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DTSTAMP:20260914T101404
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T140000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:Tales of the Maya Skies
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science\, cosmology and myth. This beautifully illustrated story takes us back in time to the jungles of Mexico to discover how Maya scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy\, architecture\, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices\, solar eclipses\, weather patterns and planetary movements.
UID:124089-21907973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124089
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Science,Space
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260916T084913
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T162000
SUMMARY:Other:Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Sumi Jo Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:SMTD Voice & Opera students explore operatic repertoire and Korean art song in a master class with internationally acclaimed soprano Sumi Jo\, followed by a brief Q&A.\n\nFree and open to the public with generous support from the Jessye Norman Master Class Series. Also supported in part by the SeAH corporation\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\, the Nam Center for Korean Studies\, and the Office of the President.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nInternationally celebrated as one of the greatest bel canto sopranos of her generation\, SUMI JO has captivated audiences for four decades with a voice renowned for its radiant beauty\, dazzling agility and expressive artistry. Since her professional debut in Italy in 1986\, she has appeared at the world’s leading opera houses\, including the Metropolitan Opera\, Vienna State Opera\, Teatro alla Scala and the Royal Ballet & Opera\, Covent Garden\, as well as major concert halls across Europe\, Asia and the Americas. Her repertoire encompasses the great coloratura roles of Donizetti\, Bellini and Rossini\, while her recital programmes reflect her wide-ranging musical curiosity.\n\nJo’s exceptional artistry has earned numerous international honours\, including the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording (1993)\, the Republic of Korea’s Gold Order of Cultural Merit (2008)\, Italy’s Order of Merit\, Commendatore (2011)\, and Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia\, awarded for her contribution to promoting Italian culture worldwide. In 2025 she was appointed to France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres\, recognising her outstanding contribution to international cultural exchange\, and in 2026 she was awarded the Maria Callas International Prize (Premio Internazionale Maria Callas)\, recognising her exceptional lifetime contribution to opera\, classical music\, and the preservation of Maria Callas’s artistic legacy.\n\nA passionate advocate for Korean art song\, Jo serves as Artistic Director of “K-Gagok Superstar”\, an initiative launched in 2024 to mentor young artists and introduce Korea’s rich vocal repertoire to international audiences. In the same year she founded the Sumi Jo International Singing Competition\, held biennially near Paris\, providing an important platform for emerging singers from around the world.\n\nThe 2025/26 season marked the fortieth anniversary of Jo’s professional debut. She celebrated the milestone with her worldwide Bel Canto & Beyond concert tour and the release of Continuum\, a cross-genre recording made at London’s AIR Studios that highlights collaborations with a new generation of artists. Her discography comprises more than fifty solo albums for Erato\, Deutsche Grammophon and Warner Classics\, many achieving multi-million sales and establishing enduring benchmarks in vocal performance.\n\nBeyond the stage\, Jo is a United Nations cultural and peace ambassador\, using music to promote dialogue\, understanding and humanitarian values. Through her artistry\, mentorship and cultural leadership\, she continues to inspire audiences worldwide while serving as an international ambassador for music and artistic excellence.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at outreachkorea@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:152252-21913439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152252
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arts Initiative,Asian Languages And Cultures,classical music,Concert,Korea,Korean Studies,Music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260909T121652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T162000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Master Class with Sumi Jo
DESCRIPTION:SMTD Voice & Opera students explore operatic repertoire and Korean art song in a master class with internationally acclaimed soprano Sumi Jo\, followed by a brief Q&A.  \n\nFree and open to the public with generous support from the Jessye Norman Master Class Series. Also supported in part by the SeAH corporation\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance\, the Nam Center for Korean Studies\, and the Office of the President.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nInternationally celebrated as one of the greatest bel canto sopranos of her generation\, SUMI JO has captivated audiences for four decades with a voice renowned for its radiant beauty\, dazzling agility and expressive artistry. Since her professional debut in Italy in 1986\, she has appeared at the world’s leading opera houses\, including the Metropolitan Opera\, Vienna State Opera\, Teatro alla Scala and the Royal Ballet & Opera\, Covent Garden\, as well as major concert halls across Europe\, Asia and the Americas. Her repertoire encompasses the great coloratura roles of Donizetti\, Bellini and Rossini\, while her recital programmes reflect her wide-ranging musical curiosity. \n\nJo’s exceptional artistry has earned numerous international honours\, including the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording (1993)\, the Republic of Korea’s Gold Order of Cultural Merit (2008)\, Italy’s Order of Merit\, Commendatore (2011)\, and Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia\, awarded for her contribution to promoting Italian culture worldwide. In 2025 she was appointed to France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres\, recognising her outstanding contribution to international cultural exchange\, and in 2026 she was awarded the Maria Callas International Prize (Premio Internazionale Maria Callas)\, recognising her exceptional lifetime contribution to opera\, classical music\, and the preservation of Maria Callas's artistic legacy. \n\nA passionate advocate for Korean art song\, Jo serves as Artistic Director of “K-Gagok Superstar”\, an initiative launched in 2024 to mentor young artists and introduce Korea’s rich vocal repertoire to international audiences. In the same year she founded the Sumi Jo International Singing Competition\, held biennially near Paris\, providing an important platform for emerging singers from around the world. \n\nThe 2025/26 season marked the fortieth anniversary of Jo’s professional debut. She celebrated the milestone with her worldwide Bel Canto & Beyond concert tour and the release of *Continuum*\, a cross-genre recording made at London’s AIR Studios that highlights collaborations with a new generation of artists. Her discography comprises more than fifty solo albums for Erato\, Deutsche Grammophon and Warner Classics\, many achieving multi-million sales and establishing enduring benchmarks in vocal performance. \n\nBeyond the stage\, Jo is a United Nations cultural and peace ambassador\, using music to promote dialogue\, understanding and humanitarian values. Through her artistry\, mentorship and cultural leadership\, she continues to inspire audiences worldwide while serving as an international ambassador for music and artistic excellence. 
UID:151785-21912169@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Music,North Campus,Talk,Workshop
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260914T143519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T161500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Scott Pranger ALS Center Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The first of an annual symposium that will celebrate the naming of the Scott Pranger ALS Center at Michigan Medicine on September 25\, 2026\, at 2:30 p.m.\, in the Kahn Auditorium of the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building.\n\nJoin leading faculty\, researchers\, advocates\, and members of the ALS community for an inspiring day dedicated to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and improving the lives of those affected by the disease.\n\nThe event will feature a recorded discussion with Sanjay Gupta\, M.D.\, the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN\, talking about his new book on pain\, an often overlooked burden for those living with ALS.\n\nFollowing his keynote will be a live panel discussion led by Center Director Eva L. Feldman\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, on pain.  She will be joined by leading pain experts—Chad Brummett\, M.D.\, Daniel J. Clauw\, M.D.\, and Jill Schneiderhan\, M.D.—and Stanford Morris ALS Clinic Director Stephen Goutman\, M.D.\, M.S.\n\nThe afternoon will also feature special messages from U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell\, former U-M Men’s Basketball Coach Steve Fisher (recorded)\, and Michigan Medicine interim CEO Ganesh S. Palapattu\, M.D.\, along with members of the ALS community\, including Scott Pranger\, James A. Hiller\, Esq.\, and Dr. Feldman.  There will also be a special discussion between Dr. Goutman and Ken Mercer\, who is living with ALS.\n\nThe event is open to the public.  Following the symposium\, a reception open to all will be held in the Gilbert S. Omenn Atrium at 4:15 p.m.
UID:150775-21910157@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150775
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Medicine,Public Health,Research,Science,symposium
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260910T095305
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A tale of two polynomials: positivity in wonderful varieties and matroids
DESCRIPTION:I will share a story of two polynomials\, the Poincarè polynomial of Chow rings of toric varieties of matroids\, and the h-polynomials of nested set complexes of matroids. The story is set in a rich network of positivity properties coming from geometry and combinatorics of matroids\, with connections to moduli spaces of rational stable curves. The main theorems are matroidal analogues of Gal’s conjecture\, and real-rootedness of some of these polynomials. (Joint works with Basile Coron\, and Luis Ferroni)
UID:149752-21907056@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149752
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260908T134834
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Discrete structure\, continuous dynamics: Graph-theoretic approaches and singular parametric limits in biochemical reaction networks
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: A biochemical reaction network is based on a discrete object: a directed graph whose edges are labeled with reaction rates. At the same time\, it is governed by continuous dynamics\, typically expressed as a nonlinear system of polynomial ODEs. These two descriptions encode the same system but have fundamentally different mathematical structures. This mathematical tension raises the question: how does the discrete structure of a biochemical network govern its continuous dynamics? In this talk\, I will explore this question through several examples at the intersection of graph theory\, dynamical systems\, and applied algebraic geometry. In particular\, I will focus on singular limits in which reaction-rate parameters tend to infinity. These limits motivate a graph operation that resembles an edge contraction\, and I will examine their effects on graph invariants expressed as rational functions of the model parameters. I will then extend this construction to structural identifiability and discuss how model reduction alters the geometry of parameter space. Finally\, I will turn to a stochastic interpretation of this graph-theoretic framework and describe how asymmetry in the spectral decomposition of a finite-state continuous-time Markov process gives rise to a signature of departure from thermodynamic equilibrium\, with unexpectedly nonmonotone behavior even on the simplest networks. I will conclude with a discussion of broader future directions focused on understanding how network operations may affect qualitative dynamical properties of the system. Together\, these examples illustrate how biologically inspired networks generate subtle structural questions and new mathematics at the interface of discrete and continuous systems.\n\nContact:  Zhiyan Ding
UID:148875-21905037@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
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DTSTAMP:20260825T092903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar |
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UID:150863-21910327@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 4404
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