
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Archaeology,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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DTSTAMP:20260414T092049
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Momentary Landscape
DESCRIPTION:About the exhibition\nDiane Lavoie’s large-scale textile artworks are made entirely from up-cycled materials and are often placed in direct visual conversation with the natural landscape. Through the artist's choice of materials and visual subject matter\, the springtime installation *Momentary Landscape* is intended to emphasize important work surrounding sustainability\, climate change\, and environmental issues through the arts. The project is scheduled to unfold in the lobby of the South Thayer Building during exam week\, offering students and visitors a restorative\, reflective\, and joyful experience through public art installation.\n\nAbout the artist\nDiane Lavoie is a North American visual artist based in Berlin\, Germany. Her art represents a dialogue between the natural and artificial world\, and explores the boundaries between reality and perception. In her practice\, Lavoie creates large-scale\, textile representations of natural environments in contrast and connection with the actual environs surrounding them. Lavoie holds an MFA in painting from California State University Long Beach and a BFA in illustration from Massachusetts College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private and public collections in the US and Europe.
UID:142904-21901581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142904
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Environment,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20260306T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tangent: The 2026 IP Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAll Stamps seniors who are enrolled in the year-long Integrative Project course participate in the IP Exhibition held each spring\, which is the culmination of their thesis work. The senior studio spaces in the Stamps Art & Architecture Building are transformed into exhibition space\, with 4D work featured in a group screening and reel\, and selected projects displayed in the A&A Street Gallery.\n\nExhibition Dates: April 20 – May 2\, 2026\nArt & Architecture Building\, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd\nOpen Monday through Saturday\, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.\n\nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 24\, 1-8 p.m.\n\nFilm/Video Screenings will take place in the Art & Architecture Auditorium from 4-5:30 p.m. on Friday\, April 24 and Friday\, May 1.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260415T092058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Commoditization of Labor (joint with Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson)
DESCRIPTION:Technical change often simplifies jobs. This increases productivity\, but it also makes work- ers more substitutable—or more “commoditized”. Commoditization of labor drives down worker bargaining power: anyone can do the job\, implying workers are disposable\, which improves the outside option of firms and can lower worker wages. We develop a model that captures both the productivity enhancing and wage depressing effects of commoditizing tech- nical change. Commoditizing technical change involves firms standardizing tasks which im- plies that output is less sensitive to worker quality. Firms benefit because they can more easily fill vacancies for their durable jobs. We show that our model can help explain the divergence between productivity and wages in the service sector\, increasing markdowns despite falling local concentration\, and the decline of the large-firm wage premium.
UID:143304-21892669@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143304
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Macroeconomics,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260415T132944
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Topics on the Generalization and Learnability of Modern Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:Learning theory is a subfield of machine learning research where we analyze the theoretical properties of machine learning problems and algorithms through mathematics. This thesis is a culmination of three standalone works in the field of learning theory.\n\nFirst\, we analyze the generalization bounds of the Transformer architecture to show that it does not depend on maximum sequence length. To do this\, we analyze the Rademacher Complexity of the architecture and create novel covering number bounds on linear functions that do not depend on the amount of samples. We also run a simulation and show the results support our theoretical findings.\n\nIn the next chapter\, we analyze a quirk seen in the training of modern large language models. Most of these models are trained to only predict the next token of the output\; however\, the output of the model is a sequence of tokens. We study this mismatch in training optimization and output through the lens of the surrogate loss consistency framework. We analyze different ways of decoding these next-token predictors to see when we achieve asymptotic consistency for two use cases when encoded as loss functions.\n\nIn the final work of this thesis\, the theoretical learnability of multiclass forgiving 0-1 loss functions is studied through the PAC-Learnability framework. We show a generalization the Natarajan dimension [Natarajan\, 1989] characterizes the learnability of many instantiations of learning problems that use forgiving 0-1 loss functions. We also show how this setting can be used to model other known settings in the literature.
UID:147770-21901951@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147770
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
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DTSTAMP:20260417T125418
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biodiversity Scholars Program: Poster Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Students who are part of the U-M Herbarium and Museum of Zoology's Biodiversity Scholars Program will present their findings from the semester. Refreshments will be served.
UID:147842-21902031@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biodiversity
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260313T120337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Create Images Using AI: Get Started with Adobe Firefly
DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to stop searching for that perfect image and start creating it!   Join us for a hands-on tour of Adobe’s Generative AI tools. We’ll show you how to turn text prompts into great images\, and make fast edits like adding\, expanding\, or removing objects usin Adobe’s Generative Fill feature.  Perfect for anyone who wants to to create quick\, impressive visuals.\n\nPreparation Tips: To ensure a smooth start\, log in to Adobe Firefly at least 15 minutes before the workshop begins.\n\nWorkshop Outline\n-What is Adobe Firefly\, and how does it work?\n-Text-to-Image: How to write prompts to get the look you want.\n-Generative Fill: Add objects\, change backgrounds\, and make quick fixes.\n-Best Practices: Troubleshooting\, citation and responsible use.\n-Wrap-Up and Resources\n\nRecommended Prerequisites\nIntroduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts (Mini Workshop)\n  -- OR --\nGenerative AI Basics (Full Workshop)\nCritical Challenges in GenAI: Academic Integrity\, Bias\, Responsibilities\, and Risks (Mini Workshop)\n  -- OR --\nGenerative AI Basics (Full Workshop)\nFrom Basics to Brilliance: Prompt Crafting with U-M GPT (Mini Workshop)\n  -- OR --\nGenerative AI with U-M GPT (Full Workshop)\n\nAudience:\nInstructors\nStaff\nStudents
UID:142498-21899289@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142498
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Imagery,Generative Ai,Academic Technology At Michigan,Adobe,Adobe Express,Genai
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260424T093908
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Poster presentations from the: Biodiversity Scholars Program
DESCRIPTION:Description: The Biodiversity Scholars Program (BSP) is a new undergraduate initiative that connects students conducting collections-based research with the broader community across the U-M Herbarium and Museum of Zoology. The first BSP cohort will present their semester findings on Tuesday\, 4/28\, at noon in BSB 1010. Refreshments will be served.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147963
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum - Zoology,Museum - Herbarium,Herbarium,eeb,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Bsbsigns
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260224T101438
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:143999-21894494@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history
LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room
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DTSTAMP:20250926T161128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Courageous Conversations: Learning in Action Lab
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:139952-21892130@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139952
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Communication,Intergroup Dialogue,Self Development
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 2029
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