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SUMMARY:Meeting:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Spanish Coffee & Conversation Hours\n\nALL LEVELS AND STUDENTS WELCOME!\n- Practice your Spanish speaking skills with students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed setting\n- Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods\n- Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad\n\nEvery Friday\, Winter 2025\nJanuary 10 to April 18\n10:00am - 11:00 am\n4th Floor\, MLB Commons
UID:130925-21867400@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Romance Languages And Literatures,multicultural,Language,Interdisciplinary,intercultural,Interactive,Coffee,Community,Social,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Food,Free,Humanities,In Person,Inclusion,Spanish,Talk
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
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DTSTAMP:20250110T170530
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SUMMARY:Other:Leaves Under the Lens
DESCRIPTION:The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny\, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects\, absorb (or repel!) water\, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again! \n\nThis project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos.
UID:130943-21867447@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:science,In Person,Free,Family,eeb,Biology
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20250213T102525
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Xianyang Zhang\, Professor\, Department of Statistics\, Texas A&M University.
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs)\, such as GPT-4 and Claude 3.5\, underscores the need to distinguish LLM-generated text from human-written content to mitigate the spread of misinformation\, misuse in education\, and LLM training data contamination. One promising approach to address this issue is the watermark technique\, which embeds subtle statistical signals into LLM-generated text to enable reliable identification. In this work\, we enhance watermark detection using adaptive methods that assign higher weights to tokens with smaller next-token probabilities (NTPs)\, where NTPs quantify the likelihood of a token appearing based on its preceding context. We rigorously analyze the Type I and Type II error of the proposed method and demonstrate its superior detection power through numerical experiments. Due to the unavailability of true prompts and\, thus\, true NTPs\, we introduce a prompt estimation method that identifies the most likely prompt from an instruction set to estimate NTPs. Furthermore\, we develop a statistical framework for segmenting text into watermarked and non-watermarked substrings by framing it as a change point detection problem. Extensive experiments validate the proposed methods\, demonstrating their effectiveness in detection\, segmentation\, and robustness.\n\n\nhttps://zhangxiany-tamu.github.io/
UID:132383-21870850@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132383
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
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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:84303-21621525@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA,European,Exhibition,History,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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DTSTAMP:20250303T063249
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:(requested) Assessing Organizational Culture through a DEI Lens
DESCRIPTION:requestedadvertised by Rackham
UID:133322-21872755@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133322
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DTSTAMP:20250221T102047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250221T103000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Assessing Organizational Culture Through a DEI Lens
DESCRIPTION:How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI)? Join us to learn about how to assess various aspects of an organization’s culture during the job and internship search process through a DEI lens. During this session\, you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of navigating this process and practice actionable strategies to evaluate an organization’s commitment to DEI.This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.Learning Objectives:Reflect on the importance of organizational culture with respect to DEIDevelop tools for assessing organizational culture with respect to DEI\, primarily in context of job/internship searchesUnderstand challenges of assessing organizational culturePractice asking questions and other strategies that will help you assess organizational cultureThis workshop fulfills the Demonstrating a Commitment to Diversity requirement for Rackham’s DEI certificate program.
UID:132461-21870997@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132461
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
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