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DTSTAMP:20160909T135200
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
DESCRIPTION:This year is the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shaxpere. No\, that is not a spelling error! Did this man from Stratford really write the Shakespeare canon? That is the focus of the authorship debate. Using powerpoint presentations and discussions\, this class will provide participants with the information they need to understand the claims of both sides of the issue. This class for adults over 50 meets Fridays through November 18th. \nhttps://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg/viewEventDetails/897
UID:32699-4599325@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32699
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161028T153927
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T140000
SUMMARY:Performance:Carillon Recital
DESCRIPTION:The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower is open to the public during regular recitals\, played Monday through Friday (except academic holidays) by staff and students on the 60-bell Lurie Carillon. Take the elevator to the third floor to see the carillonist performing\, and visit the second floor to see the largest bells.
UID:35477-5235897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35477
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Music
LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161011T112708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Theory Workshop (PTW)
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Library Room
UID:34925-5043597@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Politics
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5639
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160921T150117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Wonderland Gems & Jewels
DESCRIPTION:Betsy Lehndorff’s jewelry is influenced by her life in Hubbard Lake in northeastern Michigan. Using her stone cutting and silversmithing skills\, she takes on six subjects that impact her isolated world: water\, winter\, plants\, critters\, rocks and the heavens. Her work\, often representational and sometimes narrative\, challenges the idea of jewelry as a status symbol. Lehndorff was born and raised in Ann Arbor\, and lived in Colorado until 2012. She is a granddaughter of renowned architect Albert Kahn (Hill Auditorium and the “Old Main” U-M Hospital) and daughter of Dr. Edgar A. Kahn\, who headed the neurosurgery department at the U-M Hospital in the 1960s.
UID:34017-4836551@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34017
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161031T090524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Edward Nolan will give a presentations on \"Quod-Switching: Bilingualism and Social Context in the Letters of Pliny the Younger.\"
UID:33715-4777270@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33715
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161031T074314
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistical Learning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Walker Room
UID:34926-5043625@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34926
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Politics
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5664
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161104T181638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:The thresholding scheme\, a time discretization for mean curvature flow\, was introduced by Merriman\, Bence and Osher. In the talk I present new convergence results for modern variants of this scheme\, in particular in the multi-phase case with arbitrary surface tensions. The main result establishes convergence towards a weak formulation of (multi-phase) mean curvature flow in the BV-framework of sets of finite perimeter. The proofs are based on the interpretation of the thresholding scheme as a minimizing movements scheme by Esedoglu and Otto. This interpretation means that thresholding preserves the structure of (multi-phase) mean curvature flow as a gradient flow w. r. t. the total interfacial energy. Our proofs are similar in spirit to the convergence result of Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker\, which establishes convergence of the minimizing movements scheme introduced by Almgren\, Taylor and Wang\, and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker. Like theirs\, also ours is a conditional convergence result\, which means that we assume the time-integrated energies to converge to those of the limit. This is a natural assumption\, which is however not ensured by the compactness coming from the basic estimates. We show that the methods can incorporate external forces and a volume constraint. Furthermore\, I will present a similar result for the vector-valued Allen-Cahn Equation.  This talk is based on joint works with Felix Otto (MPI MIS Leipzig)\, Thilo Simon (MPI MIS Leipzig) and Drew Swartz (Booz Allen Hamilton) Speaker(s): Tim Laux (Max Planck Institute\, Leipzig)
UID:31640-4375181@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31640
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161024T102840
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ACADIA
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Hours:\nThursday\, October 20 - Sunday\, October 23:  3pm - 7pm\nMonday\, October 24 - Wednesday\, October 26:  10am - 5pm\nThursday\, October 27 - Sunday\, October 30:  10am - 7pm\nThursday\, November 3 - Friday\, October 4:  3pm- 7pm\nThe ACADIA//2016 exhibition curated by Sandra Manninger features design and research from the worlds of practice and academia that are positioned at the intersection of procedural design\, digital environments and autonomous machines. The exhibition includes both curated contributions and peer-reviewed projects submitted to the conference.\nACADIA 2016: Posthuman Frontiers: Data\, Designers and Cognitive Machines fosters design work and research from the worlds of practice and academia that lie at the intersection between procedural design\, designed environments and autonomous machines. It explores recent work within computational design that develops and applies the integration of software\, information\, fabrication\, material intelligence and sensing to generate mechanisms for interfacing with the physical realm.\nTaubman College Faculty Contributions from the Research Through Making Program:\nRobert Adams\, The Asclepius Machine: Alterity Beyond the Anthropocene | Sean Ahlquist\, Social Sensory Playscape | Adam Fure\, Matt Kenyon\, TAP | Catie Newell\, Wes McGee\, Aaron Willette\, Investigations in Free Form Glass Slumping | Glenn Wilcox\, Anca Trandafirescu\, c-LITH: Carbon Fiber Architectural Units | Wes McGee\, Geoffrey Thün\, Kathy Velikov\, Daniel Tish\, Infundibuliforms: Kinetic Tensile Surface Environments\nVideo Installations:\nIris Van Herpen of Atelier Van Herpen and Philip Beesley of the Living Architecture Systems Group and University of Waterloo\nPeer-Reviewed Projects\nSensing Protocols:\nChandler Ahrens\, Christof Jantzen\, Rajeunir | Kory Bieg\, Watney Solid +/- Void | Brandon Clifford\, Wes McGee\, Microtherme | Rachel Dickey\, Morganne Walker\, Qualitative Robotics: Making a Case for Huggable Architecture | Christina Leigh Geros\, Lee-Su Huang\, Gregory Thomas Spaw\, Jakob Marsico\, Latent (e)Scapes | Michael Fox\, Victor Zhang\, MDES Students\, Inno-Bubbles | Jason Kelly Johnson\, Nataly Gattegno\, Murmur Wall | Faysal Tabbarah\, Almost Natural Shelter\; George Themistokleous\, Diplorasis: The Other Side of Vision\nData Protocols:\nT. Jason Anderson\, Keith Kaseman\, dFOIL: Drone Deployment Station and Augmented Reality Application | Dana Cupkova\, Andrea Salomon\, Aman Tiwari\, Aprameya Mysore\, Contingent Landscapes | Adam Marcus\, Glyphs: Drawing Automatic and Intuitive Agencies | Elisabeth van Overbeeke\, Othy Vitswamba\, Archip Ngumba Lobo\, BeniAtlas | Maj Plemenitas\, Cross Scale Embedding\nMachinic Protocols:\nKory Bieg\, Hybroot | Sebastián Caldera\, Mauricio Loyola\, Collaborative Design Between Academia and Industry in Chile | Brandon Clifford\, Wes McGee\, James Durham\, Round Room | Yidong Ma\, Yuxiang Zhang\, Fused Synergy | Tsz Yan Ng\, StereoNegative: a Tribute to Tony Smith | Jake Robert Read\, Open RSEA | Jonathan Rule\, Ana Morcillo Pallares\, Panots & Mosaics: the digital handmade | Martin Self\, Zachary Mollica\, Pradeep Devadass\, Exploiting Inherent Material Form | Timothy Sutherland\, John Larmor\, Mark Knutson\, Grant Herron\, Andrew Delle Bovi\, Industrial Production Process Recast: Robotic Manipulation of Clay and Waterglass-Bonded Sand for Computationally Derived Variable Architectural Castings | Martin Tamke\, Henrik Leander Evers\, Esben Clausen Nørgaard\, Scott Leinweber\, Flemming Tvede Hansen\, Filigree Robotics | Matthew A. Trimble\, Screen Walls / deep variation as a platform for constructed speciation | Lei Yu\, Zhongyuan Liu\, Sai Xiao\, Yanxin Wang\, Yijiang Huang\, Feng Xu\, Yanchuan Liu\, Liqun Zhao\, VULCAN PAVILION: A Fully 3D Printed Vault Structure\nMaterial Protocols:\nNancy Diniz\, Frank Melendez\, Embryonic Spaces: Living and Synthetic Matter for Wearable Devices | Eva Espuny\, Bio-Inspired Fibrous Composite Chair | Alvin Huang\, La Burbuja Lamp | Adam Marcus\, Margaret Ikeda\, Evan Jones\, Buoyant Ecologies: Performance-Driven Optimization of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Substrates | Frank Melendez\, Nancy Diniz\, Valeria Rybyakova\, Liquid Actuated Elastomers: Soft Architectural Systems | Jane Scott\, Programmable Knitting\nBehavior Protocols:\nBrandon Clifford\, The McKnelly Megalith | Behnaz Farahi\, Synapse: A Neuromorphic 3D Printed Body Architecture | Fengqi Li\, Amber Bartosh\, Wall Parley | Dimitris Papanikolaou\, Bodyprint: Exploring Architecture as a Medium for Human Interaction | Satoru Sugihara\, The Tower Pier: Integration of Generative and Optimization Algorithms in Agent-Based Computational Design\nAutonomous Protocols:\nAlan Cation\, Clayton Muhleman\, Swarming M.A.T.R. (Mobile Autonomous 3D Printing Robotics) | Alan Cation\, Clayton Muhleman\, Adithi Satish\, SWARMSCAPERS: Distributive\, Massive\, & Autonomous Fabrication | Qi Xuan Li\, The Ephemeral Landscape of Cyborg Infrastructure | Evangelos Pantazis\, Emmanouil Vermisso\, Jasmine Sadegh\, Emerging Pattern Formation via Embodied Encoding of Bristle Bots\nExhibition Design and Production Team:\nExhibition Chair and Curator: Sandra Manninger\nExhibition Director: MaryAnn Wilkinson\nGraphic Designer: Liz Momblanco\nExhibition Design: Geoffrey Thün\, Matias del Campo\nExhibition Team: Asa Peller\, Dustin Brugmann\, Kallie Sternburgh\, Dan Tish
UID:35307-5188034@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35307
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,conference,Exhibition
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20161020T133203
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T163000
SUMMARY:Other:FLAS Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. \n\nFLAS Fellowships provide tuition support and a stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. Fellowships are offered for the academic year and for summer in the U.S. or abroad. \n    \nApplication Deadline: January 15\, 2017 \n\nMore information\, including a list of eligible languages at ii.umich.edu/flas
UID:35150-5121214@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35150
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Funding,Graduate,International,Language,Undergraduate
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636
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DTSTAMP:20161031T080842
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminar | Quantum Space\, Strings and the Gravitization of the Quantum
DESCRIPTION:In the study of purely quantum phenomena\, such as occur in double slit experiments\, etc.\, it is useful to introduce modular variables rather than the more familiar positions and momenta. I will first review these variables and then show how they may be understood on a mathematical level as a generalization of geometric quantization. Playing a central role here is the Heisenberg group and its commutative subgroups. Our usual notion of classical space can be identified with a particular choice of commutative subgroup corresponding to a classical Lagrangian subspace of phase space\, that is a choice of classical polarization. There are however purely quantum polarizations that correspond to a choice of modular variables. Such quantizations generically involve a dimensional scale in addition to \hbar. In simple quantum systems\, the scale is set contextually\, for example by a slit spacing.  A new notion of quantum space(time) emerges if we suppose instead that the scale is fundamental. I will provide substantial evidence that\, contrary to the textbook accounts\, this mechanism is present in ordinary string theory. Thus string theory describes an inherently quantum gravitational theory\, for which the usual string constructions correspond to certain semi-classical limits with a local space-time interpretation\, with string dualities manifest.
UID:34612-4967651@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34612
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
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DTSTAMP:20161011T110404
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IWAP Series Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Prefunction Room
UID:34909-5043533@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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DTSTAMP:20161012T115402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Yu-Chuan (Lucy) Chiang\, Andrew McInnerney
UID:33716-4777271@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33716
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161104T181639
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Combinatorics
DESCRIPTION:We will start by explaining how to associate a Newton polygon to an element in GL(n) over a field of Laurent series.  This collection of Newton polygons forms a partially ordered set\, and if we refine this construction by restricting to Newton polygons associated to elements in a fixed stratum of the affine Bruhat decomposition\, there is a unique maximum element.  The primary goal of this talk will be to provide a closed formula for computing this maximal element in terms of directed paths in the quantum Bruhat graph.  Curiously\, combining this result with work of Postnikov shows that our formula for the maximal Newton polygon coincides with that for the minimal monomial in the product of two Schubert classes in the quantum cohomology of the complete complex flag variety. Speaker(s): Elizabeth Milicevic (Haverford College)
UID:34847-5007473@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34847
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161104T181638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry
DESCRIPTION:I will discuss the connection between Sasaki-Einstein metrics\, or conical Ricci flat Kahler metrics\, and the algebro-geometric notion of K-stability.  In particular\,  I will give a differential geometric perspective of  K-stability which arises from the Sasakian view point\, and use K-stability to find infinitely many non-isometric Sasaki-Einstein metrics on the 5-sphere. This is joint work with G. Szekelyhidi. Speaker(s): Tristan Collins (Harvard)
UID:34025-4839298@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34025
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161025T205511
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161104T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIt is often suggested that incentive schemes under moral hazard can be gamed by an agent with superior knowledge of the environment\, and that deliberate lack of transparency about the incentive scheme can reduce gaming. We formally investigate these arguments in a two-task moral hazard model in which the agent is privately informed about which task is less costly for him. We examine a simple class of incentive schemes that are “opaque” in that they make the agent uncertain ex ante about the incentive coefficients in the linear payment rule. Relative to transparent menus of linear contracts\, these opaque schemes induce more balanced efforts\, but also impose more risk on the agent per unit of aggregate effort induced. We identify settings in which optimally designed opaque schemes not only strictly dominate the best transparent menu but also eliminate the efficiency losses from the agent’s hidden information. Opaque schemes are more likely to be preferred to transparent ones when i) efforts on the tasks are highly complementary for the principal\; ii) the agent’s privately known preference between the tasks is weak\; iii) the agent’s risk aversion is significant\; and iv) the errors in measuring performance have large correlation or small variance. (JEL D86\, D21\, L22)
UID:32062-4492616@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32062
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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