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SUMMARY:Other:Grants office hours: Get support applying for one of SSC's Sustainability Grants!
DESCRIPTION:Drop in to our weekly open office hours to learn and get support applying to our Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund (PBSIF) or Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant (SES).
UID:138848-21890492@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91565104584
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DTSTAMP:20260114T125536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T143000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Sociology and Organizations (ESO) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:- January 20: Zoe Chanin\n- February 10: Ori Tamir\n- February 17: Joe LaBriola\n- March 10: Joyce Ho\n- March 24: Nils Neumann\n- April 7: Alvaro Cabrera
UID:143913-21894249@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143913
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Student
LOCATION:LSA Building - 4147
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DTSTAMP:20260213T081903
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The impact of TV's rollout on baseball in the US and soccer in England
DESCRIPTION:After WW2 the dominant professional sports in the US (baseball) and England (soccer) faced a common shock - the rapid penetration of TV ownership. Both experienced significant declines in attendance and profitability.  By 1960\, approximately 300 minor league baseball teams (75%) had folded and the residual teams came under the control of the 16 major league clubs. In England\, however\, none of the 92 professional clubs folded despite facing comparable economic pressures. These differences are attributed to institutional structures - notably the integrated governance of soccer\, compared to the fragmentation of baseball\, and the promotion and relegation system of soccer. The latter offered a mechanism for clubs to control costs and the possibility of a better future.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,History,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260324T142052
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biostatistics Winter Alumni Careers Panel
DESCRIPTION:All community members are invited to join this event to learn from a panel of recent Michigan Biostatistics graduates. Alumni from industry\, health care systems\, and pharmaceuticals will share insights from and answer questions about their early career experiences.Panelists include:Hamdan Azhar\, MS ('10)\nStaff Data Scientist\, Finance and Strategy at Cash AppElise Covert\, MS ('22)\nBiostatistician at IQVIAYouna Hu\, PhD ('12)\nScience Manager at AmazonTaylor Martins\, MS ('20)\nGenomics Bioinformatics Analyst at Arizona Department of Health ServicesLili Wang\, PhD ('20)\nSenior Data Scientist\, Research at Youtube
UID:146035-21898300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146035
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20260324T142052
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biostatistics Winter Alumni Careers Panel
DESCRIPTION:All community members are invited to join this event to learn from a panel of recent Michigan Biostatistics graduates. Alumni from industry\, health care systems\, and pharmaceuticals will share insights from and answer questions about their early career experiences.Panelists include:Hamdan Azhar\, MS ('10)\nStaff Data Scientist\, Finance and Strategy at Cash AppElise Covert\, MS ('22)\nBiostatistician at IQVIAYouna Hu\, PhD ('12)\nScience Manager at AmazonTaylor Martins\, MS ('20)\nGenomics Bioinformatics Analyst at Arizona Department of Health ServicesLili Wang\, PhD ('20)\nSenior Data Scientist\, Research at Youtube
UID:146035-21898299@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146035
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:3755 SPH I
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260219T164203
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DSI Lecture Series | Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
DESCRIPTION:The insidious legacy of eugenics lives on in the techno-surveillance\, algorithmic authoritarianism\, and data-driven discrimination of Big Tech. This talk illuminates the throughline between the 19th century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. I'll address how the AI-driven and market-based models of Big Tech are built on data that exploit women\, immigrant groups\, and other minoritized populations\, amplifying social hierarchies and AI's predictions of majoritarian outcomes as the most probable and “ideal” futures. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This talk explains how it happened and how we can fight back.\n\nAnita Say Chan\, PhD (she/her) is a scholar and educator dedicated to feminist and decolonial approaches to technology.  She is a Professor of Information Sciences and Media\, and founder of the Community Data Clinic at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her latest book\, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future\, was published in 2025 with U. of California Press.                                \nWe strive to make our events accessible to all participants. \n\nThis event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. \n\nPlease register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://myumi.ch/W6rkm\n\nPlease register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/qZ7g3\n\nCART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.                                                     \n\nCo-Sponsors: Department of American Culture\; Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\; Department of English Language & Literature\; Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; Institute for Research on Women and Gender\; Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140906
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Media,Big Tech,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,Ai In Science And Engineering,Digital Culture,Digital Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DSI Lecture Series | Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future with Anita Chan
DESCRIPTION:The insidious legacy of eugenics lives on in the techno-surveillance\, algorithmic authoritarianism\, and data-driven discrimination of Big Tech. This talk illuminates the throughline between the 19th century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. I'll address how the AI-driven and market-based models of Big Tech are built on data that exploit women\, immigrant groups\, and other minoritized populations\, amplifying social hierarchies and AI's predictions of majoritarian outcomes as the most probable and “ideal” futures. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This talk explains how it happened and how we can fight back.Anita Say Chan\, PhD (she/her) is a scholar and educator dedicated to feminist and decolonial approaches to technology. She is a Professor of Information Sciences and Media\, and founder of the Community Data Clinic at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her latest book\, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future\, was published in 2025 with U. of California Press.We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.Thank you to our generous cosponsors:Department of American Culture\; Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\; Department of English Language & Literature\; Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; Institute for Research on Women and Gender\; Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145757
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DTSTAMP:20260318T152914
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Highest resolution imaging of the dust destruction rim of planet-forming disks using the CHARA Array
DESCRIPTION:Star and planet formation processes are among the least understood problems in astrophysics\, generating numerous theories and questions over the decades. At this moment\, there is no one comprehensive\, predictive theory that can quantitatively explain how planetary systems form and eventually bring on life. Nevertheless\, observational techniques are continually improving and progressing our understanding\, providing new answers and questions about this elusive process. In particular\, observations of young stars with dusty circumstellar disks hold key information that can help us answer questions about the formation of stellar systems\, both similar to and different from our own. These disks are the birthplace of planets\; they set the initial conditions for planet formation and host different physical processes across a large spatial range that change the morphology and composition of the disks as they evolve. The inner <1 astronomical unit (AU) regions are especially intriguing and will be the focus of this thesis. This is where star/disk interactions occur\, including regulating the accretion of material onto the star\, defining the dust sublimation front\, hosting jets and winds that eject material outward\, and placing limits on giant planet migration. The challenge to directly study these regions lies in the sub-milliarcsecond resolution required to resolve such small scales\, which is unattainable by the world's largest singular optical telescopes or even the sub-millimeter interferometer ALMA. With the advent of long baseline optical interferometry\, we finally have the resolving power required to probe the disks at the innermost regions. In this thesis\, I use the world's largest optical interferometer\, the CHARA Array\, to study the inner regions of young stars on the more massive end\, Herbig Ae/Be stars\, as well as the lower mass T Tauri stars.\n\n\nI present new images and models of Herbig Be stars and characterize the disks of T Tauri stars in H- and K-bands. I present the first images of two Herbig Be stars\, V1295 Aql and MWC340. With observations using the upgraded MIRC-X instrument at the CHARA Array\, and semi-simultaneous data from VLTI's H-band combiner PIONIER\, I find a face-on disk around V1295 Aql showing asymmetries\, mysterious inner emission\, and first-ever imaged evidence of temporal variation at the inner rim. Imaging MWC340 led to an exciting discovery\, unexpectedly revealing two disks instead of one.  I use H- and K-band observations taken over 5 years at the CHARA array to resolve the binary systems\, place constraints on the orbital parameters\, and derive new stellar parameters for each central star. Furthermore\, I explore the lower mass regime of young stars with a multi-wavelength survey of T Tauri stars at the highest resolution. I led a 4-year observing campaign at the CHARA Array with the newly-commissioned K-band instrument MYSTIC\, which was specifically designed to image the redder\, fainter stars. I present the initial results of a sample of the survey using geometric models to characterize their sizes and geometry. I consistently find the disk sizes to be larger in the K-band versus the H-band\, meaning that the dusty disk gets more resolved at longer wavelengths. I discuss any interesting findings for individual objects and comment on results from previous studies when applicable.
UID:146770-21899608@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146770
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,Defense
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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