Social / Informal Gathering:Mixed Race Families — U-M Community Photo Share
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library (2nd floor)
Please join in a U-M community photo share of our mixed race families! Bring as many photos of your mixed race family as you like — we'll have tables set up so you can share physical photos, and a laptop and projection available if you want to share digital photos. You can just share photos, or you can share photos and talk about your family’s history and/or share family stories. Your family members are encouraged and welcome to attend, plus snacks will be provided.

This is an opportunity for us to share stories and photos about our unique mixed heritage families, and how we fit into our family legacies. It's also an opportunity to connect and find community among other mixed-race individuals at the U-M campus.

This Mixed Race Project program piggybacks on the current exhibit on multiracial families in the lobby of the Shapiro Library through March 30th (https://myumi.ch/qZ1wE).

Lecture / Discussion:The Orren C. Mohler Prize Lecture
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
"Simulated Universes: Origin and Fate of Our Milky Way"

Galaxies contain hundreds of billions of stars and display a wide variety of shapes and sizes. But these cosmic lighthouses are just markers for even much vaster structures lying underneath. In fact, astrophysicists are convinced that the vast majority of the energy and matter content of the Universe does not consist of ordinary matter, but is dominated by enigmatic dark matter and dark energy components. Supercomputer simulations play a crucial role in testing this seemingly daring cosmological hypothesis. The astonishing performance of today's supercomputers makes it possible to link the relatively simple initial conditions left by the Big Bang directly with the complex, developed state of the present universe and thus trace the life of galaxies in detail. They show how a cosmic network of dark matter is created over 13 billion years, at the intersections of which structures of various sizes form, from small dwarf galaxies to enormous galaxy clusters. The supercomputers also make predictions about the specific formation history of the Milky Way, and how it should develop in the future. At the same time, the simulations can also help us to explain extreme phenomena such as the effect of supermassive black holes on the cosmic evolution of galaxies.

Performance:Les Arts Florissants
2025-04-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Hill Auditorium
When first published in 1725, nobody could imagine that Vivaldi’s Four Seasons would become some of the most frequently-heard music of all time. This program frames the iconic concertos in a new light, inviting questions about the fleeting cyclical nature of our existence, our relationship with nature, and the eternal renewal of earth’s cycles, now being modified by climate change. The program starts with Monteverdi, a composer born 100 years before Vivaldi, and continues with Uccellini and Geminiani before turning into a joyful celebration of Vivaldi’s major opus three centuries after it was composed.

Featured Artist:
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin

PROGRAM
Claudio Monteverdi Adoramus te, SV 289
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for strings and basso continuo, RV 129 (“Madrigalesco”)
Marco Uccellini Bergamasca
Vivaldi Concerto in d minor, RV 813
Francesco Geminiani Concerto No. 12 in d minor “La Folia” (after Corelli)
Vivaldi Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269 (“Spring”)
Vivaldi Concerto in g minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315 (“Summer”)
Vivaldi Overture to La fida ninfa (“The Faithful Nymph”), RV 714
Vivaldi Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293 (“Autumn”)
Vivaldi Grave from Violin Concerto in B-flat Major, RV 370
Vivaldi Concerto in f minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 (“Winter”)
