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DTSTAMP:20250409T104258
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Take Care: Student Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Experience the 2025 Take Care Student Art Exhibition\, a heartfelt showcase of creativity\, resilience\, and healing.\n\nThrough visual art\, video\, performance\, and literary works\, students will share their unique perspectives on caring for oneself and others\, healing as a community\, and imagining a world where self-expression nurtures collective well-being.\n\nRiverbank Arts: January 10–February 14\nClosing Reception: February 14\, 6–9 p.m.\n\nDuderstadt Center Gallery: April 15–May 9\nOpening Reception: April 15\, 5–8 p.m.
UID:130900-21875285@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130900
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Well-being,Take Care,Reception,Exhibition,Arts Initiative,Art
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20250418T092020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium 2025
DESCRIPTION:Schedule10:00-10:30 am: Breakfast & Welcome from SOAR Co-Directors10:30-11:30 am: Keynote by Dr. Gabriel Johnson11:30-12 pm: Alumni Lightning Talks12-12:30 pm: Lunch (provided)12:30-1:30: Poster Session (in-person only)1:30-3:30: Student Oral Presentations 3:30-4:30: Awards\nThis symposium is free and open to the public. Portions of the symposium will be streamed on Zoom. RSVP to attend lunch or to get the Zoom link. 
UID:133313-21872743@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133313
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Ballroom (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20250313T093641
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment
DESCRIPTION:We examine the rapid growth of Brazil's for-profit online higher education sector and its impact on market structure and enrollment. Exploiting regional and field-specific variation in online penetration\, we find that online programs increase enrollment for older students but divert younger students from in-person higher-quality programs. Increased competition lowers the prices of in-person programs but leads to a decline in their provision. Using an equilibrium model of college education\, we quantify that in the absence of online education\, the average student would experience 3.4% higher value added. While young students benefit from fewer online options\, older students are disadvantaged. Targeted policies limiting online education to older cohorts have the potential to improve value added across all groups.
UID:133799-21873577@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133799
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,Industrial Organization
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T100000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n 
UID:84303-21621573@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA,Museum,European,Exhibition,History
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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DTSTAMP:20250416T130417
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T233000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bridging the theory-practice gap in machine learning: new results in sampling and optimization
DESCRIPTION:Meteoric progress in machine learning over the last decade has outpaced our foundational understanding\, limiting our ability to harness the technology effectively in applications that require performance guarantees\, and inviting the development of theory to enable such applications. At the heart of this progress is a highly productive connection to gradient-based optimization\, the efficacy of which we are so far unable to fully explain. Motivated by this issue\, in the first part of the talk\, I will briefly describe an interpretable and computationally efficient adaptive step-size method for gradient-based optimization that relies on ideas from the numerical analysis of ordinary differential equations. I will show how this method connects studies of popular optimizers for machine learning in continuous time—where they are often more amenable to analysis—with their practical discrete-time implementations.\n\nSurprising recent developments in machine learning include the ability to generate---or sample---perceptual data such as natural images and language. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have long provided a generic recipe for sampling from probability distributions of interest. The Gibbs sampler is a specific limit of an MCMC algorithm and is the natural choice for sampling from a simple model of image patches. In the bulk of this talk\, I will focus on a new mixing time bound for Gibbs sampling from well-conditioned log-concave distributions. I will outline the proof of the bound and place it within the context of ongoing efforts in the broader community to understand the efficacy of diffusion-based image generation methods. Time permitting\, I will discuss potential applications of these efforts to problems in cosmology and biophysics.
UID:135076-21876044@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135076
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20240620T181506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250418T110200
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins
DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). 
UID:122384-21848876@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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