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DTSTAMP:20251202T115505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T140000
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SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21884066@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91565104584
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DTSTAMP:20260105T162506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T140000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Hopwood Program Manager Virtual Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:Bring your questions about the 2026 Hopwood Awards writing contests and get instant answers. Contest deadline is January 15th.
UID:143226-21892518@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143226
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Flint,fiction,English Language And Literature,Dearborn,Creative Writing,Ann Arbor,Writing,Poetry,Literary Arts,Hopwood Program,Free
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260111T193149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Commutative Algebra: Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We'll select speakers and talks for this semester's seminar. Please attend or reach out if you want to sign up to talk or request a topic!
UID:143674-21893630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143674
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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DTSTAMP:20260113T082021
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CANCELLED - CM-AMO | Engineering topological bands in materials with chiral cavities
DESCRIPTION:Strongly coupling materials to cavity fields can affect the material’s electronic properties altering the phases of matter. In this talk\, I will first discuss the hybrid light-matter band topology of the monolayer graphene whose electrons can be coupled to both left and right circularly polarized vacuum fluctuations\, and time-reversal symmetry is broken due to an asymmetry between the two polarizations. This discussion will show how the quantum nature of photons affects the topology of the correlated light-matter hybrid wave function. A central finding of Ref. [1] is a relation between the Berry phase and the properties of exchanged photons with matter at light-matter hybridization points in the Brillouin zone. This physics turns out to be generic\, as it also emerges in stacked graphene layers [2]. I will then introduce a quantum optics model to capture the properties of the topological light-matter hybridization gaps and show the presence of chiral edge modes in these gaps [3]. For the rest of the talk\, I will describe a newly proposed photonic crystal chiral cavity [4]\, and its recent realization [5]. \n\n[1] Physical Review B 110 (12)\, L121101 (2024)\n[2] arXiv: 2504.03842\n[3] arXiv: 2510.13373\n[4] Nature Communications 16 (1)\, 5270 (2025)\n[5] arXiv: 2509.14366
UID:143295-21892653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143295
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Physics
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20251128T121323
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: What Kinds of Functions Do Neural Networks Learn? Low-Norm vs. Flat Solutions
DESCRIPTION:This talk investigates the fundamental differences between low-norm and flat solutions of shallow ReLU networks training problems\, particularly in high-dimensional settings. We sharply characterize the regularity of the functions learned by neural networks in these two regimes. This enables us to show that global minima with small weight norms exhibit strong generalization guarantees that are dimension-independent. In contrast\, local minima that are “flat” can generalize poorly as the input dimension increases. We attribute this gap to a phenomenon we call neural shattering\, where neurons specialize to extremely sparse input regions\, resulting in activations that are nearly disjoint across data points. This forces the network to rely on large weight magnitudes\, leading to poor generalization. Our analysis establishes an exponential separation between flat and low-norm minima. In particular\, while flatness does imply some degree of generalization\, we show that the corresponding convergence rates necessarily deteriorate exponentially with input dimension. These findings suggest that flatness alone does not fully explain the generalization performance of neural networks.
UID:142085-21889991@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142085
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
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DTSTAMP:20251117T080145
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter 2026 Seminar Series: \"Uncovering defect mechanisms and apical polarity cues in neural tube organoids\"
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Tidball\, Ph.D.\nResearch Assistant Professor\nNeurology\nUniversity of Michigan
UID:141937-21889654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141937
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Engineering,Education,Ecology,Biosciences,biomedical engineering,biomedical,Biology,Biointerfaces,Basic Science,AEM Featured,Graduate Students,Undergraduate Students,seminar,Science,Research,Rackham,Public Health,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Medicine,Life Science,Lecture,Interdisciplinary,In Person,human genetics,Graduate School
LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms
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DTSTAMP:20251211T102025
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Exploring the structural biology of enteroviral genome replication
DESCRIPTION:The Enterovirus genus comprises RNA viruses associated with various illnesses\, including the common cold\, poliomyelitis\, acute flaccid paralysis\, and myocarditis. These viruses have conserved cloverleaf-shaped RNA secondary structures at the extreme 5′ end of their genomes\, which are crucial for assembling viral and host proteins\, such as 3CD and PCBP2\, into functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes required for genome replication. However\, the high-resolution structures and mechanisms of these cloverleaf RNAs have largely remained unknown. Recently\, we determined the crystal structures of five cloverleaf RNAs from different enteroviral species\, revealing a highly conserved H-type four-way junction fold that positions the 3CD and PCBP2 binding sites far apart. The conserved features observed in these structures\, including a long-range A•C•U base triple\, enabled us to predict structural models for other enteroviruses via homology modeling\, yielding models similar to the experimental structures. Our structure-guided binding analyses\, using recombinantly purified full-length human PCBP2 and viral 3C proteins\, along with the crystal structures of the cloverleaf-3C complexes\, offered further insights into how these viruses assemble RNP complexes for their genome replication within host cells. Moreover\, we demonstrated that antisense oligonucleotides could block high-affinity PCBP2-binding sites\, highlighting the potential to develop therapeutics targeting this replication platform for enteroviral infections. The notable structural conservation among enteroviral cloverleafs observed in our studies underscores opportunities to develop universal therapeutics that target this viral RNP platform across multiple enterovirus infections.
UID:138424-21882929@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Chemistry,Chemical Biology
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260113T120133
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T190000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:KOA Pre-Law and Public Policy Fraternity - Winterfest!
DESCRIPTION:Come meet brothers at the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom to learn more about our premier pre-law and public policy professional fraternity on Tuesday\, January 13th\, from 4-7pm at Table 4! We will be in the Wl section with all the other professional fraternities. \nCheck out our Instagram @koaumich for updates! \nQuestions? Email our recruitment chairs! Fin (fnicol@umich.edu) & Grace (ggkim@umich.edu)\nInterest form: Click here
UID:142866-21891746@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142866
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Table 4 - Rogel Ballroom (Michigan Union)
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