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DTSTAMP:20260508T092249
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T110000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Joshua Thedford - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Joshua Thedford for their dissertation defense titled \"Investigations of Transition Metal Catalytic Cycles through Organometallic Studies\".\n\n*Date:* Thursday\, May 21st\n*Time:* 11:00 AM\n*Where:* CHEM 1706\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 991 7347 0299
UID:148172-21903181@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148172
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706
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DTSTAMP:20260514T171355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Checkpoint 2 Seminar> Discovery and Characterization of the Phage Defense Protein\, PdsA
DESCRIPTION:Checkpoint 2 Seminar Kanza Arshad\nMentor: Hannah Ledvina\, Assistant Professor MCDB
UID:148288-21903812@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148288
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Bsbsigns,Biology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260429T110903
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Elsa Olander - Becoming: My Journey Through Stamps
DESCRIPTION:Becoming is the senior thesis project of Stamps School of Art & Design student Elsa Olander. It is a multidisciplinary exhibition that traces her artistic evolution from high school student in Kenya to graduating college senior in the U.S. It explores personal growth through material experimentation\, identity formation\, and cultural hybridity. The work features 2-D\, 3-D\, and 4-D work\; each piece serving as a visual artifact of transformation.\n\nBecoming isn’t about arriving. It’s about highlighting the moments that get us there. The doubt\, discovery\, and growth that shape who we are. It’s a reminder to learn from the past and plan for the future\, but most importantly to live in the present. We become who we are not just through all the choices we make\, but through the people we surround ourselves with\, the information we take-in\, and what we choose to believe or question.\n\n“This exhibition is about my growth and process\, but it’s not singular. Many of my family members\, including my mother\, aren’t able to attend my graduation due to the ongoing visa ban affecting several African countries. This show is my way of honoring their presence in my life\, acknowledging where I’ve come from\, and sharing my journey with those who may not be able to witness it in person. My hope is that viewers see these works not just as a portrait of my evolution\, but as an invitation to reflect\, relate\, and reimagine their own paths of becoming.” \n-Elsa Olander\n\nBecoming: My Journey Through Stamps\nExhibition Dates: April 30 – May 22\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Thursday\, April 30\, 5:30 – 8 p.m. (RSVP Recommended)\nDuderstadt Center Gallery
UID:148001-21902709@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148001
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Art And Design,Exhibition
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery, Rm. 1019 Duderstadt Center
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DTSTAMP:20260427T090939
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory
DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. Presented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours:\nThursdays 12-5 pm\nFridays 12-11 pm\nSelected Saturdays 12-5 pm
UID:138950-21900825@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:astronomy,university of michigan history,university history,U-m History,museums,Astronomers,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,Science
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260518T152020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering
DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up.
UID:102102-21902371@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour
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DTSTAMP:20260518T152021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A&A Shop Orientation
DESCRIPTION:In order to access the Art & Architecture Shop\, users must complete BOTH Orientation AND Proficiency Training. The A&A Shop Orientation covers basic information about the Shop (hours\, policies\, storage\, equipment\, etc.) as well as an overview of safety rules and concepts to help you navigate the space safely and effectively. Please note that it does NOT give you access to use the machinery--all users must receive Proficiency Training on each piece of equipment before use. Access: The Shop is available to students\, staff\, and faculty from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning for work on class projects and research only. Potential users from other academic disciplines must be receiving credit for a class taught by a faculty member from the Art or Architecture schools. Learn more on the A&A Shop site here. 
UID:111822-21903888@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/111822
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Art & Architecture Shop, 2000 Bonisteel Room 1251
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DTSTAMP:20260504T114020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Distributional Learning via Flexible Expectile Regression: Methods for Dependent\, Multivariate and Incomplete Data
DESCRIPTION:We develop a unified framework for flexible distributional learning based on expectile regression with adaptive basis functions\, allowing one to capture heterogeneous covariate effects across different regions of the outcome distribution. Building on this foundation\, we introduce a series of methodological contributions that extend expectile regression to increasingly complex data settings.\n\nFirst\, we propose a flexible nonparametric framework for expectile regression using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS)\, motivated by longitudinal studies in human biology in which aspects of the distribution of offspring anthropometry covary with parental characteristics. We develop a computationally efficient algorithm based on over-relaxed alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to estimate expectiles across multiple distributional levels\, and establish valid joint inference procedures for a collection of expectiles using both cross-fitting and robust analytic approaches.\n\nSecond\, we extend expectile regression to event time data subject to right censoring and left truncation\, motivated by biomedical and public health studies where outcomes are incompletely observed and covariate effects may vary across the lifespan. Our motivating application is to understand how lifespans in different demographic groups correspond to neighborhood deprivation\, allowing for different effects on early and late mortality. To capture such patterns\, we estimate conditional expectiles of patient lifespans using weighting to account for censoring and truncation.  We then derive asymptotic linear expansions of the estimators and construct robust sandwich variance estimators\, enabling valid inference for distributional contrasts\, including comparisons across demographic groups and difference-in-difference analyses across expectile levels.\n\nThird\, we develop a unified framework for multivariate generalized expectile regression to analyze multi-output longitudinal data\, motivated by applications in which multiple related outcomes are measured repeatedly over time and exhibit complex dependence. Examples include biomedical studies where multiple health indicators are tracked for each patient\, or demographic data where event counts in geographic strata evolve jointly over time. Such data may exhibit heterogeneous covariate effects that predict different features of the response distribution. We begin by extending expectile regression to have a link function for each response\, enabling the specification of models with additive and multiplicative structures. We formulate the problem as a stacked estimating equation system capturing dependence across outcomes\, across time\, and across distributional levels without requiring specification of a working correlation structure. We develop cluster-robust sandwich covariance estimators that support valid inference for joint hypotheses\, enabling simultaneous assessment of distributional effects across outcomes and expectile levels.\n\nFinally\, we introduce a new class of interpretable distributional summaries based on expectile L-moments (EL-moments)\, motivated by the need for robust and informative measures of distributional shape that can be modeled in relation to covariates. Classical measures such as skewness and kurtosis are often sensitive to extreme observations and are not readily adapted to regression settings\, while quantile-based summaries lack smoothness and can be difficult to integrate into unified modeling frameworks. By projecting the expectile function onto a shifted Legendre polynomial basis\, we obtain EL-moments that provide interpretable summaries of location\, scale\, asymmetry\, and tail behavior. We further extend these summaries to conditional settings via expectile regression\, enabling covariate-dependent characterization of distributional features. We develop an influence-function-based framework for inference\, yielding consistent covariance estimators for both the EL-moment coefficients and their derived ratios.
UID:148074-21902920@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
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DTSTAMP:20260508T144218
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T130000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Geometrization in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nThis thesis uses the idea of geometrization in two contexts. The first part is devoted to the Cartier transform developed by Ogus and Vologodsky. We strengthen their main result by weakening the assumptions and by allowing certain reasonable stacks as inputs\, obtaining\, in particular\, corollaries in the logarithmic setting. The second part studies the category of F-gauges over the formal spectrum of the Witt vectors of a perfect field of positive characteristic. We identify the full subcategory of F-gauges with Hodge-Tate weights in the range from 0 to p-2 with the category of Fontaine-Laffaille modules satisfying the analogous weight constraint.
UID:148194-21903218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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