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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:J-1 Scholar Host Department Training
DESCRIPTION:(Previously HEC 116)This training will provide a high-level overview of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program and an introduction to key responsibilities for UM units hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor\, both before and after the Exchange Visitor’s arrival.About the J-1 program: \nA J-1 Scholar is a visiting researcher\, professor\, or specialist from a country outside of the United States who has been approved to enter the United States for a specific purpose and for a limited amount of time. The J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is administered by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) for the express purpose of promoting international educational exchange of expertise and stimulating collaborative teaching and research efforts.  Exchange is truly at the core of the program and based on this philosophy and directive. Topics Discussed: Visa and Immigration OverviewHow to Request a DS-2019 for a visiting scholarScholar Request FormsMandatory Immigration Check InInternational Center ServicesMore information and FAQ’s on the J-1 scholar program at UM: \nhttps://internationalcenter.umich.edu/departments/overview-j1-exchange-visitor-program\n\n
UID:103590-21899443@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/103590
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTAMP:20260331T160119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T110000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Student Fellowship Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Academic Innovation for our 10th annual Student Fellowship Showcase. This event celebrates the exceptional work and contributions of our student fellows for the 2025-26 academic year.\n\nThe showcase will feature a series of lightning talks\, where student collaborators share insightful knowledge gained from their fellowship projects across disciplines such as extended reality\, course design\, online learning\, and more. Attendees can also engage with our fellows during the interactive poster presentation and learn more about their work. \n\nWe invite the entire U-M community to join us in applauding our student collaborators for their accomplishments. Food and refreshments will be provided.\n\nRegister Now \n\n*Innovation Showcase*\nInnovation Showcases are one-day events featuring faculty\, staff\, and students who discuss how they are transforming teaching and learning to support student success. Innovation Showcases are an opportunity to connect with the latest research\, technology\, and design practices in digital education.
UID:147229-21900554@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147229
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Fellowship,Academic Technology At Michigan,Academic Innovation,Career,Celebration,Graduate Students,Showcase,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Center for Academic Innovation - Event Space
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DTSTAMP:20260511T181505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T110000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fore-Site (Phase 2): The Stamps Gallery Pillar Project
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFrom September 2025 through November 2026\, Stamps Gallery is partnering in a curatorial collaboration with two Ypsilanti-based\, artist-run project spaces led by Stamps alumni: C.Y.N.K. Studios\, directed by Sally Clegg (Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator\, MFA ’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20)\; and Sometimes Space\, directed by Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I\, MFA ’21). Each space hosts dozens of artists annually for exhibitions\, performances\, and events\, fostering experimental work and building community. For this project\, Byrne\, Clegg\, and Narula have been commissioned to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the gallery. In response\, they’ve curated six artists to create new work for the pillars over three cycles:\n\nPhase 1 (September 12 - December 12) artists: Amelia Burns (Cranbrook MFA ’23) and Erin McKenna (MFA ’20)\nPhase 2 (January 12 - August 12) artists: Sally Clegg (MFA ’20) and Kim Karlsrud (MFA ’20)\nPhase 3 (September 12 - November 12) artists: Abhishek Narula (MFA ’20) and Nathan Byrne (MFA ’21)\nPhase 2 Curatorial Statement\n\nCurated by Sometimes Space: Sally Clegg (entry pillar)\nCurated by CYNK Studios: Kim Karlsrud (courtyard pillar)\n\nArtists Sally Clegg and Kim Karlsrud wrap the Division Street pillars in highly site-specific ornament unearthed from the overlooked margins of Ann Arbor. On the Courtyard pillar\, Karlsrud scales up photographs of objects found in liminal spaces surrounding campus buildings on Green Road\, which the artist has encrusted in road salt. On the entryway pillar\, Clegg zooms in on tiny fragments of found material from UMich’s famous “rock” to celebrate nearly seven decades of student art and activism. Both artists uplift aggregate of local human activity to reveal tiny worlds of found form. \n\nSally Clegg: Sentimentary Rock\nSentimentary Rock is a composition of paint slag collected from the UMich rock monument at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. This colorful composite material has been accumulating at the base of the iconic limestone boulder since the mid 1950’s\, when students began a tradition of painting it in acts of protest\, creativity\, and ritual\, sometimes multiple times per week. Akin to byproducts of industry such as “Fordite” (collectable chunks of automotive overspray sometimes called ‘Detroit agate’)\, Sentimentary Rock includes thousands of layers\, each dripped from a palimpsestic public proclamation. When processed\, sculpted\, sealed\, assembled\, and macro-photographed\, the result is this enlarged array of tiny gems\, intended to celebrate the indissoluble student voice. \n\nKim Karlsrud: What Amasses\nWhat Amasses is an assemblage of everyday found objects collected within the Miller Creek watershed\, an urbanized drainage system that encompasses much of the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus. Selected objects were immersed in a road salt solution\, allowing delicate crystalline formations to emerge. Road salt is a common material input into these hydrological networks during the winter months and exists in multiple states of refinement\, expression\, coherence\, and fragmentation. Each object was then arranged\, photographed\, and enlarged to recontextualize these materials in ways that invite deeper reflections on how infrastructure and human agency blur notions of the natural and the artificial. \nArtist Statements/Bios\n\nSally Clegg \nSally Clegg is an artist and educator from Pelham\, Massachusetts. Her studio practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded printmaking\, stemming from a fascination with human efforts to make meaning from our relationships to objects. Clegg integrates history\, popular culture\, literature and philosophy as material for artmaking\, leveraging personal anecdote and humor to reveal the complexity\, absurdity\, and theoretical richness at play in our connections to things and to ourselves. \n\nClegg holds an MFA in Art from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design\, and a BA in Art & English from Goucher College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally\, and her work can be found in permanent collections at Yale University\, The New York Public Library\, and elsewhere. Her artwork and writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal\, BOMB Magazine\, Sculpture Magazine\, and Hyperallergic. She is a lecturer in Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Website / Instagram\n\n\nKim Karlsrud \nKim Karlsrud is the co-founder of Commonstudio\, a collaborative creative practice that develops socio-ecological and spatial interventions\, installations\, and initiatives working with and within urban landscapes. Her work explores the space between art and design\, and is grounded in the concept of the “commons\,” that which is shared\, as well as that which is ordinary\, banal\, and commonplace.\n\nKarlsrud completed her undergraduate degree in Product Design from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon\, teaching across Art and Landscape Architecture departments. She jointly received the 2014-15 Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture\, was a 2017 resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is the 2025-26 Fuller Fieldscape Fellow. Website / Instagram
UID:138032-21903356@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260416T102030
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad in Sorrento\, Italy - Winter 2027
DESCRIPTION:Join CGIS Advisor\, Joy Richardson\, and Sant'Anna Institute staff to learn more about the CGIS: Humanities and Social Sciences in Sorrento (Italy) program\, the application process\, the academics\, and life in Sorrento.Please note that both of these sessions will be virtual over Zoom. Both sessions will contain the same info\, so students have the option to choose either one to attend.To learn more\, visit the M-Compass brochure:https://mcompass.umich.edu/_portal/tds-program-brochure?programid=12125 and the Sant'Anna Institute website: https://www.santannainstitute.com/.
UID:146733-21900535@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146733
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20250904T153242
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Weekly coffee chat hosted by INFORMS & HFES
DESCRIPTION:Come join us in the IOE Commons for some coffee and networking!
UID:138834-21896908@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138834
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Human Factors And Ergonomics Society,Hfes,Graduate Students,Graduate,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite, Room 1700
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DTSTAMP:20260413T101909
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ChE SEMINAR: Carl Laird\, Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:Systems\, Surrogates\, Solutions: Optimization and Machine Learning for Decision-Making at Scale\n\nEmerging global challenges are pushing the limits of today's scientific computing tools. To overcome these barriers\, our group develops open-source solutions for large-scale optimization problems. At the intersection of data science and mathematical programming\, new capabilities support optimization-based decision-making with embedded machine-learning and data-driven models. Leveraging high-level languages like Python\, we are democratizing these capabilities\, placing powerful tools in the hands of a broader research community. Two vignettes illustrate the effectiveness of these capabilities to tackle challenging science and engineering problems at scale.\n   The first vignette highlights our rapid-response work during COVID-19. The pandemic exposed significant challenges in mitigating emerging infectious diseases. I will discuss our work to efficiently estimate county-level transmission parameter dynamics using a fully-coupled\, national-scale model. With full spatio-temporal transmission parameter profiles\, we were able to estimate the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the spread of COVID-19. Our current work focuses on developing accessible\, advanced optimization capabilities that enable inference on very large-scale\, nonlinear dynamic systems.\n   Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used as surrogates for complex processes within engineering. Here\, I will discuss the need for surrogates in large-scale decision-making and introduce the Optimization and Machine Learning Toolkit (OMLT)\, a Python framework developed in collaboration with Imperial College London and Sandia National Laboratories. This package supports solution of mathematical programming problems with embedded ML models. I will showcase several applications that illustrate the use of machine learning surrogates\, including for example\, process design and operations\, bioprocess modeling\, and process family design.\n\nCarl D. Laird\nJohn E. Swearingen Professor and Department Head\n\nProf. Carl Laird is the John E. Swearingen Professor and Department\n			   Head in the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His international reputation centers on pioneering high-performance computing strategies for large-scale nonlinear and discrete optimization problems\, parallel scientific computing strategies\, and the development of open-source optimization capabilities\, including both modeling and solvers. He has worked in several application areas\, including process and energy systems\, product manufacturing\, biopharmaceutical processes\, homeland security\, and large-scale infectious disease spread. He is the recipient of several research awards\, including the Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research\, Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering\, the INFORMS Computing Society Prize\, CAST Division Outstanding Young Researcher Award\, National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award\, and the prestigious Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for his work on IPOPT\, a software library for solving nonlinear\, nonconvex\, large-scale continuous optimization problems.
UID:143399-21892981@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143399
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry,chemical engineering
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - B10 Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260302T171502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T120000
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SUMMARY:Other:Artwork Pickup: 30th Annual Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Duderstadt Gallery or the PCAP Studio to collect your artwork from the 30th Annual Exhibition. Please bring your receipt or notification letter. \n\nMarch 31 and April 1 artwork pickup is at the Duderstadt Center Gallery. \n\nApril 14\, 16\, and 17 artwork pickup is at the PCAP Studio.\n\nThe PCAP Studio is located in the rear hallway of the Campus Safety Services Building (1239 Kipke Dr)\, located across the parking lot from the Crisler Center. Short-term guest parking is available in the designated \"DPSS Visitor\" spots near the building entrance.\n\n● GPS Tip: Use the physical address (1239 Kipke Dr) for GPS. Searching for the building name may route you to the wrong entrance.\n● Entrance: Enter through the double doors marked \"Division of Public Safety and Security.\"\n● Inside the Building: Walk straight past the main desk toward the door leading to a long hallway. Note: You do not need to check in at the DPSS desk.\n● The Studio: Walk to the very end of the hallway and turn right. The PCAP Studio is immediately on your right in Room 1400.\n\nSponsors\nThe 30th Annual Exhibition is presented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work.
UID:145433-21897349@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145433
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Social Justice
LOCATION:Campus Safety Services Building - 1400
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DTSTAMP:20251210T152415
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | A Queer Girl in Modern Japan: Yoshiya Nobuko
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/W6ZPD.\n   \n   The talk explores the life and work of popular writer Yoshiya Nobuko (1896–1973)\, known for her serialized fiction\, modern fashion\, and lifelong relationship with a same-sex partner. The talk considers her work through the lens of the *shōjo* (girl) as a term of genre\, identity\, and perspective on 20th-century Japan.\n   \n   Sarah Frederick teaches Japanese literature and cinema at Boston University’s Department of World Languages and Literatures\, of which she is currently associate chair. She is the author of *Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women’s Magazines in Interwar Japan* (University of Hawaiʻi Press\, 2006)\, and articles in *positions: East Asian Cultures Critique\, US Japan Women’s Journal\,* and *Japan Forum.* She has also published a translation of Yoshiya Nobuko’s short story *Yellow Rose* (Expanded editions\, 2016). She has also written on the travel writings of Yoshiya Nobuko\, Isabella Bird\, and Natsume Sōseki\, including a GIS-aided map of Natsume Sōseki’s trips to Kyoto.\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:142556-21891151@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142556
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Japanese Studies,LGBT,Literature,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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