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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Water@Michigan November Coffee Talk
DESCRIPTION:Talk Description:\n\nCopper is arguably the most important metal for energy scenarios because it is essential for manufacture and deployment of low-carbon electricity generation\, transmission\, and storage\, and vehicle electrification. Copper is also essential for modern economies because it is required for the expansion of infrastructure such as wiring for electricity distribution and telecommunications\, air conditioning and space heating\, plumbing\, industrial equipment\, rail and public transportation systems\, and vehicles. The presumption persists that the copper needed for all these purposes will continue to be available. Dr. Simon will discuss projected copper demand\, realistic copper supply\, including recycling\, and the critical need to increase discovery rates to put new deposits into production.\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Adam Simon\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences\, LSA\n\nAdam Simon is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences in LSA. Simon's research group combines experiments with field and laboratory work to understand the chemical and physical processes affecting element mobility in geologic systems\, with a particular emphasis on how nature concentrates metals in small volumes of Earth's crust to form mineral deposits. The Simon research group ultimately aims to improve genetic models for mineral deposit formation to ensure a sustainable supply of resources for our growing global population. Simon holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Maryland and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University.\n\nAbout Water@Michigan Coffee Talks: \nCoffee Talks provide a monthly opportunity for U-M faculty\, staff\, and students interested in water\, and water-interested people in southeast Michigan to connect with colleagues\, learn about pressing and/or emerging water-related issues\, and meet new partners.\n\nThis academic year\, we are excited to explore the intersection of water + energy and what this nexus means to U-M researchers\, institutes\, and external partners. Please fill out the linked form below to RSVP for the fall series. Upon registration\, you will receive a calendar invite from Sarah Miller (milsar@umich.edu) with meeting-specific information.\n\nCoffee Talks are in-person convenings designed to build connections as part of the U-M Water Center's mission and programs\; we are not recording sessions at this time.\n\nPlease register here: https://graham.umich.edu/wateratmichigan/coffee-talks
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research,Mining,Complex Systems,Development,Global And Transnational,Global Change,Human Rights\, Sustainability\, Social Impact
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
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DTSTAMP:20251112T144925
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Stress testing simulation and machine learning models for virtual screening\nAbstract:\nGenerative AI has lead to breakthroughs in protein structure prediction and design\, building on high-quality data from the Protein DataBank and Sequence Read Archive. An outstanding question is\, how effective will GenAI be for small molecule drug discovery\, and what data will these models train on? First\, I will describe our work in physics based ultra-large scale virtual screening and preliminary benchmarking of state-of-the-art co-folding methods for virtual screening. Then I will describe our work in exploring challenges and opportunities in leveraging diverse bioactivity data as training data: Large-scale data curation\, and developing large-scale synthetic data sets\, and a statistical framework for testing the impact of data contamination.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141815
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Biosciences,Bioninterfaces,biomedical,Biology,Biointerfaces,bme,Michigan Engineering,Medicine,engineering,engineer,Biotechnology
LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130
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DTSTAMP:20251103T150814
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Developing Resilient Complex Energy Systems under Data Scarcity/Abundancy Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Resilience implies the ability of a system to withstand adverse events and recover from the effects of the adverse events. Inspired by resilient activities in ecology and other non-engineering fields in responding to and recovering from catastrophic adverse events\, the research objective is to adapt resilience to engineering design and operation domains in order to create failure resilient energy systems. To realize engineered resilience\, a new paradigm for engineering design under uncertainty is developed\, which enables concurrent development of reliable system functions and proactive prognosis of function failures. Failure prognosis plays an important role in realizing engineered resilience since it detects\, diagnoses\, and predicts system-wide effects of adverse events\, therefore enables a proactive approach to deal with system failures. This talk will introduce the resilience concept and system design and operational challenges\, and then present recent advances achieved in design\, especially under different scenarios when data related to system failures is rare or abundantly but indirectly available. Practical engineering applications on battery energy storage systems at different scales will be used to demonstrate the advances. \n\nBio:  Dr. Pingfeng Wang is currently a professor and holds the Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar and the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois. Dr. Wang’s expertise lies in the field of engineering design for reliability and failure resilience\, and prognostics and health management\, where he focuses on developing new design methods and computational tools to improve resilience of engineered systems. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the ASME design automation Young Investigator Award. Dr. Wang’s research is currently supported by NSF\, DOD\, DOE\, DOT\, and private industry and nonprofit sponsors. Dr. Wang is the review editor for journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and the Associate Editor for Journal of Mechanical Design.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138910
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Sustainability,Social Sciences,seminar,Science,Research,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,North Campus,Michigan Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Materials Science,Law,Interdisciplinary,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Free,Environment,Engineering,Energy,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Civil and Environmental Engineering,CAEN
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1311
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DTSTAMP:20251107T163834
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:November International Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:International Coffee Hour is a great opportunity to meet new people from around the world! The event is open to all members of the U-M community\, including international and U.S. students\, scholars\, faculty\, staff and their partners.\n\nOur November coffee hour will be held in partnership with the English Language Institute. This month’s refreshments will include coffee\, tea\, chai\, and milk tea. We’ll also have board games available. We look forward to seeing you there!
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141669
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B780
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DTSTAMP:20251116T225159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Schubert Polynomials Lecture 12: Coefficients
DESCRIPTION:The goal of this lecture is to determine\, for any back-stable Schubert polynomial\, which coefficients of Schur polynomials are nonzero.
UID:141930-21889645@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141930
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20251111T102014
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
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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 - 4448
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