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DTSTAMP:20260820T150848
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CCMB/DCMB Weekly Bioinformatics Seminar Series featuring Jianzhi Zhang\, PhD (Professor\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, U-M)
DESCRIPTION:Jianzhi (George) Zhang is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology interested in the relative roles of chance and necessity in evolution. He got his B. S. from Fudan University in Shanghai\, China\, and his Ph. D. in Genetics from Pennsylvania State University. He was a  Fogarty postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases before moving to the University of Michigan.\n\nProfessor Zhang’s research focuses on two main research areas:  (1) yeast as an experimental system for studying evolution\, where his research group uses the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its relatives as model organisms to understand a variety of evolutionary processes such as the genetic basis of phenotypic variations among strains and species\, or molecular and genomic bases of heterosis\; and (2) computational evolutionary genomics where they use evolutionary\, genomic\, and/or systemic approaches to analyze publicly available data to characterize and understand pleiotropy\, robustness\, epistasis\, gene-environment interaction\, gene expression noise\, translational regulation\, RNA editing\, convergent evolution\, adaptation\, origin of new genes\, among-protein evolutionary rate variation\, and other important genetic and evolutionary phenomena. Projects may also involve modeling and simulation\, including the MICDE catalyst grant project where the team is using deep neural networks to infer molecular phylogenies and extract phylogenetically useful patterns from amino acid or nucleotide sequences\, which will help understand evolutionary mechanisms and build evolutionary models for a variety of analyses.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150650
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Genome,Basic Science,Bioinformatics,Biology,Biosciences,Ecology
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit I - 4B700
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DTSTAMP:20260922T172141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Distinguished University Professor Lectureship Series
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost\, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A. “The 1857 Indian Revolution and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Juan Cole (Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of History\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts).\n\"Paying Attention\" by John Jonides (Edward E. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience\, Co-Director\, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility\, Professor of Radiology\, Medical School and Professor of Psychology\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts).\n“Studying Aging and Dementia in Patients and Populations” by Kenneth Langa (A. Regula Herzog Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine and Survey Research\, Cyrus Sturgis Research Professor of Internal Medicine\, Professor of Internal Medicine\, Research Professor\, Institute of Gerontology\, Medical School\, Research Professor\, Survey Research Center\, Institute for Social Research).\nNot able to attend in person? The event will be available via livestream here.
UID:149970-21907457@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149970
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Michigan League Ballroom
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DTSTAMP:20260917T115242
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost\, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A.\n\n“The 1857 Indian Revolution and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Juan Cole (Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of History\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts).\n\n\"Paying Attention\" by John Jonides (Edward E. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience\, Co-Director\, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility\, Professor of Radiology\, Medical School and Professor of Psychology\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts).\n\n“Studying Aging and Dementia in Patients and Populations” by Kenneth Langa (A. Regula Herzog Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine and Survey Research\, Cyrus Sturgis Research Professor of Internal Medicine\, Professor of Internal Medicine\, Research Professor\, Institute of Gerontology\, Medical School\, Research Professor\, Survey Research Center\, Institute for Social Research).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149935
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Reception,AEM Featured,dup,lecture
LOCATION:Michigan League - League Ballroom | Second Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260908T151707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T170000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:German Convo on the Go
DESCRIPTION:Meet at Burton Tower for a 1-hour walk and talk in German with Mary Gell (magell@umich.edu). This event happens 'rain or shine.' Open to speakers of German at all levels.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151752
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:German,Humanities,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,European,Language
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower - Meet Outside the Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260914T181717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T172000
SUMMARY:Performance:Leyya Mona Tawil and collaborators in \"Happy Days Finale\"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal showing of *Happy Days Finale*\, a new performance work by Leyya Mona Tawil in collaboration with Zari Lionudakis (dance)\, John MacDoughall Parker (music)\, and Scott Tallenger (costume).\n\nWhat does happiness mean in a time of revolution? With each day anew\, what is our capacity for communion\, grief\, resistance\, chance? In a world of relentless injustice and collapse\, we question what is ending and what is beginning. DANCE ELIXIR's *Happy Days Finale* is an invitation to test these questions\, in body and time.\n\nAt the heart of *Happy Days Finale* is Tawil’s “choice-based choreography\,” where each performance unfolds uniquely. The dance composition is driven by decisions that transform the work into an ever-evolving conversation between movement\, space\, and sound. Tawil calls it “an act of agility and adaptability\,” - a dance that contains multiple truths with every iteration.\n\n*Happy Days Finale* is an invitation to think critically and collaboratively\, to explore how we\, as a community\, can face the challenges of today’s world. Tawil has created a space for modeling new ways of being in an unpredictable world. *Happy Days Finale* proposes dancemaking as a potent tool for liberation\, urging us to question\, to mourn\, and to labor\, together.\n\nPresented by Daring Dances and the Center for World Performance Studies.\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.*\n\nBIOGRAPHIES\n\nLEYYA MONA TAWIL\, Conceptual Score\, Choreography\, and Performance\nDirector of DANCE ELIXIR\, Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist\, performer\, and cultural activist working in hybrid performance practices. Tawil is Palestinian and Syrian\; engaged in the world as such. Her choreographies and sound projects have been presented throughout the states\, Europe\, and the Arab world. Highlight engagements: “My Name is Palestine” exhibit at Southern Exposure (SF)\, performance commissions from Abrons Arts Center (NYC) and Sibelius Museum (Turku)\, and residencies with Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE)\, Wysing Arts/British Council (UK) and PlayHouse Labs (Detroit). Tawil was nominated for a 2019 “Bessies” Award in Music (NYC) and received the Ruth Arts Artist Choice Award 2026. She has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997\, and is the founding director of Arab.AMP - a platform for worldbuilding artists from the Arab/SWANA diaspora and our allied communities.\n\nZARI LIONUDAKIS\, Dance Collaborator and Performer\nZari Lionudakis is an artist and educator who challenges perceptions of either/or. A lone wolf in lineage\, heritage and praxis\, Zari's work in liminal space bleeds into her performance\, technique classes\, scholarship and healing modalities. The late historian Hayden White called Zari a \"radical visionary\,\" as every mode of Zari's work challenges existing notions of what \"is.\" Whether ballet or vernacular\, slang or scholarship\, Zari uses languages that work towards liberation. She has performed extensively with DANCE ELIXIR since its founding in 2003.\n\nJOHN MACDOUGALL PARKER\, Music Collaborator and Performer\nJohn MacDougall Parker creates improvisational future-folk compositions where sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed signals. He has devised instruments focused on the interface between humans and machines\, which are arranged to make music in the moment. Parker\, of American and Korean origin\, floats between NYC and São Paulo.\n\nSCOTT TALLENGER\, Costumes\nScott Tallenger is a Left-Handed/Right Brained\, photographer\, skateboarder and fashion designer. Based in Detroit and working nationally\, Scott specializes in one-of-a-kind event garments and accessories.  His first costume collaboration with performer Leyya Mona Tawil was in 2006\, and he has since created over 11 unique costumes for DANCE ELIXIR.
UID:152157-21913156@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152157
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,Discussion,Dance,Free,Music,Social Impact
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260729T153011
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantitative propagation of chaos and universality for asymmetric Langevin spin glass dynamics
DESCRIPTION:We obtain quantitative estimates on quenched propagation of chaos for Langevin spin glass dynamics with i.i.d. disorder. Prior work in the case of Gaussian disorder established the qualitative convergence of the law of a single spin to a deterministic McKean--Vlasov limit. We prove convergence rates in expected Wasserstein distance and quantitative concentration rates for Lipschitz observables under the assumption that the disorder satisfies the T_2 inequality. The proof uses a coupling argument\, together with techniques from concentration of measure\, filtering theory\, and Malliavin calculus.
UID:149663-21906910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149663
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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DTSTAMP:20260922T172141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T183000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 ECE Open House
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as we host the 2026 ECE Open House! You’ll learn more about the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering majors\, hear about the opportunities available to ECE students\, and see some of the labs used in undergraduate EECS classes.So what exactly do electrical and computer engineers do? We do everything! We are there in all electronic devices (cell phones\, computers\, cars\, appliances\, etc). We are in electronic communication\, networking\, power\, energy\, sensors\, and much more. We make things smart – we make them move. We send and decode information – we connect people and things. And we light up the world – efficiently\, of course!Dinner will be provided to those who RSVP.
UID:150671-21909874@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150671
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Electrical & Computer Engineering Building / 1200 EECS
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