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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SUMIT 2026 Panel Discussion: October 12\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Securing the Vote: Technology\, Evidence\, and Trust in the 2026 Midterm Elections\nRegister to join us for the SUMIT 2026 panel discussion “Securing the Vote: Technology\, Evidence\, and Trust in the 2026 Midterm Elections\,” moderated by U-M Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Ravi Pendse. \nPanelists:J. Alex Halderman\, the Bredt Family Professor of Engineering and an election-cybersecurity researcher\; Walter Mebane\, professor of political science and statistics and an expert in election forensics\;Mara Ostfeld\, research associate professor of public policy and an expert in survey research and public opinion. \nMonday\, October 12\, 2026 • 3:00–4:00 p.m.\nUniversity Hall\, Alexander G. Ruthven Building1109 Geddes Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nThe moderated panel will be followed by an audience question-and-answer period. \nThe event is open to U-M students\, faculty\, and staff. Seating is limited to 120 people\, and an RSVP is required. Refreshments will be provided.---\n\n\n
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:University Hall - 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260819T175116
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Massy Mutumba)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149692
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Research,Social Science,Global Health
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room: 1430
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DTSTAMP:20261006T182144
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:inSPIRE
DESCRIPTION: InSPIRE brings together graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the University of Michigan to engage with the intersection of science\, technology\, and public policy. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151808
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20261002T130230
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:ISRMT Seminar:  On Fredholm Pfaffians and Riemann-Hilbert problems
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  In this talk\, I will illustrate how classes of Fredholm Pfaffians\, which can describe the eigenvalue distributions for orthogonal and symplectic matrix ensembles\, can be computed in terms of canonical\, auxiliary Riemann-Hilbert problems.\nThis is done by first algebraically manipulating the kernel of the Fredholm Pfaffian and then relating the resulting Pfaffian to a Riemann-Hilbert problem\, assuming its main kernel is either of additive Hankel composition or truncated Wiener-Hopf type. One can then find asymptotic results for the Fredholm Pfaffian as a natural consequence of the Rieman-Hilbert problem characterisation.\nThis talk is based on my paper with Thomas Bothner\, currently available in preprint on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23362. \n\n*To request access to the Zoom room\, please contact Nathan Hayford at nhayford [ at ] umich.edu.*
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152449
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260928T171122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Transfer Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Recruitment Team for our virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.\n\nRegistration is required. Register using link to the right
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141040
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260921T120356
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Picturing Aura: A History of Technical Images at the Crossroads of Science\, Art\, and Occultism
DESCRIPTION:Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025) is a historical\, anthropological\, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize that hidden\, radiant force that envelops the living body and is known as the aura. This book traces the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques for visualizing auras\, from the late nineteenth century to the present day\, exploring how pictures of aura have been put to work in diverse domains of psychical and parapsychological research\, esotericism and occultism\, art photography\, and popular culture\, as well as the New Age market for alternative medicine and spiritual well-being. These histories—sometimes complementary\, sometimes conflicting—shaped by exchanges between professionals and amateurs\, scientists and occultists\, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs\, metropolitan figures and peripheral actors\, show how the aura functions as a boundary object: an ontologically plural entity amenable to the varied tasks of creating art\, healing bodies\, and mapping a hidden cosmos. My presentation will introduce some of the book’s key figures\, technologies\, and notable migrations of images\, while reflecting on the very endeavour of making the aura visible and the challenges it poses to established assumptions about science\, religion\, and art.\n\nJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montréal\, Canada. He works in the interdisciplinary field of “religion and media\,” where he conducts research on the religious\, esoteric\, and occult dimensions of technology\, as well as the technological and material dimensions of religion. In addition to Picturing Aura\, his publications include Orthodox by Design (California UP\, 2010)\, a study of contemporary Orthodox Jewish print culture and its political implications\; Deus in Machina (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, an edited volume exploring the relationship between religion and technology from a historical and transcultural perspective\; as well as several co-edited journal issues focusing on the genealogy of animation\, religious visibility and invisibility\, and “light” as a medium of religious practice and imagination.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152526
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Society,Technology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260915T135648
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151698
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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