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DTSTAMP:20261011T192132
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:October & November- Faculty On-Campus Work Retreats
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for a two-hour work session\, with a hot lunch with colleagues! The Faculty On-Campus Work Retreats provide a quiet space to work with other scholars and artists\, and an opportunity for you to prioritize your research and creative work by committing to one or two work sessions before teaching\, service\, and email take over the semester. There are both morning and afternoon sessions available. Morning sessions also offer the option of coming early to enjoy an extended three-hour session. Breakfast snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be provided.During the lunch provided at each work session\, there will be a chance to share interests and work with other colleagues\, to learn about each others’ research\, to grow professional and social networks\, and to experience the University as a collective.The Work Retreats are open to all ~7\,800 members of the Faculty Senate\, including tenure-track professors\, lecturers\, research faculty\, clinical faculty\, librarians\, archivists\, and curators. The series was developed by the Faculty Senate Office\, is supported by the Office of the Provost\, and is co-sponsored by Librarian Mary Lawrence. The event page is here.
UID:151857-21912281@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151857
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Space 2435, North Quad
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261005T141542
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Thesis Defense: Daiwen Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Daiwen Zhang will defend their dissertation titled \"Combinatorial Infeasibility Analysis for Constraint Systems\" on October 15\, 2026\, at 1:00 p.m. in IOE 2717.\n\nChairs: Amy Cohn and Marina Epelman
UID:153314-21915608@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153314
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses,Ioephdstudents
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717
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DTSTAMP:20260910T181739
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T135000
SUMMARY:Performance:Lon Mitchell\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Lon Mitchell performs 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:151965-21912514@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151965
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,North Campus
LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261007T141443
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:American Airlines Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Marcial Lapp\, B.S. ’05\, M.S. ’07\, M.S.E. ’09\, M.B.A. ’12\, Ph.D. ’12\, Vice President of Revenue Engineering at American Airlines will present about American Airlines. Followed by Q&A and open networking. IOE student\, Tianyi Xu\, Marcial’s summer Ph.D. intern and incoming full-time American Airlines employee\, will also join to share highlights from her summer internship experience.
UID:153413-21915831@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153413
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G690
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260903T114055
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T161500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to GPU & CUDA Programming
DESCRIPTION:This course is hosted remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants.\n\nThis workshop is an introduction to GPU programing for scientific and engineering applications. The basics of GPU architecture will be presented. Parallel programing strategies will be discussed followed by actual programing examples.\n\nPRE-REQUISITES\n\nParticipants should be familiar with programming and how to use the Great Lakes computing cluster.  C/C++ examples will be provided to try on the Great Lakes GPU nodes.\n\nINSTRUCTORS\n\nMalcolm Miranda\nCollege of Engineering\n\nJason Sonk\nCollege of Engineering\n\nIf you have questions about this workshop\, please send an email to the instructor mmiranda@umich.edu
UID:151481-21911643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151481
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arc,Cuda,Fortran,Gpu,High Performance Computing,Hpc
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260920T142943
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T163000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:LGBTQ Center Awareness Day Open House
DESCRIPTION:LGBT Center Awareness Day is a national day of action focused on awareness around the work of LGBT community centers everywhere. Join Spectrum Center for our Center Awareness Day Open House. Learn about the center\, meet the staff team\, get connected with other students\, get resources\, play games\, get prizes\, and enjoy light refreshments. Never been to the center? If you haven’t visited before\, now is the perfect time!\n\nThis event is a part of LGBT History Month.
UID:152323-21913548@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152323
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Building,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,LGBT,LGBTQ History Month
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center (3020)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261011T192132
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:So\, You're New to Higher Ed
DESCRIPTION:
UID:152236-21913416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152236
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Wolverine Room, Michigan Union
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260913T221408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Undergraduate Advising Event
DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community.
UID:152068-21912789@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152068
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20261007T170542
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh & Universities As Incubators Of Mass Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Mushfiq Mobarak will be presenting two papers related to each other.\n\nTitle: How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh\n\nAbstract: Why do climate shocks produce conflict (Hsiang et al.\, 2013)? We study the 1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan\, one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history\, which killed an estimated 350\,000 people. Using satellite imagery\, archival records\, electoral returns\, and insurgent biographies\, we show that cyclone exposure amplified pre-existing separatist sentiment at the ballot box and increased citizens’ subsequent participation in guerrilla warfare against the state. Our estimates imply that exposure to the cyclone’s devastation induced an additional 48\,613 insurgents to join the guerrilla war effort. Effects are larger in areas with pre-existing political and economic grievances and weaker relief provision. Our analysis reveals the step-by-step mechanisms through which environmental shocks can produce conflict: they shift voting behavior\, expose state indifference\, and convert grievance into armed mobilization.\n\nTitle: Universities As Incubators Of Mass Uprising\n\nAbstract: We link high-frequency geocoded protest data during Bangladesh’s 2024 Monsoon Revolution\, Facebook measures of protest activity and social connectivity\, university enrollment and demographics to establish: (1) campus protest precedes off-campus mobilization\; (2) student concentration predicts both on- and off-campus protest\, while non-student youth\, educated adults\, urbanization\, and locations of “placebo” universities authorized but not yet operating do not\; and (3) social connectivity to campus protests predicts off-campus diffusion one week later. Universities appear to incubate mass uprising by making dissent visible\, coordinated\, and capable of spreading beyond campus. Such patterns are also evident in U.S. Vietnam War protests and in global data. These results can rationalize why governments in Hungary\, Turkey\, Iran\, India\, Russia\, Bangladesh\, Israel\, and the United States have targeted campuses to suppress dissent.
UID:150499-21909521@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150499
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261011T192133
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reimagining STEM Student Success
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Reimagining STEM Student Success — a series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n*Please register for each Session you would like to attend. *For the Zoom sessions\, you must also register separately for the Zoom Webinar using the link provided in the individual session description. This second registration is required to receive the Zoom webinar link.
UID:151919-21912418@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260925T170255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Understanding the K-12 STEM Ecosystem in Michigan: Strengthening U-M’s Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Organizational change for student success begins well before college. Join campus leaders and experts for an in-depth look at the K-12 and pre-college STEM ecosystem in Michigan that shapes students' pathways long before they enter higher education. This session connects research to practice by examining the current status of STEM education in the state\, lessons learned from U-M's Wolverine Pathways program\, and identifying concrete opportunities to deepen U-M’s contribution toward sustained institutional and statewide impact.\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\nDeborah Loewenberg Ball\, Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education\, University of Michigan\n\nCarla O’Connor\, Director\, Wolverine Pathways and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, University of Michigan\n\nMegan Schrauben\, MiSTEM Network Executive Director\n\n\nAbout the series:\n\nReimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n\n\nSponsors:\n\nAccess & Opportunity\; Center for Educational Outreach (CEO)\; Comprehensive Studies Program\; Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT)\; Office of Faculty Development at the U-M Medical School\; Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education\; Student Success Initiative\; Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\; UROP: A Center for Research\, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry
UID:152899-21914734@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152899
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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DTSTAMP:20261006T070018
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Immunoengineered Platforms for Type 1 Diabetes\n\nAbstract:\nImmunoengineering applies quantitative problem-solving and engineering tools—such as biomaterials and cellular and protein engineering—to address complex challenges in human health that traditional biomedical science alone cannot solve. In this seminar\, Dr. Tomei will present advanced immunoengineering platforms designed for targeted interventions in type 1 diabetes (T1D)\, focusing on two main frontiers: disease prevention via antigen-specific tolerance and safer\, more effective beta-cell replacement therapies.\n\nFor T1D Prevention: Dr. Tomei will discuss the development of macroporous scaffold slices designed to harness the tolerogenic properties of lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells via transplantation in murine models. Additionally\, she will show the development of decellularized lymph node scaffold sections to demonstrate that the pro-inflammatory T1D lymph node environment reprograms stromal cells into a diabetes-prone phenotype. These insights aim to inspire antigen-specific preventive approaches that avoid the risks of broad systemic immunosuppression.\n\nFor T1D Treatment: She will address the limitations of islet encapsulation in confined transplantation sites. To tackle this\, she will introduce an in vitro platform built to investigate the relative contributions of direct versus indirect allorejection. Furthermore\, she will present a biomaterial platform engineered with IgG-brining peptides for the sustained\, localized delivery of biological drugs (such as co-stimulatory blockers and anti-inflammatory agents). This approach achieves allograft survival rates comparable to systemic drug administration while eliminating systemic spillover and avoiding the associated risks of immunodeficiency. Finally\, Dr. Tomei will demonstrate the feasibility of achieving localized immunomodulation at the islet transplantation site through the co-delivery of islet-alloantigen-primed tolerogenic lymph node stromal cells. Overall\, these approaches could expand the safety and clinical applicability of beta-cell replacement therapy.    \n\nBio:\nDr. Alice Tomei is the Dr. Leonard and Diane F. Pinchuk Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami\, with secondary appointments in Surgery\, Microbiology and Immunology\, and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. She earned her M.S. in Materials Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano\, Italy\, in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Biotechnology from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, Switzerland\, in 2008.\n\nDr. Tomei directs the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI)\, where her research integrates bioengineering\, biomaterials\, and immunology to develop innovative immunoengineering strategies for localized immune modulation\, improving islet transplantation outcomes and inducing antigen-specific immune tolerance as a path toward a cure for type 1 diabetes. Her research program is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Breakthrough T1D.\n\nDr. Tomei has trained and mentored 5 postdoctoral fellows\, 15 Ph.D. students\, 22 M.S. students\, 34 undergraduate students\, and 4 high school students in the fields of tissue engineering and immunoengineering. She has served as a standing member of the NIH BMBI Study Section and is currently President-Elect of the Cell Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Society (CTRMS).\n\nHer contributions have been recognized with numerous honors\, including the JDRF Career Development Award\, the Eliahu I. Jury Early Career Research Award\, the Alexander Orr Excellence in Teaching Award\, the Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award\, and the Johnson A. Edosomwan Researcher of the Year Award\, which she received in both 2019 and 2024.
UID:153338-21915654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,North Campus,Pre Med,Pre-Health,seminar
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20261011T192133
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CGIS: Programs in the Environment Abroad Info Session - Sp/Su 27 & Winter 28
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about environmental research study abroad programs for next summer or Winter 28? Join CGIS advisor Cierra Murphy as she goes over CGIS's environmental research programs.
UID:151999-21912593@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151999
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260917T151354
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21913644@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/meetingjunem
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DTSTAMP:20260910T134907
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T170000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and refreshments in a beautiful\, book-filled space. Check out a book from the Hopwood library or engage with other readers and writers. All are welcome.
UID:148903-21905159@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148903
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Writing
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room)
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DTSTAMP:20260923T160230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899: Lionel Robert
DESCRIPTION:Machines are often assumed to sidestep the biases that shape human judgment\, but it remains unclear whether that assumption holds when a security robot replaces a police officer. As robotic patrol\, surveillance\, and traffic-enforcement systems move from pilot programs into everyday public spaces\, understanding whether they alter—or simply reproduce—the racial disparities long documented in policing has become an urgent question.
UID:152303-21913503@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Robotics
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20261011T192109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:OGPS Wellness Week
DESCRIPTION:Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS) for our Wellness Week Series\, featuring a variety of wellness-focused activities throughout the week. Taking time to rest\, recharge\, and care for your well-being is associated with improved productivity\, reduced stress\, and better physical health\, yet many of us rarely have the opportunity to pause and simply be.Graduate students\, postbac learners\, postdoctoral scholars\, faculty\, and staff are all invited to participate in this week of wellness. Join us for a meditation practice\; enjoy snacks\, puzzles\, and visits with the Therapaws therapy dogs\; learn strategies to feel more present and confident in your academic writing\; explore ways to strengthen your financial wellness\; or discover the benefits of expressive writing through journaling.
UID:152749-21914461@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
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DTSTAMP:20261007T131953
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What’s Wrong with this Hand? Doing Disability Studies with Doctors\, Administrators\, & Other Helpful Experts
DESCRIPTION:What happens when we share our research with those who are researching us? Or when the insights from our research are used against us\, often in the guise of assistance or protection? And what happens to disability studies research when ethnic\, gender\, and sexuality studies departments are made to disappear? In this talk\, which will likely generate more questions about these questions than answers to them\, I bring some of my experiences doing disability studies as a disabled person to bear on a larger work-in-progress on disability marginalia.\n\nCurrently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Alison Kafer is the Embrey Associate Professor of [redacted] at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Feminist\, Queer\, Crip\, and her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. Being by the water brings her joy\, as does making things with clay.\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. To request additional accommodations\, please email akheff@umich.edu or davisemm@umich.edu.\n\nOctober 15\, 3pm - 4:30pm\nMichigan Union\, Kuenzel Room (1st Floor)\nLivestream also available\, after Registration.\n\nEvent is free\, but registration is required.\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/115340\n\nThis event is part of the (Doing) Disability research from the (Disabled Margins) project. Funding for this event was provided by the Provost's Disability Scholarship Initiative.
UID:153327-21915802@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153327
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disabilities,Disability,Disability Awareness,Disability Community,Disability Justice,Disability Studies,Disability\; Recognition\; Accessibility\; Diversity\; Inclusion,Ethnic,Ethnic Studies,Free,Gender,Gender Diversity,Gender Equality,Gender Identity,Gender New Works New Questions,Gender Studies,Health Care,Health Care Equity,Health Care Policy,Medicine,Sexuality
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260909T145311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Elucidating phase-change heat transfer mechanisms and their role in developing next generation energy systems
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nLiquid–vapor phase change is one of the most effective ways to absorb and reject thermal energy\, yet many of the mechanisms governing phase-change heat transfer remain poorly understood. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent advances in optical diagnostics that have enabled us to directly probe the physics of boiling heat transfer. We find that bubbles substantially enhance single-phase liquid heat transfer by increasing turbulence within the liquid\, enabling a simple model that predicts the boiling curve from optical measurements alone - without machine learning. I will also discuss our measurements of microlayer evaporation\, where a new spatial-temporal analysis technique enables accurate determination of microlayer thickness and accommodation coefficient\, and motivates a boundary-layer-based scaling law for the initial microlayer thickness. Together\, these studies demonstrate how advanced optical measurements can reveal previously inaccessible heat-transfer mechanisms and translate them into predictive models that provide a foundation for designing next generation thermal energy systems.\n\nBiography:\nMatt Hughes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan and currently an editor of the journals Applied Thermal Engineering and AI Thermal Fluids. He was previously a Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His research focuses on the fundamentals of multi-phase flow and heat transfer\, autonomous operation of thermal hydraulic systems and experiments\, and advanced thermal system design.\n\nFor the most up to date information on the location\, please check the related link the week of this event
UID:150369-21909103@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150369
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - FXB1012
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DTSTAMP:20260928T140226
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Catalyst Discovery for Metal-free\, Photoredox CO2 Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Our goal is to identify sustainable\, light-driven routes for CO2 utilization. Prior experiments show that upon excitation by light and subsequent reduction\, a simple organic chromophore\, p-terphenyl\, can reduce and transform CO2 into valuable molecules such as amino acids. These photoredox reactions are attractive because organic chromophores are metal-free and can access highly reactive states upon excitation and quenching that are otherwise energy-intensive. However\, the steps of the photoredox cycle and the reasons for the low turnover numbers of these catalysts are poorly understood. We use state-of-the-art quantum chemistry methods and automated workflows to delineate mechanisms of steps constituting the catalytic cycle\, develop design principles\, and leverage these insights to drive the discovery of viable chromophores. The driving force for the desired electron transfer (ET) step to reduce CO2 cannot be increased without simultaneously increasing that for competing deactivation via carboxylation\; this indicates the existence of fundamental relationships that limit catalyst performance. Deactivation can also occur via Birch reduction of the catalyst by the radical cation form of the sacrificial electron donor. These steps are highly sensitive to the choice of solvent\, as is the quenching of the excited-state catalyst. I will describe our work establishing a protocol for calculating and characterizing excited-state complexes (exciplexes) that are the result of incomplete quenching. I will also share our recent efforts towards applying structural causal frameworks to photoredox chemistry.
UID:151929-21912474@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Physical Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640
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