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DTSTAMP:20170914T201713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
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:43680-9829827@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43680
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Free,Graduate,International,Language,Talk,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3304
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DTSTAMP:20170920T181527
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Nova Heart & Shao
DESCRIPTION:An indie band from Beijing led by lead singer Helen Feng (aka Beijing’s Queen of Rock)\, Nova Heart was founded in 2011 and has been embraced by music critics\, the art & fashion crowds + electronic and indie music fans in China and in Europe. They have been featured in some of the most important media around the world from NME\,Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, VICE\, and The Guardian. The band had a full page in Die Zeit\, and was featured in Der Spiegel\, Les Inrockuptibles\,  and Le Monde.\n\nShao (aka DEAD J) is the very first (and the best) Chinese techno artist\, one of China’s leading electronic artists. A highly sought-after composer and sound designer\, he created his own live audio visual set with visual artist Wang Meng in 2010. In September 2015\, he released his EP Dopplershift on Tresor Records\, making him the first Chinese artist on the techno music label in Berlin\, Germany.\n\nCo-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan.
UID:44554-9925934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Free,Music,North campus
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio
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DTSTAMP:20170918T105138
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T190000
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:44691-9966104@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170925T100755
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar | Gravitational Radiation from Classical QCD
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:44543-9923136@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44543
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170927T121737
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group: The exocentric syntax: how to label {XP\, YP} structures?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nSince the Bare Phrase Structure was proposed\, ‘projection’\, ‘endocentricity’ and ‘label’ have become just stipulation. In Chomsky (2013)\, based on the simplest Merge\, he argues that ‘label’ must not be formed in narrow syntax and it must be captured by the third factor principle\, i.e.\, labelling algorithm. This exocentric\, search-based system gives rise a new problem: how to label the exocentric structures without any stipulation in narrow syntax? In this talk\, I will present one possible solution in the case of infinitival clauses. Based on Epstein\, Kitahara and Seely (2016)\, I argue that external pair-Merge of phase heads to non-phase heads derives de-phasing effect (a cancellation of phases). The consequences of this analysis are also discussed such as ‘grammatical’ derivations for some cases of improper movement\, including tough-constructions in English\, hyper-raising in Japanese\, and Merge-over-Move principle in terms of labelling.
UID:45136-10095877@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45136
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170803T132124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T180000
SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Yoga in the Big House
DESCRIPTION:On September 29\, bring your best warrior pose and downward facing dog to the field of Michigan Stadium to celebrate U-M’s 200th birthday!  Yoga in the Big House is a fun opportunity to get moving\, centered and more relaxed in a place that is uniquely Michigan! \n\nSessions start every 30 minutes and include a five-minute cool down. Stay for 30 minutes\, an hour or more! Each session is led by a Rec Sports or MHealthy yoga instructor. All levels and abilities are encouraged to attend. For the best experience\, please bring a mat\, towel and water bottle.\n\nBrought to you through a partnership between MHealthy\, Rec Sports\, and University Health Service/Wolverine Wellness.
UID:41839-9487235@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41839
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Faculty,Fitness,Free,Health & Wellness,Rec Sports,Social,Staff,umich200
LOCATION:Michigan Stadium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170925T085630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory: Mediated learning
DESCRIPTION:Extended abstract:\n\nWhether they concern crimes\, political or military matters\, or scientific discoveries\, many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information\, such as law enforcement officers\, employees with a security clearance\, auditors or special inspectors\, or experts with specific knowledge. \nFor the public at large as well as for policymakers and other economic agents\, there is often no way of learning about facts other than through these specific intermediaries\, and even the \"exogenous\" signals often featured in economic models\, perhaps an \"accidental\" discovery of evidence\, must be reported by someone whose motives and discovery may potentially be questioned. \nThis paper considers whether societies and organizations can learn about such facts when evidence is i) costly to acquire\, ii) cheap to fabricate or manipulate\, and iii) produced through a sequential process in which each investigator observes the evidence produced by past investigators. \nThe answer turns out to depend on an asymptotic scarcity condition pertaining to the amount of evidence available about the fact. The condition distinguishes\, for example\, between reproducible scientific evidence and the evidence generated by a crime. When evidence is reproducible ad infinitum\, as in the case of some natural sciences\, facts can be learned with a precision that is only limited by the cost of acquisition relative to maximum level of incentives. When evidence is asymptotically scarce\, however\, there is no way of eliciting the truth from the intermediaries\, no matter how numerous they are and no matter how their incentives are structured.\nThe talk will discuss several extensions and limitations of the result\, as well as its various implications for the role of ethical behavior.
UID:42951-9685670@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20170821T160402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T170000
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:42761-9653808@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42761
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate
LOCATION:V. Vaughan
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DTSTAMP:20170807T081704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T163000
SUMMARY:Meeting:RC Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Monthly RC Faculty meeting
UID:42034-9527918@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42034
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1405 East Quadrangle
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170714T140028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Global Fresh Water Ages
DESCRIPTION:The time that rain and melting snow take to flow into a river or to a location under the ground impacts nutrient and contaminant transport\, and is therefore important to sustaining healthy humans and ecosystems. These ‘water ages’ of streamflow and groundwaters have remained poorly understood. Here\, we use stable and radioactive isotope compositions of rain\, snow\, groundwater and streamflow to map the relative amounts of younger versus older water (i) flowing in rivers\, or (ii) discharging from groundwater wells. First\, our research shows that ~1/3 of global streamflow is recent rain or snow that fell and flowed to the stream in less than ~2.3 months. This young streamflow is detectable in the great majority (~90%) of surveyed streams\, implying that most catchments can convey precipitation to the stream channel quite quickly\, possibly leaving little time to detect some soluble pollutants before they reach aquatic ecosystems. Second\, we show that most of the fresh water on the planet is ancient water that has been stored underground form more than 10\,000 years. While vast\, these ‘fossil’ groundwaters are also shown to be vulnerable to modern-era pollutants\, emphasizing that both water quality and sustainability should be considered when managing these deep water resources.
UID:41530-9326541@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41530
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
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DTSTAMP:20170919T152810
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Eating the Face of Christ\, and Other Ways of Interacting with Medieval Manuscripts\"
DESCRIPTION:As literacy grew during the three centuries before the printing press\, people learned not only how to read\, but also how to handle their manuscripts. Certain physical gestures that readers enacted with illuminated manuscripts—including kissing or laying hands on certain images\, and rubbing out the faces of others—imparted a ritual significance to books. Just as our twenty-first-century culture of ever-smaller screens has created a set of gestures and habits that had not previously existed (typing with two thumbs\, scrolling\, clicking\, tapping)\, reading manuscripts\, which were increasingly available in the late Middle Ages\, also gave people a new set of physical gestures. In this talk I consider the settings and circumstances by which readers learned to handle—and deface!—their manuscripts. I argue that people in authority\, including priests\, teachers\, parents\, and legal officials\, touched books publicly to carry out rituals. In so doing\, they inadvertently taught audiences how to handle books in highly physical ways. Cumulative wear in books testifies to how they were used and handled.\n\nKathryn Rudy is a renowned specialist in western medieval manuscripts who came to St Andrews in 2011 from the Royal Library in The Hague\, where she had been Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts for several years. Much of her current research focuses on the social lives of late medieval books\, including their customization for specific sets of owners and their physical use (for instance through ritual touching and kissing) by different groups of viewers. To determine how users interacted with their books she uses modern forensic tools and methods\, such as densometers and UV light\, which yield important information as to how often specific books were interacted with and which kinds of images or texts were singled out for particular tactile or oscular attention. Rudy has published five books\, including Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, and Rubrics\, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts (Leiden: Brill\, 2017).
UID:44800-9980569@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44800
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Tappan Hall - 180
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DTSTAMP:20170817T144923
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T180000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan
DESCRIPTION:An experiential workshop co-hosted by Revival Detroit LLC and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we discuss the challenges of real estate vacancy in northwest Detroit's Weatherby neighborhood and in Ishinomaki\, Japan--a community devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What steps are local organizations taking to repurpose vacant properties? How do local organizations engage in redevelopment that is not only economically-sound\, but also equitable and inclusive of diverse community voices?\n\nRegistration is required.\n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342\n\nView the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html\n\nNeed transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342
UID:42570-9611994@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Detroit,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170914T091402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Lecture. Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS): Saving Syrian Lives at the Frontline
DESCRIPTION:Please join CMENAS for our two-day event series\, \"Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS): Saving Syrian Lives at the Frontline\,\" featuring Syrian American Medical Society\n    \nDay 1: \"Do Syrian Refugees Exist?\" will explore the current refugee crisis in Syria through the work of Syrian American Medical Society volunteers\, Dr. Jihad Shoshara\, Dr. Hisham Bismar\, and Ms. Lara Zakaria. \n\nDay 2: \"Arab American Profiles: Medicine and Humanism in Action.\" This event will explore the pressure that many debt-burdened students and community members feel in having to choose between medicine as a vocation and languages and humanities as an avocation. SAMS volunteers will offer stories of how to balance gainful employment and humanitarian work. Our aim is to help community members and students cultivate their own identity and aspirations. \n    \nVolunteers will raise awareness of the current situation in Syria\, their invisible patients\, and their experiences of engaging in medical relief and humanitarian work.\n\n\nCosponsors: \nUniversity of Michigan–Arab & Muslim American Studies\, Conflict and Peace Initiative\, Donia Human Rights Center\, International Institute\, MEdAN-Middle East and Arab Network\, MENA Public Health\, Michigan Refugee Assistance Program\, and Program in International & Comparative Studies\n\nArab American National Museum
UID:43893-9852293@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43893
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International,Middle East Studies,Social,Social Impact
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Library Gallery, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20170908T143710
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib\, Lanka\, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:The small\, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib\, Lanka\, and Ceylon has figured as an important site of banishment in different periods and different literary and religious traditions. This talk takes as its starting point the history of the Sri Lankan Malays\, a community descended from 18th century royal exiles from across the Indonesian archipelago\, soldiers in colonial armies\, servants\, convicts\, and others sent to Dutch and British Ceylon\, to consider if and how earlier traditions of banishment mattered to the Malays’ images of\, and sense of belonging to the island. In particular\, the talk explores the Islamic tradition that views the island\, which the Arabs called Sarandib\, as the site of Adam’s Fall from Paradise to earth\, and the ways that ancient story helped frame\, and give meaning to exile in the colonial period. \n    \nRonit Ricci received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UM in 2006. She is Associate Professor at the department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the School of Culture\, History\, and Language at the Australian National University. In addition to essays and articles on translation\, Javanese and Malay manuscript literatures\, and the literary history of the Sri Lankan Malays\, her publications include Islam Translated: Literature\, Conversion\, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (University of Chicago Press\, 2011)\, the co-edited volume Translation in Asia: Theories\, Practices\, Histories (with Jan van der Putten\, St. Jerome\, 2011) and the edited volume Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings\, Convicts\, Commemoration (University of Hawaii Press\, 2016).\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.
UID:41921-9489371@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41921
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170928T091342
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: : Rami A. Kishek\, IREAP\, Univ of Maryland
DESCRIPTION:Title: Recent Advances in Theory of Multipactor Discharges\n\nAbstract: Multipactor is an electron avalanche occurring when stray electrons are trapped and accelerated by radiofrequency (rf) waves in a vacuum\, hitting walls and ejecting other electrons by secondary electron emission (SEE). The rapid multiplication in the number of electrons ultimately creates noise\, heat and possibly damage in a wide range of environments from space communication systems to accelerators and microwave tubes. Modern design standards use “susceptibility diagrams” for multipactor based on theory developed in the 1950s by Hatch and Williams\, which considers multipactor as a resonant discharge. Observed discrepancies with experiment are accounted for by the addition of arbitrary margins that have no theoretical basis. Modern theories acknowledge that multipactor does not necessarily have a single resonance\, but can exhibit higher periodicity\, or even non-resonant forms. These theories\, however\, rarely depart from the conventional paradigm of presuming a multipactor mode\, then deriving the conditions for that mode\, an exercise that can be exceedingly difficult for more complex trajectories.  A novel approach based on the methodology of nonlinear dynamics and chaos is presented\, in which all possible modes are recovered with no a priori assumptions. Thenewmethodologysystematicallyappliesiterativemapstoidentifymultipactingregion boundaries and stability more reliably and comprehensively than existing models. It does so by globally analyzing the structure of dynamical space\, resulting in bifurcation diagrams that summarize all possible multipactor modes over a wide range of parameters. This information is combined with secondary electron emission properties of the surface material to predict multipactor growth rates and identify parameter regions that are multipactor free. Three-dimensional simulations with the WARP PIC code successfully validate the model under more realistic conditions of random emission velocities of secondaries and more realistic rf field profiles.\n\nBio: Rami A. Kishek is a Research Professor at the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland (UMD)\, where he leads the effort on the University of Maryland Electron Ring Laboratory\, a small research accelerator investigating space charge dynamics. He received his B.S.E. (1993) in Electrical Engineering\, M.S.E. (1995) and Ph.D. (1997) in Nuclear Engineering\, all from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Professor Kishek has over 20 years’ experience in charged particle dynamics and is an expert on space charge effects\, computation\, and multipactor\, where he made groundbreaking contributions to its theoretical modeling. He is a scientific consultant for multiple companies and has advised or co-advised 15 PhD students and guided the research of dozens more graduate\, undergraduate\, and high school students\, and regularly teaches at the US Particle Accelerator School. Kishek is a fellow of APS and the 2015 recipient of the USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology.
UID:45166-10104526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45166
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Physics
LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Auditorium
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