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DTSTAMP:20170908T084101
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fragments Workshop. Scented Protection: A History of Saffron in Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Aileen Das (Classical Studies)\, Amanda Repass (PhD student in History-Anthropology Program)\, and Paul Freedman (History\, Yale). \n\nThe flourishing commerce of the Silk-Roads and the vibrant cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions (xiyu) fostered the circulation of diverse substances across the Eurasia continent. Prominent among them were a large number of aromatics of Indian\, Persian\, or Southeast Asian origin that entered Tang China (618-907) and transformed the landscape of Chinese medical practices. This paper focuses on a particular aromatic\, saffron (yujin xiang)\, which came from northern India and Kashmir. The paper explores the identification of the plant in Chinese sources\, various ways through which it was imported into China\, and the diverse values it acquired there.
UID:42749-9653777@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Medicine,India,History,Asia
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 1022
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170915T132822
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group: External Triggers for Language Change
DESCRIPTION:We will discuss topics & presenters for our Fall Term meetings\, and Sally Thomason will give a brief presentation on External Triggers for Language Change.
UID:44615-9934434@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Discussion
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170914T201713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T150000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Language Conversation Group
DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.
UID:43680-9829826@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43680
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,Discussion,Language,International,Graduate,Free,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3304
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170918T105138
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition Presentation and Opening: The Future Needs..Something Blue
DESCRIPTION:Could anyone have foreseen the technical\, social\, and conceptual issues that have confronted the University of Michigan since its founding 200 years ago\, or the challenges it has faced in the last 100\, 50\, or even five years? In the marshaling of knowledge and expertise\, the greatest achievement of the University lies not in its continuity\, but in its ability to address the unforeseen. Drawing on the student work from the Taubman College Architecture Program\, “The Future Needs…Something Blue” addresses an idea of the future that lies not in the answers to questions we now know\, but in possibilities we are only now beginning to imagine. Sited at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Liberty Research Annex\, the display is simultaneously shop window\, gallery\, and salon. Organized around a series of emergent themes it is an interactional space in which to view (in perspective\, parallax\, parallel\, and contrast) the multiple points of view that constitute the future.\n“The Future Needs…Something Blue” is curated by Associate Professor of Practice Julia McMorrough and Associate Professor John McMorrough of studioAPT (Architecture Practice Theory).\nOn Tuesday\, September 19 at 6:00pm there will be an opening reception at the Liberty Research Annex (305 W. Liberty St.\, Ann Arbor). Exhibition on view September 20 - October 29.
UID:44691-9966097@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Architecture
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170825T124458
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T154500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Planning meeting
UID:43011-9696290@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43011
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Discussion
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170816T175811
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Writing A Novel
DESCRIPTION:This course is for anyone 50 and above who wants to write a novel. It doesn’t matter if you’re zero or a hundred pages into your first draft -- everyone is welcome. We’ll be reading several novels as a class as well as workshopping chapters of your novels-in-progress. \n\nWriting a novel is lonely work\, and our class will give you the encouragement and moral support to keep writing. \n\nInstructor Allie Tova Hirsch\, a novelist and recent graduate of the Helen Zell MFA Program at the University of Michigan\, will lead two hour sessions on Fridays from September 22 through December 15 (except November 24).
UID:42446-9601991@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42446
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Workshop,Retirement,Lifelong Learning
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170919T161527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Special Lecture - Data to Decisions for the Next Generation of Aerospace Systems
DESCRIPTION:New technologies are changing the way we think about designing and operating future aerospace systems. In particular\, the combination of sensing technologies and computational power brings new opportunities for data-driven modeling and data-driven decision-making. Yet data alone cannot deliver the levels of predictive confidence and modeling reliability demanded for aerospace systems. For that\, we must build on the decades of progress in rigorous physics-based modeling and associated uncertainty quantification. This talk discusses our work at the intersection of physics-based and data-driven modeling\, with a focus on the design of next-generation aircraft. We show how adaptive reduced models combined with machine learning enable dynamic decision-making onboard a structural-condition-aware UAV. We show how multi-fidelity formulations exploit a rich set of information sources to achieve multidisciplinary design under uncertainty for future aircraft concepts.\n\nAbout the speaker...\nKaren E. Willcox is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also Co-Director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering and formerly the Associate Head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has served on the faculty at MIT for 16 years. Prior to that\, she worked at Boeing Phantom Works with the Blended-Wing-Body aircraft design group. Her research at MIT has produced scalable computational methods for design of next-generation engineered systems\, with a particular focus on model reduction as a way to learn principled approximations from data and on multi-fidelity formulations to leverage multiple sources of uncertain information. These methods are widely applied in aircraft system design and environmental policy decision-making.  In addition to her research pursuits\, Willcox is active in education innovation. She served as co-Chair of the MIT Online Education Policy Initiative and co-Chair of the 2013-2014 Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education. She is a recognized innovator in the U.S. education landscape\, where she is a 2015 recipient of the First in the World Department of Education grant.
UID:44107-9886088@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170824T150446
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Details to come.
UID:42950-9685669@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170913T111941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T163000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Information Session - Academic Year in Freiburg 2018/2019
DESCRIPTION:Information Session - Academic Year in Freiburg 2018/2019\n\nFriday\, September 22\, 3:30 p.m.\, MLB 3308 (Conference Room - German Department)\n\nThis event is about our study-abroad program in beautiful Freiburg that helps you expedite the process of completing requirements for German (and other majors).\n\nThe session will be facilitated by Professor Kerstin Barndt\, who will be next year's Resident Director.  Professor Helmut Puff\, who was the Resident Director three years ago\, will also be present and will be able to answer questions about the structure\, accommodation\, classes\, and the history/fascination of Freiburg.\n\nEligibility:\n* Minimum 3.0 GPA\n* Good academic standing\n* Sophomore\, Junior\, or Senior standing by Fall 2018\n* Completion of German 232 or equivalent prior to September 2018\n* Open to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor students only\n\nHere is the link to the application website from CGIS (Center for Global and Intercultural Study)--the application itself may only open in about 2-3 weeks:\nhttps://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10247\n\nYou can also look for more information here: http://www.ayf.uni-freiburg.de/\n\nIf you have questions\, please contact Professor Kerstin Barndt (barndt@umich.edu\, MLB 3128)\, Kalli Federhofer (kallimz@umich.edu\, MLB 3422) or Andrew Mills (ajmills@umich.edu\, MLB 3122).
UID:44290-9903292@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:German,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 (German Conference Room)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170821T160402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mastering the American Accent Workshop - For New Clients
DESCRIPTION:This 10-week workshop is for students who would like help developing their language skills for improved communication. Workshop participants can expect:\n- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of goals\n- Exercises for improving articulation\, rate control and projection\n- Guidance from a licensed speech-language pathologist\n- Group conversations and activities\n- Increased confidence in spoken language skills\n\nThis session is for new workshop students. For the advanced/returning client session\, please see Thursday's workshop listing.
UID:42761-9653807@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42761
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate
LOCATION:V. Vaughan
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170727T091151
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: The Colorado River\, Climate Change\, Drought\, and Implications for the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Many current assessments of future climate and hydrologic change suggest that current drylands around the globe could become drier with continued anthropogenic climate change. In some regions\, such as the southwest U.S.\, there is an observed trend in this direction. This is particularly true for the Colorado River\, where the nature of drought is shifting to a more temperature-dominated climate extreme. At the same time\, however\, some recent and influential scientific assessments suggest that temperature-driven drying could be compensated by precipitation increases with little net increase to water supply or ecosystem risk. A new approach integrating the examination of temperature\, precipitation and drought risk indicate that Colorado River flows\, water supplies\, and ecosystems in the Southwest are already being seriously affected by warming\, and that continued warming could result in much larger water supply losses than widely thought\, even if mean precipitation increases. The implications of these results have serious implications for terrestrial systems in many parts of the globe\, including regions with higher average precipitation (e.g.\, the Amazon and Great Lakes regions). Interestingly\, we may be able to say this with high confidence.
UID:41529-9326540@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41529
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170912T113632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:\"Dynamic activation of RNA functions: Insights into ligand-dependent RNA regulation\"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nRNA folds and balances between distinct conformational states for function. Riboswitches\, a class of non-coding regulatory RNAs composed of a ligand-sensing domain and an expression platform\, are known to control gene expression by folding into alternative conformations upon specific recognition of cellular cues. However\, a molecular understanding of the dynamic interplay between the sensing domain and the expression platform that underlies riboswitch regulation remains elusive. Here\, by developing and applying nucleic-acid-optimized chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) NMR spectroscopy\, together with mutagenesis and functional measurements\, we show that conformational kinetics of the riboswitch serves as a new layer of regulation\, where ligand-dependent accessibility of a low-populated (~1%) and short-lived (~ 3ms) RNA state guides distinct co-transcriptional folding pathways to direct gene expression outcome. Our results provide an integrated molecular mechanism for transcriptional riboswitches and exemplify a new mode of ligand-dependent RNA regulation.
UID:42539-9609357@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42539
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171007T123017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T170000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:CEE 830 Seminar: Professionalism in the Workplace
DESCRIPTION:This is a presentation to the CEE 830 class on professionalismin the workplace.
UID:42340-9599750@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42340
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170911T090440
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Lecture. Record Keeping Without Writing: Khipu Accounting in the Inka Empire
DESCRIPTION:The Inka recording device\, the khipu (Quechua: “knot”) has been the subject of intense interest and study through the 20th century and down to the present day. Early colonial Spanish observers of record keeping and accounting by former Inka administrators testified that khipus were used to register data of interest to the state (e.g.\, census and tribute records) as well as narrative-type accounts\, such as histories\, songs\, and poems. Researchers have determined how to decipher the quantitative information in Inka administrative records\, but little progress has been made to date deciphering the narrative khipus. This presentation provides an overview of what is currently known about khipu record keeping in Tawantinsuyu – the Inka Empire – with special attention to recent discoveries at the archaeological site of Inkawasi\, on the south coast of Peru. \n    \nGary Urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. He earned his M.A. in Ancient History and his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois\, Champaign-Urbana. His research focuses on a variety of topics in pre-Columbian and early colonial Andean cultural and intellectual history\, drawing on materials and methods in archaeology\, ethnohistory\, and ethnology. He is the author of many articles and of numerous books and edited volumes on Andean/Quechua cultures and Inka civilization. His books include: At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky (1981)\, The History of a Myth (1990)\, The Social Life of Numbers (1997)\, Inca Myths (1999)\, and Signs of the Inka Khipu (2003). A former MacArthur Fellow (2001-2005) recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014-15\, Urton is the Founder/Director of the Harvard Khipu Database Project\, which seeks to decode the Inka recording device\, the khipu (or quipu). He is currently at work analyzing a collection of khipus recently excavated at an Inka storage facility at the site of Inkawasi\, on the south coast of Peru.
UID:42656-9622480@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42656
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Latin America,International
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170919T161126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170922T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium: Style in a second dialect: Topic- and stance-based variation among mobile speakers
DESCRIPTION:Style in a second dialect: Topic- and stance-based variation among mobile speakers\n\nPeople often change the way they speak after moving to and living in a new region. Mobile speakers do not simply \"lose\" an old accent or \"gain\" a new one\, however\; instead\, they alter specific dialect features depending on a range of linguistic\, social-attitudinal\, and developmental factors (e.g. Payne 1980\; Chambers 1992\; Kerswill 1996\; Evans & Iverson 2007\; Nycz 2013). Studies that compare the overall “acquirability” of multiple features reveal how linguistic competence may evolve as a result of exposure to new input\, and can help us develop better theories about the representations and processes underlying these changes (Nycz 2013\, 2015\; Walker 2014). But if we want to understand more broadly how communicative competence (Hymes 1972) can develop over the lifespan\, we must look at how speakers use both old and new dialect forms in interaction. To this end\, I examine topic-and stance-based stylistic variation in the speech of Canadians who have been living long-term in the New York City or Washington D.C. regions\, focusing on how they use regionally varying vowel features to express views about their first home (Canada and/or their hometown) as well as their adopted one (The United States and/or their new city). I find that these speakers exhibit gradient shift towards U.S. norms for all vowels analyzed\, as well as stylistic variation in regional stereotypes or markers associated with both their first region and their current one. Specifically\, positive or alignment stances towards Canada are associated with raising in (aw) (as in about and house)\, while negative and distancing stances are associated with lower (aw) nuclei\; no effect of style is found for (ay)\, a vowel which similarly differs across regions but does not carry similar social significance. Similarly\, positive or alignment stances towards New York City are associated with higher (oh) (as in coffee)\, but only among new New Yorkers\; no style effect is found for (o) (as in copy). These results suggest that mobile speakers continue to exploit the socio-indexical links in their native dialect while also learning and using new links in their adopted dialect – but only if those links are sufficiently socially salient.
UID:41730-9446508@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41730
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Discussion,colloquium,AEM Featured
LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250
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