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:20250416T153949 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Coffee Chats DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) student orgs for coffee and conversation every Wednesday from 3-4 p.m. in the IOE Community Suite. UID:133245-21872643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ergonomics,Food,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Hfes,Human Factors And Ergonomics Society,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,North campus LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250116T115602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:Convenes on Wednesdays\, 3-4 p.m. in 3110 MLB. There will be some German chocolate to snack on. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will bring games\, and the hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu.) UID:131292-21868134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131292 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Games,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250121T123126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T163000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:U.S. EPA Regions 8\, 9\, and 10 Federal Careers Virtual Workshop DESCRIPTION:Come learn about Federal Employment at Region 8 (Denver)\, Region 9 (San Francisco)\, and Region 10 (Seattle) of the EPA! Entry level\, early and mid-career professionals are all welcome to attend. Our work at EPA has purpose and impact. From tackling the climate crisis to advancing environmental justice\, what happens here changes our world. \;Our mission is to protect human health and safeguard the environment – the air\, water\, and land upon which life depends.At EPA\, you can make a real difference for the environment and the lives of others.Participants have the opportunity to learn about EPA’s mission\, how to navigate USAJOBS and creating a federal resume. There will be panel discussion to provide a glimpse into variety of careers within the EPA.This event begins at \;3:00 PM Mountain Time \;(4:00 PM Central Time\, 5:00 PM Eastern Time\, 2:00 PM Pacific Time.)For more information or to request accommodations\, please contact \;mutter.andrew@epa.gov\, verges.michelle@epa.gov\, weber.camille@epa.gov\, or \;drummond.shawn@epa.gov. UID:126466-21857170@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126466 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250402T130611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T161000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Grand Challenges in RF & Plasmas for Next Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The semiconductor industry is experiencing rapid growth\, driven by the explosive advancements in AI\, machine learning\, and quantum computing. As one of the largest industrial segments globally\, the semiconductor industry leverages the unique capabilities of radio frequency (RF) power and plasma technologies. These technologies have been pivotal in propelling the industry’s recent evolution. To sustain this momentum\, the industry requires innovative\, ambitious\, and talented early career professionals. In this seminar\, we will introduce the fabrication processes in the semiconductor industry\, with a focus on RF and plasma technologies. We will then review the cutting-edge technology at Lam Research and discuss the major challenges we face in RF and plasma areas with a focus on modeling\, illustrated by practical examples. The seminar will cover both plasma-assisted etching and deposition.\n\nAbout the Speakers:\n- Benjamin Yee is a Senior Staff Plasma Physicist at Lam Research with the Source Engineering group specializing in capacitively coupled plasmas\, plasma metrology\, and plasma stability. Benjamin obtained his Ph.D. in NERS from the University of Michigan studying nanosecond discharges under Prof. Foster. He was a NASA Graduate (2009)\, Engineering Outreach Teaching (2010)\, and MIPSE fellow (2010). Prior to joining Lam\, Benjamin was at Sandia National Lab specializing laser plasma diagnostics\, sheath physics\, and breakdown. He helped found the Sandia Plasma Research Facility and was on the LXCat Technical Team.\n\n- Hema Swaroop Mopidevi is an RF engineer in Etch Engineering Department of Lam Research Corporation specializing in RF/EM/plasma modeling of semiconductor subsystems. He has published in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has 9 patents in applied EM field. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering\, from Utah State University in 2014 with emphasis on reconfigurable antenna designs for telecommunications. He specializes in multi-physics modeling aspects of RF subsystems\, EM-plasma interactions\, and High-voltage design in his current capacity at Lam Research.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom: \nhttps://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2425.php#winter2025 UID:134610-21874583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate Students,In Person,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Plasma,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T113059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:ChE Undergraduate Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium offers an opportunity for ChE undergraduate students to share their projects with a broad audience.\n\nThis year\, approximately 40 students who have been conducting research in partnership with faculty or working on a senior design project will present their work at this two-hour open poster session forum.\n\nAttendees include student presenters\, other undergraduate and graduate students\, department leadership and faculty\, alumni and corporate partners.\n\nFor additional information\, please contact us at cheugsymposium@umich.edu. UID:133131-21872423@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133131 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:chemical engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - BorgWarner Galleria CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T122815 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar Politics and Culture in the Muslim World Series. Book Launch: *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt* DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt *by Dr. Yasmin Moll\n \n RSVP: http://bit.ly/RevolutionWithin416\n Wednesday\, April 16\, 4:00 PM ET\n CupsnChai Ann Arbor\n 214 S 4th Ave\n \n Join the Global Islamic Studies Center at CupsnChai Ann Arbor on Wednesday\, April 16\, at 4pm for the book launch of Professor Yasmin Moll's new book\, *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*. This event will be moderated by Professor Andrew Shryock\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Free chai & snacks will be provided!\n \nAbout the book:\nThe New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles\, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewers found radical and compelling—but were scorned as neoliberal by leftists\, as stealth Islamists by secularists\, and as too Westernized by other Muslim preachers.\n \n Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers\, their producers\, and followers in Cairo\, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment. The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a \"revolution within\" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity\, solidarity\, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square\, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized\, The Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces\, reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous\, a public Islamic\, a way of life Godly.\n \n \n \n About the author:\n \n Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Anthropology. Her new book\, *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*\, is out with Stanford University Press in the series Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. Moll is an ethnographic filmmaker and a former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows (2014-2017).\n \n About the moderator:\n \n Andrew Shryock is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He studies political culture in the Middle East\, Arab and Muslim communities in North America\, and new approaches to history writing. His books include *Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan* (1997)\, *Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend* (2010)\, *Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present* (with Daniel Smail\, 2011)\, and *Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit* (with Yasmeen Hanoosh and Sally Howell\, 2025).\n \n Purchasing Dr. Moll's book?\n \n Order using the promo code below for a discount!\n $32.00 paperback\, 368 pages\n Receive 20% off at http://www.sup.org/ with code: MOLL20\n\n---\n \n \n This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan. This talk is a part of the GISC Rabbi Elliott T. Spar “Politics and Culture in the Muslim World” series.\n \n \n ----\n \n Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter here! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.\n \n Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83\n \n Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ\n \n Email islamicstudies@umich.edu\n \n Are you a student looking for funding?\n \n Graduate Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCGradFunding\n \n Undergrad Funding Opportunities: https://bit.ly/GISCUndergradFunding\n\nAccommodation: If 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. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu UID:134291-21874085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134291 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Book,book discussion,Discussion,Global Islamic Studies,Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250218T140613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Optimal PhiBE — A Model-Free PDE-Based Framework for Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses continuous-time reinforcement learning (RL) in settings where the system dynamics are governed by a stochastic differential equation but remains unknown\, with only discrete-time observations available. While the optimal Bellman equation (optimal-BE) enables model-free algorithms\, its discretization error is significant when the reward function oscillates. Conversely\, model-based PDE approaches offer better accuracy but suffer from non-identifiable inverse problems. \nTo bridge this gap\, we introduce Optimal-PhiBE\, an equation that integrates discrete-time information into a PDE\, combining the strengths of both RL and PDE formulations. Compared to the RL formulation\, Optimal-PhiBE is less sensitive to reward oscillations\, leading to smaller discretization errors. In linear-quadratic control\, Optimal-PhiBE can even achieve accurate continuous-time optimal policy with only discrete-time information. Compared to the PDE formulation\, it skips the identification of the dynamics and enables model-free algorithm derivation. Furthermore\, we extend Optimal-PhiBE to higher orders\, providing increasingly accurate approximations. UID:129844-21864640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250326T143035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Schwarzman Scholars Info Session DESCRIPTION:Join ONSF and Jason Rathman\, Admissions Outreach & Selection Officer for Schwarzman Scholars on Wednesday\, April 16th from 4 to 5:30pm in Weiser Hall\, Room 455 for an information session. \n\nSchwarzman Scholars is a graduate program designed to ready the next generation of leaders to drive change. It provides a fully-funded Master’s Degree in Global Affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The experience encompasses unique opportunities in and outside the classroom\, providing Scholars with extensive leadership training\, a network of senior mentors\, opportunities to engage in high-level interactions with Chinese leaders and visiting speakers\, optional internships\, career development guidance\, and travel seminars around China. UID:134398-21874312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Office Of National Scholarships And Fellowships (Onsf),Onsf,Scholarships LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 455 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250416T152025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Schwarzman Scholars Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join ONSF and Jason Rathman\, Admissions Outreach & Selection Officer for Schwarzman Scholars on Wednesday\, April 16th from 4 to 5:30pm in Weiser Hall\, Room 455 for an information session. Schwarzman Scholars is a graduate program designed to ready the next generation of leaders to drive change. It provides a fully-funded Master’s Degree in Global Affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The experience encompasses unique opportunities in and outside the classroom\, providing Scholars with extensive leadership training\, a network of senior mentors\, opportunities to engage in high-level interactions with Chinese leaders and visiting speakers\, optional internships\, career development guidance\, and travel seminars around China. You must register at this link to RSVP to this session\, not through Sessions @ Michigan. UID:134400-21874311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:455 Weiser Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250413T163903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student AIM Seminar: A fluid dynamical swimming lesson: the tale of two length scales DESCRIPTION:Nature can provide us with important lessons on how to swim efficiently in a variety of situations. Though scallops can swim in the ocean by opening and closing their valves\, the scallop theorem shows that this swimming mechanism would be ineffective in highly viscous conditions. In this regime\, the Navier-Stokes equations linearize to give the Stokes equations. Since the Stokes equations are time-reversible\, microorganisms have developed hair-like structures known as cilia in order to generate propulsion by breaking time-reversal symmetry. The squirmer model uses a slip velocity defined on the microswimmer surface to mimic the effect of beating cilia. There has been previous work on spherical and axisymmetric squirmers\, but nature is not necessarily axisymmetric – thus\, we explore microswimmers of arbitrary shape. We propose a framework for expressing the slip velocity on an arbitrary surface in terms of tangential basis functions. Using the reciprocal theorem\, given a time-independent slip profile\, we can determine the rigid body velocities and the resulting swimming trajectory for an isolated microswimmer suspended in free space.\n\n\nAt much larger length scales\, flexible swimming sheets can be used to transport solar panels on water and can even model ice sheets on the ocean. In this regime\, the inviscid Euler equations hold. Unlike the Stokes equations\, the Euler equations are nonlinear and time-dependent. However\, the boundary integral techniques that are commonly used in Stokes flow can also be used in this context to track the motion of the water-air interface. We will showcase preliminary results in which we test our numerical methods on linear and nonlinear water waves in the absence of a sheet. We will then discuss how the slithering motion of snakes can help us model the elastic sheets. UID:134953-21875725@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T082635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ziwet Colloquium Lecture: Mathematical Analysis of Novel Advanced Materials: Epitaxy and Quantum Dots\, Wetting and Dewetting DESCRIPTION:Quantum dots are man-made nanocrystals of semiconducting materials. Their formation and assembly patterns play a central role in nanotechnology\, and in particular in the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. Changing the dots' size and shape gives rise to many applications that permeate our daily lives\, such as the new Samsung QLED TV monitor that uses quantum dots to turn \"light into perfect color\"! \n\nQuantum dots are obtained via the deposition of a crystalline overlayer (epitaxial film) on a crystalline substrate. When the thickness of the film reaches a critical value\, the profile of the film becomes corrugated and islands (quantum dots) form. As the creation of quantum dots evolves with time\, materials defects appear. Their modelling is of great interest in materials science since material properties\, including rigidity and conductivity\, can be strongly influenced by the presence of defects such as dislocations. \n\nIn this talk\, we will use methods from the calculus of variations and partial differential equations to model and mathematically analyze the onset of quantum dots\, the regularity and evolution of their shapes\, and the nucleation and motion of dislocations. Further\, using the $H^{-1}$-gradient flow structure of the evolution law\, short-time existence for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization is established in the context of epitaxially strained two-dimensional films. The main novelty\, as compared to the study of the wetting regime\, is the presence of moving contact lines. UID:134004-21873777@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Lecture,Mathematics,seminar LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250416T181557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Percussion Junior Recital DESCRIPTION:Junior students from the Percussion Studio perform a recital. UID:135082-21876057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135082 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T101602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:April WISE Nights In DESCRIPTION:Join WISE mentors and ambassadors for dinner! WISE Nights in are specifically designed to allow STEM students to meet other students in STEM\, foster connections\, and build their support network. UID:130746-21866623@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:WISE Office CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T180222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T191500 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Lavender Graduation DESCRIPTION:Lavender Graduation celebrates and honors LGBTQIA2S+ graduates and allies of all genders and sexualities at the University of Michigan. Established by Ronni Sanlo in 1995\, the inaugural Lavender Graduation at the University of Michigan was the first graduation celebration of its kind anywhere. Since then\, it has inspired over 500 other schools to do the same.\n\nGraduating U-M students can register as a member of the Lavender Class to attend the ceremony and/or receive special regalia and recognition (rainbow tassel\, lavender cord\, and certificate). Graduates may register without opting in to the ceremony. This celebration centers LGBTQIA2S+ graduates\, and is open to all students who have graduated or will graduate from August 2024 to December 2025.\n\nLEARN MORE\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/lavgrad UID:126852-21857997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Commencement,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Graduation,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Queer Trans Black Indigenous People Of Color-qtbipoc,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC LOCATION:Michigan League - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250219T063253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T182000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Let's Talk Tech at the Federal Reserve Board DESCRIPTION:The Federal Reserve\, the central bank of the United States\, provides the nation with a safe\, flexible and stable monetary and financial system. We represent the Board of Governors\, an independent federalagency\, based in Washington\, DC. We have about 3\,000 employees across 15 divisions.  We have a large Information Technology section to help find and implement technical solutions across the agency. Joinus on April 16 at 5:00pm ET to learn more about our organization and how our technical business lines support\, and elevate our work. During this session we will have employee representatives from our software developmentteams\, cybersecurity groups\, infrastructure group and our technical business analysts.  UID:132710-21871627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132710 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250324T112147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SAAE Speaker Series Event DESCRIPTION:Join the Society of Arab American Engineers (SAAE) and the Community Engagement and Empowerment (CEE) Committee of U-M’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department to hear from various Arab professionals in the engineering industry and beyond. Our first speaker is Dr. Ahmed Al-Bayati\, an expert in construction engineering\, management\, and safety\, who will be sharing his journey as a professional engineer. This event will take place from 5-7 pm on Wednesday\, April 16th in the Blue Lounge in the G.G. Brown Laboratory on North Campus. Dinner will be served. We can’t wait to see you there! RSVP here: https://forms.gle/vtAGxzpxUxoJnsuJ7 UID:133477-21873147@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:All Majors Welcome,Arab Heritage Month,Career,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Community Engagement,Culture,Dinner,Engineering,Food,Free,In Person,Michigan Engineering,Networking,North Campus,Professional Development,Talk LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - Blue Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T183000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Scientific Computing Student Club General Meeting DESCRIPTION:Meeting Details:Physical Location: EECS 1003Zoom Location: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96260768422Time: 5:00-6:30 PMMeeting Agenda:- Dinner: Jimmy Johns- Scientific Computing Trivia (4 questions)- Main event: solid-vis-1 project work.- Project Proposals (if any)- Announcements UID:130582-21866412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130582 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:EECS 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241126T124920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T190000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:2025 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Lecture DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2025 Hopwood Awards. Award-winning poet and novelist Hala Alyan will deliver the 2025 Hopwood Lecture. UID:129486-21862871@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129486 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Author,Books,celebration,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Literary Arts,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Rackham,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250328T135312 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T193000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Integrated Product Design Winter 2025 Product Launch DESCRIPTION:Event Details:\n• Online Product Launch: April 9-12 (Voting Open)\n• In-Person Event: April 16\, 5:30-8:00 PM\n• Location: Winter Garden\, Ross School of Business\n\nDescription\nWater is essential for life\, yet millions face challenges related to access\, quality\, and sustainability. This event will showcase innovative product solutions designed to address water-related challenges\, including water conservation\, access\, and filtration. The Online Product Launch (April 9-12) will feature a public voting event\, allowing participants to vote on their favorite solutions. The in-person event on April 16th at the Winter Garden will include presentations of these solutions\, with the awarding of the prestigious Sarah Murphy Prize ($5000) to the winning team. This event will bring together experts\, designers\, and students to discuss how integrated product design can drive sustainable change and improve water systems\, particularly for underserved communities across the U.S. UID:134462-21874379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134462 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,climate change,Engineering,Environment,environmental,Free,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Innovation,Interdisciplinary,Product Design,Sustainability LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Winter Garden CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250410T102106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250416T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Café: Becoming Our Best Selves—One \"Like\" at a Time DESCRIPTION:As of 2024\, 72.5% of the U.S. population—approximately 246 million people—used social media sites like Facebook\, Instagram\, X\, Snapchat\, TikTok\, and Mastodon. Even though many people have shuttered their accounts in the wake of an increasingly polarized political climate\, social media is still one of the primary ways we connect with one another.\n\nResearch on the toxic impacts of social media are abundant\, but these online platforms can also help us build community and support each other.\n\nDr. David Jurgens works at the intersection of computational space and social sciences. His research in artificial intelligence (AI) aims to understand how social media influences our well-being. Unlike the vast majority of social media research\, which focuses on how social media can cause harm\, Jurgens’ experimental work develops new AI-based tools with the hope of helping people online better engage with each other.\n\nDr. Yanna Krupnikov\, Professor of Communication and Media\, studies political expression and polarization on social media. Krupnikov has co-authored a number of books on the topic\, including the recently published Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter (2024\, University of Chicago Press).\n\nHors d’oeuvres will be served at 5:30 p.m.\, and the program begins at 6:00 p.m.\nSeating is limited—come early.\nFree and open to the public.\nUMMNH would like to thank Conor O’Neill’s for 15+ years of support for our Science Cafés. UID:134537-21874466@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134537 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Science,Social Media LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR