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DTSTAMP:20251104T235845
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry Seminar:   Equidistribution of expanding translates of smooth curves in homogeneous spaces under the action of a product of $\mathrm{SO}(n\,1)$'s
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141520-21888966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141520
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251118T105001
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Grad Prep 2: Application Components
DESCRIPTION:In the second portion of our Grad Prep series\, we will dive deeper into the application process. We will break down the application\, component by component\, and go over strategies for developing a timeline for your materials and keeping yourself organized.\n\nThe workshops are open to any undergraduate student on campus.\nClick here to register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/2r684
UID:138957-21884356@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138957
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Workshop,Virtual,Urop,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Research,Professional Development
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250925T092510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Improving Sleep: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) – Virtual 6-Week Group
DESCRIPTION:Are you struggling with insomnia or poor sleep quality? Want to break the cycle of restless nights and tired days? The Mary A. Rackham Institute (MARI)’s Psychological Clinic invites you to join our 6-week virtual CBT-I group designed to help adults improve their sleep and overall well-being.\n\nWhat You’ll Gain:\n\n- Learn proven strategies to improve sleep quality and consistency\n- Understand and change unhelpful sleep patterns\n- Reduce stress and feel more rested\, every day\n\nWhy Choose Group CBT-I for Insomnia?\nCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold standard and first-line treatment for insomnia. In this group\, you’ll receive an individualized\, tailored plan to help you improve your sleep efficiency and quality. Experience the effectiveness of evidence-based strategies with support\, guidance\, and accountability from expert facilitators and fellow group members.\n\nGroup Details:\n- Who: Adults struggling with falling or staying asleep\, experiencing poor sleep quality\, or wanting to learn sustainable techniques for better rest\n- When: Thursdays\, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. | 6 weekly sessions beginning October 16\, 2025\n- Where: Virtual via Zoom—join from the comfort of your own home\n- Cost: $45 per session (insurance may help cover costs)
UID:139865-21886189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Well-being,Virtual,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Staff,Sleep,Insomnia,Graduate Students,Graduate,Faculty
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251113T080149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Institutional Uncertainty and State Building: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Nepal (with Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi)\, Rohini Pande (Yale)\, Soledad Prillaman (Stanford)\, Jonathan Weigel (Berkeley)\, Noam Yuchtman (LSE))
DESCRIPTION:Institutions anchor expectations about how power will be exercised\; when these expectations are widely shared\, they create the predictability needed for economic exchange\, cooperation\, and long-term investment (North 1990\, 1991). We report results from a nationwide field experiment testing whether beliefs about the durability and inclusiveness of political institutions causally shape investments in state capacity. While canonical theories in political science and economics propose this mechanism (e.g.\, North\, Wallis\, and Weingast\, 2009\; Olson 1993)\, there is limited direct measurement of these beliefs and\, to our knowledge\, no causal evidence on this relationship. We conduct an experiment with 4\,400 local politicians and bureaucrats in Nepal -- a nascent federal democracy at an institutional critical juncture -- who were randomly exposed to accurate information about political stability or inclusion. Treatments effectively updated beliefs about future institutions\, including expectations of continuity in future rules for executive selection\, protections for minority rights\, and media freedom. Participants were then given the opportunity to perform a real-effort task: collecting data on births\, deaths\, and marriages to support the national civil registration system. Participants systematically underestimated Nepal’s current political stability\, so receiving the World Bank score (in the 50th percentile globally) typically constituted a positive and surprising update. This treatment increased confidence in institutional quality and durability and raised participation in the state-building task from 22% in the control group to 26% in the treatment group (p < 0.05). In contrast\, information highlighting the underrepresentation of women and historically underrepresented castes reduced optimism about future institutions and dampened task effort among these subgroups. These results indicate that perceptions of state fragility causally affect investments in state capacity. They also reveal that beliefs about political inclusion also affect policy maker investments in state capacity\, offering an efficiency rationale for inclusion distinct from social justice concerns.
UID:138511-21883149@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Development,Political Economy,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251007T103147
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T180000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Pen\, Ink\, and Prestige: Nobel Laureates in Literature from East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Explore the remarkable literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature. “Pen\, Ink\, and Prestige” highlights the transformative works and lasting influence of Yasunari Kawabata 川端 康成 (winning year 1968)\, Kenzaburō Ōe 大江 健三郎 (1994)\, Gao Xingjian 高行健 (2000)\, Mo Yan 莫言 (2012)\, and Han Kang 한강 韓江 (2024).\n\nFeaturing original editions\, translations\, biographies\, and multimedia materials that illuminate the laureates’ lives and literary legacies\, this exhibit invites you to reflect on how literature transcends borders and languages\, how these groundbreaking writers negotiate East Asian literary traditions in their works\, and how they grapple with identity\, social change\, and the human condition.\n\nJoin us for Third Thursdays at the U-M Library\, a monthly open house where we share materials from our collections.\n\nWhile you’re here\, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four Third Thursday Open Houses — Asia Library\, Clark Library\, International Studies\, and Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
UID:140376-21887003@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140376
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Asia
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Asia Library (4th floor-North)
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DTSTAMP:20251016T150513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Real-time electrocatalytic control of C-H and C-C bond transformation and fuel formation
DESCRIPTION:Producing fuels and chemicals using electricity has drawn considerable interest in recent decades. To date\, research in electrocatalysis – the key tool which allows us to link electricity to chemical reactions – remains strongly focused on the transformation of small inorganic molecules such as CO2\, H2O\, N2\, and oxygenated biomass derivatives. Yet\, comprehensive industrial electrification will likely require electrocatalytic methods that can promote the reactions that make up the core of the chemicals and fuels industry: n-alkane transformations.\nIn this talk\, I will demonstrate that electricity-driven alkane transformations not only are feasible but that they also unlock new avenues of reactivity\, offering solutions to long-standing challenges in catalytic alkane chemistry. Specifically\, I will show how our group combined a fundamental understanding of interfacial electrocatalytic processes1 with in-situ electrochemical mass spectrometry to gain independent\, real-time control over the elementary steps of alkane transformations at room temperature. By modulating the potential applied to an electrocatalyst surface\, we were able to independently control the adsorption of n-alkanes\, initiate the transformation of adsorbates while they are bound to the surface\, and selectively desorb desired products while keeping others anchored. These methods provide a powerful lever of control over catalytic surface chemistry\, enabling us to demonstrate remarkable reactivity\, including: (1) the room-temperature electrochemical fragmentation of ethane2 and butane3 into shorter chain fragments\, and (2) the room-temperature dehydrogenation of n alkanes to alkenes.4 Beyond these transformations\, I will show how leveraging independent control over elementary steps allowed us to deconstruct the continuous oxidation of n-alkanes in fuel cells into its fundamental steps—identifying bottlenecks and providing new design principles for improved catalysts.5\nIn the final part of my talk\, I will discuss how\, at a fundamental level\, applied voltages control the rate of electrocatalytic reactions. Electron transfer reactions are typically thought to pass through a vibrationally activated transition state\, making them temperature dependent. However\, we discovered that some electrocatalytic reaction classes\, for example CO₂ reduction\, show little to no temperature dependence\, regardless of the catalyst or electrolyte. Building on previous reports by Halpern and Conway\, I will discuss how our mechanistic interpretation of this phenomenon points to the translational\, rather than vibrational\, reorganization of electrolyte components to form an interfacial electron transfer transition state.6 I will also discuss how this insight highlights the importance of considering more than enthalpic activation barriers in designing electrocatalytic systems.\nBy extending electrocatalysis to alkane transformations and uncovering new mechanistic insights into reaction rate control\, we aim to enable more precise atomic-level manipulation in electrocatalytic processes\, paving the way for a more selective\, efficient\, and electrified chemical industry of the future.
UID:138408-21882913@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138408
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Chemistry,Analytical Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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