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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Who Gets What in Education:  Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement? (with Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu)
DESCRIPTION:We examine two approaches to improving urban school systems: changing who gets to go to existing schools (reallocation) and restructuring school portfolios through closures and reconstitution (resource augmentation). Using data from New York City high schools\, we estimate models of school effects allowing for both vertical school quality differences and horizontal student-specific match effects. While sophisticated reallocation policies that op- timize student-school matches can generate modest educational gains\, they are constrained by limited seats at highly effective schools. Simple resource-augmentation policies targeting replacement of low-performing schools achieve comparable improvements with less systemic disruption. Analysis of NYC’s school closures reveals that basic graduation rate metrics effectively identify struggling schools\, suggesting complex value-added models may be un- necessary for targeting closure decisions. Our findings indicate that capacity constraints\, rather than poor school matching\, primarily drive educational inequality.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143679
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Econometrics,Economics,Labor,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260202T062717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | X-ray vision in the age of free-electron lasers: Making the invisible visible
DESCRIPTION:For well over a century x rays have been a powerful tool for probing atomic-scale structure due to their short wavelength and relatively weak interaction with matter.  As sources have become ever more brilliant\, scientists have been able to probe the microscopic world with more and more exquisite detail. In the past couple of decades free-electron lasers have provided the most intense laboratory source of x rays with femtosecond pulse durations---short enough to capture the fastest vibrations in solids\, and the making and breaking of chemical bonds.  In this colloquium\, I'll present a few examples of how we utilize these remarkable light sources to gain new insight into material properties.  I’ll present a novel method for studying non-equilibrium lattice dynamics in the time domain[1] which we’ve used to identify a novel lattice instability in photoexcited SnSe[2]\, as well as identify the changes in interatomic forces that drive it [3].  The high brightness further allows us to isolate valence electron density within the atomic bonds[4].  I’ll show how we’ve been able to view the local nonlinear response to sub-bandgap excitation in the prototypical semiconductor silicon[5].  These results advance our goals of developing a mechanistic understanding\, and novel methods of controlling\, the remarkable properties of materials on their fundamental length and time scales.\n\n[1] M. Trigo\, et al.\, Fourier-transform inelastic x-ray scattering from time- and momentum-dependent phonon-phonon correlations. Nat. Physics\, 9(12):790–794\, 2013.\n[2] Y. Huang\, et al.\, Observation of a novel lattice instability in ultrafast photoexcited SnSe. Phys. Rev. X\, 12(1):011029\, 2022.\n[3] Y. Huang\, et al.\, Nonthermal bonding origin of a novel photoexcited lattice instability in SnSe. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131:156902\, 2023\n[4] T. E. Glover\, et al.\, X-ray and optical wave mixing. Nature\, 488(7413):603–608\, 08 2012.\n[5] C. Ornelas-Skarin\, et. al.\, Second-order microscopic nonlinear optical susceptibility in a centrosymmetric material: Application to imaging valence electron motion. Phys. Rev. X\, 16:011006\, 2026.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144106
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Science
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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