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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:InSPIRE
DESCRIPTION:STPP Alumni Chat with Tyler Hoard - Register Here!Date and Time: Mar 12\, 2026\, 3:30-4:30 pm EDTLocation: Weill Hall\, Room 3240The Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program is excited to welcome STPP Alumnus and Associate Physical Scientist at the RAND Corporation\, Tyler Hoard (PhD/STPP '24)\, for afternoon snacks and conversation. Tyler will share his academic path and current work experience\, where he delivers high-impact policy research and analysis across national security\, biosecurity\, space policy\, and emerging technology portfolios within multiple research divisions and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).Speaker Bio:Tyler Hoard is an associate physical scientist at the RAND Corporation with interests spanning biosecurity\, space policy\, and emerging technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan\, where he also earned a graduate certificate in Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy. At RAND\, his research portfolio includes projects on biotechnology\, AI\, synthetic biology\, food security\, and the commercial space industry.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145971
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Weill Hall, Room 3240
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DTSTAMP:20260309T154141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T153000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
DESCRIPTION:Joseph’s Title: Tracing Black Hole Winds Across Cosmic Time with Broad Absorption Line Quasars\n\nAbstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can launch powerful winds that inject large amounts of energy and mass into their host galaxies\, potentially regulating galaxy evolution. One of the clearest observational signatures of these winds appears in broad absorption line (BAL) quasars\, whose spectra show deep\, blueshifted absorption features tracing gas traveling at tens of thousands of kilometers per second. Despite decades of study\, the physical properties of BAL winds have remained poorly understood due to the complexity of their spectra. In this talk\, I will present an overview of my research using BAL quasars to map the physical properties of SMBH winds\, enabled by SimBAL\, a spectral synthesis software that made possible the first systematic analysis of BAL quasar spectra and provided robust constraints on outflow properties for large samples of quasars. I will also discuss new discoveries of high-redshift BAL quasars from surveys such as DESI and future studies with JWST and 4MOST that will expand our understanding of SMBH outflows across cosmic time.\n\n\nCody’s Title: How Galactic Winds Influence Cosmic Ecosystems\n\nAbstract: A central insight of modern galaxy formation is that galaxies are not isolated systems\, but dynamic reservoirs of gas and stars that continuously exchange matter and energy with their surroundings.  Galactic winds—driven by stellar and AGN feedback—can expel hundreds of solar masses of gas\, dust\, and metals to distances of tens of kiloparsecs\, reshaping the structure and thermodynamics of the circumgalactic and intergalactic media. These winds regulate star formation\, curb black hole growth\, and may play a critical role in enabling the escape of ionizing radiation that reionized the Universe during the Epoch of Reionization.  In this talk\, I will discuss how the physical properties of galactic winds—including mass outflow rates—are inferred from spectral line diagnostics\, the current state of the art in radiative transfer modeling and interpretation\, and key systematic uncertainties that remain. I will then explore how winds influence the escape of ionizing photons by altering the multiphase structure of the interstellar medium. Finally\, I will outline future directions for this work and describe how next-generation facilities such as the Extremely Large Telescopes will transform absorption line studies of galactic winds.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146353
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:astrophysics,astronomy
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260125T202636
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T154500
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: The Mumford construction
DESCRIPTION:Discuss the Mumford construction.
UID:144457-21895383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144457
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20260310T122938
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A New World of Authoritarian Welfare?
DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Dan Slater\, Director\, U-M Center for Emerging Democracies\n\nDemocracy and social welfare have long been seen as mutually reinforcing\, but the connection is anything but universal or automatic. With illiberal and autocratic leaders around the world offering more generous welfare policies to consolidate their power\, do we need to rethink the relationships between democracy\, authoritarianism\, and welfare? Experts on Europe\, Latin America\, the Middle East\, the former Soviet Union\, and Asia tackle this topic from different world-regions and multiple analytical perspectives.\n\n*Cosponsored by the Open Society Foundations and the Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute*.\n\nAtten in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/8qVGq.\n   \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at emergingdemocracies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:144144-21894723@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144144
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Authoritarianism,democracy
LOCATION:North Quad - Room 2435
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DTSTAMP:20260225T094937
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Differential Equations Seminar: Einstein-Perfect Fluid Initial Data in General Relativity
DESCRIPTION:Fluids are a standard matter source for gravitation\, going back to the early days of general relativity. Nevertheless\, constructing initial data for this family of matter models is surprisingly nuanced. In this talk we describe a novel approach to building Einstein-fluid initial data based on a recently established phase-space technique for constructing non-vacuum initial data sets. Compared to prior approaches to working with fluids\, the input parameters allow for more direct specification of physical quantities\, such as the number of particles in any given region.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Differential Equations Seminar - Department Of Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260120T123835
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Temperate forest resilience in a changing world: linking ecological mechanism to management solutions
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Climate change and invasion by nonnative plant species are changing the composition and function of temperate forest ecosystems. This talk will discuss how we can measure resiliency in temperate forests to these two interacting global change factors and how management of these systems might shape their future.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology & Biology,Workshop,evolutionary biology,evolution,Environment,Ecology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,Ecosystems,eeb,environmental
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260205T145330
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis\, Martial Masculinity\, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco
DESCRIPTION:Amazigh cultural-political activism in North Africa is premised on a rhetoric of resistance for territorial autonomy against imperial invaders from the Roman empire through the Islamic conquest and the French protectorate to contemporary Arab nationalist regimes. Yet\, filtering through this dominant discourse are subaltern scripts that register nostalgia for particular pasts when\, even under colonial tutelage\, Amazigh groups felt recognized and effectively acted as self-determining agents of their own history making.  In this paper\, I draw on my research in southeastern Morocco to explore how Amazigh activists narrate the colonial past and memorialize martial masculine resistance and collaboration within it.\n\nPaul A. Silverstein is professor of anthropology at Reed College. He is author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics\, Race\, Nation (Indiana\, 2004) and Postcolonial France: Race\, Islam\, and the Future of the Republic (Pluto\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Bourdieu in Algeria (Nebraska\, 2009)\, among other publications. He has done extensive ethnographic and archival research on Amazigh cultural politics in southeastern Morocco. His translation of Moha Layid’s The Sacrifice of Black Cows—a Moroccan novel set during the nationalist uprising against French colonialism— was recently published by the MLA. He chairs the MERIP Board of Directors.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142518
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Global,Multicultural,International,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260309T160050
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Indigenous Studies Lecture Series with Gladys Tzul Tzul (Maya K’iché)
DESCRIPTION:LECTURE\n   March 12\, 4–5:30 PM\n   Design and Transformation in Communal Politics\n   \n   WORKSHOP\n   March 13\, 11:30 AM–1 PM\n   The Design of a Celebratory World (conversation in Spanish)\n   RSVP is required to attend. Reading materials will be emailed before the workshop. Register: https://myumi.ch/Pk4Jq\n\nGladys Tzul Tzul is a writer and essayist from the Paquí community of Totonicapán\, Guatemala. With a PhD in Sociology\, she is currently a visiting professor at FLACSO Ecuador. She is the author of two books\, *Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves para comprender su tensa relación* and *Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq'ena*\, as well as several articles translated into English\, French\, and German. In recognition of her work\, she received the 2018 Voltaire Prize from the University of Potsdam\, Germany. The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) also awarded her first place in 2017 for social science research in Central America. Her advocacy work includes serving as an expert witness in the investigation of Berta Cáceres's assassination in Honduras and coordinating the inquiry into the October 4 Massacre\, when the Guatemalan army violently suppressed an uprising of the 48 Indigenous communities of Totonicapán.\n\nCo-Sponsors for this event include the Program in Native American Studies\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the International Institute.
UID:146356-21898950@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146356
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Central America,Latin America,Lecture,Workshop
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons
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