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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Life After Grad School Seminars  |  I’m no expert – embracing the dynamics of industrial research
DESCRIPTION:You are an expert. At this moment\, as a University of Michigan graduate student\, you may be in fact\, amongst the world’s experts in your field. It took hard work to get there – hours in the classroom\, more hours in the lab – physical or virtual. Here you are – at the top of your game. Then you get a job in industry\, and your first project – and it has very little to do with your expertise. It can be alarming and disarming. And it can be the start of an incredible ride and fulfilling career. In this edition of the Life After Graduate School seminar series\, Joel will review how adaptability and agility have brought him opportunities he never imagined\, and satisfaction he celebrates daily.\n\nBio: Joel McDonald is the Technical Director for Dow’s MobilityScience segment\, where he leads Dow’s efforts to deliver innovative solutions to automakers and their suppliers worldwide. He has held a variety of technical and strategy leadership positions at Dow over the 16 years of his career\, with a particular emphasis on battery materials\, electronics\, and coatings. Before Dow\, Joel was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico\, where he explored fundamental reaction kinetics in energetic materials. Joel completed his PhD in Applied Physics at the University of Michigan in 2007 under the advisement of Prof. Steven Yalisove\, where his dissertation focused on the interaction between ultrashort pulsed lasers and materials. A native of Michigan\, Joel enjoys traveling adventures with his wife and two children\, fishing the local rivers and streams with his dad and bud
UID:145390-21897228@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145390
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Applied Physics,Life After Graduate School,Physics
LOCATION:West Hall - 267B
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DTSTAMP:20260130T150414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> A network mechanism for perceptual learning
DESCRIPTION:Organisms continually tune their perceptual systems to the features they encounter in their environment. We have studied how this experience reorganizes the synaptic connectivity of neurons in the olfactory (piriform) cortex of the mouse. We developed an approach to measure synaptic connectivity in vivo\, training a deep convolutional network to reliably identify monosynaptic connections from the spike-time cross-correlograms of 4.4 million single-unit pairs. This revealed that excitatory piriform neurons with similar odor tuning are more likely to be connected. We asked whether experience enhances this like-to-like connectivity\, but found that it was unaffected by odor exposure. Experience did\, however\, alter the logic of interneuron connectivity. Following repeated encounters with a set of odorants\, inhibitory neurons that responded differentially to these stimuli exhibited a high degree of both incoming and outgoing synaptic connections within the cortical network. This reorganization depended only on the odor tuning of the inhibitory interneuron and not on the tuning of its pre- or postsynaptic partners. A computational model of this reorganized connectivity predicts that it increases the dimensionality of the entire network’s responses to familiar stimuli\, thereby enhancing their discriminability. We confirmed that this network-level property is present in physiological measurements\, which showed increased dimensionality and separability of the evoked responses to familiar versus novel odorants. Thus a simple\, non-Hebbian reorganization of interneuron connectivity may selectively enhance an organism’s discrimination of the features of its environment.
UID:144862-21896053@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144862
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns,seminar
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260224T101438
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Revolutionary Paine: Andy Murphy Student-Curated Class Exhibit Common Sense
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The first edition was published on January 10\, 1776\, with an initial print run of just 1\,000 copies\; but within weeks demand soared. The students of Andy Murphy’s POLISCI 495 course co-curated the exhibition “Revolutionary Paine” to document the whirlwind caused by its publication. On view at the Clements January 16-May 8\, weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:143999-21894427@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143999
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Americana,Exhibit,Exhibition,history
LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Reading Room
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DTSTAMP:20260202T133709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T124500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad in Sorrento\, Italy - Fall/AY 2026
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:144921-21896153@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144921
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,global,global opportunities,international,International Education,Italian,Italian Studies,Sessions,study abroad,Travel
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260122T181722
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T123000
SUMMARY:Performance:Vinson Lam\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Vinson Lam performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon.
UID:144343-21895186@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260401T160240
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory
DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. Presented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours:\nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm
UID:138950-21884336@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138950
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history
LOCATION:Detroit Observatory
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DTSTAMP:20260206T151716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T134500
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:INFO SESSION: Capstone Program in Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:Attention English Majors! \nIf you'd like to write a poetry or prose collection in the company of other fiction writers and poets\, the Capstone Program in Creative Writing may be for you!\n\nLearn more here: https://lsa.umich.edu/english/undergraduate/capstone-programs/creative-writing-capstone.html
UID:145182-21896771@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145182
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,English Language And Literature,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260211T103648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Logic seminar: Infinitesimal and infinite numbers
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the history of human thought\, the nature of infinite and infinitesimal quantities has been investigated by the best minds\, and their actual use in calculus led to the modern development of mathematics. However\, in the first years of the last century\, the infinitesimals were banned from the world of mathematics\, as their use was considered contradictory. It was only in the 1960s\, when Robinson introduced nonstandard analysis\, that the use of infinitesimal and infinite numbers in calculus was finally placed on rigorous foundations.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present some historical observations on infinitesimal numbers\, and then introduce the fundamental ideas of nonstandard analysis. In the final part of the seminar\, I will also show some applications of nonstandard analysis in the discrete field of combinatorics\, presenting new results recently proven in arithmetic Ramsey theory\, including the following: In every finite coloring (partition) of the natural numbers\, one can always find a monochromatic pattern of the form a\, b\, a+b\, b/a.
UID:144702-21895742@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144702
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3088
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