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DTSTAMP:20171013T130458
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T130000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:POPULIST POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jansen is a comparative-historical sociologist of politics and culture. He is the \nauthor of Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru (University of Chicago Press) and has published various articles on Latin American politics in academic journals. After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA\, he spent three years as a junior fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.          \n\nRecent political events in the U.S. and Europe have brought renewed \nattention to the problem of populism. But what exactly are we talking about when we talk about populism? And what do we know about its social and political causes and consequences? This lecture provides some provisional answers to these difficult questions by considering various moments in the political history of Latin America—a region that has long been susceptible to populist mobilization and claims-making.  \n\nThis is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Populism: The Common People in Modern Politics. The next lecture series will start January 11\, 2018. The title is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us.
UID:45768-10276746@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Populism,Retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171009T103453
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group: The Concept of Workspace in Syntactic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nThe concept workspace increasingly makes an appearance in syntactic theory\, yet it is rarely well defined\, and its theoretical and empirical significance has often been overlooked. I identify at least two extant species of workspace prevalent in the literature\, and I suggest an unattested formulation. I consider how differing instantiations of the workspace interact with other derivational apparatus such as Minimal Search and the Extension Condition. I also explore how the properties of the workspace may have empirical consequences for phenomena such as Merge-over-Move/Move-over-Merge effects. Other empirical domains which have the potential to be connected to properties of the workspace are also discussed.
UID:45397-10172693@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45397
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171010T164425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Racial and Sexual Politics of Migrancy and Border Control
DESCRIPTION:Panelists include:\n\nKelly Lytle Hernandez (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nEithne Luibhéid (University of Arizona)\nLara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)\n\nKelly Lytle Hernández is a professor in the University of California\, Los Angeles Departments of History and African American Studies as well as the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is one of the nation’s leading historians of race\, policing\, immigration\, and incarceration in the United States. Her award-winning book\, MIGRA! A History of the US Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010)\, explored the making and meaning of the US Border Patrol in the US-Mexico borderlands\, arguing that the century-long surge of US immigration law enforcement in the US-Mexico borderlands is a story of race in America. Her most recently published book\, City of Inmates: Conquest and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press\, 2017)\, is an unsettling tale that spans two centuries to unearth the long rise of incarceration as a social institution bent toward disappearing targeted populations from land\, life\, and society in the United States. She is also the project lead for Million Dollar Hoods\, a digital mapping project that documents how much is spent on incarceration in Los Angeles.\n\nEithne Luibhéid is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She served as the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies from 2007-2011. Her research focuses on the connections among queer lives\, state immigration controls\, and justice struggles. Luibhéid is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press\, 2002). Luibhéid’s current book manuscript\, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Immigration\, Deportability\, and Queer Intimacies\,” explores how deportability is being extended and resisted through intimate ties between LGBT undocumented migrants and US citizens.\n\nLara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes on Latin American and Caribbean history\, theories and methods of transnational history\, and issues of migration\, kinship\, and gender. Publications include The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica\, 1870-1960 (UNC Press\, 2002)\, Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC Press\, 2013)\, and more than two dozen chapters and articles. Recent honors include the Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of Association of Caribbean Historians\, for “Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean\,” Journal of British Studies (2014) and the 32nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lectureship at the University of the West Indies\, Jamaica (2016). Putnam is President of the Conference on Latin American History and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review.\n\nThe history of immigration in the United States is one of bans\, quotas\, restrictions\, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American\, Latinx\, African American\, Muslim\, Jewish\, gendered\, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies\; American Culture\; Anthropology\; Arab and Muslim American Studies\; Asian\, Pacific Islander American Studies\; Bentley Historical Library\; Comparative Literature\; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\; English Language and Literature\; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\; History\; Institute for the Humanities\; Latino/a Studies\; Latinx Studies Workshop\; Office of Research\; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office\; Romance Languages and Literatures\; and William L. Clements Library.
UID:42662-9622485@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42662
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,immigration,Latin America,LSA200,umich200
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20170913T105224
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: The Future of Systems Engineering: Managing Complexity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
DESCRIPTION:This seminar consists of three parts: 1) General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc. company overview\, 2) my Aerospace Engineering degree as related to my career path\, and 3) a technical challenge facing modern engineering product development: Managing Complexity.  As the systems we build become more and more capable\, they are also exponentially more complex.  The methods and tools of Systems Engineering are rapidly evolving to support a single source of truth and communicate change across all disciplines by way of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)\, also called Digital Engineering (DE).  GA-ASI has a seat at the table of the Department of Defense Digital Engineering Working Group as we all seek to manage the ever growing complexity of our endeavors.\n\nAbout the speaker...\nMr. Fillmore received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Michigan in 1988 and immediately began his career with General Dynamics Space Systems Division in San Diego\, CA supporting Commercial Atlas-Centaur Unmanned Expendable Launch Vehicles in the Trajectory and Performance optimization department.  During his 6 years with GDSS\, he supported 3 launch operations (AC-72\, AC-71 and AC-111) at Cape Canaveral as Mission Engineer before that division was sold and moved to Denver\, Colorado.  Smitten with Southern California\, Mr. Fillmore quickly joined BAE Systems starting out as a Software Engineer for a Mission Planning software application that provides stealth aircraft route optimization\, primarily for USAF platforms.  During this time he achieved certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute and eventually led the team as Program Manager\, helping their endeavors grow to a whole family of software products.  Presently\, Mr. Fillmore is the Systems Engineering Manager for all U.S. Air Force programs with General Atomics – Aeronautical Systems Inc. including special emphasis on the MQ-9 Predator-B “Reaper” UAS.  David is a licensed Private Pilot (achieved via the Michigan Flyers flying club in Ann Arbor) and lives with his wife and children with whom he enjoys homework\, scuba diving\, auto-cross and live-music.
UID:44320-9908889@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44320
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20170914T201713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
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:43680-9829829@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:20171009T103640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Details to come.
UID:45545-10228835@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45545
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171004T134420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mae Ngai\, A Long History of Unauthorized Immigration Keynote: Who Makes America a Nation of Immigrants?
DESCRIPTION:Mae M. Ngai is a professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at  Columbia University. She is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration\, citizenship\, and nationalism. Mae is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton\, 2004)\, which won six awards\, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians\; and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2010). Professor Ngai has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-10)\; the Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10)\; the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04)\; the Huntington Library (2006)\; NYU Law School (1999-2000). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, Chicago Tribune\, the Nation\, and the Boston Review. \n\nThe history of immigration in the United States is one of bans\, quotas\, restrictions\, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American\, Latinx\, African American\, Muslim\, Jewish\, gendered\, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies\; American Culture\; Anthropology\; Arab and Muslim American Studies\; Asian\, Pacific Islander American Studies\; Bentley Historical Library\; Comparative Literature\; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\; English Language and Literature\; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\; History\; Institute for the Humanities\; Latino/a Studies\; Latinx Studies Workshop\; Office of Research\; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office\; Romance Languages and Literatures\; and William L. Clements Library.
UID:42666-9622501@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42666
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Bicentennial,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,History,immigration,LSA200,umich200
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171009T142224
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:On miracles: Reflections on the dynamical and geometrical approaches to spacetime theories
DESCRIPTION:The dynamical approach to relativity\, developed and defended by Brown and Pooley offers an interpretation of relativistic spacetime theories based on a claim about the origin of chronogeometricity---the property that the metric is surveyed by rods and clocks---of the metric in those theories. The sine qua non of this view is its claim about the origin of chronometricity but this is often overshadowed by the reductive ontological claim that follows in the special case of special relativity (SR). As a result\, its status as a viable interpretation of general relativity (GR) is often overlooked. In GR\, this interpretation relies on the existence of two contingent\, unexplained\, seemingly conspiratorial facts---miracles\, if you will. In this paper\, I argue\, based on recent work by Schuller and collaborators\, that the dynamical approach\, in fact\, requires only one miracle. Based on this\, I argue that it provides an explanatorily superior interpretation to orthodox geometrical approaches.
UID:45338-10161397@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170821T160402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
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:42761-9653810@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:20171003T111658
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Extreme Mechanics on the Surface of Our Planets
DESCRIPTION:Our experience with earthquakes is that they are violent events that take a heavy toll on our societies through life and property losses. However\, earthquakes present us with some of the most challenging questions in mechanics. By better understanding the nucleation and propagation dynamics of earthquakes\, we may make progress towards minimizing their negative impact. Insights from mechanics may help in the development of better seismic hazard models as well as in the construction of more efficient earthquake early warning systems. In this presentation\, I will give a brief overview of the multiscale nature of the earthquake mechanics problem and discuss some recent research efforts in my group to establish dynamic rupture models with high resolution fault zone physics\, \nAs a starting point I will review evidence for fault zone complexity at different scales. I will introduce a thermodynamically consistent viscoplasticity theory\, based on the shear transformation zone approach\, that enables prediction of fault gouge rheology under a wide range of pressure and slip rate. By implementing this theory in a continuum mechanics framework\, it is possible to model and resolve complex localization patterns observed in sheared fault zones as well as emergence of stick slip instabilities due to transitions in rate sensitivity. I will further show predictions of the theory for response of gouge to acoustic vibrations and implications for seismic triggering as well as slow slip generation.\nNext\, I will show that anisotropic damage features and material heterogeneities in fault zones\, including small scale branches\, fault-parallel joints\, and soft inclusions\, may play a significant role in modulating rupture dynamics which may be missed if standard plasticity models or bulk homogenization techniques are implemented. I will give two examples. First\, I will show that a fault parallel soft inclusion may trigger supershear rupture transition under circumstances not possible in homogeneous materials. Second\, I will show that small scale fault branches slow down rupture on main fault\, reduce peak slip rate and lead to emergence of complex wave field in the bulk and enhancement of high frequency radiation due to destructive and constructive interferences.\nI will close by describing some numerical challenges in modeling these complex systems and our progress in addressing them. I will briefly introduce a new hybrid numerical scheme that combines finite difference and spectral boundary integral methods for exact near field truncation of the wave field and efficient scale domain decomposition. By integrating the different mechanistic features of the problem\, from multiphysics modeling of fault zone to multiscale representation of geometric and material complexities\, we hope to establish a unique approach to the earthquake problem that will provide new opportunities in interpreting seismic observations and creating more accurate seismic hazard models.
UID:41532-10228829@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41532
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170803T082651
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’\, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the trans-oceanic migration of women between the Bombay Presidency\, Persian Gulf and East Africa during the course of the nineteenth century. While their movement was subsumed by the colonial state under the overall rubric of ‘slave trafficking’\, I argue that the category of ‘trafficking’—then as now—glossed over a number of trajectories for women’s mobility\, not all coercive or limiting. The larger project that this paper is a part of looks at the legal and social category of ‘marriage’ as a regulatory regime that continues to have repercussions for citizenship and mobility across borders in the region. In contemporary times\, women cross borders— notably from Sindh and Bengal—to marry in Kutch\, now a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat that shares a border with Pakistan’s Sindh province. These marriages can be expressions of aspirational mobility\, or a creative use of borders to negotiate citizenship rights in the aftermaths of partitioned territories. While some of these marriages are recognized legally and socially\, others are designated as ‘trafficking.’ The paper asks: when is women’s mobility across borders sanctioned as ‘marriage’ and when is it criminalized as ‘trafficking’? What categories are used by the state and popular discourse in their evaluation of licit and illicit sexuality? How have these changed over time in a single region? Central to the nineteenth century state’s understanding of marriage and trafficking was their understanding of the legally free and un-free person. While slaves were legally seen as un-free\, the state took it upon itself to liberate them\, thereby criminalizing those who purchased\, sold or otherwise transported them within British jurisdictions. On the other hand\, this paper will argue that women and their presumed ‘traffickers’ took recourse to multiple legal discourses in circulation across the Indian Ocean region. These proposed a range of ways in which those designated as ‘trafficked’ could move along the continuum of bondage and freedom. Judgements and legal opinions from shari‘a courts in locations as diverse as Yemen\, Muscat and Bombay were invoked to present alternatives to the marriage-or-trafficking paradigm of the state. In the debates over slavery and its abolition\, the colonial state of the mid- to late nineteenth century\, in its jurisdictions over western India\, the Persian Gulf and East Africa\, encountered legal and social elaborations of the family\, marriage and co-habitation that push us to interrogate these anthropological categories in the present. Finally\, the richly textured testimonies of these mobile women\, add a refreshingly gendered dimension to existing work on Indian Ocean migration. \n    \nFarhana Ibrahim is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi. Her research interests include the study of borders\, migration and ethnographic perspectives on the state. Her book\, Settlers\, Saints\, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India (Routledge 2009) was an ethnographic study of mobility and place making by Muslim pastoralists along the Kutch-Sindh border in the light of resurgent Hindu nationalist discourses in Gujarat in the early 2000s. Her current book project looks at issues of gender\, citizenship\, surveillance and security in cross border migration in Kutch.
UID:41928-9495450@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171003T115248
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium: The intersection of prosodic context\, pitch\, and gender in the identification of creaky voice
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nCreaky phonation in American English has been observed both in a prosodic role as a phrase-final marker (Kreiman\, 1982\; Slifka\, 2006)\, and sociolinguistically as a characteristic of the speech of certain groups (Henton & Bladon\, 1987\; Mendoza-Denton\, 2011). While creaky phonation has been discussed both in the linguistic literature and in the popular press\, it is unclear how accurately naïve listeners can detect creaky voice\, and what factors facilitate or hinder its identification. Three possibilities are considered: (1) listeners’ identification of creak in American English may be modulated by acoustic properties of speakers’ voices not related to their gender\, (2) listeners may be biased to attribute creaky phonation to women even when it is also present in male speakers\, or (3) they may identify creak equally among all speakers. In this study\, American listeners are presented with two experiments containing stimuli from both high- and low-pitched male and female speakers. Other manipulations include whether or not the utterance is a full sentence\, and whether the utterance is completely modal\, completely creaky\, or partially creaky (final 40-50% of the utterance). A robust finding is that listeners are least accurate on partial creak\, suggesting that creaky phonation is least salient when it serves as an utterance-final marker. There are no strong effects of gender aside from a weak tendency to identify creak more often for females than males in the whole creak condition in one experiment. In contrast\, when no creak is present\, listeners false alarm on the low-pitched males. Overall results indicate that rates of identifying creak in male and female speakers are relatively similar\, but prosodic properties and acoustic characteristics such as F0 interact with how well listeners can recognize creaky vs. modal speech.
UID:41731-9446509@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41731
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,colloquium,Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171003T105530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Professor Nikolay Dokholyan - Biochemistry and Biophysics - UNC School of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWe develop new optogenetic and chemogenetic tools to establish control of proteins and signaling cascades directly in living cells for direct interrogation of cellular networks\, protein-protein interactions\, and the roles of individual proteins in cellular life. To circumvent a fundamental difficulty of establishing such control\, which is to go unnoticed by endogenous interaction partners of the target protein\, we utilize allosteric sites that are coupled to the active sites. We install small “handles” into determined allosteric sites of the target protein that modulate its activity without affecting endogenous interactions and function.  To modulate protein activity with light or a ligand\, we utilize small naturally occurring LOV2 for light and artificially designed uniRapR for ligand\, correspondingly. Upon irradiation or without the ligand\, LOV2 or UniRapR are unstructured\; without light or with the ligand\, these domains are structured. Through allostery the structural order/disorder is coupled to the active site of the protein rendering it active/inactive. Hence\, by light or a ligand we can access the activity of the protein through “invisible” handles installed at a distance from the active site. We demonstrate the utility of the chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to protein regulation in a number of applications relevant to cellular motility.
UID:42544-9609361@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42544
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biophysics,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171028T123019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T190000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Didi Chuxing Campus Talk
DESCRIPTION:Please go to http://job.lockinchina.com/network/detail?id=920 for more details and register fo the event. \n\nDidi's Global Top Talent Program is designed for PHD candidates\, master candidates\, and college graduates all over the world. The program’s aim is to develop high-qualitytalent in computer science\, economics\, operation research\, econometrics\, statistics\, and transportation.We Are Looking for\n\n   Technology & Product\n\n    - Research Engineer\n    - Algorithm Engineer\n    - Computer Vision Research Engineer\n    - Smart Driving Development Engineer\n    - Assistant Product Manager\n    - UX Designer\n\nManagement & Operation\n\n    - Senior Strategy Manager\n    - Senior Researcher in Economics\n    - Marketing Trainee\n    - City Management Trainee\n    - Management Trainee\n    - Financial Management Trainee\n    - People Analytics\n\nGlobal Top Talent Program\n\n    - Algorithm Engineer\n    - Research Engineer\n    - Computer Vision Research Engineer\n    - Smart Driving Development Engineer
UID:45706-10265442@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45706
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:R1210 Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170802T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T190000
SUMMARY:Performance:Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say - Vital Signs for a New America
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner\, Sheryl Oring\, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner\, Oring\, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories\; listening and re-learning\; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.\n\nActive public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming\, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner\; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring\; and a tactile\, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out\, listen\, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.
UID:41895-9489337@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41895
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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