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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sociology Senior Thesis + Honors Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Interested in writing an honors thesis in Sociology? Join us for an information session with the Honors Coordinator\, Professor Karin Martin\, and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator\, Lauren Eddelbuettel. Explore the program and application process\, hear from current honors students and ask any questions you may have. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126790
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DTSTAMP:20240929T164001
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student ML Seminar: Lightning Talks on Attention-based Architectures\, Diffusion Models and State Space Models
DESCRIPTION:The event will be divided into 3 lightning talks with the following abstracts.\n\nAttention-based Architectures: We will quickly discuss the basic architecture of transformers and intuitions behind some of its components. As time permits\, we will also look through Andrej Karpathy’s “build-nanogpt” repository to precisely understand some implementation details. \n\nDiffusion Models: Diffusion models\, in essence\, work by learning to denoise data that had been noised with a prescribed forward process. While much work has been done on different mathematical formulations of the process\, the architectural part that actually does the learning is often divorced from the former and relegated to a footnote in the articles. In this lightning talk\, I will illustrate the development and workings of the main backbone architectures used in diffusion models\, from the ubiquitous U-Net to approaches utilizing Transformers.\n\nState Space Models: Much recent excitement has centered on sequential data modeling\, which has been recently dominated by the popular Transformer architecture. Transformers\, however\, suffer from a quadratic memory requirement in sequence length\, limiting its use for the ever-increasing context window demands. State-space models (SSMs)\, in particular Mamba\, have arisen as a potential replacement for Transformers\, having linear memory scaling and comparable predictive performance. In this talk\, we discuss the fundamentals of SSMs from the perspective of linear dynamical systems and the core of the Mamba architecture.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127101
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CATEGORIES:Mathematics
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DTSTAMP:20241017T123152
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Tackling Ethical Questions in the Medical School Interview
DESCRIPTION:Do you have medical or other health profession school interviews coming up? Are you wondering how to best prepare to handle ethics scenarios? Plan to attend this virtual session\, presented by Dr. Andrew Shuman\, as he provides a brief introduction to medical ethics and suggestions on how to best tackle ethical questions during medical school interviews. This will include audience participation\, including possibly being called on to give your perspective on a complex ethical scenario. Youare not expected to be an expert or have a \"right\" answer. Rather\, this workshop is designed to help you think on your feet and gain confidence inexpressing your thoughts on complex ethical issues. it is a judgement free zone where each of us can benefit from our unique perspectives.Dr. Andrew Shuman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.He serves as Chief of the Clinical Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM). He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in ethical issues arising within the field of otolaryngology and surgical oncology. His greatest impact involves his work in defining the conceptual dimensions of “surgical ethics\,” an emerging focus in the broader field of bioethics\, and being able to apply his perspective as a practicing surgeon and clinical ethicist to normative and empirical bioethics research.Pre-registration is required by \"joining the event\" via Handshake. If you are not on Handshake currently\, follow this link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1340781. This will allow you to join the Zoom session on the day of the event.If you are unable to attend and would like a recording\, please register for the event through Handshake. A recording will be distributed to all registrantsafter the session has concluded.If you are an alumni more than 2 years out from graduation (who no longer has access to your Handshake account)\, please email nvanderp@umich.edu to access the event.This workshop is sponsored by the University Career Center.
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