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DTSTAMP:20260729T130108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T124500
SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/htrYM6lXQH28gjySTQaKIw\n\nJoin us on Wednesdays from 12:15 – 12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows.\n\nMindful meditation is a contemplative practice that\, over time\, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective\, navigate the demands of daily life\, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness\, open and directed attention\, non-judgment\, and self-compassion. CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction\, support\, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly\, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome!
UID:109796-21906857@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109796
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Caregivers,first-generation,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Health & Wellness,Mindfulness,Nontraditional Students,Self-care,Student Parents,Students With Children,Support,transfer students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Welcome to Michigan,Well-being,Wellness,women,women's health,Work-life Balance,Zoom
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260919T210255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Staff Craft: Darning
DESCRIPTION:Did your gloves\, socks\, or other knit item develop a small hole? Learn to darn them up before it gets cold! Bring your clean item with a small hole or worn area\, all other materials provided. No experience needed. Open to all U-M staff and faculty.
UID:151413-21911561@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151413
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions,Staff Craft
LOCATION:Ruthven Building (1109 Geddes Ave) Room 1140
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering
DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up.
UID:102102-21910770@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T123320
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T140000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:International Student Career Series - Navigating On Campus Job Search
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a job on campus but not sure where to start? Join us for this interactive session designed to help international studentsexplore the on-campus employment opportunities available at U-M. You’lllearn how to approach the application process with confidence\, discover how campus jobs can help you build valuable skills for future career success\, and find out how the University Career Center can support you throughout your journey.This program is open to all students—come readyto gain insights\, ask questions\, and take your first steps toward finding the right on-campus opportunity for you! This event'sinformation 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 event and see more details\, please go to this webpage: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1985165/share_preview We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements via the link below\,preferably at least 14 days prior to the program to ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos at jmgaydos@umich.edu. Accessibility accommodation form: https://forms.gle/FmFn35ZLxJ8kvPfSA #UCC
UID:149924-21907377@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149924
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Business Objects 4.3 Zoom Training - Sept 2026
DESCRIPTION:This is a zoom training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in Business Objects to perform basic\, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO. Please bring your own laptop and power adapter to in-person training.Please Note: There is a minimum of 10 registrations for each class (you can find the number of seats available out of 40). If the minimum number of seats is not reached we will email you in advance.
UID:148615-21904530@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260910T181714
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T135000
SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng & Bjorn Brolin-Olson\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Tiffany Ng & Bjorn Brolin-Olson perform on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.
UID:151948-21912497@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151948
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,North Campus
LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260902T091753
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS 2026 Fall Colloquium Series | Making the ‘Migrant Crisis?’: Media\, Power and Perception
DESCRIPTION:More than a decade since the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ transformed European politics and media\, it remains a deeply contested story. From the Syrian civil war to conflicts across Africa and the movement of people from the Indian subcontinent\, this moment in 2015-16 came to be framed as the ‘migrant crisis’. It also became a media crisis\, marked by an explosion of alarmist reporting about people on the move. Rather than being treated as a humanitarian emergency requiring search and rescue missions\, the movement of vulnerable people across the Mediterranean was increasingly depicted as an attack by “invaders” from “over there”. The media too often relied on visual tropes of small boats\, barbed wire\, and faceless masses\, stripping people of their dignity and humanity.\n\nDrawing on a decade of his reporting across Europe\, the Middle East and Africa\, Ismail Einashe will in this lecture examine how the media constructed the figure of the “migrant” in the global public imagination\, reducing complex human movements to extreme binaries: the “vulnerable body” or the “dangerous outsider.” He will consider how\, a decade on\, this narrative has fueled increasing securitisation across the Mediterranean\, even as fewer migrants arrive.\n\nEinashe will explore why this story has become one of the biggest — and most divisive — stories in recent history. He will also analyse whether the media simply reported Europe's migration story or helped shape it into a permanent ‘crisis’ that now threatens European democracy.\n\nIsmail Einashe is an award-winning British-Somali journalist and author whose work on migration and refugee issues has appeared in numerous publications – including *Foreign Policy*\, *The Guardian*\, *BBC News*\, *The Nation*\, *The Sunday Times*\, *The New York Times*\, *NPR* and *ArtReview*. He is the author of *Strangers* (2023)\, a book by Tate Publishing that explores migration through the lens of art\, and he co-edited *Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere* (2019)\, a collection of critical essays examining how migrants are represented in European media. He was a 2025–26 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan\, where he examined migration reporting through the lens of trauma and art. Einashe is also part of a team of journalists working on Lost in Europe\, a cross-border journalism collaborative that investigates the disappearance of child migrants. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.\n\nRegister at: https://myumi.ch/qwg1Z\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: warsansa@umich.edu
UID:151368-21911416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151368
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,Cmenas Colloquium Series,Discussion,Lecture,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20260813T144951
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Headshot Session
DESCRIPTION:Need a professional headshot for networking or other communications? The ECRC is offering FREE portrait-style headshots to engineering students on Wednesday\, September 23rd.\n\nRegister in Career Forge – Spots are limited and will be available on a first-to-sign up basis.
UID:150238-21908438@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150238
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Engineering,Graduate Students,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Expanded Field: Dialogues on Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:Welcome Meeting: \"What is the expanded field and how do we define it?\"
UID:151992-21912586@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151992
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:FTVM Conference Room, North Quad 6450
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260813T085318
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Bi-VisibiliTEA
DESCRIPTION:Join the Spectrum Center as we celebrate Bi-Visibility Day! Be in community with us\, enjoy some yummy food\, play Bi+ trivia\, tabletop and Switch games\, and learn about bisexual icons.\n\nThis event centers Bi+ people and is open to all members of the U-M community.\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events
UID:149524-21906566@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149524
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bi,Bisexual,bisexuality,lgbt,spectrum center,spectrumcenter
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center (Suite 3020)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T113940
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics
DESCRIPTION:The fermionic Fock space is the semi-infinite wedge of a countably infinite dimensional vector space\, with a basis indexed by pairs of a partition and an integer. We explain how the 𝔤𝔩(∞)-action decomposes the Fock space into irreps\, using a basis of 𝔤𝔩(∞) built from composing exterior multiplication with contraction. We then introduce operators as infinite sums of the 𝔤𝔩(∞) operators\, whose action on each irrep can be used to identify it with the ring of symmetric functions. Along the way\, we reprove the skew Jacobi-Trudi identity. No physics background assumed.
UID:152485-21913804@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152485
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260919T190217
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Number Theory: An introduction to the local Langlands correspondence
DESCRIPTION:This talk aims to give a friendly\, high level introduction to the local Langlands correspondence. I will start by recalling some of the basic definitions in p-adic representation theory\, and then state the (crude) local Langlands correspondence. I will discuss the refinement of the local Langlands correspondence for quasi-split groups\, and -- time permitting -- comment on the refinement in the non-quasi-split case.
UID:152473-21913794@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152473
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260910T150941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fall 2026 MICDE State of AI & Future of Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by MICDE\, the State of AI & the Future of Institutions event brings together scholars\, students\, and institutional leaders to examine the rapid evolution of AI and its implications for knowledge\, research\, education\, work\, governance\, and society. Held twice a year\, the series creates a forum for timely\, cross-disciplinary discussion of AI’s emerging capabilities\, limitations\, and consequences.\n\nAgenda:\n\nTalks:\n3:00 Rick Lewis (Cognitive science)\n3:10 Mike Wellman (Computer science/COE)\n3:20 Henriette Elvang (Physics)\n3:30 Kate Cagney (Social Research)\n3:40 Jason Owen Smith (Institutional Capabilities and Research Intelligence)\n3:50 Joan Nwatu (Student perspective)\n\nPanel\n4:00-5:00: Chandra Sripada (Philosophy/Psychiatry)\, Karen Smith (Math)\, Venkat Raman (Aerospace/AI for science)\, Mike Wellman (CSE/COE)\n\n\nSpeakers and panelists:\n- Henriette Elvang\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Oskar Klein Collegiate Professor of Physics\, Chair of the Physics Department\n\n- Michael Wellman\, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering\, College of Engineering Associate Dean for Academic Affairs\n\n- Karen E. Smith\, William Fulton Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics\, Chair of the Mathematics Department\n\n- Richard Lewis\, John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology\, Linguistics and Cognitive Science\n\n- Kathleen Cagney\, Professor of Sociology\, Director of the U-M Institute for Social Research\n\n- Venkat Raman\, James Arthur Nicholls Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering\, Director of the C-PRIME Center\n\n- Jason Owen-Smith\, Associate Vice President for Research – Institutional Capabilities and Research Intelligence\; Professor of Sociology and Organizational Studies\; Professor of Public Policy\; Research Professor\, Survey Research Center\, Institute for Social Research\n\n-Chandra Sripada\, Theophile Raphael Research Professor\, Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry\nDirector\, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science\n\n-Joan Nwatu\, Graduate Student - Computer Science and Engineering
UID:150700-21909979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150700
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ai,Graduate Students,Lsa Events,Medical School Events,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Ross,Research,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260920T103910
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Profinite Rigidity and Hyperbolic Geometry
DESCRIPTION:To what extent is a finitely presented group determined by its finite quotients? This question leads naturally to the profinite completion\, which encodes all finite quotients of a group in a single algebraic object. In this talk\, we will discuss work by Bridson\, McReynolds\, Reid\, and Spitler who construct new examples of groups that are profinitely rigid\, meaning they are uniquely determined by their profinite completion\, via examples from hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology. Their approach uses techniques involving representation rigidity\, linking the finite quotients of a group to arithmetic invariants of lattices in PSL(2\,C). If time permits\, we will discuss more recent developments in this area pertaining to Dehn fillings of knots.
UID:152479-21913801@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152479
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1866
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DTSTAMP:20260818T120729
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T161000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Laboratory Experiments of Astrophysical Processes in Magnetized Turbulence
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMagnetized turbulence in the interstellar and intergalactic mediums is a key agent affecting or governing the phenomenology observed in such astrophysical environments. In this seminar\, I present fundamental science research in magnetized astrophysical plasmas that is accomplished through the concerted application of simulation codes and laboratory plasma astrophysics experiments. I discuss studies in fluctuation dynamo\, a ubiquitous astrophysical process thought to be responsible for the present-day magnetization of numerous celestial objects\; charged particle diffusive transport and acceleration\, in the context of extragalactic and ultra-high energy cosmic rays\; and the transport of heat in galaxy clusters. The experiments leverage world-class laser facilities like the Omega Laser Facility at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics\, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt. We detail these experiments\, as well as the FLASH simulation campaigns that we executed for their design and interpretation\, providing us with new way to validate or falsify our theoretical understanding. The work reflects the efforts of the TDYNO (Turbulent Dynamo) collaboration.\n\nWe acknowledge support by the U.S. DOE NNSA\; the U.S. DOE Office of Science\; and the U. S. National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge support from UK Research and Innovation.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nPetros Tzeferacos is the Director of Flash Center for Computational Science\, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy\, and a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics of the University of Rochester. He works on plasma physics and astrophysics\, combining MHD theory\, numerical modeling\, and laser-driven laboratory experiments\, to study fundamental astrophysical plasma processes with a focus on magnetized turbulence\, dynamo\, and charged particle acceleration. He is also working on several fundamental topics in inertial fusion energy and high energy density physics. He holds a visiting scientist position with the University of Oxford and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received the APS John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research in 2019\, an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science in 2021\, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2025.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person\, with livestream on Zoom. For more information\, please check the MIPSE website: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2627.php#fall2026
UID:150200-21908388@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150200
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astrophysics,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,Research,seminar
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003
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DTSTAMP:20260920T090237
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T165000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar -- Regular polyhedra over finite fields and triangular modular curves
DESCRIPTION:Through creating undergraduate course materials\, Grothendieck was led to define a new notion of regular polyhedra that holds over arbitrary base rings.  He asked in *Esquisse d'un Programme* for a classification of them over finite fields.  In this talk\, we will give an answer using the theory of triangular modular curves.  Through this we also compute some new cases of monodromy groups of triangular modular curves.  This is joint work with John Voight.
UID:149714-21906987@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149714
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260921T172128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SMTD Dual Degree Social Mixer - Welcome Back SMTD!
DESCRIPTION:Join SMTD Student Success for a gathering of SMTD students pursuing a second degree from another UM school (LSA\, CoE\, etc.)! Panda Express\, treats\, and a variety of board games will be provided. This is a drop-in event\, so feel free to stop by as your schedule allows. Food and Beverages will be provided. 
UID:152487-21913817@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152487
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Student Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260727T104702
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Buying Time: Optimal Service Purchase and Retirement Timing in Defined Benefit Plans
DESCRIPTION:We study retirement timing decisions in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan with a service-purchase\noption. An employee who would otherwise retire at a fixed time T may elect to purchase L additional\nyears of service and retire early. Earlier retirement provides additional leisure but requires an upfront\npayment and typically results in a reduced post-retirement income stream. We model this trade-off in\na continuous-time retirement framework by allowing the employee to choose L to maximize the value\nof wealth and leisure at retirement in both deterministic and life-contingent settings. Our model\ncaptures a common feature of public pension systems: early retirement is often accompanied by both\nan upfront cost and a permanent reduction in benefits. We show that this structure yields tractable\nand intuitive results in several benchmark cases\, including settings without mortality risk and settings\nwith mortality risk under simplifying assumptions. In more general cases\, we characterize optimal\nbehavior through comparative statics and numerical examples. A key insight is that the interaction\nbetween the finite-horizon value of leisure and the lifetime cost embedded in pension pricing can\ngenerate a range of behaviors\, including monotone strategies and interior optima. While many results\nalign with economic intuition\, others require more careful interpretation. We also extend the model to\nallow for dynamic decision-making via a multi-period service-purchase option\, solved by backward\ninduction. The results provide insight into optimal retirement timing and the role of plan design in\nshaping participant behavior. This is joint work with David Kausch and Virginia Young.
UID:149578-21906720@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149578
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260813T150121
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Bioinformatics Seminar Series featuring Feng Yue\, PhD (Director\, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis at Northwestern Medicine)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yue is the founding director of the Center for Cancer Genomics at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University\, director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis at Northwestern Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine\, the Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine\, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics\, and Professor of Pathology. He serves in the editorial board of Genome Research and Science Advances.
UID:150239-21908439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150239
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,Biosciences,cancer,Computational Science,Life Science
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 4B700
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260914T163308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DISCO Network Presents - Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire\, Chinamaxxing\, & the “American Century of Humiliation”
DESCRIPTION:\"You've met me at a very Chinese time in my life.\" American social media users and influencers like Hasan Piker\, I Show Speed\, and Kris Jenner have become newly interested in China as a source of cultural and technological inspiration. This panel of experts in technology policy\, Chinese techno-culture\, and the interplay between the U.S. and Asia will discuss the roots of \"Chinamaxxing\" in U.S.-China relations. The panelists are members of the A.I.eeeee Collective and co-authors of a new book project called \"Feeling the Future: Asian American Takes on Techno-Empire\" which discusses Asian semiconductors\, A.I.\, robots\, and electric vehicles as sources of both envy and of resentment.\n\nThis event is open to the public\, and we encourage all interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students to attend.\n\nFree boba from UniTea will be provided to the first 100 attendees.\n\nA corresponding opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enjoy a free networking lunch with the panelists will be available. Interested students may register for this session using the same form as the main event.\n\nAdvance registration is recommended:\n\nRegister to attend in-person: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/22866\n\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DDCtopKmSYalc0nf9BadMg\n\nMeet the Panelists:\n\nBrian J. Chen is Data & Society’s policy director\, leading the organization’s work to shape tech policy. With a background in movement lawyering and legislative and regulatory advocacy\, he has worked extensively on issues of economic justice\, political economy\, and tech governance. Previously\, Brian was a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project\, where he led campaigns to strengthen the labor and employment rights of digital platform workers and others in precarious industries. His writing has appeared in The Baffler\, Phenomenal World\, Boston Review\, and other magazines. He holds a JD from New York University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.\n\nJulie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration\, economy and value\, ritual life\, material culture\, media and technology\, and state regulatory regimes. Her book\, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society of Cultural Anthropology.  Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers\, this work will analyze the various infrastructures in place (legal-rational\, financial\, cosmic\, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. \n\nJasmine Ehrhardt is a PhD Candidate in American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. Their research engages in critical prison studies\, digital media studies\, and Asian American studies. Their dissertation \"Making the High-Tech Prison: Media\, Infrastructure\, and Counter-Narratives of the Digital\,” explores the knowledge production\, analysis\, and media practices of imprisoned radicals and abolitionists\, and their relationships to digital technology. Analyzing the archives of abolitionist intellectual and political work from the 1970s to the 2010s—in print and digital forms such as zines\, essays\, personal correspondence\, podcasts\, TikToks\, and other social media ephemera—this work shows how surveillance\, security\, and digital communications technologies have structured political organizing and repression inside US prisons. Jasmine's writing has appeared in AfterImage\, Journal of Visual Culture\, and Amerasia Journal. \n\nPaul Kim is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). His work lies at the intersection of critical AI studies\, critical race studies\, and visual studies. His dissertation titled “Recommending Race” investigates racial subjectivity within the contemporary recommender system. His work has been supported by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB (IHC) and the Asian/Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)\, among others. He has co-organized the 9th iteration of the Media Fields conference\, “Witnessing\,” and is on the editing team for the ensuant special issue of Media Fields. His work has been published in AI & Society. In his free time\, Paul ravenously watches cinema of the 2020s (TikTok and\, recently and excitingly\, Instagram Reels).\n\nMeet the Moderator:\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is the lead Principal Investigator of the DISCO (Digital Inquiry\, Speculation\, Collaboration\, and Optimism) Network along with Rayvon Fouché\, Catherine Knight Steele\, and M. Remi Yergeau. Nakamura is also the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and has been writing about digital media\, race\, and gender since 1994. She has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. She is the author of The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (University of Minnesota\, 2026)\, Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota\, 2007) and Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002). \n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART captioning services will be provided. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149356
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Asian American Studies,Big Tech,Culture,Digital Culture,Digital Media,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Information and Technology
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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