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DTSTAMP:20260331T092006
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Stefan Wager\, Associate Professor\, Department of Operations\, Information\, and Technology\, Department of Statistics (by courtesy)\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:We develop methods for estimating how infinitesimal policy changes affect long-term outcomes in dynamic systems. We show that dynamic marginal policy effects (MPEs) can be identified via tractable reduced-form expressions\, and can be estimated under a general sequential unconfoundedness assumption. We also propose a doubly robust estimator for dynamic MPEs. Our approach does not require observing full dynamic state information (as is typically assumed for off-policy evaluation in Markov decision processes)\, and does not incur an exponential curse of horizon (as is typical in non-Markovian off-policy evaluation). We demonstrate practicality and robustness of our approach in a number of simulations\, including one motivated by a dynamic pricing application where people use past prices to form a reference level for current prices. Joint work with I-han Lai.
UID:146702-21899507@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146702
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260408T182055
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T100000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:U-M Library Student Filmfest 2026
DESCRIPTION:Support students' work at the U-M Library Student Filmfest! Treat yourself to light refreshments and watch short films created by U-M students.\nList of films in the order they will be screened:1. Roots Letter by Qingfang Liu (24 minutes)\"This documentary explores family heritage through the memories and growth of three generations. Driven by curiosity about the older generation\, the artist uses photographs\, clothing\, objects\, and language to piece together the family’s history. Beginning with a case study of the artist’s grandmother\, the work reflects the struggles and growth shared by many families.\"\n\n2. Paralysis by Amanda Dayton (2 minutes)\"Paralysis is a self-shot short film that captures the quiet isolation of starting college. It explores how loneliness and depression can exist even in environments full of people and reveals the internal struggle behind starting a new chapter.\"\n\n3. Keep the Faith by Brock McIntyre (20 minutes)Content warning: mild swears\n\"When a new cadet arrives at a remote outpost in the void\, the hardened veteran singlehandedly running the station must instill in him the importance of pressing a button that saves the world\, despite the old man having lost faith years ago.\"\n\n4. Racing to Class by Anna Nielander & Lily Martinez (1 minute)\n\"A one-minute stop-motion animation depicting two students' journey racing to class.:\n\n5. An Arcadian Reverie by Alejandro Cantu (12 minutes)\n\"A lonely library janitor steals damaged books from his workplace to repair them and escape into their world at night. However one evening\, as his overbearing supervisor starts to catch on\, the janitor sees one of the characters from his dreams\, and follows them down\, down\, down\, to a strange place far beneath the library.\"\n\n6. Taking Off with Passions and Dreams by Morgan Nichol (24 minutes)\n\"Everyone has a passion. Everyone has a dream. Why are we as civilians so obsessed with celebrities? I'll tell you why. Because they had the audacity to bet on THEMSELVES. They saw their potential\, even if they weren't sure that it would get them anywhere\, they saw ENOUGH of it. Enough of it to KNOW that it belongs SOMEWHERE. Celebrities bet on themselves and their authenticity. A path that each and every one of us longs to take. But sadly\, we fear the very thing we idolize. And so\, we just dream. But me\, I am not only a dreamer\, but I am an achiever. And I will achieve whatever my heart desires and this is fact. And I hope this film motivates you to do the same.\"
UID:146495-21899195@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146495
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Shapiro Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20250821T100218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Write with ME!
DESCRIPTION:Working on an abstract? Polishing up your resume? Writing a paper or dissertation?\n\nJoin us for our new Mechanical Engineering Department writing group\, “Write with ME!”\n\nAll ME undergrads\, grads\, postdocs\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join us for any of their writing needs.\n\nCommunity & support\nConnect with peers\, share your writing\, exchange feedback\, and brainstorm solutions to writing challenges.\n\nAccountability & consistency\nSharpen your writing skills and develop positive\, consistent writing routines. Learn from other members of the ME department!\n\nFood & flexibility\nNo need to attend every week! Drop in at any time\, and leave at any time. Light snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be available.\n\nWeekly on Fridays\, starting September 12\n2636 G.G.B\n10 am – 12 pm
UID:137880-21880976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Writing
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2636
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DTSTAMP:20260331T121858
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Climate Café: Building Community Resilience and Support
DESCRIPTION:Connect with fellow U-M community members in a safe space to pause\, connect\, and talk about their experiences regarding the environment and climate change\, a.k.a. Climate Café. In this small group\, we encourage participants to share their stories and discover connections between our experiences. During this event\, participants will bridge gaps between climate emotions and sustainability action in our lives\, and learn how to care for ourselves and others. Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nWe wish to provide uninterrupted discussion time\, and make sure that everyone has a chance to speak and be heard. Due to the nature of this activity\, participants should arrive at the start time promptly. \n\nThe event is free and open to any U-M community member\, but registration is required. Please email pba-information@umich.edu with questions. The Climate Café structure utilized is inspired by Dr. Michaela Zint’s EAS581 course and the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America (CPA-NA) café framework. This event is brought to you by LSA Sustainability\, Student Life Sustainability\, and the Planet Blue Ambassador program.
UID:145943-21899784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:anxiety,climate,Climate Change,Discussion,Environment,environmental,Free,Health And Wellness,In Person,Mental Health,Mindfulness,planet blue,Sustainability,Well-being,Wellness
LOCATION:Michigan League - Blagdon Room
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DTSTAMP:20260115T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through August 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - April 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (May 12 - August 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21881325@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260321T102331
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Undergraduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Interested in presenting your research? The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an accessible\, multidisciplinary research forum for all undergraduates at the University of Michigan to showcase their work. Top presenters will receive up to $500 in travel grants to support attendance at external conferences! Additionally\, workshops will be hosted leading up to the symposium to help participants prepare. The UR Symposium will be held on April 10th from 11 AM to 4 PM in the Chemistry Building Atrium. To register\, fill out the registration form by March 20th.
UID:144896-21896112@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144896
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Conference,Research,Research Symposium,Symposium,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab
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DTSTAMP:20260327T122909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T140000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Alivia Mukherjee - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Alivia Mukherjee for their dissertation defense titled \"Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Investigations of Cobalamin Photochemistry: Implications for a Photoreceptor Protein CarH\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, April 10th\n*Time:* 12:00 PM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 992 7536 6578\nPassword: VitaminB12
UID:147136-21900417@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147136
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
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DTSTAMP:20260406T115332
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bones\, Livestock\, and Teeth: The faunal record from the  Lluga Archaeological Site\, Kosova
DESCRIPTION:This presentation covers the faunal material excavated from the Lluga Archaeological Site. Situated in modern day Kosova\, the site is part of the Late Neolithic Vinča Culture\, and was excavated by Zhani Gjyshja and her crew in the summer of 2025. This talk offers the first comprehensive discussion of faunal remains from the site\, highlighting the prehistoric village&#39\;s use of domestic fauna as a mainstay of their food economy. It presents discussion of how these data help articulate the site within the broader geographic and cultural landscapes\, and discusses how herding impacts the modern inhabitants of the region today.
UID:147432-21901018@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147432
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology
LOCATION:School of Education - 1322
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DTSTAMP:20260331T163204
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CGIS Advising Fair (for Winter 2027 study abroad)
DESCRIPTION:Want to plan ahead but not sure where to start? Thinking of study abroad during the winter term but have questions? Sign up for the CGIS Advising Fair and relevant info sessions to get answers before summer starts!\n\nIn Person CGIS Advising Fair: Friday\, April 10th - Drop in to the CGIS Office (Weiser Hall\, Suite 200) between 12-2pm\nVirtual Info Sessions: Monday\, April 6th--Friday\, April 10th\; Sign Up at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/16503\n\nInfo Sessions will include topics such as:\nIntercultural First Step\nHumanities & Social Sciences Abroad\nPrograms in the Environment Abroad\nFinessing Scholarships Abroad\nGetting Credit Abroad & Transfer Process\nSTEM Abroad\nAustralia Abroad\nFrance Abroad\nItaly Abroad\nSpanish Language Abroad\nStudying Spanish Abroad in Granada\, Spain \nEnglish-taught Programs in Asia\nEnglish Programs in Spain\nThe UK Abroad\nPrograms in Non-Traditional Locations\nPrograms with DIS Abroad\n\nUnable to attend an info session but want to learn more? Sign up for the session anyway and we can send you the recording!
UID:145088-21896655@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145088
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,All Majors Welcome,Applications,global opportunities,International,International Education,Romance Languages And Literatures,Sessions,study abroad,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - CGIS Office (2nd floor, Suite 200)
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DTSTAMP:20260408T122831
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Incentivizing Lending to Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/9p7D9\n\n In collaboration with a leading Vietnamese commercial bank\, we evaluate the impact of two types of incentives to loan officers for the recruitment of women-owned or -led small- and medium-sized enterprises (WSMEs) as new borrowing clients. The average loan size in this segment is about $20\,000 USD (5x GDP per capita). 50 bank branches employing 550 lending staff are randomly assigned to one of the following treatments: (1) a monthly multi-category contest\; (2) a piece-rate incentive per loan\; or (3) control. The multi-category contest is inclusive in that it rewards not just the very top performing agents\, but also top performers among new agents (“rookies”) and most improved performers. We find that\, overall\, both interventions cause an increase in WSME lending\, particularly in later periods\, at largely similar magnitudes. In terms of spillovers\, there may be moderate negative impacts on non-WSME lending early in the treatment period\, but over time there is a significant\, positive spillover on non-WSME lending. Our results have the potential to inform policies to promote (W)SME lending through optimizing loan officer incentives. More broadly\, they provide some of the first experimental evidence from a high-stakes\, real-world setting on whether competitive or piece rate incentives better improve the performance of high-skill workers completing uncertain tasks.\n\nMarkus Taussig’s research and teaching focus on international business and strategy\, with a focus on emerging economies—especially those in Southeast Asia. More specifically\, he studies how firm performance and behavior is influenced by weak market institutions. He also has extensive experience and expertise in the global private equity and manufacturing (especially apparel) industries and in survey design and implementation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:142986-21891908@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142986
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,center for southeast asian studies,Diversity,Economics,Feminism,Gender,Vietnam
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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