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DTSTAMP:20260917T151354
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SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sustainability,Student Org,Social Impact,Environment
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/my/meetingjunem
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DTSTAMP:20260910T134907
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T150000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and refreshments in a beautiful\, book-filled space. Check out a book from the Hopwood library or engage with other readers and writers. All are welcome.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148903
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Writing,Ann Arbor,Books,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Food,Free
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 (Hopwood Room)
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DTSTAMP:20261007T164243
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899: Oğuzhan Çelebi
DESCRIPTION:District-based elections must reconcile two objectives: representing each district’s electorate and matching the statewide delegation to political support. We study seat allocation rules when these objectives conflict.The optimal rules\, characterized by a cutoff\, form a family ranging from first-past-the-post to proportional representation as the weight on statewide representation increases. Along this path\, gaining further seats through gerrymandering becomes increasingly difficult. The characterization yields a measure of the robustness of first-past-the-post to statewide representation concerns\, which we compare with established electoral diagnostics. In U.S. House elections from 2002 to 2024\, we find that maps drawn by single-party legislatures perform worse than those produced by other institutions\, and Republican-legislature maps fare worse than Democratic-legislature maps. The efficiency gap\, a common partisan-gerrymandering measure\, is more strongly associated with litigated maps than the other measures\, yet it considerably amplifies the Republican-Democratic asymmetry.
UID:153418-21915837@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153418
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680
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DTSTAMP:20260909T145456
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Decision Making for Sustainability Using the Objective Reduction Community Algorithm (ORCA)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMany objective optimization problems (MaOPs)\, defined here as problems with four or more objectives\, inherently arise when designing and operating sustainable process and energy systems. Nonetheless\, MaOPs remain a particularly difficult and understudied problem class owing to challenges in both scalably generating solutions (in the form of a Pareto frontier) and interpreting the solutions we do get. This talk begins by providing a tutorial overview of methods commonly used to generate Pareto frontiers for multi-objective (defined as two or more objectives) optimization problems\, alongside a discussion of why these approaches tend not to scale well when increasing the number of objectives. Then\, I present the Objective Reduction Community Algorithm (ORCA)\, our group’s novel approach for reducing the objective dimensionality of MaOP’s to a manageable two or three a priori to solving the problem. At a high level\, this approach identifies which objectives are likely to be pointing to similar decisions\, embeds this information into a graph\, and uses community detection to partition this graph to give groupings of objectives which are correlated within groups\, but competing between groups. Three case studies are presented which demonstrate the power and efficacy of this approach for sustainable decision making. In the first\, the correlation of planetary boundary objectives within a large scale sustainable fuel supply chain is assessed. The second case study considers changes in objective correlation due to intermittency in objective parameters\, and assesses the correlation between cost and emissions driven industrial demand response for two different electrified chemical processes. The third case study utilizes an extension of ORCA to nonlinear MaOP’s\, showcasing its utility on a commonly used set of benchmark problems with known objective correlations\, the DZLT5 problems\, as well as on a design problem for a carbon capture\, utilization\, and storage network. I conclude by providing some perspective on future applications of our approach to problems of distributed model predictive control and aligned agentic AI systems.\n\nBiography:\nAndrew Allman is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan\, and has been in this position since fall 2020. Andrew is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science\, where he obtained his Ph.D. with Prodromos Daoutidis in 2018 and subsequently worked in a post-doctoral position with Qi Zhang from graduation until joining Michigan. His awards include receiving the NSF CAREER Award in 2023\, and the CAST Director’s Student Presentation Award in 2018. His recent research at Michigan has focused on solving many-objective optimization problems\, assessing the operation and control of modular chemical production systems\, embedding machine-learned classifier models to enhance moving horizon decision making\, and solving structure detection problems for networks with constraints or uncertainty for distributed optimization.\n\nFor the most up to date information on the location\, please check the related link the week of this event
UID:147950-21902585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Social Sciences,CAEN,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Free,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Law,Mechanical Engineering,Sustainability,seminar,Science,Research,Materials Science,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,North Campus,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Michigan Engineering
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - FXB1012
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DTSTAMP:20261028T093933
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T153000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Some Notes on Topics in Astrobiology
DESCRIPTION:Michael first joined Michigan Astro in 2013 as a postdoc working with Eric Bell\, developing assessments to measure instructional gains in introductory courses\, especially ASTRO 101 & 102. He continued in this role\, largely during summers\, until 2017\, when he became a Lecturer in the department\, teaching those and other introductory courses\, also working independently with a number of students from those courses in directed studies designed to introduce basics skills for research through analysis of data from the Kepler and Tess Missions. The studies resulted in multiple conference presentations and publications in IOP-Physics Education and TPT-The Physics Teacher\, as well as a book for AAS /IOP Publishing - Student Exoplanet Projects Using Data from the Kepler Mission. He is currently finishing another book with Elsevier Publishing - Naked Eye Astronomy-Observing the Sky without a Telescope\, based on teaching ASTRO 127 both in the planetarium and remotely. A recently completed series of five ASTRO-NOTES for The Physics Teacher about different strategies for teaching Life in the Universe\, developed when teaching ASTRO 106 & 115\, will be the main subject of this talk.\n\n10 years of teaching Life in the Universe in ASTRO 106-Aliens\, 115-Astrobiology\, as well as 101\, have resulted in the development of what have become useful strategies for covering several topics\, including possible habitability in our own solar system and beyond\, interstellar space travel\, and the Fermi Paradox and Drake Equation\, including examination of both through the lens of the Copernican and Anthropic Principles.
UID:154201-21917357@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154201
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Physics,Colloquium Series,Colloquium,astrophysics,Astronomy,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261023T145640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:36th Annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson (DMN) Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. The event will support both in-person attendance and a livestream. Light refreshments will be provided for those who can attend in person. This lecture is sponsored by the Faculty Senate as a showcase event underscoring the U-M community’s collective interest in academic freedom.\n\nThe invited speaker is Michael Ignatieff\, who served as President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) between 2016 and 2021\, the turbulent years which saw CEU’s expulsion from Budapest and its re-establishment in Vienna. He now is a professor in CEU’s department of historical studies. Ignatieff came to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Chair of Press\, Politics\, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn 2017\, Central European University in Budapest became the first free institution in Europe to be targeted by an authoritarian populist regime. Michael Ignatieff was Rector of CEU and led the fight against Victor Orban’s campaign to declare the university illegal and then have it expelled. Orban’s eventual victory—successfully forcing the university to relocate to Vienna—set the pattern for the attacks on ‘woke’ ‘liberal’ institutions in the United States. In a lecture commemorating McCarthy era battles to defend academic freedom\, Ignatieff identifies the ideological and geopolitical factors that have made the battle to defend academic freedom a global challenge.
UID:154055-21917083@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154055
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Freedom
LOCATION:Ruthven Administration Building - 2000
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DTSTAMP:20261102T162115
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:36th Annual Davis\, Market\, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:\nMichael Ignatieff\, \"The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom: The View from the Frontline\"\nIn 2017\, Central European University in Budapest became the first free institution in Europe to be targeted by an authoritarian populist regime. Michael Ignatieff was Rector of CEU and led the fight against Victor Orban’s campaign to declare the university illegal and then have it expelled. Orban’s eventual victory—successfully forcing the university to relocate to Vienna—set the pattern for the attacks on ‘woke’ ‘liberal’ institutions in the United States. In a lecture commemorating McCarthy era battles to defend academic freedom\, Ignatieff identifies the ideological and geopolitical factors that have made the battle to defend academic freedom a global challenge. \nThe annual Davis\, Markert\, Nickerson (DMN) Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. The event will support both in-person attendance and a livestream. This lecture is sponsored by the Faculty Senate as a showcase event underscoring the U-M community’s collective interest in academic freedom. 
UID:153203-21915413@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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