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SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Zero Waste Week Challenge: Craft Fair
DESCRIPTION:As a part of the Zero Waste Week Challenge\, Zero Waste Club is holding a Sustainable Craft Fair. February 16th 3-6 pm in the Pendleton Room of the Union\, come engage in free thrifting with and A2ZERO Clothes Swap\, learn how to crochet reusable face wipes from Crochet for Causes\, fold some scrap paper into art with Origami Club and so much more! Additionally\, you can sign up for the Zero Waste Week Challenge at ZeroWaste.org/umich for more events and entries to win prizes from local businesses!\n 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145192
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Michigan Union
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DTSTAMP:20251202T084442
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Seminar Series on Social Connection: Kathleen Casto
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Casto\nKent State University\nThe Hormone-Brain Dynamics of Social Positioning\n\nFeb. 16\, 2026\n\nABOUT THE SERIES\n\nThe Winter 2026 RCGD Seminar Series: The Ties that Bond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Connection\n\nThis seminar series brings together senior and early-career scholars to explore fundamental questions about how we connect\, protect\, and care. Talks will highlight lifespan and comparative approaches to understanding social connection\, physiological implications of social and race-related stressors\, and diverse conceptualizations of what it means to belong—from romantic and parent–child relationships to group and societal dynamics to technology-mediated interactions.\n\nRobin Edelstein\, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and an affiliate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics\, has organized this series. She will introduce the series at this kick-off event that doubles as a faculty meeting.\n\nThe first seminar in the series will be Jan. 26. Join us on Mondays to learn about the biological\, social\, and developmental pathways that shape human connection.\n\nThese events are held Mondays from 3:30 to 5.\nIn person: ISR Thompson 1430\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Robin Edelstein\nAs permissions allow\, seminars are later posted to our YouTube playlist.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142306
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20260130T100531
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SUMMARY:Presentation:3rd Year Student Seminar - Analytical Cluster
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 16th from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. in CHEM 1640 please join us in watching the following third years present.\n\n*Student Presenters:* Amanda Cicali\, Tiam Farajzadeh and Alyssa Erlenbeck\n*Research Advisor:* Prof. Brandon Ruotolo
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144834
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260120T100755
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T160000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Biology & Neuroscience Major Information Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Prospective students interested in learning more about our majors\, honors\, and independent research in the Program in Biology and Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience are invited to attend our information sessions. Peer Advisors facilitating these sessions will provide an overview of major requirements\, core courses\, unique opportunities\, and more. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions you have\, too. Please sign up to attend the session(s) at the links below. Sessions will be added below once confirmed. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. \n\nUpcoming events include:\n\nMCDB Info. Session: Monday\, February 16th\, 4-5pm\nBHS Major Info. Session: Monday\, February 16th\, 5-6pm\nEEB Major Info. Session: Tuesday\, February 17th\, 5-6pm\nNEURO Major Info. Session: Tuesday\, February 17th\, 5-6pm\n\nRegister for one or more sessions here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/21471
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132770
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Science,Free,Biosciences,Biology,biodiversity
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260205T104902
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Automorphic Representations and Optimal Quantum Logic Gates
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Any construction of a quantum computer would require finding good sets of quantum logic gates: finite sets of 2^n-by-2^n unitary matrices that efficiently and computably approximate arbitrary unitary matrices through short products. We explain a connection between constructing these gate sets and automorphic representations (extending ideas from the Lubotzky-Phillips-Sarnak construction of expander graphs). Using this\, we explain how to input analytic bounds proven using the endoscopic classification to produce the first provable constructions of optimal \"golden\" gate sets for more than one qubit.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141738
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20260128T123104
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Liberation Statistics: Making Data for Alternative Worlds in India and West Africa
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the role of statistical practices in decolonizing the world. It follows the work of Pandurang Sukhatme at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Amílcar Cabral as surveyor for the Portuguese colonial government and guerrilla leader in Guinea Bissau. Their engagement with statistics\, namely with sampling and randomization\, enables the historical weaving of projects of world governance at the UN\, Indian independence\, and West African liberation movements. In this connected history of decolonization\, statistical methods are central to denounce the injustices of the colonial order\, but also to unveil forms of agency from below for worldmaking after empire.\n\nTiago Saraiva is Professor of History at Drexel University\, author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (MIT Press\, 2016)\, which was awarded the Pfizer Prize for best scholarly book by the History of Science Society in 2017\, and co-author of Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Yale University Press\, 2023)\, also awarded best book in 2024 by the Society for the History of Technology and the World History Association. He is an historian of science and technology interested in the connections between science\, technology\, crops\, and politics at the global scale. After revisiting the history of European fascism through stories of technoscientific organisms such as wheat\, pigs\, and sheep\, he has recently completed a transnational study on the history of cloning oranges and cultivating whiteness in California\, South Africa\, Algeria\, Palestine\, and Brazil. His new project explores the connected histories of statistical methods and liberation movements in the global south\, from India to West Africa\, from Brazil to the South of the US. Saraiva is now finishing coediting the three volumes of the Cambridge History of Technology to be published in 2026/2027.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144687
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African Studies,History,India
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death with Roni Henig
DESCRIPTION:Roni Henig's recent book\, On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death (UPenn Press\, 2024)\, is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival\,” or the idea that Hebrew—a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century—was revitalized as part of a broader national “revival” which ultimately led to the establishment of the Israeli nation-state. This story of language revival has been commemorated in Israeli popular memory and in Jewish historiography as a triumphant transformation narrative that marks the success of the Zionist revolution. But a closer look at the work of early twentieth-century Hebrew writers reveals different sentiments. The book explores the loaded\, figurative discourse of revival in modern Hebrew literature. Rather than embracing “revival” as a neutral\, descriptive term\, Henig takes a critical approach\, employing close readings of canonical texts to analyze the primary tropes used to articulate this aesthetic and political project of “reviving” Hebrew. The event is a workshop-style discussion of the book with the author. A brief introduction will be circulated ahead of the event. 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143923
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DTSTAMP:20260130T181944
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transition Asymptotics for the Real Solutions of the sinh-Gordon Painlev\'e III
DESCRIPTION:We consider solutions of the sinh-Gordon Painlev\'e III equation\n\[\nu_{xx} + \frac{1}{x} u_x = \sinh u\n\]\nthat are real on \((0\, \infty)\). They are parametrized by the monodromy parameter \( p \in \overline{\mathbb C} \)\, \( |p|>1 \)\, and an additional real parameter \( s^{\mathbb R} \) when \( p=\infty \). We describe the transition between singular solutions (\( |p|<\infty \)) and smooth solutions (\( p=\infty \))\, as \( x \to +\infty \) and \( p \to \infty \) given that \( 2\Im(p)=-s^\R\).\nThis presentation is based on the ongoing work with Maxim Yattselev.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143022
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866
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