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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Maya Binyam
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\n\nMaya Binyam is the author of *Hangman*\, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize\, the Dublin Literary Award\, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She was a 2024 National Book Foundation “5-under-35” honoree\, and is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the *Paris Review*\, the *New Yorker*\, *Best American Short Stories*\, and elsewhere.\n\nShe previously taught in the New School’s Creative Writing and Critical Journalism Program\, and in the literature department of Claremont McKenna College. She was a Senior Editor of the New Inquiry and Triple Canopy\, and currently serves as an advisory editor of the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by Blue Mountain Center\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts\, where she received the McLaughlin Children’s Trust Award. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Literature,Maya Binyam,Ann Arbor,Arts,Books,Contemporary Literature,Fiction
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson ABCDE
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DTSTAMP:20251112T075125
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:International Day Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the one-day conference hosted by Michigan International Economics on Friday\, November 14 at the Lorch Hall in room 201. RSVP is not required.\n\nThe conference program is below:\n\n10:00 – 11:00 AM  Federico Huneeus (Duke) \"Production Network Formation\, Trade\, and Welfare\"\nAbstract: We study the aggregate implications of production network formation in a quantitative multi-location general equilibrium trade model. Firms search for suppliers and buyers across locations subject to matching frictions\, generating a gravity structure of production networks. We develop sufficient statistics for global and regional welfare and characterize the deviations from the fixed network environment\, including the role of inefficiency and amplification effects of search and matching. We calibrate our multi-sector model to Chilean domestic and international firm-to-firm trade data and show that our model can rationalize the observed increase in domestic supplier linkages after Chile’s recent trade agreements. Abstracting from endogenous networks reduces Chile’s aggregate welfare losses by 20 percent when import costs are raised to their pre-agreement levels\, consistent with inefficiently low equilibrium levels of search. Fixing the trade elasticity\, the welfare gains from trade relative to municipality autarky drop by 40 percent due to amplification effects of search.\n\n11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break	\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Enghin Atalay (Philadelphia Fed) \"Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy\"\nAbstract: We evaluate a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firmlevel balance-sheet data along with data on the domestic production network\, we first assess the policy’s direct and indirect impacts. We identify increased economic activity in industry-province pairs targeted by the subsidies\, with positive spillovers to firms’ customers and suppliers. Using a dynamic multi-region multi-industry general equilibrium model\, we assess the program’s aggregate impacts. According to the calibrated model\, the subsidy program reduces inequality between the relatively underdeveloped and more prosperous portions of the country. However\, trade\, migration\, and investment spillovers blunt the policy’s impact on regional inequality.\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM Xiang Ding (Georgetown)  \"The Costs of Market Disintegration: Evidence from the India-Pakistan Border\"\nAbstract: This paper constructs the first global dataset on inter-sectoral capital service flows. I use this data to disaggregate capital services and intermediate inputs in a dynamic multi-sector model of global production. Steady state allocations and responses to shocks are determined by a capital-augmented global input-output matrix. Two properties of the capital services network deliver larger long-run consumption impacts of globalization than existing estimates\, and larger impacts in more capital-intensive countries. First\, more consumption-influential producers use capital from more trade-exposed suppliers. Second\, heterogeneity in the network reallocates sectoral expenditures towards producers with the largest respective declines in capital service costs. These reallocations raise capital incomes for producers and lower price indices for consumers.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141746
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,International,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251129T063104
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T100000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1852144Are 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/141142
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DTSTAMP:20250902T142209
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation. \n\n-Come & go as you please\, stay as little or as long as you would like! \n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building. \n\nFor more information contact Julie Harrell at (harrelju@umich.edu).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Central America,Coffee,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Study Abroad,Spanish,Spain,Social,Networking,Latin America,Languages,International,Intercultural,Games,Free,Food,European,Europe,Engaged Learning,Department Of Romance Languages And Literatures,Culture,Language,Community,Cultural
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20251119T081903
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yao Xie\, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair & Professor\, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\, Georgia Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Generative models such as normalizing flows and diffusion processes have transformed how we represent complex\, high-dimensional data\, yet their statistical and mathematical foundations remain less understood. In this talk\, I will present a unified framework that views generative modeling as flows in probability space\, continuous transformations between distributions that reveal the geometric structure underlying learning and inference. I will begin with the JKO-flow generative model\, inspired by the Jordan–Kinderlehrer–Otto (JKO) scheme for Wasserstein gradient flows\, which interprets density learning as proximal gradient descent in the space of probability measures. This perspective offers provable convergence guarantees and connects generative modeling with classical principles of statistical inference. Building on this foundation\, I will discuss recent extensions using guided flow generative models that incorporate data- or risk-driven guidance fields to achieve robustness\, domain adaptation\, and inference under uncertainty. Together\, these results form a framework that bridges statistics\, optimization\, and machine learning\, bringing classical inferential ideas toward a principled foundation for trustworthy generative AI.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141492
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20250821T100218
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Write with ME!
DESCRIPTION:Working on an abstract? Polishing up your resume? Writing a paper or dissertation?\n\nJoin us for our new Mechanical Engineering Department writing group\, “Write with ME!”\n\nAll ME undergrads\, grads\, postdocs\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join us for any of their writing needs.\n\nCommunity & support\nConnect with peers\, share your writing\, exchange feedback\, and brainstorm solutions to writing challenges.\n\nAccountability & consistency\nSharpen your writing skills and develop positive\, consistent writing routines. Learn from other members of the ME department!\n\nFood & flexibility\nNo need to attend every week! Drop in at any time\, and leave at any time. Light snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be available.\n\nWeekly on Fridays\, starting September 12\n2636 G.G.B\n10 am – 12 pm
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Undergraduate Students,Staff,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Mechanical Engineering,Graduate Students,Faculty
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2636
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