BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Detroit
TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20070311T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20071104T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20241107T171002
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T173000
SUMMARY:Other:Nature Play Pop-Ups
DESCRIPTION:Based in Gaffield Children’s Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, Nature Play Pop-ups are opportunities for children across ages and developmental stages to engage deeply\, based on their own interests\, curiosity\, and developmental stages. For example\, while some older children may be using our collections of natural loose parts to intently create a specific habitat\, other children will be engaging in developmentally appropriate play of taking all the petals off the flowers in our loose parts collections. While some children will tenaciously experiment to create the largest bubbles\, other children will be nearby splashing in the slippery solution. All ways of playing are good & welcome Nature Play! Come play outside with us!
UID:124837-21853890@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124837
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,In Person,nature,Outdoors
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20240926T070355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T173000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quasi-isometry types of graphs of arcs and curves
DESCRIPTION:We introduce various graphs whose vertices correspond to (possibly marked) arc and curve systems on a compact surface\, and their applications in the study of finite-type surface mapping class groups.  Examples will include: the curve graph\, the arc graph\, the pants graph\, and the marking graph.  We will discuss the quasi-isometry types of such graphs\, and a theorem classifying their (equivariant) quasi-isometry types by the set of subsurfaces intersecting every vertex.  If time permits\, we will also describe their hierarchically hyperbolic structure.
UID:123907-21852168@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123907
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20241002T152047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sociology Senior Thesis + Honors Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Interested in writing an honors thesis in Sociology? Join us for an information session with the Honors Coordinator\, Professor Karin Martin\, and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator\, Lauren Eddelbuettel. Explore the program and application process\, hear from current honors students and ask any questions you may have. 
UID:126790-21858063@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20241002T152047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sociology Senior Thesis + Honors Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Interested in writing an honors thesis in Sociology? Join us for an information session with the Honors Coordinator\, Professor Karin Martin\, and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator\, Lauren Eddelbuettel. Explore the program and application process\, hear from current honors students and ask any questions you may have. 
UID:126790-21857913@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20240929T164001
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student ML Seminar: Lightning Talks on Attention-based Architectures\, Diffusion Models and State Space Models
DESCRIPTION:The event will be divided into 3 lightning talks with the following abstracts.\n\nAttention-based Architectures: We will quickly discuss the basic architecture of transformers and intuitions behind some of its components. As time permits\, we will also look through Andrej Karpathy’s “build-nanogpt” repository to precisely understand some implementation details. \n\nDiffusion Models: Diffusion models\, in essence\, work by learning to denoise data that had been noised with a prescribed forward process. While much work has been done on different mathematical formulations of the process\, the architectural part that actually does the learning is often divorced from the former and relegated to a footnote in the articles. In this lightning talk\, I will illustrate the development and workings of the main backbone architectures used in diffusion models\, from the ubiquitous U-Net to approaches utilizing Transformers.\n\nState Space Models: Much recent excitement has centered on sequential data modeling\, which has been recently dominated by the popular Transformer architecture. Transformers\, however\, suffer from a quadratic memory requirement in sequence length\, limiting its use for the ever-increasing context window demands. State-space models (SSMs)\, in particular Mamba\, have arisen as a potential replacement for Transformers\, having linear memory scaling and comparable predictive performance. In this talk\, we discuss the fundamentals of SSMs from the perspective of linear dynamical systems and the core of the Mamba architecture.
UID:127101-21858419@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - B737
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20241017T123152
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T173000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Tackling Ethical Questions in the Medical School Interview
DESCRIPTION:Do you have medical or other health profession school interviews coming up? Are you wondering how to best prepare to handle ethics scenarios? Plan to attend this virtual session\, presented by Dr. Andrew Shuman\, as he provides a brief introduction to medical ethics and suggestions on how to best tackle ethical questions during medical school interviews. This will include audience participation\, including possibly being called on to give your perspective on a complex ethical scenario. Youare not expected to be an expert or have a \"right\" answer. Rather\, this workshop is designed to help you think on your feet and gain confidence inexpressing your thoughts on complex ethical issues. it is a judgement free zone where each of us can benefit from our unique perspectives.Dr. Andrew Shuman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.He serves as Chief of the Clinical Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM). He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in ethical issues arising within the field of otolaryngology and surgical oncology. His greatest impact involves his work in defining the conceptual dimensions of “surgical ethics\,” an emerging focus in the broader field of bioethics\, and being able to apply his perspective as a practicing surgeon and clinical ethicist to normative and empirical bioethics research.Pre-registration is required by \"joining the event\" via Handshake. If you are not on Handshake currently\, follow this link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1340781. This will allow you to join the Zoom session on the day of the event.If you are unable to attend and would like a recording\, please register for the event through Handshake. A recording will be distributed to all registrantsafter the session has concluded.If you are an alumni more than 2 years out from graduation (who no longer has access to your Handshake account)\, please email nvanderp@umich.edu to access the event.This workshop is sponsored by the University Career Center.
UID:124681-21853602@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124681
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20240926T084126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Weekly DCMB / CCMB Seminar featuring Jian Ma\, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Despite significant advancements in high-throughput data acquisition in genomics and cell biology\, our understanding of the diverse cell types within the human body remains limited. In particular\, the principles governing intracellular molecular spatial organization and interaction\, as well as cellular spatial organization within complex tissues\, are still largely unclear. A major challenge lies in developing computational methods capable of integrating heterogeneous and multiscale molecular\, cellular\, and tissue information. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent work on creating integrative approaches to advance single-cell epigenomics. These methods hold the potential to reveal new insights into fundamental genome structure\, gene regulation\, and cellular function within complex tissues\, across a wide range of biological contexts in both health and disease.\n\nBio: Jian Ma is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His lab develops advanced AI/ML methods to explore the structural and functional complexity of the human genome and cellular organization. His work tackles key computational challenges with broad implications for human health and disease. He serves as the Contact PI of a Center grant in the NIH 4D Nucleome Program and Co-Chair of its Steering Committee. His recent work has been supported by the NIH\, NSF\, CZI\, Google\, and the Mark Foundation. He has received several awards\, including an NSF CAREER Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship (in Computer Science)\, and is an elected Fellow of AAAS.
UID:126684-21857554@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126684
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Life Science,Applications,Basic Science,Talk,Structural Biology,seminar,Science,Research,Public Health,Precision Health,Physics,Michigan Engineering,Medicine,Mathematics,Biology,Lecture,Learning Health Systems,Information and Technology,Human Genetics,Graduate Students,Free,Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Education,Discussion,Chemistry,Cardiovascular,Biosciences,Biomedical Engineering
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20241017T123234
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241002T173000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:MQA 101: From Classrooms to Careers - Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an information session about Markets Quantitative Analysis (MQA).  About us:We are the preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-borderneeds\, a global leader in wealth management and a valued personal bank in our home market. Join us for this session to learn more about one of ourinterconnected businesses\, Markets Quantitative Analysis (MQA) within Markets. Business Overview:Markets provides world-class solutions and an unmatched global presence. We serve corporates\, institutional investors and governments from trading floorsin almost 80 countries. The strength of our underwriting\, sales and trading and distribution capabilities span asset classes (Commodities\, Equities\, Rates\, Spread Products) and currencies\, providing us with an unmatched ability to meet the needs of our clients.MQA - Markets Quantitative Analysis builds innovative solutions to the most complex financial problems facing our trading businesses\, control functions and international client base. We are industry leaders in derivatives modeling\, algorithmic execution and data analysis. Our quantitative analysts (quants) combine traditional financial engineering principles with the latest machine learning and data science techniques to design and develop the quantitative solutions and analytics that support diverse investment and transaction strategies across Markets. 
UID:126835-21857980@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126835
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR