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DTSTAMP:20251119T142044
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing - Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:Rackham / Sweetland Workshops\, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate \nSchool\, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in \nvarious aspects of writing.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139898
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Earl Lewis Room (3rd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20250925T161128
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Writing Literature Reviews
DESCRIPTION:How do I turn this never-ending tangle of literature into a neat\, polished review? In this interactive workshop\, we'll cover laying the foundation for your scholarly literature review and then taking that first critical step towards composition. We'll crowdsource tips for generating a source list\, organizing it as you go\, and starting to extract themes and ideas for section headings from your reading library. We'll also cover the basics of structure to reduce the barrier for writing your first sections. Whether you're halfway through or just starting out\, you'll have a chance to take the next step on organizing\, defining your purpose\, or revising your argumentation. This presentation will focus on reviews in the sciences\, but concepts are generalizable to all literature reviews.\n\nPresented by Jimmy Brancho\, Sweetland Center for Writing Faculty\n\nRegistration required. See link.\n\nFood and coffee/tea provided. Please bring a water bottle to fill if needed.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139897
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate School,Writing,Graduate Students
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room, 3rd floor
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DTSTAMP:20251113T133658
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar: A twisted derived category of hyper-Kähler varieties of K3^{[n]}-type
DESCRIPTION:It is well-known that the derived category of a K3 surface is governed by its Mukai lattice. In this talk\, I will discuss analogous phenomena for hyper-Kähler varieties of K3^[n]-type. In particular\, I will show that a natural twisted derived category of a 2n-dimensional moduli space of stable objects on a K3 surface is derived equivalent to the Hilbert scheme of n points on the surface.
UID:135739-21877211@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135739
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20251111T102014
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Van Eenam Lectures
DESCRIPTION:Lectures each day November 18-20\, 2025 from 4-5 pm in East Hall. \n\n*Lecture 1\, November 18\, 4 pm\, East Hall 1360: E-values and e-processes: Theory and applications*\nE-values and e-processes are potential alternatives to p-values as measures of uncertainty\, significance and evidence. We first briefly introduce the theory of e-values and e-processes\, and then briefly discuss their applications in four areas: a) Combining dependent p-values\; b) Selective inference procedures\; c) Backtesting risk measures\; d) Online large language models (LLM) watermark detection. \n\n*Lecture 2\, November 19\, 4 pm East Hall 1360: Risk aversion\, insurance propensity\, and choice under dependence*\nWe provide a foundation of risk aversion by showing that this attitude is fully captured by the propensity to seize insurance opportunities. Our foundation well accords with the commonly held prudential interpretation of risk aversion that dates back to the seminal works of Arrow (1963) and Pratt (1964). These analyses are special cases of results in the general framework of choice under dependence.\n\n*Lecture 3\, November 20\, 4 pm East Hall 4448: Bridging pure risk and ambiguity in risk measures and optimization*\nWe discuss optimization and modeling of ambiguity in risk management and decision making. We first discuss two different approaches in optimization under uncertainty\, the worst-case risk approach and the model aggregation approach. Then we present a mathematical framework using a sigma-algebra to distinguish between pure risks and ambiguity.\n\nDr. Ruodu Wang is Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Risk Management and Professor of Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance at the University of Waterloo. He received his PhD in Mathematics (2012) from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, after completing his Bachelor (2006) and Master’s (2009) degrees at Peking University. He holds editorial positions in 8 leading journals in actuarial science\, operations research\, statistics\, and economics\, including Co-Editor of ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association and Co-Editor of the European Actuarial Journal. Among other international awards and recognitions\, he is the first winner of the SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Award (2021) from the Society of Actuaries\, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (elected 2022). His research papers are published in top journals across a wide range of scientific fields\, such as the American Economic Review\, the Annals of Statistics\, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B)\, Management Science\, Operations Research\, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nVan Eenam Lectures: This lecture series is funded by the Weltha McLachlan Van Eenam\, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher and Robert Ward Butcher Actuarial/Financial Mathematics Fund.\n\nThe Fund was established in memory of the Esteemed Emeritus Professor Cecil J. Nesbitt who was a dear friend of Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher (pictured) and Robert Ward Butcher. The fund was created as part of the Weltha McLachlan Van Eenam Memorial Fund to benefit Actuarial/Financial Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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DTSTAMP:20251105T102654
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Seminar Series featuring Emil Saucan\, PhD (Visiting Professor)
DESCRIPTION:\"Geometrical Methods for Biological Networks\" \n\nAbstract:\n\nThis work investigates the role of geometric methods\, with a particular focus on discrete curvatures\, in the analysis of genomic networks. We demonstrate how these geometric insights can inform applications in oncology and cellular reprogramming
UID:140042-21886516@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140042
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bioinformatics,Biosciences,Basic Science
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes North
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DTSTAMP:20251115T174140
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lecture and Workshop with Victoria Saramago
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: November 19th\, 4pm - 6pm\; Against the Current: Electricity\, \nEnvironment\, and Culture in Brazil\n\nWorkshop: November 20th\, 11:30am - 1pm\; Electroshock and Hydropower: \nWriting the Great Acceleration in Brazil’s Military Dictatorship\n\nLocation:  Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) \n\nThis talk discusses how electricity is deeply intertwined with cultural production and formative of the narratives that have come to define the Anthropocene in the Great Acceleration in Brazil. \n\nLecture presented by Isabella Vergara (LSA Collegiate Fellow)\, Moderated by Ana Guimarães (Graduate Student)\nWorkshop presented by RLL Graduate Students:  Ana Guimarães\, María Beusterien Pereira\, Daniel López\, Fernando Pliego\, and Alejandro Mendoza. \n\nVictoria Saramago is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on Brazilian studies\, the environmental humanities\, the energy humanities\, the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene\, fiction theory\, mimesis\, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the environment.\nhttps://rll.uchicago.edu/victoria-saramago
UID:141532-21888979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141532
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Multicultural,Public,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social Impact,Storytelling,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop,Writing,Graduate Students,Brazil,Communications,Discussion,Free,Lecture,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Language
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB
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