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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Squirrel Jam
DESCRIPTION:Go nuts at our trail mix station\, gather clues in an exploration activity for exclusive LSA squirrel swag\, and meet Maizie\, LSA’s squirrel mascot! Show off your trivia skills and learn fun facts about U-M’s bushy-tailed legends as you join in the celebration of our campus’s favorite furry friends.\n\nIn partnership with LSA Sustainability\, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, Planet Blue Ambassadors\, and The Squirrel Club.\n__________\nFor LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play\, a vibrant series of events designed to welcome and support LSA students! Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize well-being\, inclusivity\, and community. Plus\, get free food and LSA swag! Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details\, subscribe to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first-come\, first-served\, and while supplies last. One swag item per student\, and you must be present with an MCard to receive it.\n\nThe University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations.
UID:146326-21898882@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146326
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Well-being,Food,Free,Games,Sustainability,Swag
LOCATION:LSA Building - Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20260216T113714
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - Energy Needs and Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment AND In situ treatment of PFAS using adsorptive and reactive barrier walls
DESCRIPTION:IES Seminar Abstract:\nEnergy demands to treat municipal wastewater can represent up to 2% of U.S. electricity consumption\, and 40 to 60% of this demand is required for aeration to biologically oxidize organic waste and nitrify urea-sourced ammonia.  This energy consumption is ironic\, given that organics in domestic wastewater have the potential to favorably deliver more than 5 billion amps of current\, and that 50 million GJ/yr of energy are used each year to produce the equivalent amount of ammonia via the Haber-Bosch process.  In this talk\, I will explore opportunities to transform wastewater treatment plants into energy factories\, where electrochemical methods are used to direct electrons in wastewater toward synthesis of value-added products\, and advanced separation methods are used to recovery ammonia as a commodity fertilizer.\n\nCEE Seminar Abstract:\nPer and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are extraordinarily stable and widely used chemicals used to create many consumer and industrial products\, including non-stick cookware\, water-resistant textile coatings\, food packaging\, cosmetics\, semi-conductors\, and aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs).  Due to their widespread use\, PFAS have been released to the environment and have contaminated at least 9\,500 different sites in the United States.  This is a concern because even at very low concentrations PFAS ingestion has been correlated to negative health impacts\, including delayed developmental\, immune system suppression\, and cancer.  Efforts to clean up PFAS in groundwater have mainly relied on ex situ approaches\, where contaminated groundwater is pumped it to the ground surface and treated in engineered reactors using energy intensive thermal\, (electro)chemical\, ultrasonic\, or plasma-based technologies.  An emerging in situ approach is to create barriers to PFAS migration in contaminated aquifers from sorbent materials\, e.g.\, by injecting colloidal activated carbon (CAC) through wells into contaminated aquifers\, where it becomes immobilized.  However\, there remains great uncertainty in how long these sorptive barriers will prevent PFAS migration\, and if sorptive barrier amendments can be engineered to promote PFAS degradation.  In this talk\, I will present experimental and modeling results that address mechanisms controlling PFAS migration in CAC barriers\, CAC barrier effectiveness and lifetimes\, and an abiotic reaction pathway that complements CAC barriers by promoting in situ PFAS destruction.\n\nBiography:\nDr. Charles Werth is a Professor and the Bettie Margaret Smith Chair in Environmental Health Engineering in the Maseeh Department of Civil\, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Werth’s research and teaching background includes fundamental and applied studies on pollutant fate and treatment in both natural and engineered water systems\, with applications in electro(catalytic) drinking water treatment\, in situ groundwater remediation\, and subsurface storage of carbon dioxide and hydrogen.  Dr. Werth received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University\, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.
UID:145466-21897381@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145466
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Law,Materials Science,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,North Campus,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Science,seminar,Social Sciences,Sustainability,Mechanical Engineering,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Free,Environment,Engineering,Energy,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Civil and Environmental Engineering,CAEN,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1303
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DTSTAMP:20260113T103127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Race & Racial Ideologies Workshop
DESCRIPTION:January 22: Erykah Benson\nMarch 19: Kyle McCullers\nApril 2: Carlo Handy Charles\nApril 16: Vanessa Jiménez-Read
UID:143799-21894042@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143799
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Student
LOCATION:LSA Building - 4154
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DTSTAMP:20260303T154317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Department of Astronomy 2025-2026 Colloquium Series Presents:
DESCRIPTION:\"CECILIA: A Benchmark Sample for Studying Galaxy Enrichment at Cosmic Noon\"\n\nA significant fraction of all stars in the Universe today formed during a 2-3 Gyr period around z~1-3\, when both cosmic star-formation rate density and quasar number density reached their peak values. As a result\, this epoch---commonly known as \"Cosmic Noon\"---represents a key phase in galaxy evolution and has been studied extensively over the last decade. In recent years\, our ability to characterize galaxies at these redshifts has improved dramatically thanks to the capabilities of JWST\, which has made it possible to detect extremely faint emission lines sensitive to a variety of physical properties\, including gas temperature and hard ionizing radiation. I will review recent results from CECILIA\, a Cycle 1 JWST program that obtained ultra-deep (30-hour) spectra of typical star-forming galaxies at Cosmic Noon\, extending down to relatively low-mass (10^7.5 solar masses) Milky Way progenitor analogues that have <5% solar O/H in their interstellar medium. These findings include one of the most detailed analyses to date of multi-element chemistry in the distant Universe\, as well as intriguing evidence for differences in these galaxies' massive star populations and the impact of stellar feedback. I will also discuss how deep spectroscopic samples like CECILIA are leading to new best practices for measuring the metallicity of nascent galaxies and highlight future prospects for combining these unique data with other ground- and space-based campaigns.
UID:146153-21898596@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146153
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260125T202826
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T154500
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Admissible resolutions
DESCRIPTION:Discuss the material in Section 4 of the paper. The main goals are to explain the statement of Theorem 3.15\, to sketch the ideas in the proof\, and to give some examples.
UID:144458-21895384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144458
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20260203T151958
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Conservation Close-up
DESCRIPTION:Come chat with the conservators and technicians who care for the library’s rare and special collections.  The Preservation Services department is charged with caring for vast and diverse collections — from the world’s first atlas to (fake) blood-stained movie costumes. \n\nProjects on view will include structural repairs of bindings\, complex paper washing\, intricate custom boxes\, and a large scale rehousing project. Some examples of projects involving technical analysis and multi-band imaging will also be presented.\n\nJoin us (on the 6th floor of Hatcher) for Third Thursdays at the Library\, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here\, pick up a passport and collect a stamp from each of the four Third Thursday Open Houses — Asia Library\, Clark Library\, International Studies\, and Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
UID:144994-21896251@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144994
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Free
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260317T104211
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Commonness\, rarity\, and biodiversity on Indo-Pacific coral reefs: Confronting ecological theory with data in species-rich systems
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Ecologists have long sought to understand spatial and temporal patterns in abundance and biodiversity\, but the classical approach to developing theory to explain such patterns cannot work in species-rich systems\, due to the “curse of dimensionality” – a tendency for the parameters needed to draw inferences about a community to grow faster than the number of observations\, as species richness increases. \nIn this talk\, I will summarize one strand of my lab’s research program\, which aims to explore potential solutions to the curse of dimensionality\, test them with empirical data – mainly from coral reefs – and use them to unveil the factors that structure marine assemblages. I will begin by summarizing our earlier work developing a robust test of neutral theory of biodiversity\, the most aggressively simplifying of biodiversity theories. I will then present work extending an alternative\, intermediate-complexity mathematical theory that evaluates the dynamics of species’ relative abundances to quantify the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes that generate patterns in community structure\; when applied to coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef\, that work reveals that reef fish communities are highly niche-structured\, but that this niche structure is eroded by volatility in coral cover. Finally\, I will present work relaxing the simplifying assumptions of the former theory\, which uses dimension-reduction approaches to allow for considerable heterogeneity among species in both interaction strengths and  responses to environmental fluctuations. When applied to reef fishes on the GBR\, we find a classically Gleasonian community structure\, where the dynamics of relative abundance are driven by conspecific density-dependence and “response diversity” – differential responses of species’ population dynamics to environmental fluctuations\, but where between-species interactions have negligible impacts on community dynamics. I will conclude with some thoughts on where community ecology stands\, in terms of its ability to rigorously confront theoretical models with empirical data to answer the fundamental questions that have long motivated research in this field.
UID:144777-21895837@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144777
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biodiversity,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,Ecosystems,eeb,environmental,evolutionary biology,seminar,Sustainability
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260203T151330
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T160000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:K-Library Collections: The Roots of Blossoming Korean Culture
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to discover the richness and diversity of Korean culture. Step into a world of unique and historic treasures\, spanning from the seventeenth century to the present and showcasing voices from both South and North Korea. \n\nK-pop and the Korean Wave (Hallyu) have taken the world by storm — captivating hearts and inspiring fascination — but the story of Korean culture stretches much deeper and further back. For more than a century\, U-M scholars and librarians have explored these roots and built vibrant collections of Korean materials. Today\, thanks to the dedication of scholars\, donors\, community members\, and organizations in Korea\, our library is home to over 100\,000 Korean-language materials.\n\nHighlights at this event include Akhak kwebom (樂學軌範\, 1610)\, the Sambongjip Wooden Print Block (三峰集木版\, 1791)\, the Han’gul Bible translated by John Ross (1887)\, issues of Nodong Sinmun\, children’s literature\, cartoons\, and works by the acclaimed author Han Kang. Join us for this rare opportunity to experience the extraordinary legacy and dynamic spirit of Korean culture—there’s something here for everyone to explore!\n\nThird Thursdays at the Library is a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here\, pick up a passport and collect a stamp from each of this month's Third Thursday locations — Asia Library\, Clark Library\, International Studies\, and the Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
UID:144991-21896248@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Asia,Free,Korean
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Asia Library (4th floor-North)
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