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:20170907T135625 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond Carbon Neutral Seminar Series \"Carbon Dioxide Removal and the Beyond Carbon Neutral Initiative\" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mark Barteau\, Director\, University of Michigan Energy Institute\, will give a talk on “Carbon Dioxide Removal and the Beyond Carbon Neutral Initiative”\n\nGlobal temperatures are rising as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions reduction targets of the Paris climate agreement will slow\, but not stop this process. To slow climate change\, we must actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere. A variety of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) processes have been advanced\, but almost all suffer from questions of scalability\, cost\, and societal acceptance. This talk will examine the current state of the field\, and discuss the work of University of Michigan faculty and students as part of the Energy Institute’s Beyond Carbon Neutral initiative. The goal of this initiative is to increase the rate of negative emissions of greenhouse gases\, to combat climate change. ​ UID:43808-9843863@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43808 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#Sustainability LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171013T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Trainings: Funding Proposal Workshop DESCRIPTION:Have a project that needs some funding support? Interested in the EXCEL micro grants but have questions on how to make your proposal stand out? EXCEL can help you! In this session we will cover basic aspects ofthe grant-writing process\, and provide tips on how to optimize your prose and craft the best possible EXCEL funding proposal. UID:44714-9968994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:2443 Walgreen Drama Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170918T105138 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T190000 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:44691-9966103@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170828T100849 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:It's Time for Action: Generating an Active Learning Plan DESCRIPTION:Creating a plan to engage students in active learning can be challenging. In this workshop\, you will learn about a variety of active learning techniques then begin to formulate a plan for implementing active learning in your own course.\n\nThis event is part of the CRLT-Engin Fall 2017 Seminar Series and is for engineering GSIs\, IAs\, and Postdoctoral Fellows. UID:43018-9696337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Graduate,Graduate School,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Postdoctoral Research Fellows LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170811T133819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Possession\, a conversation and reception with artist Jaye Schlesinger DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger talks about her exhibition Possession\, which evolved in response to her interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling\, recycling\, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life\, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings\, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty\, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with. UID:42132-9560491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42132 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170815T105221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T163000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Spanish for Beginners DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn basic vocabulary and some elementary grammar to carry on a conversation. Participants should purchase Living Language Spanish Beginner Course available on Amazon.com. \n\nRepeat students are welcomed in this study group for those 50 and above. The group meets for 90 minutes on Thursdays from September 28 through December 7\, except on Thanksgiving Day.\n\nInstructor Jennie Lieberman\, a native Spanish speaker who was born in Cuba\, has extensive tutoring experience. UID:42238-9591197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170821T155740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mastering the American Accent - Advanced/Returning 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 returning workshop students or those who have advanced skill sets. For the beginner and/or new client session\, please see Friday's workshop listing. UID:42756-9653796@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42756 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:V. Vaughan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170914T141722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Insights From Direct Numerical Simulation Of Multi-Stage Ignition And Flame Propagation DESCRIPTION:Insights From Direct Numerical Simulation Of Multi-Stage Ignition And Flame Propagation In Intense Shear-Driven Turbulence\n\nDirect numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent combustion on petascale supercomputers has transformed our ability to interrogate fine-grained gas-phase ‘turbulence-chemistry’ interactions in simple laboratory configurations. In particular\, three-dimensional DNS\, performed at moderate Reynolds numbers\, at ambient and elevated pressure and with complex chemistry has provided an unprecedented level of detail used to isolate and understand mechanistic causality between turbulence\, mixing and reaction in combustion regimes dominated by finite-rate chemical kinetics. The DNS data has provided new physical insights and statistical results to assist in the development and validation of engineering CFD models. In this presentation\, the role of shear-driven turbulence on spontaneous ignition\, flame stabilization and propagation problems relevant to diesel engines\, and stationary and aero-gas turbine engines will be presented. In particular\, the role of low-temperature cool flames on the dynamics of n-dodecane ignition at diesel conditions\, and turbulent mixing effects in high-Karlovitz piloted premixed methane/air jet flames will be elucidated. Finally\, I will describe recent advances in alternative asynchronous task-based programming models applied to CFD simulations to facilitate more comprehensive data-intensive workflows on exascale machines in the 2020 horizon.\n\nAbout the speaker...\nJacqueline H. Chen is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories. She has contributed broadly to research in petascale direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent combustion focusing on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions. These benchmark simulations provide fundamental insight into combustion processes and are used by the combustion modeling community to develop and validate turbulent combustion models for engineering CFD simulations. In collaboration with computer scientists and applied mathematicians\, she was the founding Director of the Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (ExaCT). She led an interdisciplinary team to co-design DNS algorithms\, domain-specific programming environments\, scientific data management and in situ uncertainty quantification and analytics\, and architectural simulation and modeling with combustion proxy applications. She is also the PI of a DOE Exascale Simulation Project on Combustion. She received the DOE INCITE Award in 2005-2017\, the DOE ALCC Award in 2012\, and the 34th International Combustion Symposium Distinguished Paper Award 2012. She is a member of the DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research Advisory Committee (ASCAC) and Subcommittees on Exascale Computing\, and Big Data and Exascale. She was the editor of Flow\, Turbulence\, and Combustion\, the co-editor of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute\, volumes 29 and 30\, the Co-Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 35th Intl Combustion Symposium\, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute. UID:44315-9908883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44315 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170905T094440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T180000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:African Studies Center Fall Reception DESCRIPTION:We would like to extend an invitation to the U-M community to join us at our Fall Reception on September 28th from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Garden at the Michigan League\, to kick off our 10th anniversary year and to welcome our 2017-2018 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) cohort. UID:43549-9818653@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Networking,Open House,Reception LOCATION:Michigan League - The Courtyard Garden CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T161912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar - Michigan's amazing \"gene thieves\": Evolution and ecology of unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders DESCRIPTION:Unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders reproduce using a “leaky” form of gynogenesis requiring the uptake of a spermatophore from a sympatric sexual male. This may trigger asexual egg development\, or the sperm genome may be incorporated into the zygote\, typically resulting in ploidy-elevated offspring. My research focuses on identifying the evolutionary benefits of this unique reproductive mode\, which has allowed for the persistence of this lineage for six million years. I will discuss recent breeding trials we have conducted pairing unisexual females with blue-spotted salamander males either from their own pond or from a more distant pond. Females paired with local males produced more clutches overall\, and a larger proportion of the eggs were viable. Genotyping revealed that a significantly higher proportion of these eggs included the paternal genome. The ability to flexibly adjust between sexual and asexual reproduction in a context-dependent manner might help explain the evolutionary success of this lineage.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/mXZ0cxZFsgk UID:42286-9593395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42286 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T132153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt DESCRIPTION:The transatlantic slave trade spread people from a vast region of Atlantic Africa throughout the Americas. The trade also redistributed political and military power. Upon captivity\, people who had been administrative or military leaders suddenly found themselves uprooted from sustaining landscapes\, scattered by currents and trade winds\, and replanted in strange territories where they struggled to rebuild their social connections and recover their influence. Inevitably\, some determined that only war could rectify their dishonor. More than highlighting resistance or the agency of the dispossessed\, the Jamaican Coromantee War of 1760-1761 shows how the turmoil of enslavement\, which ruptured systems of social authority and cultural continuity\, figured the development of enslaved militancy as it originated\, traveled\, took root\, and germinated in far-flung contexts.\n\nVincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History\, professor of African and African-American studies\, and director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research\, writing\, teaching\, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora\, with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world. A native of Southern California\, he was educated at the University of California\, San Diego\, and received his PhD in History from Duke University\, where he also trained in the theory and craft of film and video making. He has been the recipient of the Mellon New Directions fellowship\, John Simon Guggenheim fellowship\, and the National Humanities Center fellowship. \n \nBrown is the author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, and he was Producer and Director of Research for the television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009). His first book\, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008)\, was co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award and received the 2009 James A. Rawley Prize and the 2008-09 Louis Gottschalk Prize. \nFree and open to the public. \n\nThis event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:40911-8828523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40911 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,History,Lecture LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170919T095128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia DESCRIPTION:Lecture. “Regime vs. Opposition Under Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia.” Vladimir Gelman\, Professor\, European University at St. Petersburg and University of Helsinki. UID:43526-9810357@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43526 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170928T181532 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Synthetic Applications of Enzyme-Inspired Catalysts DESCRIPTION: Our research program is focused on using nature as an inspiration for the development of novel catalytic tools for organic synthesis.  In the active site of enzymes\, multiple metal centers often cooperate to lower the barrier to oxidative and reductive processes\, thus enabling efficient catalysis in very challenging organic transformations.  Our group is designing and developing heterobimetallic catalysts where metal-metal interactions and cooperativity can lead to enhanced catalysis and novel transformations.  Our efforts have led to the development of Pd–Ti and Pt–Ti catalysts that display exceptional reactivity in allylic amination and cycloisomerization reactions respectively.  This seminar will describe our current efforts to develop chiral Ti–M complexes for enantioselective catalysis and heterobimetallic M–Ni complexes for nickel catalysis applications. In separate pursuits\, we have also developed peptide-based multifunctional catalysts that enable enzyme-like cooperative catalysis.  The small peptide scaffold brings multiple non-natural catalysts into close proximity\, enabling faster catalyst turnover\, novel selectivity based on substrate binding and proximity\, and the development of novel two-catalyst transformations. The development and use of these catalysts to achieve novel reaction rates and selectivity and for new reaction discovery will also be presented. \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDavid Michaelis (Brigham Young University) UID:41302-9097454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41302 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - Chem 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170928T144352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Computer Says No DESCRIPTION:LIVESTREAM: http://myumi.ch/6kNPk\n\nAuditing Algorithms: Adding Accountability to Automated Authority is a group of events designed to produce a white paper that will help to define and develop the emerging research community for “algorithm auditing.” Algorithmic Auditing is a research design that has shown promise in diagnosing the unwanted consequences of algorithmic systems.\n\nAutomated software-based systems in finance\, media\, information\, transportation\, learning\, or any application of computing can easily create outcomes that are unforeseeable by their designers\, so algorithm auditing has the potential to improve the design of these systems by making their consequences visible. Auditing in this sense takes its name from the social scientific “audit study” where one feature is manipulated in a field experiment\, although it is also reminiscent of a financial audit.\n\nThese events and the resulting white paper proposes to coalesce this new area of inquiry and to produce a report characterizing the state of the art and potential future directions. Participants and white paper co-authors will have opportunities to clarify the potential dangers of algorithmic systems\, to specify these dangers as new research problems\, to articulate challenges that they face as researchers interested in this area\, to present existing methods for auditing or needs for new methods\, and to propose research agendas that can provide new insights that advance science and benefit society.\n\nThis initiative is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and co-organized by the University of Michigan\, the University of Illinois\, and Harvard University. Events are hosted at the University of Michigan.\n\nSpeakers:\nSolon Barocas\, Cornell University\nJ. Nathan Matias\, Princeton University\nH.V. Jagadish\, University of Michigan\nChristian Sandvig\, University of Michigan UID:44801-9980570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44801 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Free,History,Information and Technology,Law,Lecture,Multidisciplinary Design,Politics,Psychology,Technical Communications,Visual Arts,Webcast LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170926T092755 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170928T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Working With Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea In Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial DESCRIPTION:Authors: Zachary Wagner\, John Bosco Asiimwe\, William H. Dow\, David I. Levine\n\nDiarrhea remains the second leading cause of death among children\, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with the use of oral rehydration salts (ORS). There is little evidence demonstrating why ORS use remains low and what can be done increase use. Although community health workers (CHWs) are often tasked with increasing ORS use\, little is known about how CHWs should distribute these products to maximize coverage. We hypothesized that price and lack of convenience are important barriers to ORS use\, and therefore examined two key features of ORS distribution: 1) charging vs. free distribution and 2) home delivery vs. client retrieval. We used a village-clustered randomized design across 118 villages in Uganda to experimentally vary the price and convenience of accessing ORS from CHWs. Villages were randomized to one of four groups: 1) a novel preemptive home delivery intervention (Free+Delivery) made ORS free and conveniently available inside the home when a child came down with diarrhea\; 2) a preemptive home sales intervention (Home Sales) made accessing ORS conveniently available at the home\, but not free\; 3) a free upon retrieval intervention (Vouchers) made ORS free but not convenient\; 4) a control group had CHWs carry out their normal activities. This design allowed us to evaluate the impact of competing CHW distribution strategies as well as to examine the causal effect of price (Free+Delivery vs. Home Sales) and convenience (Free+Delivery vs. Vouchers) on ORS use. The first result is that Free+Delivery increased the share of cases treated with ORS by 21 percentage points (36%) relative to the control group. Second\, Free+Delivery increased ORS use by 12 percentage points (18%) relative to Home Sales\, suggesting that price is an important barrier to use. Third\, we found no evidence that convenience was an important barrier. Free+Delivery did not do a worse job of targeting higher risk cases or lead to increased wastage relative to the other groups. Moreover\, Free+Delivery was extremely cost effective from a donor perspective at only $64 per DALY averted\, relative to the status quo. The results suggest that price is an important barrier to ORS use in Uganda\, that substantial gains in ORS coverage can be made if CHWs distribute the products for free as opposed to charging\, and that free distribution is highly cost effective. UID:44493-9920285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Public Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR