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DTSTAMP:20260728T142037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Grand Vision
DESCRIPTION:Visiting artist Olayami Dabls is a storyteller\, curator\, educator\, and mentor. He is the founder of the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit. Through material culture\, Dabls presents commentary on the past\, present\, and future from African and African-American perspectives\, with the understanding that generations of African ancestors used visual materials to convey information about their identity as well as send messages for healing and protection. Dabls is a luminary\; for decades he has re-imagined what a museum space can be\, accessible to everyone\, free from the underpinnings of colonialism and the Western\, often white\, frame. *Grand Vision* includes a conceptual installation in the Gallery\, presenting Dabls’s own work in visual conversation with African beads and artifacts from Dabls’s Bead Museum collections. \n\nAdditionally\, Dabls’s iconic outdoor sculpture *Iron Teaching Rocks Table Manners* will be installed on the U-M campus grounds near UMMA\, at the intersection of State Street and South University from September 17- October 11\, 2026. The project’s range intends to more fully articulate the many facets of Dabls’ creative practice\, and the overlay of art\, history\, identity\, community\, and healing.
UID:149620-21906795@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149620
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,Visual Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Humanities,Exhibition,Detroit,Art
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20260916T104949
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T120000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Homecoming Welcome Friday
DESCRIPTION:U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are invited to join us on Ingalls Mall\, outside the Alumni Center\, for free coffee\, hot chocolate\, and a breakfast snack\, all served with a little extra Maize and Blue spirit.
UID:152257-21913445@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152257
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:free food,Appreciation,Faculty,food,Homecoming,Staff
LOCATION:Alumni Center
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DTSTAMP:20260902T164414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:IOE Alumni Merit Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering recognizes an alum who personifies the College of Engineering’s tradition of excellence. This year\, we are honoring Marcial Lapp\, B.S. ’05\, M.S.’07\, M.S.E.’09\, M.B.A.’12\, Ph.D. ’12.\n\nJoin us in person for the IOE Alumni Merit Presentation to celebrate outstanding achievements together!\n\nMarcial Lapp ​is ​the ​Vice ​President of Revenue Engineering ​at American Airlines\, ​where ​he ​leads the teams responsible for the systems\, data\, ​and ​business ​processes ​that ​power ​the ​airline's Commercial organization\, primarily ​Revenue Management.
UID:151428-21911585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Michigan Engineering,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Graduate
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms (3rd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261009T172139
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T103000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Communication Working Group (PCWG)
DESCRIPTION:The Political Communication Working Group (PCWG) is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to convene and discuss how political messages are produced\, disseminated\, and interpreted in contemporary media environments. Our core research topics focus on the evolving relationships between media\, politics\, and society. Drawing on the interdisciplinary fields of communication\, political science\, sociology\, and information science\, our members explore a wide range of topics such as public support for entertainment censorship\, climate change communication\, social learning on TikTok\, political para-social relationships\, polarization\, political biases in AI-generated content\, etc. Our sessions encourage the exchange of ideas and work across theoretical and methodological traditions.
UID:152771-21914488@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152771
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:ISR 1460
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DTSTAMP:20260904T114252
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T110000
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:Digital Accessibility,Workshop,Virtual,Ndeam,Inclusion,Discussion,Disability,Accessibility,Make It Accessible
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:Engineering,Alumni,Graduate,Graduate Students,Homecoming,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Mechanical Engineering
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,symposium,seminar,Lecture,Graduate And Professional Students,Aem Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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