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DTSTAMP:20161031T124254
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Social\, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis paper presents a novel mechanism under which diversity affects performance even if it has no direct impact on payoffs. Diversity matters because it influences the degree of strategic uncertainty that players face. We model this by incorporating the dual process account of Theory of Mind into the standard game-theoretic framework. Whether diversity is a cost or a benefit depends on whether the primary concern is to avoid mis-coordination or to break out of an inefficient Nash equilibrium.
UID:33505-4752451@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33505
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 3100 (Ehrlicher Room)
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Complex Analysis\, Dynamics and Geometry
DESCRIPTION:I'll describe a combinatorial/geometric construction which I call the plaid model\, on account of its resemblance to the weave in a plaid shirt.  For each rational number the model produces a union of embedded polygonal surfaces in a cube. I will explain how you recover the dynamics of outer billiards on kites when you slice the model in one direction and how you recover some of Pat Hooper's Truchet tiling system when you slice the model 2 other directions.  The model is a kind of marriage of these two seemingly unrelated dynamical systems\, and has a rich structure in its own right. I'll show off the main results with plenty of color computer demos. Speaker(s): Rich Schwartz (Brown University)
UID:31899-4439451@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31899
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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DTSTAMP:20161104T102020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Special Seminar: The one-two punch: megafauna extinction\, climate change\, and biotic interactions at the macro scale
DESCRIPTION:Climate has long been recognized as a deterministic factor in shaping species ranges and assemblages\, but there is a growing appreciation for the role of ecological interactions in modulating how species respond to climate change. Given this\, it's troubling that we know so little about 1) the degree to which biotic interactions shape contemporary distribution patterns\, 2) how interactions themselves are likely to change due to climate change or extinction\, and 3) whether those interactions will help or hinder a species' ability to track its climatic niche through space and time. In this talk\, I'll discuss three case studies from the recent geologic record that shed light on the causes of climate-driven extinction\, and the impacts of extinction on plant community dynamics and distributions at the macroecological scale.
UID:35517-5266653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35517
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Biology,Ecology,Science,Research
LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources  Building - 1040
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry & Physics
DESCRIPTION:In 2007\, a quantum theory for quasi-homogeneous polynomial singularities was developed by Fan\, Jarvis\, and Ruan\, based on ideas of Witten\, and now called FJRW theory. It should be seen as the counterpart of Gromov-Witten (GW) theory for hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces via the so-called Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau (LG/CY) correspondence.\nIn 2003\, Lee established a K-theoretic version of GW theory. However\, some aspects of GW theory\, such as mirror symmetry\, were still missing until last year. Indeed\, Givental gave in 2015 a refined version called permutation equivariant GW K-theory\, and proved some mirror symmetry statements in this new context\, e.g. for the quintic hypersurface in P^4.\nIn this talk\, I will describe a joint work with Valentin Tonita and Yongbin Ruan\, in which we define a K-theoretic version of FJRW theory and we study its permutation equivariant part. I will focus on the quintic polynomial and explain how to prove mirror symmetry and the LG/CY correspondence. Speaker(s): Jeremy Guere (Berlin)
UID:33103-4691087@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33103
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20161103T101334
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Search for Heavy Vector-like Quarks in pp Collisions at sqrt{s}=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
DESCRIPTION:Unlike Standard Model quarks\, vector-like quarks are non-chiral with symmetric right- and left-handed couplings. Vector-like quarks are the simplest colored fermion extra generation currently allowed by data and many new physics scenarios predict their existence. The decay of vector-like quarks to Standard Model particles\, via Yukawa interactions\, results in rich final states consisting of many hadronic and leptonic boosted objects. This seminar will summarize searches for vector-like quarks in the 1-lepton final state based on 14.7 /fb of pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 13 TeV recorded in 2015 and early 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
UID:34567-4964882@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34567
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate,Science,Talk,Physics,Lecture,Graduate,Free
LOCATION:West Hall - 335
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory
DESCRIPTION:This is a continuation of last week's talk: The relation between (standard) orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory is\, by now\, somewhat classical. In rough terms\, we can express the partition function (and many other related quantities) of random matrix models in terms of orthogonal polynomials\, so that asymptotic questions in random matrix theory can be immediately translated to the asymptotic theory of orthogonal polynomials. A natural generalization of standard orthogonality on the real line is provided by non-Hermitian orthogonality\, where the standard bona fide inner product is replaced by orthogonality with respect to a non-Hermitian bilinear form\, typically expressed in terms of contour integrals in the complex plane. Although the direct connection to random matrix theory is lost\, the formal partition function associated to the model is meaningful to enumeration problems of graphs in compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. Hence the asymptotic theory of these non-Hermitian orthogonal polynomials is still of interest. However\, due to the analytic character of the integrands defining the orthogonality there is a lot of freedom in the choice of contour of integration for the orthogonality\, and consequently classical potential-theoretic techniques have to be suitably adapted and improved in combination with more recent Riemann-Hilbert methods. In the first part of our talk\, we will survey some old and not-so-old results on the asymptotic theory of these non-Hermitian orthogonal polynomials\, focusing on how their asymptotics can be extracted with the aid of the S-curves. This first part is partially based on joint work with Arno Kuijlaars (KU Leuven - Belgium). But this story is not yet over! Another generalization of standard or- thogonality is provided by the multiple orthogonality\, where the conditions of orthogonality are split into two (or more) measures. This generalization is again physically meaningful: many random matrix models (and also random path models) can be described in terms of such multiple orthogonal polynomials. However\, the asymptotic analysis of such polynomials has so far been restricted to situations involving symmetries in the model. So in the second part of our talk we plan to discuss some more recent developments towards removing such symmetry constraints. This is an ongoing project with Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Universidad de Almeria - Spain)\, and as such the whole picture is not yet complete. At any rate we will talk about how the S-contour business can be generalized to this situation\, and how a salad of critical measures and quadratic differentials comes to the table.  Speaker(s): Guilherme Silva (University of Michigan)
UID:35501-5238859@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35501
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1866
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DTSTAMP:20160915T172353
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance
DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available.
UID:31737-4406133@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31737
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:35789-5341466@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35789
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Come hear a collection of short\, informal talks by Michigan grad students about their research or whatever is on their mind. This is a great opportunity to see what your colleagues are up to\, and should be a lot of fun.  Speaker(s): Combinatorics Students (University of Michigan)
UID:35786-5338941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35786
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20161021T121740
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Group\, Lie and Number Theory
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:33023-4650818@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33023
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20161107T181709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Group\, Lie and Number Theory
DESCRIPTION:In arithmetic topology\, one aims to build analogies between 3-manifolds and spectra of number rings. A recent contribution in this direction was made by Minhyong Kim\, by defining the arithmetic Chern-Simons functional. This provides\, in the least\, a large set of invariants for a number field. We will provide a Galois theoretic interpretation of some of these invariants\, and also compute some of them. This is joint work with H. Chung\, M. Kim\, J. Park\, and H. Yoo.\n Speaker(s): Dohyeong Kim (University of Michigan)
UID:33021-4650816@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33021
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20161027T141223
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Sixteenth-century Europe and North Africa witnessed parallel processes of heightened religious enthusiasm: invoking divine grace and claiming non-mediated communication with God\, visionaries\, prophets\, and saints of both societies sought a religious and political transformation of their communities.  Through an analysis of trial records of the Spanish Inquisition\, this talk examines the spiritual career of a young Morisco prophet in sixteenth-century Toledo\, Spain. It pays attention to the spiritual transformation of the boy from Christian visionary\, to Muslim saint\, and finally his promised prophethood as “God’s envoy” (enviado de Alá) The boy’s visions of heaven and hell\, and his journey to Mecca accompanied by the angel Gabriel not only shed light on the tensions between forced assimilation and the desire to preserve religious and cultural forms\, but ultimately it forced us to reexamine the boundaries of Islamic studies in the Middle Period.
UID:33305-4712613@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33305
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:European,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2022 Thayer
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DTSTAMP:20161122T123008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T180000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume 101
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP is required for this program. If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* \nNot in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/18330\n\nThis workshop is co-sponsored by the American Advertising Federation of Michigan student organization. \n\nWill your resume convince an employer or graduate school that YOU are the right candidate? Get that resume in tip-top shape by joining this interactive resume session! During this session we give you a chance to put on the employer hatto understand what makes a resume great. You will leave this session with a “better bullet” using the bullet plus model and a resume reviewed by one of your peers!\n\nThis session is an interactive workshop\, so you are expected to prepare by carefully watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJVk4Nsok8&feature=youtu.be . These pieces will not be covered in the workshop. You are expected to bring a physical copy of your resume to this workshop. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Handshake. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this eventthen please go to umich.joinhandshake.com\, locate the event\, and then click the 'Join Event' button.
UID:31477-4278390@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31477
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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DTSTAMP:20170215T153222
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T203000
SUMMARY:Meeting:WISE - AADL Girls Who Code Club
DESCRIPTION:Closed to WISE Ann Arbor District Library Girls Who Code Club members.\nTo be included on the wait list for next year\, please email umwise@umich.edu and include your request\, your daughter's name\, age\, grade\, school and best email to contact in August. (GWC club is for girls in grades 6-12)
UID:35862-5354245@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Information and Technology
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20160916T105632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161107T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCED Lecture. Ukraine: The Next Stage of Transition
DESCRIPTION:Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted 25 years ago for freedom and independence\, to break from the tyrannical past of communism and the Soviet Union. Natalie Jaresko will review how Ukraine has become stronger or weaker since independence\, and look at efforts to rebuild society\, the economy\, institutions\, rules\, regulations\, and systems. Focusing on developments in the past two years\, during which Ukrainians have fought to retain their valuable freedom and independence\, she will look at how the horrendous war to defend territorial integrity and the values of Ukrainian people has affected the transition process. Drawing on her experience as Finance Minister\, Jaresko will explore what can be done to hasten this transition\, asking how Ukraine can cement the progress of the past while defending itself in a hybrid war and avoiding the risks of populism. She will offer suggestions for urgent steps that need to be taken to turn Ukraine's opportunity and potential into competitive realities. \n    \nNatalie A. Jaresko has enjoyed a distinguished international career in public service and private industry. As Ukraine’s Finance Minister from December 2014 to April 2016\, she served at a particularly critical moment when the post-revolutionary state was rocked by deep recession and war on part of its territory. During her tenure she led the successful negotiation of the largest IMF program in the institution’s history\, as well as a complex debt restructuring. Her government’s success in restoring macroeconomic stability enabled the creation of a broad international financial coalition to support Ukraine’s transition. She led the reduction of public spending\, cutting the deficit by more than 75% to 2.1% of GDP in 2015. She also advanced tax reform resulting in an almost 50% reduction in payroll tax\, eliminated tax privileges which favored vested interests\, implemented a transparent e-data system placing all treasury transactions online in real time\, and initiated corporate governance reform in state-owned banks. \n    \nPreviously\, she spent two decades creating a platform for private equity investment in the region\, working as co-founder and CEO of Horizon Capital\, a fund with over $600 million under management\, and as president and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund. Jaresko began her career in public service in the United States\, serving in the State Department from 1989-92\, then as Economic Section Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine from 1992-95. She currently serves as Trustee Board Chair for Aspen Institute Kyiv and is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital.\n\nAbstracts reflect the views of our speakers\, which may be varied. We expect a lively discussion.
UID:33771-4784589@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33771
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ukraine,Democracy,Economics,European,International,Politics
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
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