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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:124089-21908172@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:20261016T182135
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Topics in Classical Intersectionalities
DESCRIPTION:October Meeting for (New) Topics in Classical Intersectionalities RIW.
UID:153100-21915098@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153100
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20261016T182134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 International Students Career Success Conference
DESCRIPTION:🚀 Your career\, your future\, your success! Brought to you by the International Center and the University Career Center\, the International Students Career Success Conference is designed to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Along the way\, you’ll also find a community of peers\, alumni\, and U-M staff who are here to support you and cheer you on.\n✔ Develop a career strategy tailored to your goals\, cultural identity\, and immigration timeline +\n✔ Connect with career experts and discover campus resources that support your next steps\n✔ Learn from a dynamic panel of international peers and UM alumni on cross-cultural workplace dynamics and strengthen your professional identity. Our panel features U-M alumni and students from diverse academic backgrounds and from all degree types.\n✔ Network with alumni and peers from diverse industries in an informal way\n✔ Leave with actionable insights and a stronger sense of direction for your future.Light Refreshments will be provided.This event is open to all degree-seeking students and alumni within two years of graduation.Agenda:1:00 – 1:15 pm | Opening Remarks1:20 – 2:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 12:05 - 2:30 pm | Flash Sessions: Resume Best Practices or Break2:35 - 3:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 23:20 - 4:00 pm | UM International Student Alumni Panel4:00 - 4:30 pm | Networking with panelistsThis event's information is shown in Sessions\, Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Sessions. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos jmgaydos@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.
UID:152219-21913348@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152219
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham West Conference Room
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DTSTAMP:20261016T182134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 International Students Career Success Conference
DESCRIPTION:🚀 Your career\, your future\, your success! Brought to you by the International Center and the University Career Center\, the International Students Career Success Conference is designed to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Along the way\, you’ll also find a community of peers\, alumni\, and U-M staff who are here to support you and cheer you on.\n✔ Develop a career strategy tailored to your goals\, cultural identity\, and immigration timeline +\n✔ Connect with career experts and discover campus resources that support your next steps\n✔ Learn from a dynamic panel of international peers and UM alumni on cross-cultural workplace dynamics and strengthen your professional identity. Our panel features U-M alumni and students from diverse academic backgrounds and from all degree types.\n✔ Network with alumni and peers from diverse industries in an informal way\n✔ Leave with actionable insights and a stronger sense of direction for your future.Light Refreshments will be provided.This event is open to all degree-seeking students and alumni within two years of graduation.Agenda:1:00 – 1:15 pm | Opening Remarks1:20 – 2:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 12:05 - 2:30 pm | Flash Sessions: Resume Best Practices or Break2:35 - 3:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 23:20 - 4:00 pm | UM International Student Alumni Panel4:00 - 4:30 pm | Networking with panelistsThis event's information is shown in Sessions\, Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Sessions. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos jmgaydos@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.
UID:152219-21913349@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152219
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Assembly Hall
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DTSTAMP:20261016T182134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 International Students Career Success Conference
DESCRIPTION:🚀 Your career\, your future\, your success! Brought to you by the International Center and the University Career Center\, the International Students Career Success Conference is designed to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Along the way\, you’ll also find a community of peers\, alumni\, and U-M staff who are here to support you and cheer you on.\n✔ Develop a career strategy tailored to your goals\, cultural identity\, and immigration timeline +\n✔ Connect with career experts and discover campus resources that support your next steps\n✔ Learn from a dynamic panel of international peers and UM alumni on cross-cultural workplace dynamics and strengthen your professional identity. Our panel features U-M alumni and students from diverse academic backgrounds and from all degree types.\n✔ Network with alumni and peers from diverse industries in an informal way\n✔ Leave with actionable insights and a stronger sense of direction for your future.Light Refreshments will be provided.This event is open to all degree-seeking students and alumni within two years of graduation.Agenda:1:00 – 1:15 pm | Opening Remarks1:20 – 2:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 12:05 - 2:30 pm | Flash Sessions: Resume Best Practices or Break2:35 - 3:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 23:20 - 4:00 pm | UM International Student Alumni Panel4:00 - 4:30 pm | Networking with panelistsThis event's information is shown in Sessions\, Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Sessions. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos jmgaydos@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.
UID:152219-21914695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152219
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham, 4th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20261002T131533
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Online Learning and Decision-Making for Dynamic Pricing and Performative Prediction
DESCRIPTION:Many modern decision systems are not passive observers of the world they measure: the decisions they make change the data they subsequently receive. For example\, a seller that posts a price influences the decisions of potential buyers\, and hence the sales data it goes on to col-\nlect\; a lender that deploys a credit-scoring rule changes the nature of the loan applications it receives. In such settings\, the classical separation\nbetween estimation and decision-making breaks down\, and statistical guarantees must be derived jointly with the policy that generates the\ndata. This dissertation develops estimation theory and online algorithms for two such feedback settings --- dynamic pricing and performative\nprediction --- with a unifying theme: shape-constrained and microfounded structure can replace the tuning parameters\, smoothness assump-\ntions\, and parametric models on which existing methods rely.\nThe first part concerns dynamic pricing. We first consider a monopolistic setting with censored demand\, in which the seller posts a price and\nobserves only whether a sale occurred. In the linear valuation model\, the customer’s valuation is linear in the features of the item offered\,\nup to market noise with unknown distribution F. Existing methods estimate F by kernel smoothing\, bandit techniques\, or upper confidence\nbounds\; all of them impose Lipschitz or stronger conditions on F\, and all of them leave the analyst to choose bandwidths\, confidence widths\,\nor regularization parameters. We instead exploit the fact that F is monotone and estimate it by isotonic regression. The resulting policy car-\nries no tuning parameters whatsoever\, assumes only that F is Hölder continuous\, and attains sublinear regret. It also outperforms existing\nmethods in simulations and on transaction data from Welltower Inc. We then move to a competitive setting in which N sellers post prices\nover T periods\, and each seller’s demand follows a single-index model with an unknown monotone\, s-concave link. We prove existence and\nuniqueness of the Nash equilibrium\, and give a semiparametric least-squares policy under which prices converge to the Nash equilibrium\,\nwhile each seller incurs sublinear regret.\nThe second part concerns performative prediction\, which involves a learner and a population of agents whose actions follow a distribution\nP. The learner deploys a model M that shifts this distribution from P to P(M)\, thereby changing the data the learner observes\; the map P(M)\nis called the distribution map. Much of the literature assumes that the distribution map is known\, whereas we learn it from agent-response\ndata. We study two settings: a discrete-action framework\, in which agents choose from a finite set of alternatives\, and a continuous-action\nframework\, in which an action may be any real number. For discrete actions\, we give a nonparametric estimator of the distribution map\ntogether with an exploration--exploitation scheme that we show to be effective in minimizing the performative risk. For continuous actions\,\nwe model agents’ responses as a cost-adjusted utility maximization problem and propose an estimator of the cost. Our approach leverages\noptimal transport to align the pre-deployment distribution P with the post-deployment distribution P(M). We provide a rate of convergence\nfor the proposed estimator and assess its quality through empirical demonstrations on a credit-scoring dataset.
UID:153213-21915429@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153213
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 470
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DTSTAMP:20261016T182134
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T143500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T151500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 International Students Career Success Conference
DESCRIPTION:🚀 Your career\, your future\, your success! Brought to you by the International Center and the University Career Center\, the International Students Career Success Conference is designed to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Along the way\, you’ll also find a community of peers\, alumni\, and U-M staff who are here to support you and cheer you on.\n✔ Develop a career strategy tailored to your goals\, cultural identity\, and immigration timeline +\n✔ Connect with career experts and discover campus resources that support your next steps\n✔ Learn from a dynamic panel of international peers and UM alumni on cross-cultural workplace dynamics and strengthen your professional identity. Our panel features U-M alumni and students from diverse academic backgrounds and from all degree types.\n✔ Network with alumni and peers from diverse industries in an informal way\n✔ Leave with actionable insights and a stronger sense of direction for your future.Light Refreshments will be provided.This event is open to all degree-seeking students and alumni within two years of graduation.Agenda:1:00 – 1:15 pm | Opening Remarks1:20 – 2:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 12:05 - 2:30 pm | Flash Sessions: Resume Best Practices or Break2:35 - 3:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions Block 23:20 - 4:00 pm | UM International Student Alumni Panel4:00 - 4:30 pm | Networking with panelistsThis event's information is shown in Sessions\, Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. You can only register to attend this event within Sessions. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accessibility accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Jocelyn Gaydos jmgaydos@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible.
UID:152219-21913350@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152219
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham West Conference Room
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