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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Global copper demand outstrips supply\, threatening electrification and industrial growth
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nCopper is arguably the most important metal for economic development and 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 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. Consider that the built environment of the European Union\, United Kingdom\, United States and other high-income countries contains 150-200 kg/capita\, whereas there is less than 10 kg/capita in low-income countries across Africa and India. Hence\, global economic development will require an enormous amount of copper. Our challenge is that this copper demand is significantly greater than projected copper supply. Copper production from existing mines will decrease over the next few decades because due to announced mine closures and decreasing ore grades\, and the discovery of new copper occurrences that can be mined continues to decline. The dearth of discovery of new copper occurrences indicates that available exploration methods are no longer successful. In this presentation I will discuss novel hydrogeochemical methods that use the metal isotopic composition of ground and surface water as a probe for the presence of copper sulfide minerals beneath cover. The technique was developed by collaborating with mining companies around the world. The non-invasive technique can identify and distinguish among chalcopyrite\, chalcocite and bornite and whether chalcocite is hypogene or supergene. The technique can be used for brownfield expansion projects and greenfield exploration. The hydrogeochemical technique can also be used to monitor mineralogy during heap leaching operations\, allowing operators to tailor lixiviant chemistry to increase production rates and total recovery. The technique can also be used to quantitatively determine the source(s) of metals in the environment.\n\nBiography:\nAdam C. Simon is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mineral Resources at the University of Michigan\, and a co-founder of VectOres Science\, Inc.\, a consulting company that uses patented technology for mineral exploration and processing. His research focuses on mineral exploration\, ore deposit genesis\, the integration of geological and geochemical data to understand ore formation\, and the use of metal isotopes to monitor mineralogy in heap leaching operations and tracing environmental metal sources. He has worked on a range of mineral deposits: porphyry\, epithermal\, Carlin-type\, iron oxide-copper-gold\, iron oxide-apatite\, layered mafic intrusions\, and magmatic sulfide. Adam has led research programs on all seven continents. He co-authored the books Mineral Resources\, Economics and the Environment\, and Earth Materials: Components of a Diverse Planet. He has published 125 scientific articles and has received awards for his transformative approaches to education and. He was the global 2024 Society of Economic Geologists Distinguished Lecturer and regularly gives presentations to general and expert audiences on all aspects of energy and mineral resources.
UID:145468-21897383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145468
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering,CAEN,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Law,Materials Science,Mechanical Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,North Campus,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Science,seminar,Social Sciences,Sustainability
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1303
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DTSTAMP:20260324T141601
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T153000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
DESCRIPTION:\"Unraveling hierarchical galaxy formation: the potential of galaxy stellar halos beyond the Milky Way\"\n\nStellar halos are amazingly rich records of their host galaxy’s history. During the hierarchical galaxy formation process smaller galaxies and star clusters are stripped apart in the outskirts of their larger hosts\, leaving their stars as tracers of their origin. This tidal debris survives as stellar streams and substructures and is sensitive to the underlying gravitational potential\, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter and the physics of low-mass galaxy formation. Upcoming large surveys such as those from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory\, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope\, and Euclid will provide an unprecedented deep and wide view of this low-surface brightness discovery space\, detecting stellar halo substructure for numerous galaxies in our nearby universe. Modeling of stellar halo structures has traditionally focused on our own Milky Way\, with limited exploration of diverse galaxy formation histories. In this talk I will highlight how using a variety of modeling techniques can aid in understanding how physical processes in hierarchical galaxy formation link to observational signatures\, facilitating interpretation of observations by the next generation of telescopes. Additionally\, I will briefly discuss ongoing interdisciplinary work\, among other things in AI models for strong lens modeling\, at the Astro-AI Institute for the Sky—the SkAI Institute.
UID:146983-21900200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146983
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:astrophysics,astronomy
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260125T203125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: From algebraicity to quadratic splittings of matroids
DESCRIPTION:Explain the proof of the key geometric result (Theorem 1.8 of the paper) behind the main theorem.
UID:144459-21895385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144459
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20260326T112639
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T180000
SUMMARY:Presentation:2026 Learning Levers Final Pitch Event
DESCRIPTION:See what’s next in PreK–12 learning at the Learning Levers Prize Final Pitch Event! Student innovators will pitch research-informed education technology ideas to a panel of expert judges for a chance to win up to $10\,000 in funding. Come hear the finalists—Krik Krak\, LevelUp Living\, MotiMuse\, RoboCrafter\, and WildLight—and get inspired by tools designed to improve how students learn.\n\nThe James A. Kelly Learning Levers Prize\, launched by the Marsal Family School of Education\, honors James A. Kelly’s legacy of advancing equity\, strengthening teaching standards\, and improving learning for all students. The competition challenges U-M students to create scalable\, research-based digital tools that enhance learning in PreK–12 education and celebrates creative\, interdisciplinary innovation.
UID:146644-21899396@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146644
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship,Games,Information and Technology,Professional Development,Sessions,Social Impact,Education
LOCATION:Marsal School of Education, Prechter Lab (Room 2202), 610 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
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DTSTAMP:20260318T180657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Linking Mechanisms to Practice: Improving Outcomes in Great Lakes Wetland Restoration
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes face a suite of interacting stressors\, and understanding the processes that drive plant performance and invasive species dynamics is essential for improving restoration outcomes. My research aims to refine coastal wetland restoration strategies by investigating the mechanistic processes that govern ecosystem health and recovery. I work closely with land managers to incorporate this mechanistic context into decision‑making and on‑the‑ground practice. I will share my work examining the mechanisms underlying invasive plant control—from the physiological responses of Phragmites to treatment through the shifts in soil and microbial communities that follow management—as well as my investigations into how site conditions and microbial interactions influence native plant germination\, vigor\, stress tolerance\, and reestablishment during restoration. This work is tightly linked to partner needs intended to strengthen restoration approaches and enhance the long‑term resilience of Great Lakes wetlands.
UID:144780-21895840@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144780
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,seminar,environmental,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems,ecosystem,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260328T185905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GEOMETRY SEMINAR.  Representations of quadratic forms via homogeneous dynamics II
DESCRIPTION:Let $q\,Q$ be two integral quadratic forms in $m < n$ variables. One can ask when $q$ can be represented by $Q$ - that is\, whether there exists an $n \times m$-integer matrix $T$ such that $Q \circ T = q$. Naturally\, a necessary condition is that such a representation exists locally\, meaning over the real numbers and modulo $N$ for every positive integer $N$. In the absence of local obstructions\, does a (global) representation of $q$ by $Q$ exist? This question is particularly delicate when the codimension $n-m$ is small\, with codimension $2$ being the most challenging.\n\nIn this second talk\, we discuss joint work with Wooyeon Kim and Pengyu Yang where we establish a local-global principle for representations of binary by quaternary quadratic forms (when $m=2$ and $n=4$) . Our proof uses a recent measure rigidity result of Einsiedler and Lindenstrauss for higher-rank diagonalizable actions on homogeneous spaces combined with soft methods in number theory. Both talks are aimed at a general dynamical audience.\n\nNote that Wieser will give a more introductory talk in the RTG Geometry\, Topology\, Dynamics on Wednesday.
UID:144724-21895766@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144724
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20260327T202029
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RTG NT: Real quadratic singular moduli
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we state (one of) the main conjectures of Darmon-Vonk\, which says that the values of rigid meromorphic cocycles at RM points are algebraic\, and generate ring class fields of real quadratic fields. In addition\, they formulate a reciprocity law for these values which describes the action of the associated ring class group. We will discuss the computational evidence for this conjecture.\n\n3.1-3.2 of Darmon-Vonk
UID:145488-21897403@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Number Theory
LOCATION:East Hall - 1060
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