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SUMMARY:Film Screening:CCI on the Move: Wicked Fun
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Campus Involvement in \"CCI on the Move: Wicked Fun!\" We will be shuttling 2 groups of students to the Cinemark Ann Arbor 20 theatre\, where we will watch the new release\, Wicked: For Good. Your $5 registration fee includes transportation\, movie admission\, and light snacks! Please read the information below and register for either Group 1 or Group 2. \n\nGroup 1: Meeting at the Cube (outside of the Michigan Union) at 3:05 PM. If you are not there and checked in by 3:15 PM\, your spot will be forfeited with no refund! Make sure to be on time! Group 1 will attend the 4:15 PM screening of Wicked: For Good at the Cinemark Ann Arbor 20. On the bus\, students will receive further directions for snack collection and post-film departure procedures.Students are required to take the bus from Cinemark back to campus. After the show\, the bus will drop students back off at the cube at approximately 7:45 PM. \n\nGroup 2: Meeting at the Cube (outside of the Michigan Union) at 4:00 PM. If you are not there and checked in by 4:15 PM\, your spot will be forfeited with no refund! Make sure to be on time! Group 2 will attend the 4:45 PM 3D screening of Wicked: For Good at the Cinemark Ann Arbor 20. On the bus\, students will receive further directions for snack collection and post-film departure procedures.Students are required to take the bus from Cinemark back to campus. After the show\, the bus will drop students back off at the cube at around 9:00 PM. \n\nIf the registration fee is a financial barrier for you\, please email marblanc@umich.edu to be considered for a scholarship pass.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141942
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix
LOCATION:GA - 50 Capacity
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DTSTAMP:20251119T130045
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Emily Zakem
DESCRIPTION:Microorganisms mediate the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth system and the atmospheric fluxes of greenhouse gases. However\, historically\, microorganisms have been crudely represented in Earth system models in ways that have limited our understanding of global-scale microbial impacts and potential feedbacks to global change. As our understanding of microbial communities expands\, how can their activity be more mechanistically represented at large scales? I will discuss new insights into nitrogen and carbon cycling in the ocean gained from describing microbial activity simply yet dynamically in marine ecosystem models\, harnessing physical and chemical constraints to microbial growth. The broadly applicable strategy allows the presence or absence of microbial “metabolic functional types” to emerge from ecological interactions\, providing more fundamental explanations for observed biogeochemical patterns and paving the way for improved prognostic capabilities.
UID:141194-21888354@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
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DTSTAMP:20250912T141409
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Irrationality of cubic fourfolds
DESCRIPTION:Explain the proof that very general cubic fourfolds are irrational.
UID:139284-21885232@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139284
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20251009T103323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Laura Gwilliams received her BA in Linguistics from Cardiff University (UK) and a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language from the BCBL (Basque Country\, Spain). Laura then joined NYU\, first as a research assistant\, and then as a PhD student\, working with David Poeppel\, Alec Marantz and Liina Pylkkanen. There she used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the neural computations underlying dynamic speech understanding. Laura's dissertation `Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension' aims to combine insight from theoretical linguistics\, neuroscience and machine-learning\, and has received recognition from Meta\, the William Orr Dingwall Foundation\, the Martin Braine Fellowship\, the Society for Neuroscience\, and the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. As a post-doctoral scholar with Eddie Chang\, Laura added intracranial EEG and single-unit recordings to her repertoire of techniques. She used her time in the Chang Lab to understand how laminar single neuronal spiking encodes speech properties in humans. Now as the director of the Gwilliams Laboratory of Speech Neuroscience (the GLySN Lab) at Stanford University\, her group aims to understand the neural representations and computations that give rise to successful speech comprehension\, using a range of recording methodologies\, and analytical techniques.\n\nDr. Gwilliams will be joining us via Zoom.\n\nTitle: Computational architecture of human speech comprehension\n\nAbstract: \nHumans understand speech with such speed and accuracy\, it belies the complexity of transforming sound into meaning. The goal of my research is to develop a theoretically grounded\, biologically constrained and computationally explicit account of how the human brain achieves this feat. In my talk\, I will present a series of studies that examine neural responses at different spatial scales: From population ensembles using magnetoencephalography and electrocorticography\, to the encoding of speech properties in individual neurons across the cortical depth using Neuropixels probes in humans. The results provide insight into (i) what auditory and linguistic representations serve to bridge between sound and meaning\; (ii) what operations reconcile auditory input speed with neural processing time\; (iii) how information at different timescales is nested\, in time and in space\, to allow information exchange across hierarchical structures. My work showcases the utility of combining cognitive science\, machine-learning and neuroscience for developing neurally-constrained computational models of spoken language understanding.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140313
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251119T135614
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: Radiation Effects on Quantum Dots
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis presentation discusses the radiation effects on nanostructures (quantum dots) after exposure to ionizing radiation by observing changes in luminescence. The goal of our research is to evaluate quantum dots in solution for radiation hardness\, specifically total ionizing dose (TID). Various compositions of commercially available quantum dots are examined\, and a high activity 137Cs source is used to induce ionization damage in quantum dot samples. Laser-induced photoluminescence spectroscopy\, and Xe bulb-induced fluorescence spectroscopy are used to measure quantum dot luminescence. We observe significant changes to the luminescence of irradiated quantum dots and find that changes are based on quantum dot composition. We performed TID up to 100 kR. We explore Graphene\, Perovskite\, and CdTe quantum dots in our study\, with fluorescence spectroscopy as the most reliable measurement technique. \n\nBio: \nEdward Cazalas\, Ph.D.\, Nuclear Engineering Program at University of Utah. Prof. Cazalas earned his Ph.D. from Penn State in Nuclear Engineering. He since worked at RAND Corporation and the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. His research is in the areas of radiation detection\, dosimetry\, and radiation effects on electronics and materials. He has been at the University of Utah since 2018 and has served as faculty advisor to its ANS chapter since 2020. \n\nThe NERS Colloquia Series invites leading researchers\, industry experts\, and thought leaders from across the nuclear engineering and radiological sciences community to share their insights with students\, faculty\, and guests. Covering a wide range of topics—from cutting-edge research and emerging technologies to policy\, education\, and professional development—the weekly talks offer an opportunity to explore current issues and innovations shaping the future of the field.
UID:136759-21879092@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136759
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium,Energy,Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Nuclear,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - IOE 1610
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DTSTAMP:20251118T143724
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Topology seminar: Real Heegaard Floer Homology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In recent years\, there has been a flurry of interest in gauge theoretic invariants of manifolds equipped with an involution\; in particular\, such invariants have been used to detect exotic RP^2-knots (Miyazawa) and to settle the non-sliceness of cables of the Figure 8 knot (Kang-Park-Taniguchi). For 3-manifolds with an involution\, there is a Heegaard Floer analogue of these invariants\, developed in joint work with C. Manolescu. However\, to develop the 4-dimensional aspects of the theory\, it is necessary to first show the real Heegaard Floer homology groups are natural. In the talk\, I will review the construction of our invariants\, and discuss a sketch of the proof of naturality\, highlighting the subtleties that arise in the equivariant setting. This is joint work in progress with Manolescu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136280
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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