BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230404T123107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!!\n\nGet real-time\, personalized support by checking out the virtual Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who has designed this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships.\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about othertools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.\n\n**If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.\n\nRecent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line “Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or to be set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email. UID:105289-21811501@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/105289 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230916T192134 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISRMT: Improved very sparse matrix completing using an intentionally randomized \"asymmetric SVD\" DESCRIPTION:Joint work with: Charles Bordenave (University Aix-Marseille)\nSimon Coste (Université de Paris P7\, LPSM) \n\nWe consider the matrix completion problem in the very sparse regime where\, on average\, a constant number of entries of the matrix are observed per row (or column). In this very sparse regime\, we cannot expect to have perfect recovery and the celebrated nuclear norm based matrix completion fails because the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the underlying very sparse matrix completely breaks down. \n\nWe demonstrate that it is indeed possible to reliably recover the matrix. The key idea is the use of a ``randomized asymmetric SVD'' (which we will define) to find informative singular vectors in this regime in a way that the SVD cannot. \n\nWe provide sharp theoretical analysis of the phenomenon\, including a prediction of the lower limits of statistical recovery and demonstrate the efficacy of the new method(s) using simulations.\n\nA recording of the talk can be found at https://youtu.be/nlSmfwla6L4 UID:103553-21807465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/103553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics,seminar LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230220T121511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Career Talk DESCRIPTION:“What are you going to do with that?” Leveraging linguistics in business\, government\, nonprofit and tech organizations\n\nYou’ve probably wondered–and been asked–what you can do with a degree in linguistics more times than you can count. The good news is that linguistics degree-holders have more options than ever to use their linguistics skill-set in more career paths than ever. So the question is: How to discover and land those jobs? \n\nThis talk will cover aspects of career discernment for linguists: 1) How to research potential jobs and career paths\, 2) how to optimize your resume and digital presence\, and 3) how to develop narratives for networking\, cover letters and job interviews. We can also talk transparently about issues of identity shift\, salary\, and negotiation. I’ll leave you with a toolkit of resources that you can draw from during your career journey as a linguist. \n______________________________\n\nAlex Johnston is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Georgetown University Department of Linguistics where she serves as Director of Master’s Programs and Career Management. She has spent most of her career as a linguist working in the corporate and non-profit sectors as well as an entrepreneur with her own communications consulting business. \nPrior to joining the Georgetown Linguistics Department in 2018\, Dr. Johnston worked in the international educational exchange space as a director of alumni relations and communication at a national nonprofit organization\; served as president of a statewide nonprofit\; and was an international education program manager at two public universities. She has been a corporate consultant and executive coach for over 10 years\, delivering professional professional development workshops in intercultural communication\, leadership development\, and presentation skills. She has been an invited keynote speaker on global talent development at DuPont\, Corteva\, Goldman Sachs and the Meredith Corporation. She is founder and principal of Strategic Language Solutions\, a consulting firm that delivers training in intercultural communication\, executive leadership\, and relationship management to Fortune 100 organizational leaders in the agricultural and biotechnology space. \nDr. Johnston earned her PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University\, an MATESOL from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and a BA in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She thinks every organization needs a linguist and wants every linguist to find a career path that fits. UID:105177-21811242@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/105177 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Talk,Free,Career LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230320T122035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA DEI 2.0 Faculty Focus Groups DESCRIPTION:Please contact Courtney Kliss at klissc@umich.edu with any accommodation requests (e.g.\, CART\, ASL services) for any of these sessions\, so that we can ensure your participation! As part of our ongoing effort to collect input from faculty on the DEI 2.0 strategic plan\, AD for DEI Isis Settles will be hosting a series of 60-minute focus groups over the next several weeks. These discussions will be aimed at identifying key priorities and bold solutions to help LSA increase diversity\, equity and inclusion among faculty. Information gathered at these meetings will be aggregated and redacted to protect the identity of individuals.  Listed below are the opportunities for faculty to register. In order to maximize participation\, attendance for focus groups is limited and we ask that you only register for one session. A waiting list will be available for each session. UID:105404-21811697@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/105404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230320T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T173000 SUMMARY:Other:New Strategies for Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis DESCRIPTION:FeCl3 has been identified as an earth abundant\, environmentally friendly Lewis acid catalyst for ring-closing carbonyl-olefin metathesis. Lewis acid activation is used to promote the formation and fragmentation of oxetane intermediates\, avoiding catalytically inactive metal-oxo species and allowing for catalytic turnover. Subsequent efforts led to the discovery of interrupted carbonyl-olefin metathesis as a divergent reaction pathway that operates via oxygen atom transfer. TfOH catalyzes the formation of uniquely substituted fluorene scaffolds from readily accessible substrates. Unlike the inert metal-oxo byproducts of previously reported approaches for carbonyl-olefin metathesis\, a new ruthenium alkylidene-mediated hydrazone/oxime-olefin metathesis is developed that forms a highly reactive Ru nitride as the metal byproduct. The high reactivity of this species could be exploited to regenerate a Ru alkylidene\, potentially permitting Ru-catalyzed hydrazine/oxime-olefin metathesis as a new approach for catalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis. \r\n \r\n \n \n \n \n \nJacob Ludwig (AbbVie) UID:97085-21793864@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/97085 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Biosciences,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230315T093456 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special Physics Colloquium | New Paradigms in Quantum Computing: Beyond Quantum Circuits with Trapped-Ion Qubits DESCRIPTION:If you can't join us in person\, the colloquium is available via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94363328065 Meeting ID: 943 6332 8065\n\nTrapped ions are a leading quantum technology for quantum computation and simulation\, with the capability to solve computationally hard problems and deepen our understanding of complex quantum systems. The quantum circuit model is the central paradigm for quantum computation\, enabling the realization of various quantum algorithms by application of multiple one- and two-qubit entangling operations. However\, the typical number of entangling operations required by this model increases exponentially with the number of qubits\, making it difficult to apply to many problems. \n\nIn my presentation\, I will discuss new methods for realizing quantum gates and simulations that go beyond the quantum circuit model. I will first describe a single-step protocol for generating native\, -body interactions between trapped-ion spins\, using spin-dependent squeezing. Next\, I will present a preparation of novel phases of matter using simultaneous and reconfigurable spin-spin interactions. Lastly\, I will explore new avenues to harness the long-lived phonon modes in trapped-ion crystals for simulating complex bosonic and spin-boson models that are difficult to solve using classical methods. The presented techniques could push the performance of trapped-ion systems to solve problems that are currently beyond their reach. UID:106175-21813891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/106175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Physics,Graduate Students,Faculty LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230319T081131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Totally Nonnegative Grassmannian DESCRIPTION:The totally nonnegative Grassmannian is the subset of the Grassmannian whose points can be represented by matrices where all the maximal minors have non-negative determinant. We will discuss a stratification of this space into positroid cells and talk about multiple classes of combinatorial objects - including bounded affine permutations\, Grassmann necklaces\, and cyclic rank matrices - that can be used to index this stratification. UID:106424-21814238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/106424 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - EH 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230320T130847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: A Random Group with Local Data DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The Cohen--Lenstra heuristics describe the distribution of ell-torsion in class groups of quadratic fields as corresponding to the distribution of certain random p-adic matrices. These ideas have been extended to using random groups to predict the distributions of more general unramified extensions in families of number fields (see work by Boston--Bush--Hajir\, Liu--Wood\, Liu--Wood--Zureick-Brown). Via the Galois correspondence\, the distribution of unramified extensions is a specific example of counting number fields with prescribed ramification and bounded discriminant. As of yet\, no constructions of random groups have been given in the literature to predict the answers to famous number field counting conjectures such as Malle's conjecture. We construct a \"random group with local data\" bridging this gap\, and use it to describe new heuristic justifications for number field counting questions. UID:103358-21807092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/103358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230315T130123 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T180000 SUMMARY:Well-being:VIRTUAL | Women\, Connectedness\, and Self-Care DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/virtual-women-connectedness-and-self-care-2\n--------------------------------------------\n\nIn celebration of Women’s History Month\, CEW+ will feature a program focused on holistic wellness\, mindfulness\, and empowerment. Join us for a workshop offered virtually via Zoom and continue as part of a community of care throughout the month of March. All participants will receive weekly connectedness communications and an invite to return for an in-person check-in at CEW+ to celebrate a month of wellness.\n\nWe will spend time thinking about what self-care means to each of us based on identity\, social location\, and privilege to recognize the intersecting dynamics that drive this concept. We will explore how mindful connections can help foster communities of care. Drawing on Black feminist thought this workshop centers the words of the late poet Audre Lorde who said\, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence\, it is self-preservation\, and that is an act of political warfare.” By identifying the ways that we are and are not caring for ourselves we can begin to cultivate new intentions and practices that model for our families\, students\, and colleagues why self-care is an integral part of a balanced and whole life for women.\n\nDuring the workshop\, participants will engage in small and large group discussions focused on ideas and questions from the brief readings. We will develop our own “Self-Care Bingo” boards as a culminating activity and participants will be invited to do their best to complete bingo on their board throughout the rest of the month. Participants will be invited back at the end of the month (or beginning of April) to celebrate and share their joys and challenges in community.\n\nThis workshop kicks off a month-long series of activities related to practicing self-care and cultivating communities of care in the process. Each week participants will receive an email with resources\, tips\, and tools for incorporating self-care into their daily lives. The email will help to continue the conversation begun in the workshop and help to strengthen connections between participants and CEW+. UID:105543-21813953@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/105543 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mindfulness,women's health,women of color,women,Wellness,Well-being,Students With Children,Student Parents,Student Parent,Student Caregivers,Storytelling,Self-care,Free LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230224T123336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230320T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Mental Health Monday DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a relaxing night of uplifting mental health resources\, including therapy dogs\, guided meditation\, wellness tables\, healthy snacks\, and swag!*\n\nIn partnership with LSA Student Government.\n\nAdd to calendar: https://www.addevent.com/event/Cq15764592\n\nLSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize self-care\, inclusivity\, and community. Plus\, get free food\, LSA swag\, and meet Dean Curzan!\n\nVisit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details\, sign-up to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon!\n\nIf you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event\, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented\, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.\n\n* While supplies last. Please complete the ResponsiBLUE health questionnaire prior to arriving at all in-person events. UID:105413-21811733@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/105413 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Well-being,Food,Free,Mindfulness,Social,student government LOCATION:LSA Building - Atrium/1040 Multipurpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR