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SUMMARY:Presentation:From Printed Page to Research Data: Building Humanities Tools with AI Agents
DESCRIPTION:Attend a live demonstration\, where Kwok-leong Tang\, Harvard University\, shows how AI coding agents\, such as Claude Code\, let a humanist build research tools by describing them in plain language\, without being a trained programmer.\n\nAttend in person or register to join via Zoom (https://myumi.ch/Ax23x). No laptop or setup is needed for in-person attendees.\n\nThe main demonstration is a full pipeline that turns printed materials into structured data: scanned pages go through OCR (turning page images into text)\, and the text then becomes a table of people\, places\, and dates\, each checked against reference databases such as Wikidata and CBDB (China Biographical Database Project). Dr. Tang will also show other tools he has built this way\, including a batch OCR tool\, a converter for historical Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean dates\, a tool that suggests Library of Congress subject headings\, and classroom history games made from primary sources. Throughout\, we will look at how to check the agent's work and where this approach breaks down.\n\nFollowing the demonstration\, 3:45-5:00 pm\, Dr. Tang will host an optional office hour for in-person participants who are interested in discussing their own projects related to AI and East Asian studies. This informal session offers an opportunity to receive feedback\, explore possible approaches\, and consider both the potential and limitations of AI tools for your projects.\n\nKwok-leong Tang serves as the managing director of the Digital China Initiative and a lecturer for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. By training\, he is a historian. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. in history and Asian Studies from Pennsylvania State University. In recent years\, he has focused on exploring the potential of new technologies in humanities research. He has organized and instructed workshops on adopting GenAI in Chinese studies and humanities research at Harvard and other institutions.\n\nThe Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies series is sponsored by the U-M Library (Asia Library) and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. For inquiries\, please contact asialibrary@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154105
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Free,Ai
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Lab (Room 100H, 1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260821T104852
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pause Café: French Conversation Hour
DESCRIPTION:-Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and snacks while improving your French skills!\n\n-Chat for 10 minutes or the entire hour. All language levels are welcome.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Alan Ames at (alanames@umich.edu).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150689
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:In Person,Romance Languages And Literatures,Humanities,Global,Games,French,Free,Coffee,Community,Culture,Discussion,Food,Interactive,Language,Networking,Social,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20261103T124437
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | HEP-Astro Seminar | Flavor Dependent Jet Fragmentation and Open Science at LHCb
DESCRIPTION:One of the remaining mysteries of the Standard Model is how emergent properties of hadronic matter arise from quark and gluon degrees of freedom. For example\, there is still much to be learned about the process by which hadrons are formed from color charged quarks and gluons (hadronization). The LHCb detector offers a unique opportunity to study this process in terms of the flavor of quarks involved in the hard scattering process\, enabling measurements of the fragmentation process in heavy flavor jets with unprecedented precision. The unique features of these data motivate both a substantial effort to extract high precision measurements of heavy and light flavor jets\, as well as an effort to preserve and provide open access to these data for the physics and data science communities to explore. In this talk\, I will review recent jet fragmentation function measurements from LHCb in comparison to global measurements. I will then briefly cover the LHCb open data efforts\, culminating in the review of a publicly available dataset and analysis workflow enabling exploration of the jet fragmentation process at LHCb.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154489
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Physics
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260830T213016
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Susan Najita)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nSusan Najita\, University of Michigan\n\nThis paper explores the establishment of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in the post-annexation period\, two prominent newspaper serial publications of the saga of Pele\, the goddess of the volcano\, and her sister\, Hi‘iaka\, which reinvigorated connection to the place that would be brought under federal control.  What can the tale--a repository for the sacred tradition of hula pele and its healing traditions-- tell us today\, in this moment of eco-urgency\, about relationships between bodies\, mele (songs)\, and places?\n\nSusan Najita is an associate professor of English and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor.  Her first book\, Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific\, explored the ways that indigenous Pacific writers engage the traumatic history of colonization and empire.  Her current project is entitled Genealogies of Place: Colonialism\, Embodiment\, and the Making of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. \n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149696
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research,Culture,Social Science Research,Global Engagement,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20260928T173242
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dynamics seminar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dynamics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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DTSTAMP:20261111T142925
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Estimating Demand with Recentered Instruments (joint with Kirill Borusyak and Mauricio Caceres Bravo)
DESCRIPTION:We develop a new approach to estimating flexible demand models with exogenous supply-side shocks. Our approach avoids conventional assumptions of exogenous product characteristics\, putting no restrictions on product entry\, despite using instrumental variables that incorporate characteristic variation. The proposed instruments are model-predicted responses of endogenous variables to the exogenous shocks\, recentered to avoid bias from endogenous characteristics. We illustrate the approach in a series of Monte Carlo simulations and an application to the demand for Medicare Advantage insurance plans.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149337
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Public Finance,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261012T130002
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Arithmetic intersections on non-split Cartan modular curves
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Take two CM elliptic curves over a number field\, each equipped with a level structure preserved by all endomorphisms. At which primes $p$ does there exist an isomorphism between the elliptic curves mod $p$ that preserves the level structures? This question was answered for $\Gamma_0(N)$ level structure by Gross\, Kohnen\, and Zagier in 1987. A key step in their proof is showing that an isomorphism mod $p$ determines embeddings of the (quadratic) CM orders into a common (quaternion) Eichler order. In this talk\, we will discuss what changes in the argument when we replace $\Gamma_0(N)$ with the normalizer of a non-split Cartan subgroup. This is joint work with Elie Studnia and Jan Vonk.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151698
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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