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DTSTAMP:20261005T145704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T093000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Greek Manuscripts of the University of Michigan: A Celebration of the Collection and Its Catalogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the culmination of a decade-and-a-half-long project to fully catalog the University of Michigan Library’s extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts. \n\nA Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts\, Volume 2 (https://myumi.ch/NXVQr)\, published by U-M Press\, brings this monumental undertaking to a close\, making one of the most extensive collections of Greek manuscripts in North America accessible to scholars around the world.\n\nEnjoy breakfast refreshments while three scholars offer complementary perspectives on the study of Greek manuscripts:\n\nTHE MAKING OF A CATALOGUE OF GREEK MANUSCRIPTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: CHALLENGES\, ACHIEVEMENT\, AND DISCOVERIES with Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann\, cataloger of U-M’s Greek manuscript collection.\n\nVolume 2 covers eighty-four manuscripts and fragments. Overall\, these manuscripts span a thousand years of history\, from the ninth to the nineteenth century\, and include a wide range of subjects\, from Bible texts and saints' lives to church music and secular writing.\n\nLearn about the detective work behind the project\, including three especially exciting finds: a small fragment that turned out to preserve lost portions of a medieval Byzantine text on Indian mathematics\; a beautifully illuminated fourteenth-century manuscript paired with poetry written specifically for it\; and a manuscript that may be traced back to the personal library of a nineteenth-century monk-scholar\, opening a new mystery about how it came to Michigan.\n\nTHE PRINCESS AND THE PHILOSOPHER: ANNA COMNENA AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARISTOTLE'S \"ETHICS\" with Richard Janko\, professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies\, who has drawn on the collection for teaching and research.\n\nThe Byzantine historian and would-be empress Anna Comnena\, confined for life to a nunnery in Constantinople after trying to depose her imperial brother\, was a passionate philosopher. Beginning in 1118 C.E. she organized a scholarly edition of Aristotle's \"Nicomachean Ethics\" and induced three other scholars to write commentaries on it. Several remarkable paper manuscripts\, now precisely datable because they belong to her project\, reflect this effort. They show how her team evolved useful conventions like the comma and the footnote-number\, and worked with Italian scholars to create the earliest translation of this work into Latin. \n\nALWAYS INTERESTING: SELECTED BINDINGS FROM THE UM GREEK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION with Julia Miller\, bookbinding historian and contributor to the catalogue.\n\nMiller will focus on a selection of bindings\, looking at their structure\, materials\, and decoration — chosen based on gorgeous images in the catalogue of bindings ranging from small and exquisite\, Mich. Ms. 68 (15th century)\, and larger but equally beautiful\, Mich. Ms. 172 (14th century)\, both in their original and completely traditional Greek bindings\, to the fascinating layers of repair and rebinding represented by Mich. Ms. 76 (17th century).
UID:151611-21911825@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151611
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Greek,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260904T114252
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:10-Week Accessibility Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Join the 10-Week Accessibility Challenge to learn more about accessibility basics\, best practices\, and U-M resources and tools available to help you with this work. This training program is open to all U-M staff\, faculty\, and students - no prior accessibility experience or knowledge is required. These live sessions dive deeper into the Challenge content and give participants a chance to get live support and ask questions with our digital accessibility staff. If you have any questions or concerns\, please reach out to accessibility-challenge@umich.edu.\n\nThe 10-Week Accessibility Challenge Live sessions take place on Fridays at 10:00 - 11:00am\, October 2 - December 4\, 2026.\n\nSign up for the challenge today: https://mailchi.mp/umich/10-week-accessibility-challenge\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 995 6855 7925
UID:150570-21909631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Ndeam,Virtual,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261015T112138
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 Robotics Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Robotics community for the 2026 Robotics Undergraduate Research Symposium\, a showcase celebrating undergraduate research\, creativity\, and innovation in robotics.Undergraduate researchers will share projects spanning areas such as autonomous systems\, artificial intelligence\, human-robot interaction\, sensing\, control\, mobility\, and robotic design. Attendees can meet student researchers\, learn about their work\, and connect with members of the robotics community.
UID:153159-21915199@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153159
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20261006T085736
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T120000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 Robotics Undergraduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Robotics community for the 2026 Robotics Undergraduate Research Symposium\, a showcase celebrating undergraduate research\, creativity\, and innovation in robotics.\nUndergraduate researchers will share projects spanning areas such as autonomous systems\, artificial intelligence\, human-robot interaction\, sensing\, control\, mobility\, and robotic design. Attendees can meet student researchers\, learn about their work\, and connect with members of the robotics community.
UID:153154-21915186@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153154
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Networking,Research,Robotics,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - Atrium
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DTSTAMP:20261014T092959
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Collaborative Intelligence: Learning Together from Heterogeneous Data and Language
DESCRIPTION:Data are increasingly generated by many connected users\, machines\, and systems\, which has led to explosive interest in collaborative analytics\, such as federated learning\, that borrow strength across diverse sources. To date\, these efforts have focused mainly on predictive modeling. In this talk\, I argue that collaboration\, without untangling the nature of heterogeneity across users\, can lead to swift and evident failures. Indeed\, borrowing from the wrong sources can be worse than not collaborating at all. To this end\, I present two frameworks that address two questions at the heart of collaboration: what to share\, and whom to borrow from. First\, we introduce Personalized PCA\, a descriptive framework that extracts interpretable and identifiable features describing what is shared and what is unique across diverse datasets. Second\, I bring language into the collaboration. When a new user has too little data to tell which collaborators are relevant\, expert textual descriptions of the new system\, often available yet overlooked\, can fill the gap. Here\, a large language model translates these descriptions into a prior over source relevance that guides learning when data are scarce and is gradually corrected as data accumulate. I conclude by highlighting future directions at the intersection of agentic AI\, statistics\, and decision making.
UID:153630-21916118@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153630
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,seminar,statistics,Talk
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20260911T092936
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Tisa Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lecutures are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (Michigan League\, Henderson Room 3rd floor). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26\n\nTisa Bryant is the author of *Unexplained Presence* (Leon Works\, 2007)\, a collection of hybrid essays on black presences in film\, literature and visual art. She is co-editor of the cross-referenced journal of narrative possibility\, *The Encyclopedia Project*\, and co-editor\, with Ernest Hardy\, of *War Diaries*\, an anthology on black gay men’s desire and survival\, published in 2010 by AIDS Project Los Angeles\, and a finalist for a 2010 LAMBDA literary award. Her essays have appeared in exhibition catalogs for visual artists Laylah Ali\, Jaime Cortez\, Wura-Natasha Ogunji\, Suné Woods and Cauleen Smith\, and is forthcoming in the anthology *Letters to the Future: Black Experimental Women Writers\,* and in a catalogue of site-specific art from The New School. She has done numerous presentations of cinema essays\, most recently at ALOUD's \"School of Prince\" event at the Los Angeles Public Library\, and at \"Speak Nearby\,\" a symposium of text and performance inspired by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Tisa Bryant was a commissioned writer/researcher for Radio Imagination\, Clockshop’s year-long Los Angeles celebration of science fiction writer Octavia Butler\, in collaboration with the Huntington Library in Pasadena\, which houses the Octavia E. Butler Papers. She is working on *The Curator*\, a novel of Black female subjectivity and imagined cinema. *Residual*\, a meditation on grief\, longing\, desire and archival research\, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restroom is available on the third floor\, Room 343T.\n\nASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). For Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) . All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:150951-21910488@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,Creative Writing,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Graduate,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room, 3rd floor
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DTSTAMP:20261012T095405
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Double Duty: A Subsidy Design for\\Quality Promotion and Price Discipline
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how the design of quality-linked subsidies shapes firm behavior in both quality choices and pricing decisions. We examine a major reform in Medicare Advantage that links subsidies to quality through two distinct policy parameters. We develop and estimate a structural model of demand and firm behavior to evaluate the reform\, decompose its effects\, and compare alternative quality-linked subsidy designs. A central finding is that a subsidy design that links product quality to both the subsidy level and the pass-through from firm prices to subsidized consumer prices can simultaneously raise quality and lower prices.
UID:151850-21912269@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151850
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Industrial Organization,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20260820T111532
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
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SUMMARY:Tours:Guided Tour of the Clements Library
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include viewing of Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe\,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers\, and viewing our current exhibit Who Counts? A History of Voting in America! To register or get more information about this event\, please contact the Development team at clemdevcom@umich.edu.
UID:150607-21909703@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150607
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american history,Americana,Event,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,Humanities,In Person,Library,Tour,William L Clements
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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