Careers / Jobs:Pathways Into Teaching - The Marshall Teacher Residency
2024-12-04 15:30 - 16:15 (America/Detroit)
The Pathways Into Teaching workshop is an overview of the various pathways into teaching, including Master's programs, Intern Programs and Teacher Residencies. This workshop is perfect for anyone considering a career in education and will be facilitated by representative from the Marshall Teacher Residency Program.

Workshop / Seminar:[Figma Workshop 03] Crafting Responsive Layouts: Auto Layout Basics
2024-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - 2435
In this final session of the semester, you learn the basics of auto layout and then utilize them to create responsive layout templates. You will be able to take these template and use them for any project!

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FLUX stands for Figma Learning for User Experience. We are a group of students passionate about user experience design and Figma.

Our mission is to create events and activities that support the learning of Figma and UX for students of all levels of expertise and backgrounds across the University of Michigan.

Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Cycles on abelian 2n-folds of Weil type from secant sheaves on abelian n-folds
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4096
In 1977 Weil identified a 2-dimensional space of rational classes of Hodge type (n,n) in the middle cohomology of every 2n-dimensional abelian variety with a suitable complex multiplication by an imaginary quadratic number field. These abelian varieties are said to be of Weil type and these Hodge classes are known as Weil classes. We prove that the Weil classes are algebraic for all abelian sixfold of Weil type of discriminant -1, for all imaginary quadratic number fields. The algebraicity of the Weil classes follows for all abelian fourfolds of Weil type (for all discriminants and all imaginary quadratic number fields), by a degeneration argument of C. Schoen. The main two ingredients of our proof are:

1) A natural equivalence, due to Orlov, between the cartesian square XxX of an abelian n-fold X and XxPic^0(X), inducing an isomorphism of cohomologies equivariant with respect to the natural action of the derived monodromy group Spin(2n,2n) of X. Orlov's equivalence maps the tensor product of two suitably chosen (secant) sheaves on X to an object E on XxPic^0(X) with a characteristic class invariant under the Mumford-Tate group of abelian varieties of Weil type.

2) When X is the Jacobian of a genus 3 curve, we prove that the object E on XxPic^0(X) is semi-regular and use the Buchweitz-Flenner semi-regularity theorem in order to deform it to deformation equivalent abelian sixfolds of Weil type.

Lecture / Discussion:ARTISTRY & RESISTANCE
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 3512
Roundtable with Dabke Artist Wael Buhaissy, Assistant Professor Umayyah Cable, Dance Scholar/Performer Leila Mire & Sound Artist/Choreographer Leyya Mona Tawil.
Moderated by Curator/Associate Professor Clare Croft.

Artmaking is always an experiment – a testing of possibilities meant to create new meanings or forms and/or to teach audiences new ways of looking. Artistic experiments also often re-imagine pre-existing forms and histories and bring these into new spaces or moments in time. This roundtable brings together artists working in film, dance, and sound whose experimentations focus on bringing attention to important themes of Palestinian life, joy, and resistance.
Wednesday, December 4th
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Haven Hall 3512

Livestream / Virtual:Braid - Using storytelling to promote social learning
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Join Innovation Partnerships' Michigan Open-Source Software (MOSS) program on Tuesday, Dec. 4th at 4pm for a webinar highlighting MOSS-supported platform Braid.

Braid is an open-source and open-access platform developed by the University of Michigan's Public Interest Technology Knowledge Network (PIT-KN) team. Braid is used by educators and student groups to incorporate social learning (the learning that happens during interactions with people in our environment) and storytelling into their courses and projects.

Join us to hear from the product lead and users of Braid about the latest pedagogical approaches for using storytelling to improve social learning! The speakers will also provide real-world examples of how they use Braid to improve social learning outcomes.

Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Roundtable | The Hazards of Reporting on Human Rights Abuses
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Michigan League - Koessler Room - 3rd Floor
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/ypWPX

Please join Baktygul Chynybaeva (Kyrgyzstan), Kunāl Majumder (India), and Zahra Nader (Afghanistan), three of this year's Knight-Wallace Fellows, as they discuss the challenges of reporting on human rights abuses by governments and other actors. Our three panelists will offer comparative insights from their field experience and lessons for all of us seeking to understand violations happening beyond our borders.

Moderator: Susan Page - Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center

Ambassador Susan D. Page is a professor of practice in international diplomacy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Weiser Diplomacy Center, and a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She has deep expertise in international relations, particularly in Africa. Her senior level roles have included Assistant Secretary General/Special Adviser on Rule of Law, Global Focal Point Review Implementation, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to the United Nations Mission for Justice Support to Haiti (MINUJUSTH), first U.S. Ambassador to newly independent South Sudan, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to the African Union, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, key adviser to the peace process that resolved Africa’s longest-running civil war through international mediation, head of rule of law programs for the UN, and a foreign service regional legal advisor and political officer in East, Central, and Southern Africa. Page earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB in English with high distinction from the University of Michigan. She was awarded a Rotary International Postgraduate Fellowship to Nepal where she conducted research on women’s and children’s rights. In addition, she received certificates of merit and distinction from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland before attending law school. Ambassador Page is an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, a board member of Road Scholar, and a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors.

Knight-Wallace Fellows:

Baktygul Chynybaeva

Baktygul Chynybaeva is a journalist from Kyrgyzstan with more than 20 years of experience covering healthcare, environmental and human rights issues. Fluent in five languages, she currently serves as a correspondent for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s Central Newsroom in Prague. Her investigative reporting on the dire condition of children’s cancer care in Kyrgyzstan inspired significant reforms in the country’s policies. Chynybaeva is also actively involved in organizing training sessions and capacity-building programs for journalists across Central Asian countries.

Kunāl Majumder

Kunāl Majumder serves as the India Representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, where he documents and researches press freedom issues and advocates for journalists’ safety. Additionally, he advises Impulse Model Press Lab, which supports reporters covering human trafficking, and served as a visiting faculty member at the Mass Communication Research Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. Majumder has held leadership positions in news organizations, including Tehelka, Indian Express Group, Rajasthan Patrika Group and Zee Media Corporation. Recognized with the UNFPA-Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity and the Statesman Award for Rural Development, Majumder’s reporting spans politics, business, foreign affairs, human rights, culture and conflict.

Zahra Nader

Zahra Nader is the founding editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a nonprofit news outlet that covers human rights in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, with a focus on women and gender-based issues. Nader’s journalism journey began in Kabul, where she reported for local and international media, including The New York Times, on sensitive issues such as honor killings, virginity tests, single women-headed households and the social stigma of being a divorcee or a widow. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from Time and Foreign Policy to The Guardian, The Daily Mail and Deutsche Welle. She publishes Zan Times from Canada, working with a group of mostly women journalists and editors, both in Afghanistan and in exile.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wesleywr@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Careers / Jobs:Major Insights ASML Virtual Panel Series - Electrical & Computer Engineering
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for Major Insights, a virtual panel series designed to help students discover how their academic backgrounds can translate into rewarding careers at ASML. On December 4th at 1:00pm PT/4:00pm ET we will do a deep dive into electrical and computer engineering where you can learn more about the backgrounds and roles of employees in those fields.Electrical and Computer Engineers at ASML are critical to developing the complex hardware and software systems that allow for precise control, high speed processing and the overall reliability of the machines. By working on our EUV machines, our ECE professionals contribute to the design, development, and optimization of these systems, ensuring precise control, high speed processing and robust machine performance. Whether you are interested in controls system engineering, signal processing, circuit design, embedded systems or even robotics– there is an opportunity for you.Be sure to register for the event below. We hope to see you there virtually!

Workshop / Seminar:MICDE-Aerospace Engineering Seminar - Jan Janssen: How to use machine learning in the discovery and design of materials for the future?
2024-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Cooley Building - 906
Bio:
Dr. Jan Janssen is the group leader for materials informatics at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, Germany. Previously, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he designed materials for fusion reactors as part of the Exascale Computing Project. In addition, he leads the development of the open-source pyiron software package, is a maintainer of over 900 open-source software packages for the conda-forge community and an active contributor to open-source projects on Github.

Abstract:
Designing materials for a sustainable future requires rethinking traditional materials design, which is centered on optimizing and fine-tuning already known alloying compositions. In a mathematical sense this can be identified as a local or global optimization in the multi-dimensional alloy phase space. To sample the whole periodic table, already a three-component alloy with 20 temperature steps and 10 concentration steps requires a million experiments, making it prohibitive for purely experimental approaches.
To address this challenge, simulation approaches and, more recently, machine learning models are applied to screen the periodic table. The pyiron workflow framework developed at the Max-Planck-Institute for sustainable materials predicts new materials using ab-intio thermodynamics. Starting from the interaction of electrons, it predicts macroscopic material properties like heat capacity, thermal expansion, and phase stability. Recently, the pyiron workflow framework was extended with a large language model (LLM) interface named LangSim.
This raises the question: Can a LLM replace a scientist? Or how does the thought process of a scientist differ from the statistical approach of the LLM? Can the LLM make us better scientists? We benchmark the capabilities of current LLMs to design new materials using atomistic simulation. The presentation introduces ab-initio thermodynamics, covers the importance of simulation workflows to efficiently predict sustainable materials and highlights how LLMs accelerate their discovery.
