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:20250921T195327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: Lizhen Ji - The Unity of Mathematics Through the Uniformization Theorem DESCRIPTION:The uniformization theorem is one of the most significant results in mathematics\, with a deceptively simple statement familiar to many: every simply connected Riemann surface is biholomorphic to one of three standard surfaces—the Riemann sphere\, the complex plane\, or the open unit disk. This theorem has profound extensions to higher dimensions\, including Thurston’s geometrization program and\, notably\, the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. It is no wonder that this theorem is one of the most important theorems\, if not the most important theorem\, in the last 150 years.\n\nHowever\, its rich history and far-reaching impacts are often underappreciated. For example\, the initial formulations and attempted proofs by Klein and Poincaré using the method of continuity introduced many original ideas that have not been fully explored. Later\, Teichmüller’s innovative use of the method of continuity played a crucial role in his revolutionary work on Teichmüller space\, profoundly influencing the study of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Yet\, this deep historical and conceptual connection is frequently overlooked.\n\nIn this talk\, I will trace the historical development of the uniformization theorem\, from its early formulations to its lasting influence across mathematics. I will explore its connections to seemingly unrelated results and modern mathematical areas\, particularly in Teichmüller theory and moduli spaces. Through this exploration\, I aim to shed light on the theorem’s profound influence\, inspire new perspectives on its unifying role in contemporary mathematics. UID:139670-21885878@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T094357 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:First Year Success Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Upcoming W26 topics include undergraduate research\, alumni panels on majors and careers\, graduate school pathways\, student panels on internships/co-op\, and more! If you have any questions\, please don't hesitate to contact the event organizer.\n\nUse the RSVP link to stay updated. \n\n💼 Internships & Co-ops: How Students Land Them + What They Learn\nThu\, March 26\, 2026\, 5–6pm\n📍2150 Dow\n\n• Wondering how engineering students get internships or co-ops — and what those experiences are really like?\n\n• This student panel brings together undergraduates from different engineering majors (CEE\, ME\, NERS) to talk about how they found their roles\, what skills they developed\, and how internships and co-ops shape career exploration and future opportunities.\n\n\nPizza provided*. 🍕 \n*To avoid food waste and ensure accurate food orders\, please RSVP to the Google calendar invite (you'll receive it after you RSVP) if you do plan to join us (we hope you do!). UID:138671-21883564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:First Year,Engineering,free food,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T115516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea DESCRIPTION:*Critically Capitalist* examines South Korea’s mass investment culture through the lens of “critical capitalism”—a paradoxical phenomenon where ordinary Koreans simultaneously critique capitalism while dedicating themselves to asset accumulation. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork among amateur stock investors\, real estate enthusiasts\, and money coaches during the 2010s\, the book reveals how contemporary capitalism sustains itself by channeling popular discontent into financial and real estate markets. The book focuses on individuals aspiring to become millionaires in ten years. Rather than embodying the rational\, emotionally detached investor of economic theory\, these asset aspirants formed vibrant communities\, articulated sophisticated critiques of capitalism’s structural inequalities\, and openly expressed emotional wounds caused by exploitative labor and economic polarization.\n \n Critical capitalism emerged from popular discontent with both South Korea’s developmental state legacy and neoliberal financialization after the 1997 IMF crisis. Asset seekers positioned their speculative activities as resistance against corporate oppression and foreign capital domination\, while simultaneously embedding themselves deeper into financial markets. However\, their community building\, emotional expression\, and anti-capitalist rhetoric paradoxically legitimated their participation in dispossessive forms of capitalism. The book demonstrates how critique\, community\, and emotion function as the cultural and affective backbone of asset capitalism\, showing that contemporary capitalism thrives not despite its critics\, but precisely by incorporating their criticisms into new forms of market participation and wealth accumulation.\n \n Bohyeong Kim is an assistant professor of communication studies and Asian studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of *Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea* (University of Michigan Press\, 2025)\, and her research centers on the relationship between media\, culture\, and the capitalist economy. Her work has appeared in Cultural Studies\, Journal of Cultural Economy\, Media\, Culture & Society\, Korean Journal of Communication\, Television & New Media\, among other journals. She is currently working on another book-length project about South Korea’s platform capitalism and the tech-media-finance conglomerate Kakao.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137733-21880658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137733 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Korean Studies,Korea,Economics,Asian Languages And Cultures LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T160510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T171500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Organic Synthesis Lecture: Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis DESCRIPTION:Chemical synthesis is responsible for significant emissions of carbon dioxide worldwide. These emissions arise not only due to the energy requirements of chemical synthesis\, but since hydrocarbon feedstocks can be overoxidized or used as hydrogen sources. Using renewable electricity to drive chemical synthesis may provide a route to overcoming these challenges\, enabling synthetic routes which operate at benign conditions and utilize sustainable inputs. We are developing an electrosynthetic toolkit in which distributed feedstocks\, including carbon dioxide\, dinitrogen\, water\, and renewable electricity\, can be converted into diverse fuels\, chemicals\, and materials. \n\nIn this presentation\, we will share recent advances made in our laboratory on nitrogen fixation to synthesize ammonia at ambient conditions. Specifically\, our lab has investigated a continuous lithium-mediated approach to ammonia synthesis and understood the reaction network that controls selectivity. We have developed non-aqueous gas-diffusion electrodes which lead to high rates of ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions. We will also discuss how water can be used as a sustainable oxygen-atom source and how carbon dioxide can be used to achieve carbon chain extension. These findings will be discussed in the context of a broader range of electrosynthetic transformations which could lead to local and on-demand production of critical chemicals and materials. UID:138428-21882933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138428 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251007T133841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reading Seminar I: The Space of Ending Lamination DESCRIPTION:The Ending Lamination Conjecture was one of the central problems in the theory of 3-manifolds and its resolution in the 2000s by Brock–Canary–Minsky stands as a milestone in the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The proof required a deep understanding of the space of ending laminations and combined a wide range of ideas and techniques\, many of which continue to play a crucial role across current research areas.\n\nIn this reading seminar\, we will study the topological properties of the space of ending laminations\, following Gabai’s 2008 paper. Our third meeting will revisit the notion of lamination\, foliation\, and train track. UID:140392-21887023@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140392 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250925T142941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Afterlives of Sound: Memory\, Ethnography\, and the Borderlands DESCRIPTION:An immersive poetic and musical passage\, Alex E. Chávez’s recently-released album Sonorous Present extends sonic meditations on loss\, migration\, and memory across America’s borderlands—as physical place and liminal space. What began as an experimental and improvised performance—inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez’s multi-award-winning book Sounds of Crossing (Duke 2017)—was subsequently reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores\, and features luminaries from the worlds of traditional Mexican son\, poetry\, and jazz. Through integration of a range of scholarly disciplines and communities of artistic practice\, this multi-modal scholarly work uniquely integrates an epic spectrum of regional Mexican and Latin American sonic elements with field recordings and ethnographic songwriting drawn from years of research across the U.S.-Mexico border and his own personal experiences of personal loss. In his talk\, The Afterlives of Sound: Memory\, Ethnography\, and the Borderlands\, Chávez addresses how this work crosses the sunburst surreal of America’s musical and cultural borderlands\, refiguring the borders of both performance and intellectual engagement to strategically reimagine the possibilities and forms scholarship can take. UID:138772-21883880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Latina/o Studies,Latinx,latino/a studies,Latine Heritage Month LOCATION:Michigan Union - Tappan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251022T123208 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The power to solve\, scale & secure | Global Technology DESCRIPTION:Date: October 7\, 2025Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EasternFormat: Virtual informational session – meeting link will be shared with registered attendeesSession Description:Technology is at the center of everything we do. From developing cutting-edge platforms to safeguarding data\, our Global Technology teams solve complex problems\, scale solutions and protect what matters most. Join us to explore thedifferent tracks and career paths across the Global Technology Analyst Program. All are welcome to register for this session. UID:139792-21886058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139792 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250911T104251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251007T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:FoundHERS: From Bench to Launch in STEM DESCRIPTION:FoundHERS is a speaking and networking series aimed at providing space for women on U-M's campus to hear from professionals in the entrepreneurial ecosystem\, network with like-minded individuals\, and participate in immersive experiences. It is a unique opportunity to bridge the gender gap and foster an inclusive environment that celebrates the remarkable achievements of women in business. \n\nJoin us for a Fireside Chat with Priya Gogoi\, Co-Founder of Celsee\, Inc.\, and Madeline Eiken and Charlie Childs\, Co-Founders of Intero Biosystems\, on Tuesday\, October 7 from 4:30 - 6:30pm in Duderstadt 3358. All are welcome to attend and participate!\n\nRSVP here: https://myumi.ch/VVdxe\n\nQuestions? Contact Crista Deneau\, Entrepreneurial Practice Program Manager\, at cldeneau@umich.edu. UID:137431-21880234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137431 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cfe,Free,Entrepreneurship,Food,Center For Entrepreneurship,Career,Business,In Person,Welcome to Michigan,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Talk,Michigan Engineering,Leadership,Graduate Students,Graduate School,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 3358 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR