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DTSTAMP:20261016T084700
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 David Noel Freedman Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2026 David Noel Freedman Lecture with Dr. Susanne Paulus\, Associate Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Tablet Collection at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago.\n\nMichigan League\, Vandenberg Room\, 2nd Floor\nMonday\, October 26th\, 4 - 6pm\n\nAbstract:\n\nWriting history is telling stories. The stories we tell about ancient economies\, including that of Late Bronze Age Babylonia\, are often shaped by preconceptions about commodities\, credit\, and debt. Drawing on tablets excavated in cities such as Babylon\, Nippur\, and Ur in modern Iraq\, this lecture follows barley through a series of transactions involving taxes\, loans\, investments\, and even two piglets. Barley was both a major food source and an economic staple\, but the documents reveal much more than subsistence. They offer alternative ways of understanding credit\, debt\, and investment in Late Bronze Age Babylonia.\n \nBiography:\n\nSusanne Paulus is an Associate Professor of Assyriology and Curator of the Tablet Collection at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the social\, legal\, and economic history of Late Bronze Age Babylonia. Her current book project\, Banking with Barley\, supported by the American Council of Learned Societies\, explores credit\, debt\, and economic life in Kassite Babylonia. She is also an epigraphist for the Nippur excavations and is involved in the publication of cuneiform texts from the city of Babylon.
UID:153265-21915550@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Middle East Studies,Babylonia,Bronze Age,Lecture
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261022T182114
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:BSI Information Sessions- Current U of M Students
DESCRIPTION:We encourage every student interested in or contemplating an undergraduate degree at the School of Information to attend an information session. You will receive an engaging and comprehensive overview of the program\, as well as guidance for the application process. Sessions are hosted on different days and times to accommodate as many students as possible\, and you only need to attend one session before you apply.These information sessions are for students who area currently University of Michigan students.
UID:150985-21910668@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150985
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20261012T112125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Consumption\, Savings\, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls (joint with Rajashri Chakrabarti\, Philippe d’Astous\, Sheisha Kulkarni\, Vyacheslav Mikhed\, Matthew J. Notowidigdo\, Sahil Raina and Barry Scholnick)
DESCRIPTION:We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption\, savings\, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a large sample of Canadian lottery winners. Using separate linkages of lottery winners to income tax records and credit bureau data\, we estimate how lottery winnings affect consumption measured through credit card spending\, savings through financial asset accumulation and debt repayment\, and wage earnings from tax records. We then examine how these responses vary across the income distribution. We find that high-income individuals allocated a larger share of lottery winnings to savings and leisure\, while low-income individuals spent a larger share on consumption. We illustrate the policy relevance of these heterogeneous responses through three applications: designing fiscal stimulus programs\, evaluating a Universal Basic Income (UBI)\, and determining optimal top tax rates on wage earnings and savings.
UID:149331-21906240@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149331
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Public Finance,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261010T063705
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dynamics seminar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:152182-21913184@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152182
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dynamics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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DTSTAMP:20261017T105456
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Analytic approaches to factorization of singular moduli
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In the 1980s\, Gross and Zagier proved factorization formula for norm of difference of singular moduli\, on their way to the Gross-Zagier formula. In that work\, there were two approaches\, one algebraic and one analytic. It turns out that the algebraic approach could produce factorization before taking the norm\, whereas the analytic approach could not. In this talk\, I will report on-going work with Mike Daas\, where we aim to remove the norm through a p-adic analytic approach in the case of Shimura curves.
UID:153219-21915436@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153219
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260929T150501
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Long time asymptotics of the generalized soliton gas for the mKdV equation
DESCRIPTION:We analyze a new class of solutions of the modified KdV equation introduced by Dyachenko\, Zakharov\, and Zakharov\, and which can be interpreted as a soliton gas.  These solutions are characterized by a Riemann-Hilbert problem which arises as the limit $N\to \infty$ of a sequence of $2N$-soliton RH problems\, where the solitons display two different triangularity in the jumps. The limiting RH problem belongs to a novel class of problems\, where the jump matrices do not have any zero entry (as opposed to the classical upper/lower triangular setting).\n We show that the initial profile of such a gas solution is approaching a cnoidal wave solution for $x\to \pm \infty$ with different phase shifts\, and we establish an asymptotic description of the gas of solitons for large times that is valid over the entire spatial domain\, in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions\, with slowly modulated phase shifts as time varies from $-\infty$ to $+\infty$.\nThis is a joint work with Ken McLaughlin (Tulane U.) and Robert Jenkins (UCF).\n\n*To request access to the Zoom room\, please contact Nathan Hayford at nhayford [ at ] umich.edu.*
UID:153062-21915026@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153062
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260921T121107
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Toxic Landscapes: Industrial Chemistry and the Politics of Risk in the Modern World
DESCRIPTION:Industrial capitalism engendered human and animal bodies toxic in myriad and uneven ways. This talk examines the entanglements of public health and the body through the history of carbolic acid. Derived from coal tar production in British industrial factories in the early 19th century\, carbolic acid exploded in use from the 1870s after Joseph Lister’s pioneering use of the chemical in antiseptic surgery. Heralded as the first public health and surgical 'magic bullet'\, chemists and coroners clamored to legislate carbolic acid as a dangerous poison- by 1900 carbolic acid poisonings and suicides were significant causes of death around the Atlantic World. By the early 20th century\, carbolic acid became a common household tool in the fight against germs and in the beauty industry. Looming was the nature of risk. I show how exposure to carbolic acid skin damage and death differentially impacted women and laborers\, particularly in the Global South. Carbolic acid's use in the plastics industry\, and as an insecticide led to a surge in production in the 20th century\, including widespread water and soil pollution. This talk thus explores questions about risk and regulation\, the unequal burdens of toxicity\, and the longue durée invisible health impacts of chemicals.\n\nJacob Steere-Williams\, PhD\, is professor of history and medical humanities at the College of Charleston\, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\, and Editor of the Epidemic Histories book series with Johns Hopkins University Press. His work explores the history of public health\, epidemic disease\, and the environment\, interrogating questions about disease surveillance\, governance\, and everyday scientific practice in Britain\, across the Atlantic World\, and the former British colonies. In addition to dozens of articles and op-eds\, he is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease and the 2023 Port Cities of the Atlantic World.
UID:152528-21913884@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152528
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Technology,Society,Science
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260930T191451
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T173000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Transfer Student Week: M-Connect Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Transfer Student Week at the M-Connect Ice Cream Social on Monday October 26! Stop by for make-your-own sundaes and get to know other transfer students! RSVP at https://myumi.ch/nVrWA.
UID:153147-21915178@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153147
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Transferweek2026,Transfer Week
LOCATION:Student Activities Building - 3003
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