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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Michigan Model for Siting Renewable Energy: Policy\, Implementation\, and Impact
DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Model for Siting Renewable Energy: Policy\, Implementation\, and Impacts will examine how renewable energy siting policy moves from concept to practice\, using Michigan’s experience as a case study with national relevance. The event will be emceed by Sarah Mills\, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for EmPowering Communities and associate professor of practice at U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.\n\nThe symposium will open with Nelson Falkenburg from Clean Tomorrow providing a national perspective on renewable energy siting\, exploring why siting has become a central challenge in the clean energy transition\, and how state and local policies are shaping what gets built across the country. This session will situate Michigan’s experience within broader political\, regulatory\, and community dynamics influencing renewable energy deployment nationwide.\n\nThe focus will then shift to Michigan\, with Dan Scripps\, chair of the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC)\, taking us back to the Fall of 2023\, describing the origins of the Michigan model in Public Act 233 of 2023 (PA 233). He will talk about what prompted the move to reform the state’s siting laws\, and what priorities shaped the law that emerged.  \n\nMadeleine Krol from UM’s Center for EmPowering Communities will then outline in detail the mechanics of the Michigan model\, describing the three primary permitting pathways for large-scale projects in the state. She will also discuss how the Renewables Ready Communities Award\, which provides a financial incentive to local governments that permit projects locally\, is an integral part of the Michigan model. \n\nThe symposium will conclude with a panel discussion featuring Sarah Mullkoff (Michigan Public Service Commission)\, Laura Sherman (Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council)\, and Catherine Kaufman (Bauckham\, Thall\, Seeber\, Kaufman & Koches PC)\, leaders from varied viewpoints who were each influential in shaping the implementation of PA 233. Moderator Liesl Clark from UM’s School for Environment and Sustainability will ask the panel to reflect on how their expectations in the lead-up to the passage of PA 233 compare with their on-the-ground experiences in its implementation. Panelists will also consider lessons learned to date and what Michigan’s experience suggests for future renewable energy siting efforts.\n\nTogether\, the program is designed to inform discussion and support a clearer understanding of what effective renewable energy siting looks like in practice.\n\nThis event is presented by Taubman College Urban and Regional Planning\, the Center for EmPowering Communities\, and Taubman College Climate Futures.
UID:146775-21899607@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146775
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Energy And The Environment,Public Policy,Sustainability,Urban And Regional Planning
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Taubman Commons
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DTSTAMP:20260417T092032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RSG GPSAW 2026 Event Series
DESCRIPTION:Rackham Student Government (RSG) is proud to present the following events for Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW) 2026! Register now to enjoy FREE Zumba\, games\, and food!Monday (4/13) – RSG x RELATE 3MT Final Round & Awards* [ROOM CHANGES!]Tuesday (4/14) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Thursday (4/16) – RSG Board Game & Snacks*Thursday (4/16) – RSG Stress Less Zumba (class by Michigan Recreation)Friday (4/17) – RSG Fortune Fragels* (\"Fried Bagel\")* Event includes free food.Some events require registration for a specific time slot to ensure we stay within room capacity.
UID:147001-21900552@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147001
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Building, 4th Floor, West Conference Room
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DTSTAMP:20260302T171502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T140000
SUMMARY:Other:Artwork Pickup: 30th Annual Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Duderstadt Gallery or the PCAP Studio to collect your artwork from the 30th Annual Exhibition. Please bring your receipt or notification letter. \n\nMarch 31 and April 1 artwork pickup is at the Duderstadt Center Gallery. \n\nApril 14\, 16\, and 17 artwork pickup is at the PCAP Studio.\n\nThe PCAP Studio is located in the rear hallway of the Campus Safety Services Building (1239 Kipke Dr)\, located across the parking lot from the Crisler Center. Short-term guest parking is available in the designated \"DPSS Visitor\" spots near the building entrance.\n\n● GPS Tip: Use the physical address (1239 Kipke Dr) for GPS. Searching for the building name may route you to the wrong entrance.\n● Entrance: Enter through the double doors marked \"Division of Public Safety and Security.\"\n● Inside the Building: Walk straight past the main desk toward the door leading to a long hallway. Note: You do not need to check in at the DPSS desk.\n● The Studio: Walk to the very end of the hallway and turn right. The PCAP Studio is immediately on your right in Room 1400.\n\nSponsors\nThe 30th Annual Exhibition is presented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work.
UID:145433-21897350@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145433
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Social Justice,Art
LOCATION:Campus Safety Services Building - 1400
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DTSTAMP:20260206T110057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T113000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Bookworm #90- Author Conversation with Don James McLaughlin\, \"Phobia and American Literature\, 1705–1937: A Therapeutic History\"
DESCRIPTION:Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics with Clements staff in this webinar series. In this conversation\, author Don James McLaughlin explores how phobia — first tied to diseases like hydrophobia (rabies) — became a flexible suffix attached to various fears and social concerns\, shaping political\, medical\, and aesthetic thought from the colonial period through the early 20th century.\n\nMcLaughlin traces the emergence and evolution of phobia as a concept in American culture long before it became established in modern psychology. McLaughlin challenges the idea that phobia only gained prominence with late-19th-century psychiatry\, showing instead that the term’s roots extend back to early American literary and medical discourses.
UID:145160-21896746@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Virtual,William L Clements,Talk,Podcast,history,american culture,american history,Americana,book discussion,Book Talk,Books,Discussion,Event,Literature
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260403T100021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how insurance brokers affect product choices\, premiums\, and welfare in the employer-sponsored insurance market. We compile a novel database of contracting relationships among employers\, brokers\, and insurers in New York State. Exploiting variations in commission schedules\, we document two market distortions: First\, brokers exhibit traditional agency frictions\, steering employers towards more financially lucrative products. Second\, commission levels affect ex-ante insurer-broker networks and\, in turn\, insurers' competitive pressure\, leading to anti-competitive distortions. We develop and estimate a structural model of employer insurance demand\, insurer pricing\, and formation of broker-insurer contracting networks. We use the model to study a commission-cap counterfactual. A one-percentage-point cap reduces broker-induced steering and raises employer surplus by 3\%\, but the resulting reduction in insurer competition lowers surplus by over 6\%\, yielding a net decline of about 3\%. We also explore the impacts of fiduciary duties and network regulations for insurance brokers.
UID:147379-21900941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147379
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics,Industrial Organization
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20260105T093408
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T110000
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.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Julie Harrell at (harrelju@umich.edu).
UID:143170-21892371@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143170
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate,Central America,Coffee,Community,Community Engagement,Culture,Engaged Learning,Europe,European,Food,Free,Games,Intercultural,Undergraduate Students,International,Language,Languages,Latin America,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spain,Spanish,Study Abroad
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20260403T100524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yuting Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Statistics & Data Science\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:The score-based diffusion models have become a cornerstone of modern generative AI. While recent works aim to develop sharp convergence guarantees\, the iteration complexity of existing analyses typically scales with the ambient data dimension $d$ of the target distribution\, leading to overly conservative theory that fails to explain its practical efficiency. This motivates us to understand how diffusion models can achieve sampling speed-ups through automatic exploitation of intrinsic low dimensionality of data for both continuous and discrete distributions.  \n\nThis talk explores two key scenarios: (1) For a broad class of continous distributions with intrinsic dimension $k$\, we show that the iteration complexity of the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) scales nearly linearly with $k$\, which is optimal under the KL divergence metric\; (2) For masking discrete diffusions\, under a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) formulation\, we introduce a modified $\tau$-leaping sampler whose convergence rate is governed by an intrinsic information-theoretic quantity\, termed the \emph{effective total correlation}\, which is upper bounded by $d \log S$ (with $S$ the vocabulary size) but can be sublinear or even constant for structured discrete distributions.
UID:146703-21899508@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146703
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20250821T100218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T120000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Write with ME!
DESCRIPTION:Working on an abstract? Polishing up your resume? Writing a paper or dissertation?\n\nJoin us for our new Mechanical Engineering Department writing group\, “Write with ME!”\n\nAll ME undergrads\, grads\, postdocs\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join us for any of their writing needs.\n\nCommunity & support\nConnect with peers\, share your writing\, exchange feedback\, and brainstorm solutions to writing challenges.\n\nAccountability & consistency\nSharpen your writing skills and develop positive\, consistent writing routines. Learn from other members of the ME department!\n\nFood & flexibility\nNo need to attend every week! Drop in at any time\, and leave at any time. Light snacks\, coffee\, and tea will be available.\n\nWeekly on Fridays\, starting September 12\n2636 G.G.B\n10 am – 12 pm
UID:137880-21880977@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Undergraduate Students,Staff,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Mechanical Engineering,Graduate Students,Faculty
LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2636
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