Social / Informal Gathering:Free Fragel Friday & Coffee
2022-11-11 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Detroit) | The Grove
FREE yummy fragels and hot coffee this Friday. The Office of Undergraduate Education will be handing out free fragels near the Bearclaw coffee truck Friday, November 11 from 9:30 am - 11:00 am on the Gerstacker Grove. This special Fragel Friday is brought to you by KLA Corporation. So stop by and say hi!

While supplies last!

Workshop / Seminar:MORE (FACULTY) Session: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2022-11-11 09:30 - 13:00 | Pierpont Commons
This in-person session helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.
Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the past should feel free to join the workshop only for the student-faculty work together (the last hour of the workshop). Registration is still required of both the faculty and the student.
Optional additional time for developing a mentoring plan is available from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Qe9qr.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Workshop / Seminar:MORE (STUDENT) Session: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
2022-11-11 09:30 - 13:00 | Pierpont Commons
This in-person workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans report those plans to be useful.
Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the past should feel free to join the workshop only for the student-faculty work together (the last hour of the workshop). Registration is still required of both the faculty and the student.
Optional additional time for developing a mentoring plan is available from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/3k25Q.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Workshop / Seminar:Designing Your Life Series
2022-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
What is a well-designed life? How do you find a career where you can thrive? Inspired by Stanford’s Designing Your Life curriculum, this interactive, six-week, in-person seminar will teach graduate students and postdoctoral fellows principles for designing a fulfilling career. Participants must commit to attending all six sessions of the seminar and a $10 registration fee is required for participation in this seminar. The seminar includes brief homework assignments, discussions, role-plays, the Gallup Strengths assessment, and out-of-class application activities. Those who complete all six sessions will receive a digital badge that can be shared on LinkedIn. Participation will be capped at 35. This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. All sessions will take place at the Rackham Building.
**Please note that your registration status will be marked as pending until all the steps (displayed below) are completed**
Registration steps:

Thoroughly check the dates to ensure you are available for each session in this workshop series. There are a total of six sessions of this seminar.You will have to sign up for each session for your registration to be marked as complete (for clarification, you will not be able to sign up for an individual session on September 16, and then delay the sign-up for the next session September 30).
Once you have registered for each session, you will receive a registration confirmation message to your email. At this time your registration status will be set as “PENDING”.
In order to complete the registration there will be a one-time $10 payment. This payment will be used for the materials which will be given to you during the seminar. If you need to apply for a payment waiver please email rack-prof-dev@umich.edu.
For information on making the payment, see this document.
Once the payment has been captured your registration status will be set from PENDING to Registered.

If you have any questions about this process please contact rack-prof-dev@umich.edu.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/84AGg.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia
2022-11-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Modern Languages Building - Commons, 4th Floor
Join us every Friday through December 2nd for Spanish Coffee Hour! ALL levels and students are welcome!

Enjoy FREE coffee & snacks, improve & practice your Spanish, meet student & instructors and get advice on courses!

For More Information, please contact Julie Harrell at harrelju@umich.edu.

Conference / Symposium:Official Dance Building Opening
2022-11-11 10:00 - 16:30 | Dance Building
The Department of Dance invites you: our alumni, friends, and community partners, to enjoy a day of dance classes, building tours, and performances that represent many of the various practices we offer at U-M. You are welcome to take any courses listed here or, if you prefer, we invite you to observe any class you wish (chairs will be set up in each of the studios). We look forward to you joining us on this important day in the history of the Department of Dance.

Please contact Maria Paterno (mpaterno@umich.edu) with any questions.

Exhibition:RC Art Exhibition
2022-11-11 10:00 - 17:00 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
LOUIE PALU
PHOTOGRAPHS
Oct. 21-Nov. 21, 2022

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant (2012) to cover the Mexican Drug War and a Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography.

Palu's work has appeared in numerous books, and exhibitions and has been published widely including in Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Figaro, National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work is held in numerous collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art and has been selected for numerous exhibitions including in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His films have been screened at numerous festivals including the Munich and Barcelona Documentary Film Festivals.

The RC Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm.

Presentation:Registration Refresher
2022-11-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
Do you need help navigating the course guide or backpacking classes for the winter term? Do you need a quick refresher on how to register? Are you simply confused about the process in general? Then come to this session to hear an advisor explain the steps to register, and some ways to figure out what classes you might need to take. There will also be time for you to ask questions.

Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Asger Hobolth, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University
2022-11-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
Abstract
The analysis of genomic data makes it possible to characterize the demographic processes that shaped the genetic diversity of populations. State-of-the-art in data analyses of genomic data is increasingly simulation-based, but disadvantages of simulation-based procedures include that they are highly computer intensive, often depend on the choice of summary statistics, and a rather indirect procedure for understanding key properties of both the data and the model. As an alternative to simulations, I will outline an emerging mathematical framework for genetic diversity based on matrix-exponential distributions. The main idea is that the ancestral process of a genetic sample can be described using a generalization of the exponential distribution called a phase-type distribution. Phase-type distributions have been used with great success in the actuarial sciences and in queuing theory, but the distribution is also well suited for the ancestral process. I will describe recent results of using phase-type distributions in population genetics, and discuss the latest progress and future plans for the framework.

Asger Hobolth is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University.

https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/asger-hobolth(8d387f4e-86e9-4405-a50d-1e5a6efd97d8).html

Workshop / Seminar:Sweetland Write-Together
2022-11-11 10:00 - 13:00 | North Quad
Write-Together sessions provide structure, accountability, and support for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. For each of these sessions, participants can meet in-person or access a Zoom link and a shared Google document that will serve as a communal virtual space. Students will be invited to post pre-writing goals and post-writing reflections in the document. Writers can also schedule a ten-minute Zoom meeting with Sweetland faculty during each session to discuss writing questions. We will also provide weekly writing strategies to habituate students to best writing practices.
For Virtual participants: Join via Zoom | Access the shared Google doc
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.
