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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Graphical Description of Biochemical Systems via Reaction Networks
DESCRIPTION:A reaction network is a graphical configuration that can describe many biochemical systems with interactions between species (molecules). If the abundances of the species involved in a reaction network are small\, then the randomness inherent in the molecular interactions is important to the system dynamics\, and hence the abundances are modeled stochastically with a jump-by-jump fashion continuous-time Markov chain. In the first half of this talk\, we discuss classical and recent issues in reaction network literature\, which especially include how the graphical structures of reaction networks are related to stability and mixing times of the associated Markov processes. We will also discuss how the stability and mixing times can be used for practical problems in system biology and biology computing.
UID:146080-21898344@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146080
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Agent Based Modelling,Complex Systems,Computational Modeling,Mathematical Biology,Mathematics,Network Science,Networks,Stochastic Dynamics
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 747
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DTSTAMP:20260325T005514
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T113000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Innovation Races: Strategic Complementarities and Global Competition Spillovers
DESCRIPTION:The Innovation Race: Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies\nWe present a large-scale field experiment test of strategic complementarities in firms’ technology adoption. Our experiment was embedded in a Bank of Italy survey covering around 3\,000 firms. We elicited firms’ beliefs about competitors’ adoption of two advanced technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics. We randomly provided half of the sample with accurate information about adoption rates. Most firms substantially underestimated competitors’ current adoption\, and when provided with information\, they updated their expectations about competitors’ future adoption. The information increased firms’ own intended future adoption of robotics: a 1 pp increase in the share of competitors expected to adopt advanced technologies causes an increase of 0.704 pp in the firm’s own robotics adoption. We do not observe a significant effect on AI adoption\, but we cannot rule out modest effects either. Our findings provide causal evidence on coordination in innovation and illustrate how information frictions shape technology diffusion.\n\nWe present a large-scale field experiment on the geography of strategic complementarities in firms’ AI investment. Our experiment was embedded in the ECB’s Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE)\, covering around 3\,300 firms across twelve European countries. We elicited firms’ beliefs about the share of domestic and foreign competitors investing in AI\, and randomly provided half of the sample with accurate information about both groups. Firms substantially underestimated competitors’ current AI investment\, especially for foreign competitors\, and updated both domestic and foreign beliefs in response to the information treatment. The information also increased firms’ own expected AI investment rate. Using a 2SLS framework\, we find that a 1 pp increase in the expected share of domestic competitors investing in AI raises the firm’s own expected AI investment rate by 0.567 pp\, while the corresponding effect of foreign competitors is close to zero and statistically insignificant. Our findings provide causal evidence that information frictions shape the diffusion of innovation and that strate- gic complementarities in AI investment are much stronger at the domestic than at the foreign level.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143299
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Macroeconomics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260324T144538
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beyond the Picket Fence: Race\, Poverty and the Changing Face of the Suburbs
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there are more immigrants\, Black\, Latinx and poor people in the suburbs than in cities? What would it mean to look at the suburbs as a site of new possibilities rather than a place many have tried to escape? This event will explore the new realities of suburban living and what we can do to work towards greater equity and racial justice.\n\nThis event is free and open to U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and community members.\n\nLunch from Jerusalem Garden provided.\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nR. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy is a scholar whose work and activism center issues of race\, place\, education\, and opportunity. He is an Associate Professor at New York University in the Sociology of Education program in the School of Culture\, Education and Human Development. He is author of the forthcoming book A Dream Dissolved: How Opportunity Hoarding Bankrupted Education (One Signal – Simon & Shuster/Atria). He is the co-lead investigator of the Black Suburban Experience Project. His first book\, Inequality in the Promised Land (Stanford University Press\, 2014) tackled how inequality persisted in an \"integrated\" school and suburban community. His larger research interests include race and racism\, gender justice\, and community mobilization.\n\nMo Torres (MPP ‘15) is a sociologist interested in urban political economy\, inequality\, the sociology of race/racism\, and the politics of knowledge production. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor of sociology and public policy. His current book project uses mixed and historical methods to explore the politics of post-industrial decline and the production of urban austerity in Michigan from the 1970s to the present. He is a U-M (MPP '15) and Fulbright (Brazil '19) alumnus and received his PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 2023\, where he held fellowships at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Stone Program in Inequality and Social Policy. A first-generation college graduate\, Mo is a former Detroit Public Schools teacher.\n\nAlexandra K. Murphy is the Associate Director of Social Science Research at Mcity. Murphy is also an Assistant Research Scientist at Poverty Solutions in the Ford School of Public Policy\, and a Faculty Associate of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research\, all at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University. In her research\, she uses ethnographic methods to examine how poverty and inequality are experienced\, structured\, and reproduced across and within multiple domains of social life\, including neighborhoods\, social networks\, and the state. One line of research investigates the new suburban poverty. Murphy's work in this area has focused on variations in social service responses to rising poverty across diverse suburbs\; urban and suburban comparisons in social service capacity\; and the theoretical\, conceptual\, and methodological issues suburban poverty raises for a sociological understanding of geography and inequality.
UID:146986-21900205@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146986
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Center For Racial Justice,Racial Justice,Suburbia,Trotter Multicultural Center
LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20260324T151757
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series- Empirical Evaluation of Evolutionary Hypotheses Using Biobank-scale Human Data
DESCRIPTION:Description: A great number of hypotheses have been proposed in evolutionary genetics\, but empirical tests of these hypotheses remain underpowered until the advent of large biobanks with genotype and phenotype data from hundreds of thousands of humans. Using biobank-scale human data\, my dissertation proposal tests important evolutionary hypotheses on sexual antagonism of mitochondrial DNA mutations\, similarity between genetic and phenotypic correlations\, and intersexual selection in humans. In this seminar\, I will focus on a test of the mother's curse hypothesis\, which posits that maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA mutations that exclusively harm males evade purifying selection.
UID:146994-21900213@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146994
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bsbsigns,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20251208T103301
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260331T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ferroptosis and Metabolism: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications- William E. M. Lands Lectureship In Biological Chemistry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a seminar presented by Dr. Brent Stockwell\, Columbia University
UID:142445-21890964@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142445
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,biolgical chemistry,biological,biological chemistry,biological science,biology,Biosciences
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 5330
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DTSTAMP:20260126T121800
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SUMMARY:Performance:Julie Zhu\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor of Performing Arts Technology Julie Zhu performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.
UID:144545-21895476@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144545
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260113T123355
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chinese Espresso: A Story of Global China in Italy’s Local Coffee Bars
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, https://myumi.ch/79Dp1\n\nWhat happens when Italy’s most “sacred” daily ritual\, an espresso at a coffee bar\, is increasingly performed not by Italians but by Chinese migrants? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bologna\, this talk examines how racialized Chinese migrants preserve this distinctive Italian social and cultural tradition by deploying local knowledge and taste\, often gleaned from longtime residents who have come\, sometimes resentfully\, to regard this arrangement as a new normal. In particular\, it highlights how diasporic Chinese entrepreneurs both reproduce Italy's existing racial hierarchies while also forming their own racial categories and understandings that mirror China’s growing geopolitical and economic power.\n   \n   Grazia Deng is a research scholar at Brandeis University. As a sociocultural anthropologist\, she studies global China through the lenses of migration\, race\, and global capitalism. She is the author of the book *Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy* (Princeton University Press\, 2024)\, which is shortlisted for the Gourmand Book Award. She is now working on a new project on Chinese-led racial capitalism in the Made-in-Italy fashion industry.
UID:143824-21894095@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Chinese Studies,Culture,Europe,Food
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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