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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:10-Week Accessibility Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Join the 10-Week Accessibility Challenge to learn more about accessibility basics\, best practices\, and U-M resources and tools available to help you with this work. This training program is open to all U-M staff\, faculty\, and students - no prior accessibility experience or knowledge is required. These live sessions dive deeper into the Challenge content and give participants a chance to get live support and ask questions with our digital accessibility staff. If you have any questions or concerns\, please reach out to accessibility-challenge@umich.edu.\n\nThe 10-Week Accessibility Challenge Live sessions take place on Fridays at 10:00 - 11:00am\, October 2 - December 4\, 2026.\n\nSign up for the challenge today: https://mailchi.mp/umich/10-week-accessibility-challenge\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 995 6855 7925
UID:150570-21909630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Make It Accessible,Inclusion,Discussion,Disability,Digital Accessibility,Accessibility,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260819T103112
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:2026 ME Homecoming Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Before all the excitement at the ME Homecoming Open House\, join us for an alumni breakfast honoring our 2026 Alumni Merit Award recipient\, Laurie Transou! Enjoy a light breakfast and connect with members of the ME alumni community during this engaging discussion.\n\nSeats are limited\, be sure to RSVP in advance to reserve your spot!\n\nNote: Due to limited capacity\, this event is open only to ME faculty\, alumni\, and students at this time.
UID:150511-21909534@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Alumni,Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Homecoming,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,North campus
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 1280 GG Brown (Blue Lounge)
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DTSTAMP:20261007T154047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Anytime-Valid Confidence Sequences: Stopping Experiments Early with Netflix
DESCRIPTION:Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. Beyond aiding managerial decision-making\, experiments mitigate risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to innovations. Since many experiments are conducted sequentially over time\, an emerging strategy to further de-risk the process is to allow managers to ``peek'' at the results as new data become available and stop the test if the results are statistically significant. The class of statistical methods that allow managers to peek and still provide valid inference are often called anytime-valid since they maintain proper uniform type-1 error guarantees. In this paper\, we extend existing anytime-valid approaches to accommodate the more complex yet standard settings in time series\, switchback\, and panel experiments. To achieve this\, we leverage the design-based approach to focus on assumption-light and managerial relevant finite-sample estimates defined on the study participants as a direct measure of the risks incurred by companies. As a special case\, our (asymptotic) results also provide a robust method for achieving always-valid inference in A/B tests. We further provide a variance reduction technique incorporating modeling assumptions and covariates. Finally\, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach through a simulation study and three real-world applications from Netflix. Our results show that using our confidence sequence\, harmful experiments could be stopped after only observing a handful of units\; for instance\, our method would have stopped a 30\,000 person Netflix experiment after the first 100 people.
UID:153096-21915074@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153096
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,seminar,symposium,Lecture,Graduate And Professional Students,Aem Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260701T112608
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Bookworm #96-Author Conversation with Amy E. Hughes\, \"An Actor's Tale: Theater\, Culture\, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States\"
DESCRIPTION:Historian and author of \"An Actor's Tale: Theater\, Culture\, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States\,\" Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater.\n\nHughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence\, predominance\, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture\, both in the past and present. When historians focus only on performers and plays with artistic \"merit\,\" what communities\, perspectives\, and cultural trends remain invisible? Join us to think through these and other questions.\n\nThis episode is sponsored by Christina and Robbi Karas.\n\nThe Clements Bookworm is a free monthly webinar series featuring guests discussing topics in American history.
UID:149189-21905947@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american history,William L Clements,american culture,Americana,book discussion,Book Talk,Books,Clements Bookworm,Discussion,Event,libraries,Library,Literature,Podcast,Talk,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260916T102711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hola! ¿Cómo estás?\n\n-Practice your Spanish-speaking skills with peers & instructors in a relaxed environment. All language levels and students are welcome to join the conversation.\n\n-Come & go as you please\; stay as little or as long as you would like!\n\n-Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, & baked goods.
UID:150691-21909922@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Europe,European,Food,Engaged Learning,Culture,Community Engagement,Community,Coffee,Central America,Free,Undergraduate,Study Abroad,Spanish,Spain,Social,Romance Languages And Literatures,Networking,Latin America,Language,International,Games
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20261010T182132
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Mechanical Engineering Homecoming 2026
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Homecoming with Mechanical Engineering! Join us for a day of festivities on Friday\, October 16.Please visit our event and accessibility document for more details about the day's schedule and activities.
UID:149983-21907762@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149983
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260914T165019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Pictured Rocks Fall Break
DESCRIPTION:Pictured Rocks Fall Break is a five-day expedition from October 16–20\, 2026.  to one of Michigan's most breathtaking landscapes during the peak of fall color.\n\nThroughout the long weekend\, you'll hike through colorful autumn forests\, discover hidden coves\, and take in sweeping views from cliffs rising nearly 200 feet above the crystal-clear waters of Lake Superior. Register by October 6\, 2026 to secure your spot! Cost: $755\n\nThis expedition offers two ways to experience Pictured Rocks. Approximately 8–10 participants will backpack a section of the lakeshore trail\, carrying everything needed for several days in the backcountry while camping at remote sites. \n\nThe remaining participants will establish a comfortable tent basecamp\, explore the region through day hikes and scenic destinations\, and support the backpacking team with transportation and logistics. \n\nThe program takes place October 16–20\, 2026. Participants will spend four nights tent camping throughout Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore before returning to the Adventure Leadership Resource Center located on Central Campus during the evening on Tuesday\, October 20.\nThe program includes transportation\, meals during the expedition\, campsite reservations\, all group camping equipment\, and the opportunity to borrow personal camping gear — including a backpack\, sleeping bag\, sleeping pad\, and headlamp — at no additional cost. Personal clothing and toiletries are not included.
UID:152142-21913134@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152142
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Wellness,Well-being,recreation,Outdoors,outdoor adventures,Nature,Leadership,Community,Adventure Leadership
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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