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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Astronomy Colloquium | AI Discovery in Physics and Astronomy
DESCRIPTION:AI may change how science answers its hardest open questions\, and even which questions it asks. Today's vast datasets hold physical information we do not yet know how to look for\, and AI offers a way to search for the unexpected. To trust AI discoveries\, we need to judge models by whether they obey the laws of physics. How convincing their outputs look is not enough. In this talk I will discuss the promise and challenges of cutting-\nedge AI for science\, and how to define and build physical realism into our models. I will present recent progress\non physical\, probabilistic\, and generative models for astronomy. I will also show where classical physics\nmodels\, machine learning\, and agentic AI each reach their limits.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153007
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,astrophysics,Colloquium,Colloquium Series,Physics,Talk
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260909T145134
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Prioritization of technology development and scale-up pathways for sustainable (bio)energy systems
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe pursuit of clean\, equitable\, renewable fuels has become a catalyst for research and development. Yet a critical challenge in transitioning fuel supply chains is the vast landscape of possible technology development pathways and the lack of transparent\, consistent frameworks to target research and investment. This presentation will introduce quantitative sustainable design (QSD)\, a framework for prioritizing research\, development\, and deployment pathways for emerging technologies. QSD integrates process design and simulation\, techno-economic analysis\, and life cycle assessment under uncertainty to identify the factors governing sustainability\, quantify performance gaps\, establish actionable research targets\, and guide technology and system design. Examples from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation will illustrate how QSD can inform the conversion of perennial grasses (including Miscanthus\, switchgrass\, and sugarcane) and agricultural residues into biofuels and bioproducts\, with particular attention to sustainable aviation fuel. By connecting process-scale analyses with broader infrastructure and spatial models\, we also evaluate where and how these technologies could be deployed\, including opportunities to integrate low-carbon fuel production with existing infrastructure and strategically site bioenergy facilities. Together\, these examples demonstrate how transparent\, systems-level analysis can direct innovation and investment toward energy solutions that are technically feasible\, financially viable\, environmentally beneficial\, and responsive to broader societal goals.\n\nBiography:\nDr. Jeremy Guest is the Department Head and David C. Crawford Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an appointment (by courtesy) as a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The core goal of Professor Guest’s research group is to advance circular bioeconomies for a more sustainable and just future. His team supports this vision by developing computational models to prioritize research\, development\, and deployment pathways for new technologies that achieve resource recovery from wastewaters and the conversion of plants to products\, food\, and fuels. Professor Guest’s formal training includes a B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from Bucknell University and Virginia Tech\, respectively\, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan.\n\nFor the most up to date information on the location\, please check the related link the week of this event
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147944
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:CAEN,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Law,Materials Science,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,North Campus,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Science,seminar,Social Sciences,Sustainability
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - FXB1012
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DTSTAMP:20260908T113003
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Enhancing biological datasets using artificial intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Seminar summary - Biological data have expanded in breadth and depth over the last decade\, leading to larger datasets that hold the potential to answer questions at greater resolution. Despite this growth\, some datasets remain inherently limited\; including many derived from specimens from natural history collections. In this talk\, Bryan Carstens will discuss the potential of Artificial Intelligence approaches to improve biological datasets. One example describes the application of transfer learning to improve the genomic data collected from specimens where the sampling is inherently limited\, such as from extinct species. A second describes the use of neutral networks to automate pseudo-landmarks in three dimensional geometric morphometrics. Taken together\, this work suggests that AI has the potential to enhance biological data\, leading to increased inferential capabilities.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151542
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb,Environment,Lecture,Research,seminar,Workshop
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260908T125403
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Imagine Lagos: Rethinking the Histories of West African Cities in the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Urban questions have taken on a new urgency\, as cities like Lagos grow faster and more intensely\, seemingly every day. But how should we understand the ways the past shaped and produced this present? And how can\, or should we\, write and map the histories of people rooted in oral cultures? This presentation explores the premise that reading Lagos’s streets shapes the ways to ask\, analyze and frame nineteenth-century narratives of the city. By drawing new maps of Lagos and the lagoon\, I transcribe the answers to these questions as they were understood and framed in the city’s social geography.\n\nTrained as both historian and computer engineer\, Ademide’s research into the history of West African cities combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in maps\, mapmaking\, and digital humanities. Her first book\, Imagine Lagos\, explores the city’s 19th-century history. It was awarded the Best Book Prize in 2024 by the African Studies Association and is a finalist for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s Outstanding First Book award. She a founding member of the Lagos Studies Association\, and is Associate Professor of History at Howard University (where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Black Data Lab).\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150715
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anthropology,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260921T121632
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Grad School in the Biosciences Panel
DESCRIPTION:Interested in graduate school? Have questions about the application process? Wonder what it’s like to do a PhD? Join FIRST for a panel of current graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to demystify the process!\n\nThursday October 1st\, 4-5pm\, BSB 1010\n\nhttps://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152529
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Career,Chemistry,Ecology,Education,Graduate,Graduate School,Research,Science,Structural Biology,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260922T145602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Imagining Palestine-Israel
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to a moderated conversation around a forthcoming special issue of the journal Palestine/Israel Review\, titled “Imagining Palestine-Israel” guest-edited by Ebileeni and Pinsker.\n\nThe call for papers from spring 2024 stated that in thinking about Palestine-Israel\, to imagine is both problematic and crucial insofar as imagination might offer different and new horizons and futures or further preserve the political impasse as well as diverge from the atrocities of the present into even more dangerous territories. The editors also raised some of the following questions:\n\n– Is it possible to envision a way forward in this present moment?\n– Is it possible to imagine together an equitable future that will account for the atrocities and injustices of the past and still make room for a Palestine and an Israel on the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea?\n– Is a dialogue based on honesty and accountability possible at all anymore?\n– Are dialogues about Palestine and Israel in academia at all beneficial?\n\nScholars across various disciplines (literary and cultural studies\, anthropology\, history)\, from around the globe\, responded to the call and these questions. They tried to make sense of the ever-escalating destruction of Gaza\, and to engage in the difficult task of imagining what the future could look like.\n\nNow\, two years after the “Imagining Palestine-Israel” scholarly initiative started\, amidst a US and Israeli-led war on Iran and its subsidiary front with Lebanon\, the questions we raised back in 2024 are even more relevant.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150445
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Dialogue,Discussion,Middle East,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room (Fourth Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260928T171122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Transfer Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Recruitment Team for our virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.\n\nRegistration is required. Register using link to the right
UID:141040-21913438@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141040
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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