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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away\, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.\n\nThis workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to advance their academic writing.\n\nThe most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and least taught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended academic arguments. What do academic writers do when they revise their work? How does an early draft become a polished\, publishable article? This workshop will demystify the role of revision in academic writing – to advance and refine our good ideas! – and provide strategies to help you build quality revision into your writing practice. You will expand your revising practices and elevate your writing skills for graduate school.
UID:150568-21909626@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150568
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Writing,Graduate Students,Graduate School
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room - 3rd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260916T102711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T100000
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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:150691-21909920@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Games,International,Language,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Engaged Learning,European,Europe,Food,Culture,Community Engagement,Community,Coffee,Central America
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20260925T192117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Laser Training
DESCRIPTION:You must complete FABLab Safety Training and have watched the Laser cutter training video before attending this session!
UID:152896-21914711@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152896
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Taubman College Laser Cutter Room
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DTSTAMP:20260916T082907
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T100000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Regulation Meets Public Infrastructure: Evidence from Environmental Water Policy in China.
DESCRIPTION:Pollution environmental infrastructure often requires collective investment and may be under-provided. We study whether environmental regulation can alleviate this coordination problem in the context of China's South-to-North Water Transfer Project\, which combines stringent water-pollution regulation with large-scale expansion of wastewater treatment plants. Using a spatial difference-in-differences design\, we find that the policy reduced industrial water pollution by 22% while generating only modest and temporary output losses. To understand this pattern\, we develop and estimate a spatial industry equilibrium model in which wastewater treatment plants are endogenous club goods requiring firms to coordinate on shared fixed costs. The model shows that wastewater treatment infrastructure offsets roughly 45% of the output losses associated with regulation while delivering nearly identical emissions reductions. Counterfactual analysis indicates that regulation accounts for roughly one-third of infrastructure construction and partially restores the efficient provision of pollution-control infrastructure by increasing firms' incentives to participate in shared public infrastructure.
UID:151833-21912240@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151833
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Industrial Organization
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20260922T113316
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistical Learning with Tensors: Compression\, Communication\, and Completion
DESCRIPTION:Many modern statistical and machine learning problems involve parameters that are intrinsically multiway\, including spatiotemporal arrays\, network data\, and weight tensors in large neural networks. Although such objects can always be vectorized\, doing so ignores multilinear structure and can lead to substantially different statistical and computational behavior. Weight tensors from large language models will serve as a motivating example\, illustrating how tensor methods can preserve structural information that is lost under naive vectorization. This talk develops a unified perspective on recent work in tensor-structured learning through three themes: compression\, communication\, and completion. Methodologically\, I will discuss low-rank tensor parameterizations\, rank selection through optimism-based risk analysis\, communication-efficient randomized tensor algorithms\, and structured sampling schemes for tensor completion. A recurring goal is to obtain nonasymptotic guarantees that connect tensor geometry\, statistical error\, computational cost\, and sample or communication complexity with formal guarantees.
UID:152636-21914324@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152636
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,seminar,statistics
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260902T100050
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T153000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Undergraduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering invites you to attend the Undergraduate Research Symposium on October 2nd at the Duderstadt Center.\n\nProgram:\n\n10:30 - 10:45 am  Opening Remarks | Hear from IOE Professor and Chair\, Julie S. Ivy and the Faculty Organizers of this Symposium\n10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Ph.D. student talks | Three PhD students will give lightning talks about their research\n12:00 - 2:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Session | Grab lunch and join our undergraduate students for a poster session. Walk around at your own pace and talk with students about their research\n2:00 - 2:30 pm | Award Presentation | See who is awarded 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place for their posters\n2:30 - 3:00 pm | Research Exploration | Learn about different research topics and opportunities from IOE Faculty and Staff\nWe hope you’ll join us to learn more about research in IOE and connect with our research community!\n\nQuestions: ioe-ugresearch@umich.edu\n\nRegistration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczva8HElF3SFZTeQT5IXgGeAFNkOVxIPtAC7KvDa9cltv-Aw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103849132624068416409
UID:150587-21909679@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150587
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Michigan Engineering,Industrial And Operations Engineering
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center
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DTSTAMP:20260820T181520
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 3): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through December 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Southeast Michigan-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 11 - December 11) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 3 \n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Abhishek Narula (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Nathan Byrne (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nAbhishek Narula\, Compressions \nCompressions is an installation comprised of 416 industrial-grade zip ties\, cinched around the entry pillar of the Stamps Gallery. The pillar measures roughly 110 inches in circumference\, requiring two ties per row to wrap around it\, resulting in 208 rows. The humble zip tie\, typically used to hang and bind other material\, is relegated to its functional properties rendering it unprepossessing and easily dismissed. The zip tie in this installation\, instead serves as an object of aesthetic possibility\, pulling it out of its usual background role to become the work itself. The resulting composition is a proposal to dwell\, to slow down\, and to simply see the pillar.\n\nAbhishek Narula is an artist\, designer\, and educator who works across sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and video. His practice takes the form of interventions\, working with what is already present. He reorients and disrupts objects and sites in order to open up formal possibilities and poetic experiences within the familiar. He is influenced by physical and digital infrastructural systems that sustain modern life and culture. His work treats this ambience itself as raw material for aesthetic inquiry\, exploring themes of labor\, precarity\, temporality and the sublime. Narula earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and his MS/BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited at national and international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology\, Science Gallery Detroit\, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia\, New Media Caucus (NMC)\, WaveFarm\, The Boulder Public Library\, The Hyde Park Art Center\, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press\, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI)\, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)\, among others. He is a Robotics Systems Designer and Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\nNathan Byrne\, Equally To Be Loved\nEqually To Be Loved is an image / object scaled to and installed upon the courtyard pillar of Stamps Gallery. The image is of a spontaneous sculpture made in 2017 during the first day of an artist residency at the Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program. The sculpture was constructed in a storage container studio using 14 discrete objects that were in his studio upon entry. For Byrne\, this work embodies the energy and spirit of a studio at the start of a particularly fecund period of making. This work speaks to the artist’s interest in embodied experience of space\, archival and site responsiveness\, as well as his ongoing engagement with found materials. Byrne considers this project to be a far-flung sequel to his MFA thesis exhibition Equally Empty\, which was shown at Stamps Gallery in 2021. Equally To Be Loved is the second line of the Buddhist mantra from which both titles are derived.\n\nNathan Byrne is an artist / educator / curator currently based in Detroit\, MI. Through spatial and archive responsive projects\, he reimagines\, and explores within frameworks such as language\, the passage of time\, and contemplation. Intrigued by the potential of conveying phenomenal\, transformative\, and emotive states through materiality\, process\, and placement\, he negotiates the pliability of the viewer’s encounters with objects and environments. Byrne holds an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from San Francisco State University. He has been a Lecturer at Stamps School of Art & Design since the Fall of 2022. His work is exhibited widely nationally and he is a recipient of the VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, I-Park\, KHN Center for the Arts\, Prairie Ronde\, Recology San Francisco A.I.R. Program\, and Rockland Woods. Website / Instagram
UID:138033-21881339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138033
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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