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DTSTAMP:20161028T181656
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry
DESCRIPTION:Erdos and Renyi introduced a model for studying random graphs of a given \"density\" and proved that there is a sharp threshold at which lower density random graphs are disconnected and higher density ones are connected.  Motivated by ideas in geometric group theory we will explain some new threshold theorems we have discovered for random graphs.  We will then explain applications of these results to the geometry of Coxeter groups.  Some of this talk will be on joint work with Hagen and Sisto\; other parts are joint work with Hagen\, Susse\, and Falgas-Ravry. Speaker(s): Jason Behrstock (CUNY)
UID:32427-4575985@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161027T130619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar | Holography and Scattering Amplitudes
DESCRIPTION:We recast 4D scattering amplitudes and their soft limits as correlators of a 2D CFT on the celestial sphere.  Our construction relies on a foliation of 4D flat space into a family of 3D hyperbolic geometries to which the AdS3/CFT2 dictionary is directly applicable.  By reformulating 4D scattering amplitudes as 3D Witten diagrams dual to 2D correlators\, we show how the Ward identities of the 2D CFT are equivalent to the 4D soft theorems.  Moreover\, we demonstrate how the infinite-dimensional Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras of the 2D CFT are manifested as the asymptotic symmetries of 4D flat space.  Finally\, we discuss the interpretation of 4D electromagnetic and gravitational memory effects as a certain version of the 3D Aharonov-Bohm effect.
UID:34512-4957124@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34512
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,Undergraduate,Science,Physics,Lecture,Graduate,Free
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161011T110404
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IWAP Series Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Prefunction Room
UID:34909-5043532@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34909
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Politics
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5760
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160720T155341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Julia Annas\, University of Arizona
DESCRIPTION:http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jannas/
UID:31434-4260704@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31434
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:Angell Hall - Tanner Library, 1171 Angell Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161025T123152
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Ariana Bancu discusses \"Word order Variation and Change in Transylvanian Saxon.\"\n\nAbstract\nThis study analyzes variation and change in Transylvanian Saxon (TrSax)\, an endangered language spoken in Romania. In an intense contact situation featuring TrSax\, German\, and Romanian\, syntactic transfer is observable in TrSax verb clusters\, resulting in word order variation between TrSax and German-influenced structures\, and a new particle verb structure in TrSax. I compare current data collected through sociolinguistic interviews to data from other TrSax dialects\, and to ancestors of TrSax (e.g. Middle High German\, Luxembourgish) and show that subordinate clause verb clusters pattern differently in TrSax than in related varieties\, displaying flexible distribution between available structures. The transfer of new structures from German into TrSax is facilitated by the typological similarity between the two languages (c.f. Thomason\, 2003)\, however a complete change towards German is prevented by Romanian\, which shares similar structures with TrSax. Speakers who use Romanian regularly display different patterns than speakers who do not use Romanian.
UID:35355-5201994@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35355
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Discussion
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161012T115258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Sam Epstein & Daniel Seely
UID:34970-5054730@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34970
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161028T181656
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Combinatorics
DESCRIPTION:Let S be a surface\, G a semi-simple group of type B\, C or D. I will explain how to construct the cluster structure on the moduli space of framed local systems A_{G\,S} defined by Fock and Goncharov. This was previously known only in type A. This gives a more direct proof of results of Fock and Goncharov for the symplectic and spin groups\, and also allows one to quantize higher Teichmuller space in these cases. If time permits\, I will discuss applications to counting tensor invariants of finite dimensional representations of these groups. Speaker(s): Ian Le (Perimeter Institute)
UID:34736-4984476@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34736
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161018T104620
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available.
UID:32061-4492615@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32061
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161024T172102
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: The Impact of the Rise of Algae and Land Plants on Global Biogeochemical Cycles
DESCRIPTION:The transition to eukaryote-rich marine ecosystems and the rise of land plans fundamentally altered global biogeochemical cycles. Yet there are poor constraints on when the transition to eukaryote-dominated marine ecosystems occurred and the roles that land plants played in shaping modern-style biogeochemical cycling. Based on an extensive new sedimentary zinc (Zn) isotope record across Earth’s history\, I provide evidence for the onset of eukaryotic regulation of the marine Zn cycle at ~800 Ma. A joint evaluation of the microfossil and Zn isotope records suggests that eukaryotes evolved relatively early in the history of life (~1700 to 1600 Ma) but did not rise to ecological prominence until much later in Earth’s history. Lithium (Li) isotopes are an emerging proxy with the potential to track how the magnitude and style of continental weathering have changed through time. There has been extensive work on Li cycling in modern systems and this work has fostered the development of sound constraints upon the modern Li isotope budget. This work has provided a platform and impetus for the generation of a Li isotope record through Earth's history\, which I will take a first attempt at providing. My initial results provide evidence for inhibited clay formation during weathering prior to the rise of land plants in the early Paleozoic. Therefore\, the long-term Li isotope record provides support for the view that land plants dramatically changed the process of weathering. Interestingly\, this transition appears to occur with the earliest (i.e.\, non-arborescent) land plants.
UID:32164-4508945@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32164
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161101T100141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biophysics Seminar: Assistant Prof. Arun Anantharam\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor of Pharmacology\n\nAbstract\nThe sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is activated by a variety of threats to homeostasis\, including injury\, hypothermia\, psychological distress\, and exertion.  In response\, adrenomedullary chromaffin cells secrete a cocktail of potent catecholamines and neuropeptides\, stored within secretory vesicles\, into the circulation. The secreted transmitters act in the periphery to drive compensatory or anticipatory changes necessary\, in some cases\, for survival. By design\, the chromaffin cell secretory response is not fixed\, but mutable\, in order that cellular release properties can be rapidly tuned to physiological requirements.  However\, the mechanisms underlying the plasticity of this system are unclear.  Without this knowledge our understanding of the specificity and subtlety of sympathetic nervous system function will remain limited.\n\nThe chromaffin cell secretory response has been modeled extensively using biophysical methods\, including measurements of changes in plasma membrane capacitance in stimulated cells. The models are consistent with seemingly interchangeable pools of readily releasable\, slowly releasable and reserve vesicles. A major assumption has been that vesicles have the same basic biochemical constituents and that the fusion reaction and the rates of discharge of vesicle contents are uniform. This idea is challenged by our recent findings. Specifically\, we discovered that chromaffin vesicles within the same cell can have functionally different isoforms of the key endogenous Ca2+ sensor Synaptotagmin (Syt). These isoforms (Syt-1 and Syt-7) confer different Ca2+ sensitivities to the vesicles in situ enabling them to respond differentially to depolarizing stimuli. Our current hypothesis is that vesicle heterogeneity may provide secretory cells with a rapid and contextually appropriate means of controlling fusion modes and release properties based on local Ca2+ levels. In this seminar\, I will present data that supports this hypothesis and discuss implications of functional vesicle heterogeneity for the regulation of the secretory response.
UID:33246-4710138@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33246
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160906T085853
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Markets in Life: Surrogate Mothers on India's Reproductive Assembly Lines
DESCRIPTION:Between 2002 and 2016\, when commercial surrogacy was eventually banned in India\, surrogacy grew to a multi-million dollar industry and earned India the moniker\, the world’s “baby factory.” Drawing on interviews with surrogate mothers\, egg donors\, and garment workers in Bangalore\, as well as straight and gay couples in the U.S. and Australia\, this talk locates surrogacy as an activity that invokes both gift giving and market exchange. The speaker suggests that in the new kinds of embodied labor\, such as surrogacy\, egg and sperm donation\, the two worlds of market and non-market are co-constitutive\, and complicate notions of commodification\, altruism\, alienation\, and intimacy.\n\nSharmila Rudrappa is the director of the Center for Asian American Studies\, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and writes on bio-markets\, labor\, and reproductive justice. Her most recent book is Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India (2015\, NYU Press).
UID:31503-4311326@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Women's Studies,India
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161028T120028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T180000
SUMMARY:Other:Halloween Cookie Baking/Decorating Party
DESCRIPTION:We will be baking in the name of spooky! Location is still tbd! 2 points for attendance. 
UID:34475-4930865@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34475
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:TBD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161013T163125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Film Series | Panel discussion featuring Cui Zi’en\, Wang Wo\, and Ying Liang
DESCRIPTION:A reception will follow the panel discussion and will be held in the same location - Room 2435 North Quad. This reception is free and open to the public!\n\nAbout the Directors:\n\nCui Zi’en (崔子恩) is from Harbin and is now living in Florida. He is a director\, film scholar\, screenwriter\, novelist and an pioneering queer activist. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Science and now is an Associate Professor at the Beijing Film Academy. The author of books on criticism and theory\, Cui Zi’en has also published nine novels in China and Hong Kong\, including the first gay novel in modern Chinese literature. He founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival\, the first LGBT film festival in 2001. He directed his first film\, Men and Women in 1999 and has since written and/or directed over 20 more. Forging an queer video activism\, Cui’s work circulates freely between fiction and documentary\, the conventional and the avant-garde. His best known films are Enter the Clowns (2002)\, The Old Testament (2002)\, Night Scene (2003)\, and Queer China\, “Comrade” China (2008).\n\nWang Wo (王我) was born in Hebei Province\, and is currently living in USA. He studied graphic design at the Central Academy of Arts and Design\, and received an MA in Arts and Design from Tsinghua University. He began making films in 2004\, establishing himself as one the innovative of the independent documentary filmmakers. His experimental documentaries include Outside (2005)\, Noise (2007)\, Zhe Teng: According to China (2010)\, The Dialogue (2014) and Filmless Festival (2015). Along with his filmmaking\, Wang established himself as an artist and graphic designer. His powerful posters for the Beijing Independent Film Festival are admired the world around.\n\nYing Liang (应亮) is a feature film director currently living in Hong Kong. He was born in Chongqing\, and studied filmmaking at Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University. He began his career making short films\, before making his first feature\, Taking Father Home\, in 2005. His other major films include The Other Half (2006)\, Condolences (2009)\, Good Cats (2008) and When Night Falls (2012). The latter film led to his current exile in Hong Kong\, when the government refused to allow his re-entry after an international film festival visit. Ying is also the founder of the Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival\, which started in 2007 and was the first film festival in Western China.\n\nSee the full schedule of upcoming films: https://events.umich.edu/group/LRCCS?filter=tags%3AFilm+Series\,
UID:33764-4784581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33764
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Asia,Chinese Studies,Film Series
LOCATION:North Quad - Room 2435
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160926T093140
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T180000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Miya of the Quiet Strength
DESCRIPTION:Miya of the Quiet Strength is a documentary about the life of Miya Rodolfo-Sioson\, the lone survivor of the November 1\, 1991 University of Iowa shooting\, 25 years ago. Following her injury\, Miya became a quadriplegic. The film shows Miya’s life as an activist\, following her as she overcomes many challenges and fights for the rights of others she sees as less fortunate than herself. In Miya’s own words\, “I would not feel complete if I wasn’t helping others.” Sonya Rodolfo-Sioson\, Miya’s mother\, will be introducing the film\, describing Miya’s activist heritage\, and will be available for questions afterwards.
UID:34051-4844231@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34051
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability,Advocacy,Diversity
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161026T085428
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161028T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Philippe Schlenker Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Philippe Schlenker is a global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at New York University.\n\nRecent semantic studies of sign language have led to three salient claims. First\, in some cases sign languages make visible some crucial aspects of the Logical Form of sentences\, ones that are only inferred indirectly in spoken languages. Second\, along one dimension sign languages appear to be more expressive than spoken languages because rich iconic phenomena can be found at their logical core (e.g. Schlenker\, 'Visible Meaning'\, to appear). Third\, in order to understand the role of iconicity in language in general\,  signs with iconicity should be compared to ‘speech-plus-gesture’ rather than to speech alone  (Goldin-Meadow and Brentari\, 'Gesture\, sign and language'\, to appear) – hence the interest of a formal comparison between the iconic properties of signs and of gestures. \n\nWe will critically examine two common beliefs pertaining to this comparison. The first is that gestures differ from signs in not being subject to morphosyntactic rules. The second is that when speech is enriched with co-speech gestures\, it can ‘match’ the iconic semantics of signs. We will argue that both claims are incorrect. First\, we will suggest that some ‘gestural verbs’ display  non-trivial grammatical properties of sign language agreement verbs\, including under ellipsis. Second\, we will argue that semantically co-speech gestures differ from most iconic modulations in sign language in that the latter typically have an at-issue contribution\, whereas the former are usually presuppositional in nature. As a result\, signs with iconicity afford  different expressive resources from ‘speech-plus-gesture’.\n\nRelated readings:\n\nMorpho-syntactic properties of gestural verbs\nhttp://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003120\n\nSemantic properties of co-speech gestures:\nhttp://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002645\n\nBackground on sign language semantics: \nhttp://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002447
UID:31065-4026882@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31065
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Language,Discussion,colloquium
LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 138
CONTACT:
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