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DTSTAMP:20250410T100829
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Student Thesis Defense -  Getting deep: A spatiotemporal dive into vertical phytoplankton patchiness in Michigan lakes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Seasonal succession of phytoplankton distribution and community composition are well-established in aquatic ecology. However\, localized peaks in phytoplankton abundance—patchiness—can deviate from expected trends. To better understand this variability\, I analyzed vertical profiles of phytoplankton distribution across fifteen lakes in southeast Michigan over three field seasons (2021-2023). I focused on four major phytoplankton groups—green algae\, cyanobacteria\, diatoms\, and cryptophytes—and examined how their abundance varied with depth\, temperature\, and season. Detailed case studies from six representative lakes highlight how basin morphometry influences thermal stratification\, shaping phytoplankton patchiness and concentration over time. Green algae were typically most abundant at the surface during summer months\, though several lakes exhibited benthic green algal peaks. Cyanobacteria\, diatoms\, and cryptophytes showed greater variability across depth and lakes\, with cryptophytes often displaying more consistent abundance throughout the water column. Temperature profiles followed expected seasonal trends\, with strong stratification in summer and mixing in the fall. These results emphasize the importance of considering lake-specific conditions in driving vertical phytoplankton patchiness.
UID:134768-21875037@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134768
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biological science,Bsbsigns,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb,Thesis Defense
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20250414T134534
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Inaugural Irwin Pollack Lecture | Exceptional Speech Recognition Outcomes: Lessons from Three Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:Individual differences and variability in outcomes following cochlear implantation and auditory brain stem implantation remain significant unresolved problems. In this talk I will present the results of research we have carried out on three exceptional adults with significant hearing loss who received implants. Two of the patients received cochlear implants\; the third received an Auditory Brainstem Implant. Case-reports on these three individuals have provided us with a novel way of investigating the foundational information processing mechanisms underlying variability in outcomes. All three adults displayed exceptionally good speech recognition outcomes following implantation and were administered a novel test battery to measure their auditory\, speech-language\, and neurocognitive functioning to uncover their strengths\, weaknesses\, and milestones. Our results suggest that current clinical outcome measures used to assess the benefits following implantation should be expanded beyond conventional endpoint product measures to include more sensitive robust tests of speech recognition and neurocognitive functioning.\n\nAbout the speaker: \nDavid B. Pisoni is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Chancellor’s Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Linguistics at IU where he has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Cognitive Psychology and carried out basic\, applied and clinical research on speech perception and spoken language processing. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology—HNS at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis where he carries out clinical research on hearing and cochlear implants in deaf children and adults.\n\nDr. Pisoni is one of the world’s leading research scientists in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Over his 55 year career at IU\, he has carried out seminal research on human speech perception\, spoken word recognition\, language processing\, and perceptual development in infants and children. He has also carried out pioneering research on several applied problems for the United States Air Force dealing with the perception of synthesized speech in cognitively demanding environments as well as the effects of noise on speech production. For the last 33 years he has also worked at the IU School of Medicine on numerous clinical problems associated with hearing impairment in deaf children and adults who have received cochlear implants. This program of research has had important clinical applications for understanding the enormous variability in speech and language outcomes following implantation. Throughout his career\, Professor Pisoni has made significant contributions in basic\, applied and clinical research in areas of speech and language processing. As the founding Program Director of the Indiana University\, NIDCD T32 training program in Speech\, Hearing\, and Sensory Communication\, he was closely involved in training and mentoring undergraduates\, graduate students\, medical students\, and postdoctoral research fellows who worked closely with him and other faculty in the research laboratories in Bloomington and Indianapolis.\n\nEstablished thanks to a generous gift from the Pollack family\, the Irwin Pollack Lecture Series features world-class speakers in the fields of psychophysics\, cognition\, and perception. This inaugural lecture will be held as a Zoom watch party at the Michigan League in the Henderson room followed by a reception in the Hussey room. The talk will be recorded. For questions\, please contact psych.admin@umich.edu.
UID:134607-21874579@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134607
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium,Psychology,Psychology Departmental
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room & Hussey Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250110T134711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
SUMMARY:Meeting:Prosody
DESCRIPTION:The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. We meet biweekly throughout the year to present our work in progress\, read papers\, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!
UID:130914-21867332@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130914
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion Group
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250204T090133
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
SUMMARY:Other:Student Sustainability Coalition Coffee Chats
DESCRIPTION:Navigating the variety of avenues to engage in sustainability work on campus can be daunting and confusing! Come talk with the Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) to learn more about sustainability initiatives on campus and WE WILL BUY YOU A DRINK!\n\n\n\nCoffee chats happen every Friday from 2-3p at Maizes in The League from 2-3p. Look for the \"SSC: Coffee Chats\" sign!\nCoffee chats also happening on select Mondays at Palmer Commons from 11-12p!\n\nSEE YOU THERE!
UID:118258-21862049@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/118258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Discussion,Ecology,Environment,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Prospective Graduate Students,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Social Impact,Sustainability,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Michigan League
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250401T104146
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A Theory of Choice Overload
DESCRIPTION:This paper revisits the classic Pandora’s box problem\, studying a decision-maker (DM) who seeks to minimize her maximal ex-post regret. The DM decides how many options to explore before choosing one or taking an outside option. We characterize the regret-minimizing search rule and show that the likelihood of opting out often increases as more options become available for exploration. Our model thus predicts `choice overload\,’ the phenomenon by which a default alternative is more likely to be chosen in larger choice sets.
UID:132167-21870526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132167
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Microeconomics,seminar,Theory
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250404T144000
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  Geomorphological controls on turbulent mixing in estuaries: implications for water quality
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Turbulent mixing in coastal environments can influence the distribution of material suspended in the water column and the exchange of water with the coastal ocean\, making it a key mechanism controlling water quality. In this talk I will explain how turbulence is accounted for in estuarine physics\, how we measure turbulence in the physical environment\, and will show results from one case study in Frenchman Bay\, Maine\, an area known for its complex deglaciated coastline\, strong tidal influence\, and shellfishing activities that are susceptible to problematic harmful algal blooms (HABs). Measurements of current velocity\, density\, and turbulence collected over a semidiurnal tidal cycle (~12 h) and a companion numerical model simulation of the study area provide concurrent evidence of counter-rotating sub-mesoscale eddies (2–4 km diameter) that enhance near-surface mixing. The eddies are generated in the wake of several islands in an area with abrupt bathymetric gradients\, both legacy conditions partly derived from deglaciation ~15 kya. Increased concentrations of algal cells measured during the 12 h survey follow a trend of elevated turbulent dissipation rates near the water surface due to the eddies. Our findings provide incentive to examine current practices of HAB monitoring and management by linking coastal geomorphology to hydraulic conditions influencing HAB sampling outcomes.\n\n\n\nContact:  Chris DiScenza
UID:130194-21865581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250403T152238
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker Series: Alan Rudolph
DESCRIPTION:Noted director Alan Rudolph will share items of interest discovered while looking through Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collections (https://myumi.ch/G2W3b). Light refreshments will be served.
UID:134661-21874680@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134661
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250127T090800
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Meeting:DocDi
DESCRIPTION:The DocDi Group is a collaborative forum\, open to both students and faculty\, who share an interest in the areas of Field Linguistics\, Fieldwork Methods\, Language Documentation\, and Language Description. Serving as an invaluable platform for friendly intellectual exchange\, DocDi promotes an interactive environment where members have the opportunity to present their respective research\, share their experiences\, and discuss innovative ideas and tools aimed at augmenting the effectiveness of fieldwork and documentary/descriptive projects.
UID:131900-21869391@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131900
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion Group,Language Documentation
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250401T104910
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Renormalization Group in far-from-equilibrium states
DESCRIPTION:We consider half BPS operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills (SYM) in p+1 dimensions. These operators satisfy trace relations that are identical to those discussed in the p=3 case (N = 4 SYM). Nevertheless\, the bulk explanation of these trace relations must differ from the p = 3 case as their holographic duals are not AdS spacetimes. We identify giant graviton solutions in the dual holographic backgrounds for -1 <= p <= 4. In the ’t Hooft limit\, these giants are D(6-p) branes that wrap the internal sphere. We also follow the giants into the strong coupling region where they become other branes. Despite propagating in a non-AdS geometry\, we find that the branes “feel” like they are in AdS. This is closely related to the emergent scaling symmetry present in these boundary theories.\n\nbased on https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14249
UID:130845-21867133@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130845
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250310T100535
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Tours:LSA Campus Tours for Transfer Students
DESCRIPTION:Tired of campus tours designed for high school students? Join the LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors for a central campus tour and to learn all about the transfer student experience. As transfer students\, the Ambassadors understand the questions you have and designed a tour with the needs of transfer students in mind.\n\nAfter the tour\, staff members from the LSA Transfer Center will be available to answer your questions about transfer credit\, financial aid\, and applying.\n\nPlease register using the link to the right.
UID:132236-21870637@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132236
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Students
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250418T142019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Michigan Engineering Student Focus Groups
DESCRIPTION:Michigan Engineering Students\, We invite you to lend your voice to our upcoming focus groups\, where you'll have the chance to share your experiences and insights about the resources and services at Michigan Engineering that support you throughout your academic journey. Your feedback will help us to learn about your persepctives in order to meet the needs of all students. During these sessions\, we will discuss a range of topics related to student support and resources\, including:Which services and resources you find most valuableAccessibility and awareness of available resourcesOpportunities for new services or improvements to existing onesThese focus groups are open to all current Undergraduate and Graduate Michigan Engineering students. To thank you for your participation\, you’ll receive a swag item\, and if you join an in-person session\, we'll also provide food!
UID:134500-21875665@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134500
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250319T095022
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Meeting:SynSem
DESCRIPTION:The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM\, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU\, MSU\, Oakland University\, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.
UID:131039-21867630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131039
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion Group,Semantics,Syntax
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lorch 473
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250323T100314
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Trash Club Presents: Degrowth and the connection to social metabolism
DESCRIPTION:Come learn about postgrowth and degrowth\, defined as: the planned & equitable downscaling of wealthy societies' throughputs of material and energy\, designed to bring the economy back in balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being (definitions adapted from Giorgos Kallis and Jason Hickel). Degrowth is widely misunderstood\, but is having a moment in pockets across the globe\, including an EU-wide research project currently looking into how to implement degrowth policies. Come learn about degrowth efforts in the US\, localizing material circularity\, and opportunities to advance community resilience. Dani took several courses on the subject with leading degrowth scholars at the Autonomous University of Barcelona\, a hub for degrowth scholarship\, so she will share her insights as well as news of exciting research.
UID:134251-21874051@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Circular Economy
LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources  Building - 1028
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250408T153821
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Ellen Currano\, University of Wyoming
DESCRIPTION:The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is often considered to be the best geologic analog for modern anthropogenic warming\, as the magnitude of carbon release and warming is similar to that predicted for the coming century. I will present PETM paleobotanical records from the Bighorn Basin (northwestern Wyoming) and Hanna Basin (southeastern Wyoming) and examine changes in plant taxonomic composition\, vegetation structure\, and insect herbivory during the PETM. Water stress during the PETM was higher in the Bighorn Basin than in the Hanna Basin\, allowing investigation of the interplay of carbon dioxide\, temperature\, and water availability on forest ecosystems. I will also discuss my path to becoming a female full professor\, including being the sometimes bearded face of women in paleontology.
UID:123511-21851014@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250408T184540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  Non-negative curvature on vector bundles over homotopy spheres.
DESCRIPTION:The seminal theorem of Cheeger and Gromoll characterizes open manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature by showing that any such manifold\, $M^n$\, is diffeomorphic to the normal bundle of a totally convex\, closed submanifold $\Sigma^k$\, a \textit{soul} of $M$.  This brings up a far-reaching open problem: given a closed manifold $\Sigma^k$ with non-negative sectional curvature\, which vector bundles over $\Sigma$ admit complete metrics with non-negative curvature?  In this talk we will talk about the history of this problem and answer a longstanding question of Grove-Ziller.  We show that every vector bundle over every homotopy 7-sphere admits non-negative curvature.  This is joint work with David Duncan and Rebecca Field.
UID:131197-21867945@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131197
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 3866
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250314T133308
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T183000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:IOE Senior Design Expo
DESCRIPTION:Join our IOE senior design students as they present their senior design projects. \n\nFood will be served and awards will be presented at the end of the event.\n\nRSVP by April 4!
UID:131713-21869140@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131713
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Research,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250124T165002
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar: On a conjecture of Kazhdan and Polishchuk\, after Debarre
DESCRIPTION:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02069
UID:131765-21869215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131765
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250324T121731
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T173000
SUMMARY:Performance:T. Logan Rees\, harpsichord
DESCRIPTION:Graduate student T. Logan Rees performs a final master's degree recital.
UID:134276-21874081@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Blanche Anderson Moore Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250417T130452
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T170000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Video Game Nights with Housing Security
DESCRIPTION:Join your Multicultural Lounge Community Assistant and DPSS Housing Security for a fun night of video games and pizza! Enjoy a laid-back atmosphere and great food while engaging in friendly competition.
UID:134842-21875332@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Games
LOCATION:Oxford Housing - Mahatma Gandhi Multicultural Lounge
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250418T181518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T130000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Iowa
DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Iowa
UID:135115-21876327@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135115
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball
LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium
CONTACT:
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