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DTSTAMP:20251121T123129
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1852141Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141141
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DTSTAMP:20251029T205843
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 - Dr. Chandra Sripada
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Chandra Sripada\, Theophile Raphael Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Michigan\, for a seminar exploring the neuroscience of executive functions—the brain’s abilities to think\, reason\, plan\, and regulate behavior. Drawing on recent advances in computational cognitive science and neuroscience\, Dr. Sripada will examine how new understandings of these mechanisms shed light on both healthy and disordered cognition. He will also discuss emerging opportunities for applying these insights to operations engineering\, highlighting how knowledge of executive function can inform models of decision-making\, planning\, and performance in complex systems.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141216
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,seminar,Michigan Engineering,Industrial And Operations Engineering,899 Seminar Series
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20251001T123034
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - The Social Impacts of Energo-Waste
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this paper\, my co-author Sisty Basil and I explore the social impacts of energy-related detritus\, what we call “energo-waste\,” from failed or outmoded energy projects in rural Tanzania. The problem of electronic waste (e-waste) has captured public and scholarly attention\, especially in sites like Agbogbloshie in Accra\, Ghana with its dystopian vista of discarded computers\, televisions and other electronic trash. Energo-waste creates similar yet different problems and takes many different forms. Some can easily be classified as e-waste\, such as solar lanterns that no longer provide light\, power banks that no longer provide back-up power for mobile phones\, or batteries for solar panels that no longer store energy. These can accumulate in the corners of rooms or in trash pits behind homes to be buried or burned\, leaving a negative environmental impact either way. Others continue to mark landscapes with their presence: windmills and solar mini-grids that no longer produce power\, electric poles that no longer transmit or distribute power\, mini hydro projects decommissioned for being financially unviable. Far less obvious forms of energo-waste include the tens of thousands of acres appropriated from rural smallholders and transferred to foreign companies for the purpose of growing jatropha\, a crop once hailed as a clean biodiesel option but which quickly fell out of favor leaving large-scale land acquisitions sitting idle\; or the tens of thousands of acres of forest sequestered for carbon offset projects (REDD+) that similarly deprived local communities of their use but are now labeled “another failed conservation fad.” Drawing on long-term community-engaged work\, participant observation and interview data\, we ask: What are the social impacts of and responses to energo-waste? What harms and/or benefits does it produce\, and for whom\, both in the present and for the future?\n\nBiography:\nKelly Askew is the Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. Current research projects and publications focus on rural water and energy access\, postsocialist poetics\, pastoralism\, Indigenous political movements\, and land rights in Tanzania. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138905
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Sustainability,Social Sciences,seminar,Science,Research,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Materials Science,Law,Interdisciplinary,North Campus,Industrial and Operations Engineering,CAEN,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Free,Environment
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251102T161426
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Schubert Polynomials Lecture 10:  Degeneracy loci and vexillary permutations
DESCRIPTION:We give a (new?) simple formula for a degeneracy locus that characterizes back-stable double Schubert polynomials. Then\, we give 10 equivalent conditions for a permutation to be vexillary\, one of which is that its Schubert polynomial is a Schur determinant.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141385
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20251027T143151
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T153000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
DESCRIPTION:\"Quest for the Most Distant Universe – Today and Beyond\"\n\nUncovering and characterizing the earliest systems in the universe is essential for addressing fundamental cosmological questions — including the emergence of the first galaxies and black holes (BHs)\, and the timeline of cosmic reionization. The advent of JWST has revolutionized our ability to detect and study galaxies from these early epochs\, now extending the frontier of confirmed systems to z ~ 20. At the same time\, submm/mm observations with ALMA are providing complementary insights into the cold dust and gas components that trace early star formation. In this talk\, I will present my recent efforts to explore the most distant universe through a synergistic approach combining JWST\, ALMA\, and gravitational lensing\, enabling the most sensitive and comprehensive investigations of the earliest phases of galaxy formation. My systematic JWST spectroscopic survey confirms the high abundance of z > 9 galaxies previously suggested by photometric studies\, and I will discuss possible origins of this surprising excess based on our initial characterizations. I will also introduce the first infrared luminosity function derived from the largest faint ALMA sample ever compiled\, allowing a direct estimate of the total (unobscured + dust-obscured) cosmic star formation history up to z ~ 8. Our joint JWST and ALMA deep follow-up observations of a strongly lensed early galaxy reveal that what appears as a single disk-like structure is resolved into at least 15 individual young massive star clusters with effective radii of 10–50 pc\, dominating ~70% of the galaxy’s total flux and embedded within a smooth rotating disk (V/σ ~ 3). These findings suggest that stellar feedback is remarkably weak at these epochs\, providing a plausible explanation for the enhanced star formation activity inferred from our rest-UV and FIR studies. At the end of my talk\, I will also introduce my ~300-hour Cycle 4+5 JWST treasury program\, Vast Exploration for Nascent\, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) — JWST’s first wide lensing-cluster survey. Designed to fully harness the power of gravitational lensing\, VENUS aims to uncover the faintest and earliest galaxies across cosmic time\, and I will present some of its initial outcomes showcasing the transformative potential of this new endeavor.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141190
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CATEGORIES:astrophysics,astronomy
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20251106T152055
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:35th Annual Davis\, Market\, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:\n“Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age”\nThe annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom is named for three U-M faculty members—Chandler Davis\, Clement Markert\, and Mark Nickerson—who in 1954 were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. All invoked constitutional rights and refused to answer questions about their political associations. The three were suspended from the University with subsequent hearings and committee actions resulting in the reinstatement of Markert\, an assistant professor who eventually gained tenure\, and the dismissal of Davis\, an instructor\, and Nickerson\, a tenured associate professor.\n\nThe 35th speaker for this year's event will be Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes about fascism\, authoritarianism\, propaganda\, and democracy protection. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and other fellowships\, an advisor to Protect Democracy\, and an MSNBC opinion columnist. She appears frequently on CNN\, MSNBC\, PBS\, and other networks.Her latest book\, a New York Times bestseller\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (2020\; paperback with a new epilogue\, 2021)\, examines how illiberal leaders use corruption\, violence\, propaganda\, and machismo to stay in power\, and how resistance to them has unfolded over a century.\nProfessor Ben-Ghiat will be joined by panelists: Karima Bennoune\, Lewis M Simes Professor of Law and Professor of Law\, Law School\;Ji Yeon Hong\, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies\, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor in the International Institute\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\; andRonald Grigor Suny\, William H Sewell\, Jr Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History\, Professor Emeritus of History and Professor Emeritus of Political Science\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts.For reasons that she will explain at the lecture\, Dr. Ben-Ghiat feels obliged to give her keynote talk remotely\, via Zoom. Her lecture will be followed by a panel—live and in person—moderated by SACUA chair Derek Peterson. The Zoom lecture will be screened in the auditorium for in-person attendees. For more information about the event\, please visit the main event page. 
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