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SUMMARY:Meeting:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Spanish Coffee & Conversation Hours\n\nALL LEVELS AND STUDENTS WELCOME!\n- Practice your Spanish speaking skills with students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed setting\n- Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods\n- Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad\n\nEvery Friday\, Winter 2025\nJanuary 10 to April 18\n10:00am - 11:00 am\n4th Floor\, MLB Commons
UID:130925-21867398@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:multicultural,Free,Food,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Discussion,Culture,Community,Coffee,Humanities,In Person,Inclusion,Interactive,intercultural,Interdisciplinary,Language,Romance Languages And Literatures,Spanish,Talk,Social
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
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DTSTAMP:20250110T170530
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SUMMARY:Other:Leaves Under the Lens
DESCRIPTION:The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny\, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects\, absorb (or repel!) water\, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again! \n\nThis project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos.
UID:130943-21867433@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:science,Biology,eeb,Family,Free,In Person
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20250204T133742
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Reese Pathak\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Computer Science\, University of California\, Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Traditional machine learning often assumes that training (source) data closely resembles the testing (target) data. However\, in many contemporary applications this is unrealistic: in e-commerce\, consumer behavior is time-varying\; in medicine\, patient populations can exhibit more or less heterogeneity\; in autonomous driving\, models are rolled out to new environments. Ignoring these “distribution shifts” can lead to costly\, harmful\, and even dangerous outcomes. My research tackles these challenges by developing an algorithmic and statistical toolkit for addressing distribution shifts.\n\nThis talk focuses on covariate shift\, a form of distribution shift where the source and target distributions have different covariate laws. In the first part of the talk\, I demonstrate that for a large class of problems\, transfer learning is possible\, even when the source and target data have non-overlapping support. We introduce the “defect” of a covariate shift\, which quantifies the severity of a distribution shift. We demonstrate how the defect can be leveraged algorithmically\, leading to methods with optimal learning guarantees.\n\nIn the second part of the talk\, we refine the notion of defect to provide even stronger learning guarantees. We introduce a new method: penalized risk minimization with a non-traditional choice of regularization which is chosen via semidefinite programming. We show that our method has performance which is optimal with respect to the particular covariate shift instance. To our knowledge\, these are the first instance-optimal guarantees for transfer learning. Moreover\, our results are assumption-light: we impose essentially no restrictions on the underlying covariate laws\, thereby broadening the applicability of our theory.\n\nBased on the papers: https://doi.org/10.1214/23-AOS2268 and https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOS2446\n\nhttps://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pathakr/
UID:130086-21865300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n 
UID:84303-21621513@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA,European,Exhibition,History,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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SUMMARY:Well-being:Build Your Own Bouquet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with free flowers\, Valentine's Day cards\, and information on healthy relationships!\n\nWhere: Mason Hall\, Wall D\nWhen: Friday\, February 7th\, 11am-2pm
UID:132296-21870729@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:free,sapac,student org,Well-being
LOCATION:Mason Hall - Wall D
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DTSTAMP:20250222T063223
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Data & Research Methods Project Launch
DESCRIPTION:This project is perfect for beginners who have never workedwith a dataset before. This project will also be helpful for advanced data science students who have little experience working with data cleaning or survey building\, desk research\, or data visualizations.&nbsp\;The focus of this project is the research process as a whole.It is the first day of your new job as the Junior Data Scientist for the Office of the Mayor in the fictional town of Data Lake\, West Dakota. The population of Data Lake (314\,159) has grown rapidly since 2020 as a number of remote workers have relocated to the mid-size city. Mayor “Tess Ellation” has tasked your office with a project – to learn more about the specific needsof the town’s new remote work population. She asks you to review data on remote workers provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and come back to her with at least two data-driven policy recommendations which will support these new Data Lake families (for example\, a policy recommendation might be: build new coworking spaces downtown). Your policy recommendations must be informed by data analysis or Mayor Ellation will not adopt them.&nbsp\;Together\, we’ll clean a dataset\, learn about the ethics of data science research\, do some preliminary analysis\, anddevelop a working hypothesis about the impact of remote work policies. We’ll build some simple data visualizations\, test our hypotheses\, writeup a short conclusion\, and prepare a final report for Mayor Ellation.&nbsp\;There are 9 Milestones in this project. There are several Tasksyou need to complete within each Milestone. This project should take you no more than 30 hours to finish. Depending on your skill level\, it may take you less time.In this project\, you will learn using a combination of videos\, articles\, and external data work in spreadsheets. Our teamhas provided you with several external links and resources which will supplement your learning.Project participants who complete Milestones 1-9 in accordance with these instructions will receive a Certificate of Completion from the NSDC Project Team.&nbsp\;https://nebigdatahub.org/drm-project/
UID:128897-21861871@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128897
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