BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160302T145922 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIBERAL ARTS- AT UM AND ELSEWHERE DESCRIPTION:What exactly is a “liberal arts” education in America and where did it come from? The current ferocious debate over the value and future of a liberal arts 
education in America is marked by a failure on all sides to answer these questions. By looking at the general history of the liberal arts in some of America’s leading 
universities and a case study of University of Michigan\, this lecture will attempt to clarify and explain its history. Seen in this historical context\, the liberal arts today may be both more and less than its advocates and critics contend.\n\nTerrence McDonald became the Director of the Bentley Historical Library at the UM after serving for ten years as Dean of the University’s college of liberal arts\, called the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts. 
He joined the UM faculty after receiving his doctorate in American history from Stanford University.\n\nThis is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of the Liberal Arts. The next lecture will be April 28\, entitled THE VISUAL ARTS AS A HUMANIST LENS INTO THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING HUMAN UID:29344-3076202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Retirement,Lifelong Learning,Education LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120406@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129490@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,UMMA,Museum,Information and Technology,Exhibition,Art LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160202T134236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits DESCRIPTION:The first major U.S. exhibition of the accomplished Chinese artist Xu Weixin (b. 1958)\, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits will focus on two of his acclaimed\, large-size portrait series: Miner Portraits and Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976. The subjects in Miner Portraits are coal miners working in harsh conditions in contemporary China. Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976 depicts people who lived—known and unknown\, and some of whom eventually perished—during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution. By portraying these individuals with monumentality and poignant realism\, Xu Weixin brings our focus to their lives and ordeals\, inviting an emotional connection. Reflecting the artist’s deep interest in the human condition\, these single-person portraits challenge our expectations and compel us to see beyond official narratives of historical events and social conditions. Xu Weixin is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing. UID:28691-2810510@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Art,Exhibition,Chinese Studies,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160411T105422 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Microeconomics/IO DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWe present a market design for an open access wireless market. Open access means that in real time\, network capacity cannot be withheld—network throughput is priced dynamically by the marginal demand during congestion. In unconstrained times and locations\, a nominal fee is paid for network throughput. As in electricity markets\, the real-time market provides the foundation for forward markets. Monthly forwards are auctioned before the start of each month\; yearly forwards are auctioned before the start of each year. Market participants\, both operators and traders\, take positions in forward auctions to manage risk and optimize portfolios. Deviations from forward positions are settled at real-time prices based on actual use. The independent system operator runs the network and conducts the real-time\, monthly\, and yearly auctions of network throughput. An independent market monitor observes the market\, identifies problems\, and suggests solutions. A board—including affiliated directors representing important stakeholders together with independent directors with subject matter expertise—governs the market. A goal of the market is to provide a secure\, robust\, wide-coverage platform for mobile communications supporting public safety and universal service. Public safety has pre-emptive rights during emergencies and otherwise has economic use like wholesale operators. A complementary goal is competition. The open access provision brings vibrant competition through low-cost\, non-discriminatory entry into the wireless market. The market provides a natural remedy for mergers\, allowing operational efficiency gains while increasing competition. Critical funding is provided through efficient congestion pricing that balances supply and demand at every time and location. The market\, enabled by flexible handsets and the LTE technology\, radically reforms current spectrum policy. The market coexists and complements the dedicated networks of incumbent carriers\, promoting efficient spectrum use and essential innovation. UID:24479-1514953@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/24479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Economics,seminar LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160411T105436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe present a market design for an open access wireless market. Open access means that in real time\, network capacity cannot be withheld—network throughput is priced dynamically by the marginal demand during congestion. In unconstrained times and locations\, a nominal fee is paid for network throughput. As in electricity markets\, the real-time market provides the foundation for forward markets. Monthly forwards are auctioned before the start of each month\; yearly forwards are auctioned before the start of each year. Market participants\, both operators and traders\, take positions in forward auctions to manage risk and optimize portfolios. Deviations from forward positions are settled at real-time prices based on actual use. The independent system operator runs the network and conducts the real-time\, monthly\, and yearly auctions of network throughput. An independent market monitor observes the market\, identifies problems\, and suggests solutions. A board—including affiliated directors representing important stakeholders together with independent directors with subject matter expertise—governs the market. A goal of the market is to provide a secure\, robust\, wide-coverage platform for mobile communications supporting public safety and universal service. Public safety has pre-emptive rights during emergencies and otherwise has economic use like wholesale operators. A complementary goal is competition. The open access provision brings vibrant competition through low-cost\, non-discriminatory entry into the wireless market. The market provides a natural remedy for mergers\, allowing operational efficiency gains while increasing competition. Critical funding is provided through efficient congestion pricing that balances supply and demand at every time and location. The market\, enabled by flexible handsets and the LTE technology\, radically reforms current spectrum policy. The market coexists and complements the dedicated networks of incumbent carriers\, promoting efficient spectrum use and essential innovation. UID:30336-3434984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30336 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T162743 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:International Economics DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available. UID:30453-3496640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30453 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,AEM Featured LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T162139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:International Economics DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available UID:27079-2308542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27079 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,International,AEM Featured LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160311T105323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Contemporary Classical DESCRIPTION:The ARA Trio was founded by three U-M School of Music\, Theatre and Dance students in 2015\, and they take special interest in bringing flute trio repertoire to new audiences. Rachel Berkowitz is a junior working towards a B.S in Neuroscience and a B.M. in Flute Performance with Amy Porter. Anita Graef is junior a Cello Performance student\, studying under Anthony Elliott. Annelisa Crabtree is a junior Piano Performance major under Louis Nagel with a Performing Arts Management minor. UID:29632-3155181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29632 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T063004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Handshake Mini Clinics for Graduate Students: How to Search for Non-Academic Job and Internship Opportunities DESCRIPTION:Are you a graduate student looking for internships\, jobs\, fairs\, and events related to your non-academic career path? The Career Center is hosting a 30 minute \"\"mini-clinic\"\" on how to navigate Handshake. Students with little to no experience with Handshake are encouraged to attend! We will address everything from how to access Handshake to how to maximize your search.\n\nThere will be two half hour mini-sessions. The first will start at 12:30pm and the second at 1:00 pm UID:29942-3268696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:South Lounge (8th Floor) Room 8030 Munger Graduate Residences 540 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T134632 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T140000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Butterfly Festival DESCRIPTION:Explore the beautiful and fascinating world of butterflies and life cycles! Watch live Monarchs and take a close look at how they travel through each stage of their life cycle. Metamorphose into a butterfly with your own wings! Get your hands dirty by planting new perennials in our butterfly garden (weather permitting).\n\nFree and open to the public. \nummnh.org UID:30343-3522066@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30343 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,Free,Festival,Family LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160316T125430 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:COLOR CODE\, MARIANETTA PORTER DESCRIPTION:Color Code: Conundrums and Complexities will be presented at GalleryDAAS\, located on the ground floor of Haven Hall on the University of Michigan’s central campus\, from March 11 to April 29\, 2016. The exhibition showcases the recent work of mixed-media artist and University of Michigan professor Marianetta Porter. Color Code celebrates the artistry and eloquence of the black experience in all its complexity--its brutal history\, the richness of its folklore and traditions\, and the beauty of its vernacular expression. UID:29488-3138762@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Social Justice LOCATION:Haven Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T092659 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dissertation Defense: Statistical network analysis: beyond block models DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nNetwork data represent​ ​ connections between units of analysis and lead to many interesting research questions​ with diverse applications​. In this thesis\, we focus on inferring the structure underlying an observed network\, which can be thought of as a noisy random realization of the unobserved true structure.  ​Different applications focus on different types of underlying structure\;  one question of broad interest is finding a community structure\, with communities typically defined as groups of nodes that share similar connectivity patterns.   ​One common and widely used model for describing​ a community structure​ in a network is the stochastic block model.   This model has attracted a lot of attention because of its tractable theoretical properties\, but it is also well known to oversimplify the structure observed in real world networks and often does not fit the data well.   Thus there has been a recent push to expand the stochastic block model in various ways to make it closer to what we observe in the real world\, and this thesis makes several contributions to this effort.  \n\nWe first study the problem of detecting communities ​in the​ presence of additional node features.​ Many​ existing methods detect communities based only on ​the ​observed edges between nodes\, but in many networks\, additional information on node features is available.​  Recent methods for community detection that​ incorporate node features​ typically either depend heavily on correct model specification\, which is hard to verify\, and/or do not attempt to perform feature selection.  Including features related to communities can improve community detection\, but including unrelated features amounts to adding noise to the data and ​​can lead to ​substantial​ reductions in accuracy​.  In this thesis\,​ we propose a mod​el​​l​-free joint criterion​ for community detection with node features\, with the ability to select only relevant features. ​ ​We show that the underlying new community detection criterion has appropriate theoretical performance guarantees and the method is effective on both simulated and real networks.  ​\n\n​Another direction we explore in this thesis ​is modeling and detecting overlapping communities. While community detection is commonly formulated as a partition problem\, in practice communities in networks tend to overlap. Developing a good model for overlapping communities has been a challenge\, due to identifiability issues and computational costs\, although a number of special cases have been addressed.  We propose a novel overlapping model that generalizes the stochastic block model and includes many of the previously studied overlapping models as special cases.  The model is flexible and general but maintains identifiability and interpretability of parameters.  We propose a fast algorithm to fit this model\, establish its consistency\, and demonstrate the method outperforms a large number of benchmarks on both simulated and real data examples.\n\n​The final contribution of this thesis is a novel method​  to estimate edge probabilities​ from a single observed network\, a task closely related to the so-called graphon estimation problem.  The stochastic block model is able to infer this underlying edge probability matrix from a single observation by assuming the underlying probability function (the graphon) consists of constant blocks\;  we deal with the much more general case of piecewise Lipschitz continuous functions.   Our estimator leverages a core technique of classical nonparametric statistics\, neighborhood averaging\, solving the challenge of defining suitable neighborhoods on networks.   The method is fast and accurate\, and adapts to a large range of different graphon families.   We also show that it achieves the best theoretical error rate among currently known polynomial time methods for this problem. UID:30449-3494532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T171919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T150000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Dogs in the Library! DESCRIPTION:Shake off end-of-semester stress while relaxing with a furry friend. Therapy dogs await your attention\, courtesy of Therapaws of Michigan.\n\nJoin us outside of the Design Lab on the first floor of the Shapiro Library:\n\n Tuesday\, April 19\, 6:00-8:00 p.m.\n Thursday\, April 21\, 1:00-3:00 p.m.\n\nDogs being dogs\, they might need to leave early! UID:29616-3148222@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29616 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Library LOCATION:Shapiro Library - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T152300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160421T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Plans and Models: Digital Tools\, Sticky Practices and the Thorny Problem of Innovation DESCRIPTION:What do multidisciplinary teams need to generate innovative ideas? The research that our team has done on large-scale architecture\, engineering and construction projects presented us with a paradox: More detailed visualizations made it easier for interdisciplinary teams to identify and agree upon problems while making it harder for them to generate solutions. The answer to this paradox\, we think\, is in the communication strategies that teams use\, including their choice of communication medium. \n\nThis talk is drawn from a book manuscript based on eight years of field research in contemporary architecture\, engineering and construction--industries undergoing historic change in response to a new digital tool. The tool\, Building Information Modeling (BIM)\, has significantly shifted how architects and engineers communicate designs and challenged industry norms and legla standards. While BIM gave teams new ways of representing buildings\, sharing data and managing information flows\, it took away one of their most important strategies for innovation: ambiguity.\n\nFor design\, our research shows the importance of understanding what multidisciplinary teams need for identifying problems and generating solutions to those problems. For scholars of technology and innovation\, our research extends the understanding of visualizations for interpretive flexibility and the role malleable media play in teams. For practitioners\, our study can inform conscious choices about design workspaces\, tools and processes. \n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nGina Neff is a sociologist who studies how new communication and data-intensive technologies impact work\, companies\, and society. Her award-winning book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries\, published by MIT in 2012\, examined the risks faced by new media pioneers of the first internet boom. Funded by Intel\, she studied the effects of emerging social media and consumer health technologies on the organization of primary care and wrote Self-Tracking with Dawn Nafus\, forthcoming from MIT in spring 2016.\n\nNeff co-directs the Collaboration\, Technology and Organizational Practices\, a research group studying the roles of communication technology and data in the innovation of complex building design and construction. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University\, where she remains an external faculty affiliate of the Center on Organizational Innovation\, and has held appointments at UC San Diego\, UCLA\, Stanford University\, Princeton University\, NYU\, and Central European University\, where she is a senior fellow at the Center for Media\, Data & Society. In addition to academic outlets\, her research and writing have been featured in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Christian Science Monitor\, Pacific Standard\, Fortune\, The American Prospect\, and The Nation.\n\nAbout the series:\n\nThis series is co-sponsored by the School of Information and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature\, Science and the Arts. It is made possible with support from the John D. Evans Foundation. UID:30017-3310049@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30017 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Architecture,Research,Information and Technology,Lecture LOCATION:North Quad - Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR