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DTSTAMP:20260820T150336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T180000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Larry Seiford Retirement Celebration:Stories\, Laughs and Memories
DESCRIPTION:After an extraordinary career at the University of Michigan\, we’re gathering in person and virtually to celebrate Professor Larry Seiford and all he has contributed to the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering\, the university\, and the many students\, colleagues\, and friends whose lives he has touched.\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of stories\, laughter\, and memories as we look back on Larry’s remarkable career and celebrate the impact he has made over the years. We’ll share favorite memories\, recognize his many accomplishments\, and\, of course\, give Larry the good-natured roast he deserves!\n\nRSVP to be onsite or virtually: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/larry-seifords-retirement-celebration-stories-laughs-memories-hybrid-tickets-1996798466967\n\nPlease also consider sharing photos and/or stories for Larry to collect in a commemorative box: https://www.boomboxgifts.com/guest-card/025ba9be-9931-4a5e-9a74-0c3be402e0f6 The deadline to add a story is October 16\, 2026.
UID:150649-21909757@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150649
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms (3rd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261020T134245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:LSA Campus Tours for Transfer Students
DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors for a central campus tour and to learn all about the transfer student experience. As transfer students\, the Ambassadors understand the questions you have and designed a tour with the needs of transfer students in mind.\n\nPlease register using the link to the right.
UID:95236-21916582@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/95236
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 (Transfer Student Center)
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DTSTAMP:20261028T190848
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Periodic pipe dreams and matrix positroid varieties
DESCRIPTION:Fan\, Guo\, Su and our own Rui Xiong introduced \"periodic pipe dreams\" to compute fundamental  classes of positroid varieties\, as classes on Grassmannians. Their formula is too beautiful to live only in a quotient ring. I'll explain some subtleties in interpreting it geometrically upstairs in the polynomial ring\, and extend it to compute classes of other projected Richardson varieties. As in the work of Fan\, Guo\, Su and Xiong\, we will also discuss CSM classes of the related open varieties.  This work is joint with Paul Zinn-Justin.
UID:150159-21908304@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150159
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260914T101215
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T154500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
UID:141325-21912809@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20261005T154213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “In a Land of Aid: Reflections on the Palestinian Condition”
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, the international community\, Israeli occupation\, and Palestinian elites have engineered the humanitarianization of the Palestinian Territories—reframing the question of Palestine as a humanitarian concern rather than a political one. Today\, the West Bank and Gaza Strip have become the world’s humanitarian laboratory\, and Palestinians are among the largest recipients per capita of humanitarian aid. This aid provides Palestinians with essential tools for survival and resilience\, yet it has also entrenched Israeli colonial control.\n\nIn his new book “In a Land of Aid\,” Sa’ed Atshan traces how humanitarianism has become the dominant lens through which Palestinian life is now governed. Drawing on over a decade of research\, Atshan introduces readers to foreign aid workers\, policymakers\, scholars\, and Palestinians as they navigate political constraints on the ground. Together\, these encounters reveal an aid apparatus riddled with contradiction: simultaneously sustaining life\, narrowing political imagination\, and generating new forms of inequality and contestation. Atshan concludes that most powerful response to the paradoxically dehumanizing effects of aid lies in our affirmation of shared humanity.\n\nDr. Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology at Swarthmore College and currently a Visiting Scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. He is the author of “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique” (Stanford\, 2020)\, coauthor of “The Moral Triangle: Germans\, Israelis\, Palestinians” (Duke\, 2020)\, coeditor of “Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema” (Bloomsbury\, 2022)\, and author of “In a Land of Aid: Essays on the Palestinian Condition” (Stanford\, 2026).
UID:153319-21915632@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153319
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261102T110420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Algebraic Geometry: Geometric Invariant Theory\, Quotient Stacks and Moduli
DESCRIPTION:In moduli theory\, we want to define spaces parametrizing objects up to certain notions of isomorphism. In this talk we will discuss a fundamental way of constructing such moduli: geometric invariant theory\, i.e.\, Mumford’s formalism to define quotients under group actions in algebraic geometry. Finally\, we will relate the cohomology of GIT quotients with equivariant cohomology via quotient stacks\, HKKN stratifications and quantization.
UID:154413-21917690@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154413
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 2866
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DTSTAMP:20260812T103351
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T160000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!
DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us!  Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p
UID:138091-21908266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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