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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Inside the BSI: A Student-to-Student Tell All
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about what life is actually like as a Bachelor of Science in Information student? Put down the brochure and join us for an unfiltered look into the program!Choosing a major is a big move\, and sometimes you need more than just a course catalog to make a decision. We’ve gathered a panel of current BSI students to give you the \"real talk\" on everything from late-night coding sessions to landing that dream internship.What’s on the Agenda?Our panelists represent both of our pathways within the BSI\, and they’re ready to dive into:The Day-to-Day: What does a typical week look like? (Hint: It’s more than just sitting behind a screen).The \"Secret\" Skills: Which classes were the hardest\, which were the most rewarding\, and what should you take in your first semester?Finding Your People: How to get involved in student orgs\, research labs\, and the BSI community.Life After Class: How the program is preparing them for careers in UX\, Data Science\, Product Management\, and beyond.Event Details📅 Date: Tuesday\, April 7th⏰ Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM📍 Location: This is a virtual presentation\, Sign up to receive the linkWhy Should You Attend?\nThis isn't a recruitment presentation—it’s a conversation. Whether you’re already admitted or just starting to explore the field of information\, this is your chance to ask the questions that actually matter to you.\"I wish I’d known how collaborative the BSI was before I started. This panel is exactly the kind of insight I needed when I was applying.\"\n— Current BSI Senior
UID:147376-21900922@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147376
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260213T081432
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transport Infrastructure and Agriculture Productivity: Evidence from the Antebellum United States
DESCRIPTION:This paper investigates the relationship between transport infrastructure and agricultural productivity in the Antebellum United States (1840–1860). Leveraging a novel dataset of county-pair transport costs\, we utilize time-\, region-\, and direction-specific freight rates and newly digitized road network to understand how declining transit costs reshaped the agrarian landscape and agricultural production. These data allow for a rigorous evaluation of what we can call an antebellum \"place-based\" transport policies and their heterogeneous effects on antebellum regions. We use minimum spanning tree approach to construct a plausibly exogenous transportation network which is used to assess the causal impact of transportation infrastructure on antebellum agriculture.\n \nOur first set of findings reveal that the impact of canal construction was not uniform\, showing considerable variation across different geographic regions. Notably\, in the Middle Atlantic\, the introduction of canals catalyzed a significant reallocation of resources away from wheat production\, signalling a shift in comparative advantage. While canals laid the groundwork\, railroads exerted the most transformative influence during the 1850s. In the final decade preceding the Civil War\, the expansion of the rail network drove a broad reallocation away from traditional grain production\, as improved connectivity facilitated deeper market integration and specialization. By accounting for the nuances of freight directionality and regional specificity\, this study provides new evidence on how infrastructure-led cost reductions altered land use and productivity patterns in the nineteenth-century U.S. economy.
UID:143570-21893403@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,History
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260405T231431
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Commutative Algebra: An Introduction to Neural Rings
DESCRIPTION:Suppose a small animal is running around an enclosure (stimulus space). In each location in the enclosure\, some subset of the animal’s neurons will fire. One way to record the possible combinations of firing neurons is via a neural code\, a subset of {0\,1}^n where n is the total number of neurons. An element of the neural code is an n-tuple\, with a 1 in the i^th spot corresponding to when the i^th neuron is firing\, and a zero corresponding to when the i^th neuron is not firing.\n\nA receptive field is a map f_i: X → ℝ≥0 from the stimulus space X to the average firing rate of a single neuron\, i\, in response to each stimulus. We also use the term receptive field to mean the subset U_i of X where f_i is strictly positive. A receptive field contains more information than a neural code\, and hence one may ask the question: if we are only given a neural code\, how much information can we reconstruct about a corresponding receptive field?\n\nIn this talk we introduce neural codes\, receptive fields\, neural ideals and their canonical forms\, and how we can use the canonical form of a neural ideal to move between neural codes and receptive fields.
UID:147414-21900992@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147414
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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DTSTAMP:20260402T091609
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Activating Doctrine: Buddhist Architecture in Late Chosŏn Korea
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines a largely overlooked category of visual and textual material in late Chosŏn Buddhist art: inscriptions written on ceilings and other upper architectural surfaces. In temple halls rebuilt between the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\, ceilings were densely inscribed with seed syllables\, dhāraṇī\, and doctrinal phrases distributed across lotus-painted coffered panels above the altar. The case studies discussed in this lecture show how these inscriptions articulated apotropaic concerns\, framed scriptural authority\, and enabled doctrinal hierarchy or simultaneity. By foregrounding ceilings as sites of doctrinal articulation\, the lecture reframes late Chosŏn Buddhist temples as epistemological environments in which knowledge was ordered and transmitted through architecture itself.
UID:143502-21893297@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260407T181525
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260314T010000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs Central Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs Central Michigan
UID:146597-21899334@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146597
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball
LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium
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DTSTAMP:20260407T152045
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Brown Bag Seminar | Life after the PhD: Insights from Alumni in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an alumni panel featuring former PhD students who are now assistant professors. Each speaker will present their current research\, followed by a moderated discussion on their paths into academia and insights into the faculty job market. Open to all students interested in their research or in pursuing academic careers.Speakers: (1): Lu Xia\, PhD Class of 2020. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics\, Michigan State University\nPresentation title: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Complex Biomedical Data: High-Dimensionality and Data Integration(2): Ying Ma\, PhD Class of 2023. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics\, Brown University\nPresentation title: Resolving Tissue Maps: Statistical and Deep Learning Methods for Integrative Spatial Omics Across Samples\, Sections\, and Modalities 
UID:147270-21900617@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147270
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260319T084032
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: Intrinsic dual symplectic dynamics in quasiperiodic spectral theory
DESCRIPTION:Quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators are simple deterministic models of quantum motion that nevertheless exhibit strikingly complicated behavior: fractal spectra\, metal–insulator transitions\, and an unexpected sharp sensitivity to arithmetic properties of parameters. The central example is the almost Mathieu operator\, whose study led to celebrated results such as the Ten Martini problem. But that model is highly special\,  and for a long time it was unclear whether these phenomena reflected genuine universality or exceptional symmetry.\n\nI will discuss recent work showing that these spectral phenomena are robust and universal in a natural class. The key new insight is that one can uncover intrinsic low-dimensional symplectic dynamics hidden inside the problem\, even when the standard dual cocycle formalism is no longer available. This leads to robust results on sharp arithmetic spectral transitions and the Ten Martini problem.\n\nThe talk will be aimed at a broad audience and will focus on the ideas and the emerging conceptual picture.
UID:137450-21880291@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137450
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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