Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. PhD Defense: Jennifer Arthur (December 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58353 58353-14483757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Subcritical Neutron Multiplication Inference Measurements for Nuclear Data and Computational Methods Validation

Co-Chair: Prof. Sara Pozzi
Co-Chair: Dr. Rian Bahran

ABSTRACT: Subcritical measurements have been continually performed since the 1940s, and simulation capabilities were developed alongside the measurements for comparison purposes. The accuracy of predictive radiation transport simulations are limited by the accuracy of the Monte Carlo simulation codes and underlying nuclear data. A subcritical benchmark measurement is a high-quality subcritical measurement in which all physical parameters and uncertainties are well characterized to a high degree of accuracy, and which is peer reviewed and compiled with other benchmark experiments into a database such as the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP). Benchmark measurements are therefore trusted to provide accurate comparisons between experimental and simulated data, for nuclear data and radiation transport code validation purposes. Critical benchmarks are plentiful, but are not sensitive to correlated neutron parameters in the way that the handful of existing subcritical benchmarks are. This work demonstrates how we can apply subcritical neutron multiplication measurements and simulations to better validate relevant nuclear data and radiation transport computational methods currently used for nuclear nonproliferation and safety applications. The work encompasses the entire process of an advanced subcritical measurement, from the earliest planning stages to the final analysis and comparison to simulated results. Both the Critical and Subcritical 0-Power Experiment at Rensselaer (CaSPER) measurement, a novel advanced subcritical measurement, and the SCRαP measurement, a state-of-the-art subcritical benchmark measurement, campaigns have been completed. Simulations of LANL ICSBEP benchmark-quality reflected plutonium (BeRP) ball subcritical measurements have been conducted using various radiation transport codes that take into account the correlated physics of fission neutrons. Comparisons of both the results and the underlying neutron multiplicity models applied by the codes have been investigated, as well as new methods of applying comparisons of these subcritical neutron multiplication inference measurements and the associated simulations to nuclear data and computational methods validation. Optimization algorithm frameworks have been applied to both nuclear data evaluation based on subcritical neutron multiplication inference benchmarks, and the design of subcritical neutron multiplication inference benchmarks.

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Presentation Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:33:12 -0500 2018-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Presentation Jennifer Arthur PhD Defense flyer
Therapeutic benefit of scaffolds that capture metastatic tumor cells in vivo (December 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57815 57815-14314713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

For most cancers, the formation of distant metastasis is the point at which clinical treatment shifts from curative intent to extending progression free survival. Physicians are currently unable to diagnose metastasis until disseminated tumor cells affect the function of a target organ as a secondary tumor. This dissertation describes a novel approach where implantable biomaterial scaffolds are used to recruit metastatic tumor cells for early detection prior to colonization of solid organs. This recruitment of tumor cells to a defined site can not only serve as a platform for detection, but can also have therapeutic effects and be used as a platform to study metastatic processes. This dissertation describes work in each of these three areas including using an implantable biomaterial scaffold for early detection, therapeutic benefit, and a platform to study metastasis. The therapeutic benefit of scaffolds was demonstrated by scaffold implantation significantly enhancing disease-free survival in a murine model of triple negative breast cancer. Myeloid derived suppressor cells were the key population of immune cells whose capture at the scaffold and reduction in the spleen and primary tumor lead to enhanced survival. In an effort to probe the contributions of various immune cell types to the formation and maintenance of the pre-metastatic and metastatic niche in vivo, a gene delivery approach was utilized to alter the immune microenvironment of the scaffold and investigate the recruitment of tumor cells, finding reduced immune and tumor cell recruitment with IL-10 delivery and developing a model of tumor cell recruitment that is dependent upon the proportion of each immune cell type in the niche. Additional efforts to use the scaffold to study metastasis included studying scaffold captured tumor cells relative to tumor cells derived from other locations. Scaffold captured tumor cells were a highly aggressive population of metastatic tumor cells similar to those found in a metastatic lung, underscoring the use of the scaffold as a sampling location for metastatic disease that is reflective of tumor cell phenotype in solid organs. Next, biomaterial scaffolds were also validated in transgenic models of both breast and pancreatic cancer to identify immune dysregulation as a function of tumor burden, recruit tumor cells, and to reduce tumor burden. Finally, non-invasive ultrasound imaging and subsequent spectral analysis techniques were applied to identify changes in the scaffold associated with tumor burden and tumor cell recruitment. Taken together, this body of work supports that the implantable biomaterial scaffold technology provides a robust and novel approach for the early detection of metastatic disease in both breast and pancreatic cancer, therapy to divert both pre-metastatic niche forming immune cells and tumor cells themselves to an ectopic site and away from solid organs, and as a platform to study mechanisms of the pre-metastatic niche and metastasis.

Chair: Dr. Lonnie Shea

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Presentation Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:10:40 -0500 2018-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T11:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Biopsychology Colloquium (December 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54365 54365-13574529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The costs and benefits of cognitive control and motivation: the curious case of choking under pressure

“Don’t overthink it! Just do it!” These phrases are commonly uttered to skilled individuals just before a performance. Many people have the intuition that exerting too much control over well-learned actions can be harmful, especially when under pressure to perform. This effect can be demonstrated experimentally by manipulating participants’ attentional focus and/or inducing performance pressure via monetary incentives. At the same time, most day-to-day activities clearly benefit from goal-directed cognitive control and enhanced motivation. Further, training regimes and coaching often make use of explicit, reflective instruction to augment performance. How do the mechanisms of cognitive control and motivation both support and potentially hamper the activity of neural systems needed for successful performance? This question is explored in a variety of studies using functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, behavioral studies, and computational modeling.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:53:16 -0500 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation taraz
Private Equity "Bake-Off" Competition (December 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58235 58235-14444074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross Faculty Support/ACT

Nine University of Michigan student teams will square off against each other during the annual private equity “battle of the pitches,” held by the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance, or CVP, at the Ross School of Business.
Only two teams will advance to the “Bake-off” semifinals, where they will have a shot at winning this year’s Alan Gelband Private Equity Award and $10,000 in prize money.
The event will be held in the Ross School’s Blau Colloquium, beginning at 4 p.m., and is open to members and friends of the U-M student, faculty and alumni community.

The 11th annual Private Equity “Bake-off” competition serves as the capstone event for MBA and U-M graduate students enrolled in Professor David J. Brophy’s Private Equity Finance course.
For this highly anticipated interclass challenge, each student team will present a detailed proposal for a private-equity takeover of an existing public company. A panel of judges composed of private equity investors and investment practitioners will rank the nine teams by the quality, comprehensiveness and attractiveness (in terms of projected return on investment) of their public-to-private buyout pitches. Then the judges will narrow the competitive field to two semi-finalists.
During the “Bake-off,” the Blau Colloquium audience of students, alumni and sponsors will cast popular votes for the semifinalist team with the best buyout pitch. The winner will receive the Alan Gelband Private Equity Award and take home $7,500 in prize money. The runner-up will receive $2,500.
“Alan Gelband, an alum and great friend of U-M Ross, joins us in facilitating student access to opportunities in the private equity and alternative investment field,” Professor Brophy says. “Graduates of this and other Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance (CVP) courses and competitions are now private equity fund leaders globally and providing continued support for our programs and conferences.”
At the beginning of the fall term, Professor Brophy assigned the nine student teams to select and evaluate a middle-market public company for a possible “model” private-equity acquisition. The students used publicly available financial records to assess the company’s management, revenue, profits and market position, and subsequently to project the estimated return on investment for private equity investors. Based on this extensive information gathering and financial analysis, each team formulated a buyout pitch for the target company it had chosen.
Alan Gelband, BBA ’65, MBA ’67, the benefactor for the annual Private Equity Award, says the public-to-private buyout competition serves both as a learning tool for students and a talent pipeline for the PE industry.
“This is an important exercise for anyone who wants to get into private equity, which is a leader of business evolution today,” says Gelband, the founder and managing director at Gelband & Co. investment banking.
Other Ross and CVP alumni and regional private equity investors who volunteer as judges also play a formative role during the annual Bake-off competition by providing constructive feedback on the teams’ buyout pitches and suggesting ways to strengthen their written and oral presentations. This year’s roster of 12 judges includes investors from regional and national private equity firms.

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Presentation Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:48:23 -0500 2018-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T20:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Ross Faculty Support/ACT Presentation Ross School of Business
International Studies Information Session and Q&A (December 11, 2018 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52598 52598-12874397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. All sessions will be held in Weiser Hall located at 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Please contact: is-michigan@umich.edu.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:52:32 -0400 2018-12-11T16:15:00-05:00 2018-12-11T17:15:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Presentation photo
Dissertation defense: Integrated analysis of the gut microbiota and their fermentation products in mice treated with the longevity enhancing drug acarbose (December 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57497 57497-14202434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Byron defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Presentation Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:14:09 -0500 2018-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T10:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation graphs of survival
North Campus Sustainability Hour V (December 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56282 56282-13871685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come enjoy lunch while learning more about sustainability!

When: Wed. Dec. 12, 2018 noon–1 p.m.
Where: Johnson Rooms in Lurie Building (on campus)

Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi.

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Presentation Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:06:14 -0500 2018-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
2018 Financing Research Commercialization Competition (December 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58240 58240-14444079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross Faculty Support/ACT

University of Michigan students are teeing up their venture capital investment proposals in anticipation of the upcoming 2018 Financing Research Commercialization Pitch Competition on Dec. 12.
This year, 14 highly competitive teams of graduate and undergraduate students in Professor David J. Brophy’s Financing Research Commercialization practicum will go before a panel of 24 judges to present their strongest, most-strategic fund-raising pitches for venture capital financing.
The event will kick off at 6 p.m. in the Ross School’s Blau Colloquium. (5th floor, Blau building) Members and friends of the U-M student, faculty and alumni community are welcome to attend.
Each student team has been working closely with the founder(s) of a Michigan-based, early-stage startup for the entire semester to help jump-start the company’s growth. A number of the participating startups are University spinouts that are commercializing new technologies and research discoveries.
Over the course of the practicum, the students have assisted these emerging companies in refining business plans and market-entry strategies, accelerating the commercialization of research discoveries and disruptive technologies, and raising venture capital to fund expansion.
To move the needle on startup development, the teams needed to conduct due diligence, calculate valuation, develop financial plans and make key strategic decisions. Seasoned mentors helped the students put their textbook theory into practice.
The high-stakes 2018 Financing Research Commercialization Pitch Competition represents the culmination of months of hard work and collaboration. Each team stands ready to take on the capstone challenge in hopes of emerging as the top-ranked contestant in the pitch competition.
The practicum’s goal, according to Professor Brophy, is to give emerging, fast-growth companies a fresh set of eyes, minds and hands that can help them progress “the next mile” to raise external equity capital. Students, in turn, benefit from their action-based learning experience, which prepares them to become successful leaders of their own entrepreneurial enterprises in the future.
“In an action-learning setting, this unique course succeeds in teaching students and entrepreneurs, as working partners, how to prepare and position high-potential, emerging growth companies to raise their first (Series A) venture capital, a critical milestone in the company’s growth,” Professor Brophy explains. “Our objective is to help local market companies directly and to prepare U-M students to be fundable founders and venture investors in their own right.”
This year, a panel of 24 judges will assess and rank the students’ investor pitches and offer helpful feedback. Judging panelists come from the wide range of Michigan venture capital investors: corporations such as Stryker and DowDuPont, investment partnerships from the Michigan Venture Capital Association, and an array of angel investment groups and high net worth individuals.
Since its inception in 2004, Professor Brophy’s course has provided student-led business-development and capital-raising assistance to 205 early-stage companies, including 50 ventures that have procured their targeted funding. More than 1,100 U-M students have gone through the practicum and become part of the Michigan Ross Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance (CVP) “Next Mile to Funding” venture capital network.

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Presentation Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:55:09 -0500 2018-12-12T18:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T22:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Ross Faculty Support/ACT Presentation Ross School of Business
PCAP Membership Meeting Fall 2018 (December 12, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55948 55948-13811916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Guest speaker Heather Ann Thompson (Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of History, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Blood in the Water)

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Presentation Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:05:06 -0400 2018-12-12T18:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Heather
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Why it Matters Today (December 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57441 57441-14193514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

The UM Retirees Association meeting will feature Dr. Thompson, who received the Pulitzer Prize in History as well as numerous other awards for her book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1973 and its Legacy. She is nationally and internationally known for her writing on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system. She has worked in both the policy and advisory arenas and has presented at many universities.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:03:33 -0500 2018-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Presentation
Minor in Writing Gateway/Capstone Showcase (December 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58378 58378-14491998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Please join us in North Quad Space 2435 on Thursday, 12/13 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM for the Gateway/Capstone Showcase! View final projects produced in the Minor in Writing's Gateway and Capstone courses.

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Presentation Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:59:36 -0500 2018-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Presentation North Quad
IOE PhD Seminar Series - Karmel Shehadeh (December 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58324 58324-14461176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Open to all IOE graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, December 12.

Abstract:
Outpatient clinics (OPC) are increasingly growing as a central component of health care systems. They offer a variety of medical services and benefits such as short hospital stays, high patient safety outcomes, and low costs of care. They also introduce new challenges for appointment planning and scheduling primarily due to the heterogeneity of and variability in patients characteristic, the existence of multiple competing performance criteria, and the need to deliver care within a tight time window. Ignoring the variability in patient characteristic when designing appointment schedules may have negative consequences such as patient delays and clinic overtime. Conversely, accounting for uncertainty in the scheduling decision process has the potential to create more efficient schedules that mitigate these adverse outcomes. However, many challenges arise when attempting to model and solve appointment scheduling problems accounting for uncertainty. In this talk, we present novel stochastic mixed-integer programming and distributionally robust optimization models and frameworks to optimize appointment planning and scheduling decisions under uncertainty in the context of three outpatient scheduling problems with broader applications within and outside of healthcare. In each of these three problems, we focus on efficiently accounting for uncertainty in the scheduling decision process and proposing tractable and implementable appointment scheduling models.

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Presentation Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:38:36 -0500 2018-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Paul Rand: The Designer's Task (December 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58496 58496-14510818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Paul Rand was a giant of American design whose influential career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. His visionary and pithy conceptions of corporate and non-profit brand identities—though often graphically minimal—embody the artist’s complex philosophy, interest in modernist aesthetics, and singular wit. This exhibition features posters, book covers, and packaging designs from the entirety of Rand’s career. Visit Paul Rand: The Designer’s Task with an UMMA docent to explore the genre of graphic design within the context of the art museum and examine how Rand’s intellectual process and impact on visual culture developed over time.

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Presentation Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:10:09 -0500 2018-12-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-16T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Yoga Study Break at UMMA (December 16, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58534 58534-14510856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 16, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Participate in the ancient practice of yoga in the beautiful surroundings of the Museum of Art. This will be gentle yoga, especially appropriate for students preparing for finals, led by a U-M RecSports teacher. All levels and community members welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat. 

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Presentation Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:15:58 -0500 2018-12-16T17:30:00-05:00 2018-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
UM Psychology Community Talk (December 17, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52627 52627-12908318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 17, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Mood Lifters: A new approach to mental health care.

"Everyone faces problems with relationships, work, life transitions (such as job loss), and other challenges that make life less joyful. In fact, at any given time, 70% of people report feeling stress and over 30% report symptoms of anxiety and depression. Many people do not feel comfortable visiting a psychologist or psychiatrist to get help. They want to get better on their own. They are afraid to be labeled as “crazy” or seen as weak. Others cannot afford the high cost of traditional mental health care. Further, many people can’t find well trained providers who provide the latest, scientifically proven care. There are simply too few providers who can provide effective mental health care when it is needed. The lack of comfort, high cost, long waiting lists and shortage of providers are constant barriers to getting help with these common problems. You will hear about Mood Lifters is a new, peer-led, instant access, affordable and science-based program designed to improve mental wellness and decrease sadness and anxiety. Mood Lifters weaves together the most effective biological, psychological and social techniques, based on cutting edge research, to provide strategies that people can use to make changes, develop healthy habits and live the life they want. Mood Lifters was developed by a University of Michigan professor and is scientifically proven to reduce depression and anxiety and increase joy and empowerment.

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Presentation Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:24:13 -0500 2018-12-17T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-17T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation deldin
Paul Rand: The Designer's Task (January 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58499 58499-14510821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Paul Rand was a giant of American design whose influential career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. His visionary and pithy conceptions of corporate and non-profit brand identities—though often graphically minimal—embody the artist’s complex philosophy, interest in modernist aesthetics, and singular wit. This exhibition features posters, book covers, and packaging designs from the entirety of Rand’s career. Visit Paul Rand: The Designer’s Task with an UMMA docent to explore the genre of graphic design within the context of the art museum and examine how Rand’s intellectual process and impact on visual culture developed over time.

Lead support for Paul Rand: The Designer's Task is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:07 -0500 2019-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-06T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
PSC/GFP Brown Bag (January 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57223 57223-14130946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jen Frederick, Zach Schudson, Janelle Goodwill, Sara Chadwick, Ozge Savas, Esra Ascigil

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:04:05 -0500 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (January 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58505 58505-14510827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club is a partnership between UMMA and Literati Bookstore in connection with UMMA's exhibition Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Sam Gilliam, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books will explore visions and critiques relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period, and include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (Jan 10), Art on My Mind, Visual Politics by bell hooks (March 14), Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (May 9), Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (July 11), and How We Get Free, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

The Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.  

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
CCN Forum (January 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58024 58024-14392480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Talk Title: From Talkers to Readers: Developing a Reading Brain in Kindergarten

Abstract: A universal marker of proficient reading is print-speech neural convergence, or the integration of visual and auditory language processing in the brain. How and when does this convergence emerge? What drives the development of the print-speech network, setting the stage for successful reading acquisition in young children?

In this talk, we will examine the relationship between spoken language proficiency and the emergence of print-speech convergence in beginning readers. fMRI neuroimaging of kindergarteners (ages 5-6) demonstrates that print-speech convergence is preceded and predicted by language proficiency, which in turn predicts reading ability one year later. These findings suggest that children’s language ability is a core mechanism guiding neural plasticity for learning to read. Results extend our understanding of brain development for literacy to the earliest stages of reading, and bridge theoretical perspectives across developmental psychology, education, and neuroscience.

Bio: Rebecca is a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013 with a degree in Philosophy, Neuroscience & Psychology. While there, she conducted research on language and social cognition in bilingual preschoolers. After graduating, she taught with Teach for America, where she saw her research interest in language development and bilingualism translated to the classroom context. She now works with Dr. Ioulia Kovelman, as well as Fumiko Hoeft (NOTE: PRONOUNCED HAY-FT) at the University of Connecticut, to understand language and literacy development in linguistically diverse youth.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:15:53 -0500 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation marks
Get Involved: How to Give Your Feedback on Department of Ed Title IX Regulations (January 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59477 59477-14745553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC and the Ginsberg Center for a drop-in event that will include short informational presentations by Kamaria Porter, PhD Candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, and Erin Byrnes, Lead of Democratic Engagement at the Ginsberg Center, on how to provide feedback on the Department of Education’s proposed regulations on Title IX.

Currently the Department of Education is taking public input on these regulations in what is called a “notice and comment period”. The department must respond to this input before these new regulations are finalized. This event will provide you with information about how to make your opinions heard by the Department of Education and give you the space to draft your own comments.

Light snacks will be provided

When:Friday, January 11th 2:00-5:00PM (Drop in! Short presentations starting at 2:15pm!)
Where: SAPAC Office, 330 E. Liberty Street Suite 3D

Read the proposals here

RSVP Here

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:46:42 -0500 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Presentation Pink flier that restates the information found in this article
Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations (January 13, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58497 58497-14510819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 13, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The story of Japanese archaeologist Ryoichi and evidence of his worldwide excavations are explored by Patrick Nagatani in this series of photographs. Nagatani presents a narrative of Ryoichi’s archeological work, supported by images of excavation sites, unearthed artifacts, and Ryoichi’s own journal pages. According to the photographs, Ryoichi discovered evidence of an automobile culture buried at sites across several continents: Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon, and a necropolis in China. Docents will introduce this provocative and playful series that compels viewers to reflect on how photographs and institutions, such as museums, shape our knowledge of the past and present.

Lead support for Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, and Michigan Engineering.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:07 -0500 2019-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-13T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Summer Camp for Social Scientists: An Overview of the ICPSR Summer Program (January 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59110 59110-14684204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Founded in 1963, the ICPSR Summer Program offers rigorous, hands-on training in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis for researchers of all skill levels and backgrounds. From May through August 2019, the Summer Program will offer more than 80 courses, including introductory statistics, categorical data analysis, Bayesian analysis, maximum likelihood estimation, network analysis, time series analysis, regression analysis, structural equation models, longitudinal analysis, machine learning, and more. The Summer Program is unique because it offers a casual learning environment and unparalleled networking opportunities with students, faculty, and researchers from across the US and around the world.

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:50:08 -0500 2019-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Winter 2019 Group Dynamics Seminar Series: Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59472 59472-14745539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Disease in African-American Women: Moving Beyond Experiences"
Monday, January 14, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

ISR Building, Room 1430

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:08:47 -0500 2019-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation tene
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59257 59257-14719676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Monday, January 14 from 4 - 5pm
Tuesday, January 15 from 10 - 11am
Friday, January 18 from 3 - 4pm
Friday, January 18 from 5 - 6pm

All of the tours/workshops will take place in Shapiro 4059 which is located on the fourth floor of the Shapiro Library. Please click on the following link to register for a particular session: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/transfer-students/

Join us for a quick tour of the Hatcher and Shapiro Libraries. Learn about study spaces, where to get research help, how to find resources, and technology assistance. Gain insight into the resources and services available and strategies for efficiently finding information for your research projects.

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored:
What kind of technology can I use at the library? How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects? What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:35:22 -0500 2019-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Shapiro Library
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59257 59257-14719677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Monday, January 14 from 4 - 5pm
Tuesday, January 15 from 10 - 11am
Friday, January 18 from 3 - 4pm
Friday, January 18 from 5 - 6pm

All of the tours/workshops will take place in Shapiro 4059 which is located on the fourth floor of the Shapiro Library. Please click on the following link to register for a particular session: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/transfer-students/

Join us for a quick tour of the Hatcher and Shapiro Libraries. Learn about study spaces, where to get research help, how to find resources, and technology assistance. Gain insight into the resources and services available and strategies for efficiently finding information for your research projects.

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored:
What kind of technology can I use at the library? How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects? What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:35:22 -0500 2019-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Shapiro Library
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59240 59240-14719621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Biopsychology Colloquium:
Using Avian Genomics to Innovate the Study of Stress-Induced Reproductive Dysfunction

Brief synopsis:
Stress is a well-known cause of reproductive dysfunction in many species, including birds, rodents, and humans, though stereotypical males and females often respond differently. A powerful way to investigate how stress affects reproduction is by examining its effects on a biological system essential for regulating reproduction, the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. Join Dr. Calisi Rodríguez as she uses avian models to test causal and sex-typical effects of stress on genomic transcription of the HPG axis. By doing so, her lab has been creating an extensive genomic foundation on which to innovate the study of stress-induced reproductive dysfunction, with the potential to transform the fields of stress and reproductive biology.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:45:55 -0500 2019-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation rebecca
Bonderman Fellowship Information Session (January 15, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55169 55169-13696041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to the Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:37:29 -0400 2019-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Ji Ye, 2017, in Greece
International Studies Information Session and Q&A (January 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52598 52598-12874398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. All sessions will be held in Weiser Hall located at 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Please contact: is-michigan@umich.edu.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:52:32 -0400 2019-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Presentation photo
PSC/GFP Brown Bag (January 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57224 57224-14130948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Best Practices in Graduate Research Q&A with Profs. Myles Durkee, Robin Edelstein, and Sara McClelland

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:07:19 -0500 2019-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation profs
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: High-Speed Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition to Turbulence: Fundamentals and Applications (January 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59276 59276-14728132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Joseph S. Jewell Research Scientist, Aerospace Systems Directorate US Air Force Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

The boundary layer state (e.g. laminar, turbulent, or transitional) is a critically important factor in hypersonic vehicle design, with profound effects on heat flux, skin friction, drag, and control characteristics. In particular, higher thermal loads, by a factor of four or more, may result from the increased heat transfer due to turbulent flow. Nevertheless, hypervelocity boundary layer transition remains difficult to simulate or predict, especially under realistic flight conditions, and the mechanisms leading to instability are not well understood for many flow regimes.

In this seminar, I present results from experimental and computational investigations focused on bridging the gap between ground-based aerodynamic experiments and the external aerodynamics of hypersonic flight. First, I discuss a fundamental problem in compressible real-gas flow: measuring and characterizing the laminar to turbulent transition process in boundary layer flows in thermochemical nonequilibrium at high enthalpy. In this flow regime, where the second or Mack mode instability dominates for slender, cold-wall cases, nonequilibrium effects for certain species (in our work, carbon dioxide) can actually suppress transition through the absorption of energy from acoustic disturbances through vibrational relaxation. We measure the propagation and growth of turbulent spots within the boundary layer, characterize transition delay for flows in air with increasing mass fractions of carbon dioxide, and also investigate the efficacy of gas injection mechanisms into the hypervelocity boundary layer for inhibiting second mode transition. Finally, recent results relevant to current challenges in hypersonics research are surveyed, including a computational re-assessment of a landmark study on blunt-body transition, hypersonic facility design and optimization, and non-intrusive optical measurement techniques.

Biography:

Joe Jewell is a Research Scientist in the Hypersonics Branch at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he works through Spectral Energies, LLC, and previously held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a double major in Aeronautics and Medieval History, and completed a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan before winning the Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to earn a second master’s degree, in hypersonics, at the University of Oxford in the UK. Joe returned to Caltech and completed his Ph.D. in Aeronautics in 2014, supported by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, the Boeing Fellowship, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship.

He serves on the AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Technical Committee, as well as the NATO Working Group on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition Prediction. His research interests are primarily in experimental fluid dynamics, especially hypersonic aerothermodynamics.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:52:07 -0500 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation Photo of speaker
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59257 59257-14719678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Monday, January 14 from 4 - 5pm
Tuesday, January 15 from 10 - 11am
Friday, January 18 from 3 - 4pm
Friday, January 18 from 5 - 6pm

All of the tours/workshops will take place in Shapiro 4059 which is located on the fourth floor of the Shapiro Library. Please click on the following link to register for a particular session: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/transfer-students/

Join us for a quick tour of the Hatcher and Shapiro Libraries. Learn about study spaces, where to get research help, how to find resources, and technology assistance. Gain insight into the resources and services available and strategies for efficiently finding information for your research projects.

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored:
What kind of technology can I use at the library? How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects? What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:35:22 -0500 2019-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Shapiro Library
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59257 59257-14719681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Monday, January 14 from 4 - 5pm
Tuesday, January 15 from 10 - 11am
Friday, January 18 from 3 - 4pm
Friday, January 18 from 5 - 6pm

All of the tours/workshops will take place in Shapiro 4059 which is located on the fourth floor of the Shapiro Library. Please click on the following link to register for a particular session: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/transfer-students/

Join us for a quick tour of the Hatcher and Shapiro Libraries. Learn about study spaces, where to get research help, how to find resources, and technology assistance. Gain insight into the resources and services available and strategies for efficiently finding information for your research projects.

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored:
What kind of technology can I use at the library? How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects? What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:35:22 -0500 2019-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation Shapiro Library
Mark Webster Reading Series (January 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58509 58509-14510831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Erika Nestor and 'Pemi Aguda.   Erika Nestor is a poet from Dexter, Michigan. She worked in Madison, Wisconsin as a technical writer before entering the MFA program here. She currently prefers sonnets to software.

'Pemi Aguda is a writer from Nigeria. Her stories sometimes slant into the surreal and are inspired by the city of Lagos.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (January 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58501 58501-14510823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s explores large-scale works of art by Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving, within the context of highly-charged debates of the early 1970s about aesthetics, politics, race, and feminism. This exhibition explores the gendered and racialized terms upon which great art was defined and assessed, and the strategy of artists to question the identity and aesthetics of the artist making the art. UMMA docents will help visitors look through the lens of the four artists’ works to explore the aesthetic choices inherent in abstraction as well as the acts of staining, pouring, draping, —or even taking apart the wall itself—within this charged political context.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Other New World Temperate Vegetation Zone: Patagonia (January 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58239 58239-14444078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

University of Michigan Herbarium Curator Tony Reznicek discusses the forests and grasslands of much of Patagonia (South America), with a focus on the more important species and some of its interesting habitats and remarkable plants. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club.

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Presentation Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:53:52 -0500 2019-01-21T19:30:00-05:00 2019-01-21T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59082 59082-14677959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

VIP and NPY neurons in the auditory midbrain: Identification of two classes of principal neurons that project to auditory and non-auditory areas

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:22:21 -0500 2019-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation roberts
Chinese Studies in Shanghai info session (January 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59199 59199-14717510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Interested in Chinese Studies? for 2019, CGIS is offering Chinese Studies in Shangai! Shanghai boasts one of the best transportation systems in the world, making it easy to commute to work, head to Hangzhou for the weekend, or take the high-speed train all the way to Tibet. The program is located at Donghua University’s downtown campus, which means a home base for the semester is right in the center of the city.

Come learn about your semester/summer options!

Semester: This program offers students various areas of coursework in English. Students will enroll into an intensive Chinese language course for 6 credits, enroll in an optional 3-credit internship that accompanies an internship course, and choose at least two 3-credit electives including The Chinese Economy, Political Governance, International Marketing, and more! Students may choose a third elective if they opt out of the internship.

There are a wide range of Internships in areas including business, media, STEM, history, law, education, sports, philanthropy, and music. Options include China Accelerator, Edelman, Habitat for Humanity China, Han Kun Law Offices, Heinz Global Procurement, PepsiCo, and others!

Summer: Students will enroll in an optional 2-credit internship that accompanies an internship course, one 3-credit Chinese language course, and choose one 3-credit elective classes that range from Key to Modern China, International Marketing, International Economics, and more! Students will have an opportunity to visit local government offices and a few think tanks. Students may choose a second elective if they opt out of the internship.

Each term, the program offers different activities that allow you to explore Shanghai and Chinese culture.

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:40:01 -0500 2019-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation CHINA
Central Campus Mass Meeting (January 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59639 59639-14764985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall- Room 2469
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Come join us for a mass meeting to kick off our Winter 2019 Rush! You'll have a chance to get more information on the rush process, the opportunity to meet some of our sisters, and see how "Together, we build the future" in Phi Sigma Rho. 

Can't make this meeting? Don't worry- we also have a North Campus Mass Meeting and three rush events. Just send us an email at PhiRhoPresident@umich.edu and we'll get you more information.

We can't wait to meet you!

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Presentation Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:00:10 -0500 2019-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall- Room 2469 Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Value the Voice: Unravel (January 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58512 58512-14510834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members).​ 

Light food and refreshments will be served in the Commons at 6:30 prior to the start of the program. 

Value the Voice will take place on Tuesdays, September 18, November 13, January 22, March 19, 7 p.m. UMMA Auditorium.

For more information, please contact Keith Jason at mrjason@umich.edu or 734-764-9128

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Social Area Brown Bag (January 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57986 57986-14383897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Cristina Salvador
Title: Alpha Oscillations and Self-referential processing: Implications for Cultural variation in the Self

Abstract:
Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed that at rest the brain shows high activation in a network of cortical regions known as the default mode network. Consistent with this work, electrocortical studies demonstrate that alpha, a neural oscillation, similarly increases in power during rest and when people engage in self-referential processing. However, there are substantial individual and cultural differences in alpha power during rest. Here, we tested whether variation in alpha power could be explained by culture and self-construal. Previous cross-cultural work established that American culture tends to emphasize the autonomy of the self (independence), whereas Asian culture tends to emphasize the self in reference to others (interdependence). We hypothesized that alpha power would be greater among Americans than Asians and should increase as a function of independent versus interdependent self-construal. To test these predictions, we collected data from a total 172 participants and compared Japanese to European Americans (Study 1) and Taiwanese to European Americans (Study 2). In both studies, we found greater parietal versus frontal alpha power among American participants compared to the two Asian groups. Importantly, the magnitude of alpha power was highly correlated with self-construal across cultures, such that more independent and less interdependent people showed greater alpha at rest. This effect in part explained the cultural difference in alpha power. Our findings provide evidence that alpha oscillations may in part underlie cultural variation in self-construal and highlight the promise of alpha oscillations to understand self-referential processing and variation across groups.

Clinton McKenna
Smartening up or dumbing down? The role of numeracy in motivated reasoning

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:52:30 -0500 2019-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation salvador.mckenna
Career Fair Panel and Prep (January 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58606 58606-14517940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS)

Learn from other transfer students how to make the most of the Career Fair. Hear the do's and don'ts, get a quick resume review, and practice your pitch. We'll help you put your best foot forward at the Fair! Dinner will be served, RSVP required!

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Presentation Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:40:28 -0500 2019-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS) Presentation Career Fair
North Campus Mass Meeting (January 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59640 59640-14764986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: EECS Building- Room 1200
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Come join us for a mass meeting to kick off our Winter 2019 Rush! You'll have a chance to get more information on the rush process, the opportunity to meet some of our sisters, and see how "Together, we build the future" in Phi Sigma Rho. 

Can't make this meeting? Don't worry- we also have three rush events. Just send us an email at PhiRhoPresident@umich.edu and we'll get you more information. 

We can't wait to meet you!

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:00:13 -0500 2019-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 EECS Building- Room 1200 Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Alpine Yodeling in Chinese (January 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60277 60277-14857774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Yodeling is a distinctive mode of vocal performance, one that flourished in the Alpine areas of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and became a musical signature of the region. Since its adoption by American country music, yodeling has become a world-wide phenomenon and can be heard in many kinds of global popular and fusion music. Yodeling techniques were not unknown in historical China, but as a distinctive mode of vocal performance, yodeling is a new phenomenon of fusion music in contemporary China. In this presentation, Lu Tong will discuss his discovery of yodel, his subsequent learning, performance, research, and promotion of the practice. He will also perform to demonstrate his yodeling techniques and compositions.

About the presenter:

Born in 1987, LU Tong was formally trained as a pianist and vocalist at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, graduating in 2010. In 2006, he discovered yodeling, from since he has been actively studying and promoting it in China. He has become nationally recognized as the first Chinese yodeler, who now professionally yodels, composes yodeling works, and gives lectures and recitals on the music practice.

~ We serve light lunch! Come join us! ~

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:17:28 -0500 2019-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Presentation Lu Tong
UM-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute Info Session (January 24, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60023 60023-14812586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: International Programs in Engineering

Join International Programs in Engineering in welcoming a guest representative from U-M's Joint Institute with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and learn more about IPE's Summer and Fall study abroad programs. Also speak with U-M students who have studied abroad in China and get your questions answered!

Find program information here:
https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/program-ji/
https://ipe.engin.umich.edu/ipe-fall-programs/

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:34:02 -0400 2019-01-24T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center International Programs in Engineering Presentation IPE
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Elif Batuman Prose Reading (January 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58513 58513-14510835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of the novel, The Idiot, and The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have been anthologized in the 2014 Best American Travel Writing and the 2010 Best American Essays collections. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Batuman holds a doctoral degree in comparative literature from Stanford University. From 2010 to 2013, she was writer-in-residence at Koç University, in Istanbul. She lives in New York.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 2019-01-24T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Student Late Night: Art in the Age of the Internet (January 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58514 58514-14510836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized by U-M students for U-M students, and inspired by the exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, the 10th annual Student Late Night event at UMMA will be a fun-filled creative explosion!

Come to the party and enjoy some of the best fun that the digital age has to offer! Participate in live collaborative art making, motion graphics, and sound mixing. Have fun at the Silent Disco, snag some free food, and have a blast! Don’t miss it or you will be one grumpy cat.

Hosted by the Student Collective at UMMA in partnership with Maize Collective.

 

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

Student Late Night: Art in the Age of the Internet is brought to you by the Student Collective at UMMA in partnership with Maize Collective, and co-sponsored by Arts at Michigan,  ArtsEngine, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the Institute for the Humanities, the History of Art Department, the department of American Culture, and the Museum Studies Department, with additional support from the African Student Association.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:16:30 -0500 2019-01-24T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Information Session (January 24, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60295 60295-14859741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 7:30pm
Location: R2310 (Ross School of Business - Second Floor)
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Michigan Private Equity & Venture Capital (Michigan PEVC) invites you to attend our information session on January 24th from 7:30 - 8:30 P.M. ET in room R2310 at the Ross School of Business to learn more about the novel organization and the Winter 2019 recruitment process. Overview:Michigan PEVC is an undergraduate organization at the University of Michigan assisting students in exploring private equity and venture capital through instructional material and real-world application. In addition to providing a robust education on the fundamentals of finance, the club is on the cusp of developing a close-knit community of 30 bright students deeply interested in pursuing a long-term career in one the alternative asset classes. Despite being selective, the club will recruit from all colleges at the university. Benefits:Students will be given an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills, formulate investment theses (in a VC/PE context), potentially source deals, and engage with the entrepreneurial community. With our startup-oriented culture, we offer students the opportunity to be operators, investors, and leaders.

Another finance-related club? Absolutely not.The club will adhere to an open-source format by allowing the general student body to sit in on events such as educational seminars and workshops. Nonetheless, select analysts will be given an opportunity to build the organization from ground zero, learn the technical capabilities required to thrive within the competitive sectors, compete in investment challenges, etc. We encourage you to explore our organization further at www.michiganpevc.com Application Timeline:Our information session will be held on Thursday, January 24th from 7:30 - 8:30 P.M. ET at R2310. Applications are live on www.michiganpevc.com and are due by Friday, January 25th at 11:59 P.M. ET. The application should take no longer than 30 minutes. Please plan accordingly.1. Information Session - Thursday, January 24 | 7:30 - 8:30 pm | R23102. Application Deadline - Friday, January 25 | 11:59 pm3. Interviews - Sunday, January 27 | Invite Only* Please reach out to Alyson Koh, VP of Relations, at alysonk@umich.edu if you have any questions relating to the club or recruitment process. We look forward to greeting you at our info session! Sincerely, Michigan PEVC

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Presentation Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:16 -0500 2019-01-24T19:30:00-05:00 2019-01-24T20:30:00-05:00 R2310 (Ross School of Business - Second Floor) Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Abdullah Alshelahi (January 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60230 60230-14849135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Open to all IOE graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, January 23.

Abstract:
Stock markets play a vital role in the stability of the global economy. The financial crash in 2008 is a vivid example of how the stock markets and economy are connected. The underlying structure of stock markets is complex. Complex systems tend to operate in a nonlinear fashion, generating extreme and rare events. Current research in stock markets mainly focuses on analyzing individual stocks (i.e. microscopic analysis) while ignoring the overall interactions and dynamics between them (i.e. macroscopic analysis). In this talk, I will present a new perspective on the macroscopic nature of stock markets. This perspective offers new insights into the physics of the markets. The proposed approach analyzes the markets within the context of fluid dynamics. We utilize, for the first time, concepts from physics and incorporate them in modeling the external and internal dynamics of the markets. A novel model consisting of a stochastic system of nonlinear partial differential equations is introduced. The model allows connecting and determining the evolution of macroscopic variables adaptively. In the last part of this talk, I will address several extensions and ongoing efforts in this research.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:36:02 -0500 2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Lunch & Learn About Japan (January 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59951 59951-14803922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The BLI is thrilled to offer students the opportunity to travel on a two-week immersive leadership journey in Japan from May 9 to May 24 2019. The experience will pair classroom workshops on meditation and conflict resolution with outdoor work. Additional activities include visits to the World Health Organization, a Michigan alumni event and meeting with Japanese university students.

Join us for sushi and conversation to get your questions answered about the trip, including application information and more!

RSVP required, space limited.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:26:39 -0500 2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Presentation Flyer
CCN Forum - Development Talks (January 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58026 58026-14392482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Tyler Adkins:

Title:
Rewards enhance multi-voxel decoding of lightly trained motor sequences

Abstract:
Prospective rewards lead to improvements in motor skill performance via an unknown neural mechanism. We hypothesize that these reward-related behavioral improvements are mediated by reward-related enhancements in neural codes which represent upcoming actions. We measured the fidelity of action-related neural codes using machine learning classifiers which attempt to decode action identity from patterns of brain activity preceding actions. We found that prospective rewards had a positive linear effect on the fidelity of action-related neural codes in canonical preparatory motor regions. However, this effect is only present for neural codes representing actions that were lightly trained—the codes for heavily trained actions were unaffected by prospective rewards. Future research should investigate this interaction between depth of training and reward.


Hyesue Jang

Title:
Losing Money and Motivation: Younger and older adults’ response to loss incentive

Abstract:
Would you be more likely to keep your New Year’s resolution if breaking it cost you $20? Loss-based incentives are common in everyday life (e.g., job/financial security, health, driving) especially for older adults. Many laboratory studies report that loss-based incentives do not affect the performance of older adults. This is often interpreted as an example of the age-related positivity effect described by Carstensen and colleagues. However, the tasks used in many laboratory studies have constraints (e.g., fast-passed trials, salient targets, frequent responses) that keep attention focused on the task. This is very different from many real-life situations. Using a more open-ended, low-salience task, we found that loss incentives reduced performance and attention to the task in older adults (Lin et al., in revision). We suggested this might reflect disengagement in response to negative feedback. In this talk, we examine the effects of loss incentive on a more traditionally-formatted task, and also examine the effects on participants’ subjective reports of task engagement, motivation, and related variables.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:55:33 -0500 2019-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation adkins.jang
Short and Snappy Tours (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58537 58537-14510859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:13 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short and Snappy Tours (January 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58536 58536-14510858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:13 -0500 2019-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (January 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58503 58503-14510825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. Join UMMA docents as they explore the more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects—in this exciting exhibition.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag: (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59216 59216-14717521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Valerie Freund
Title: Boredom by Sensation Seeking Interactions During Adolescence

Abstract: The experience of boredom is linked to several adverse outcomes including substance use, risk taking, and psychopathology. Despite evidence that boredom levels peak during adolescence, little work has been done to understand how it interacts with individual traits and its impact on adolescent psychosocial functioning and behavior. In a multi-cohort, national sample of 8th and 10th grade students from the Monitoring the Future study, latent moderated structural equation modeling was used to estimate the associations of boredom, sensation seeking, and their interaction, with substance use, externalizing behavior, and internalizing symptomology. Moderation by gender was also tested. The results of this study demonstrate the generalizability of boredom associations and the significance of boredom by sensation seeking interactions across multiple domains during adolescence.

Young-en Lee
Title: Children’s Evaluations of Third-party Responses to Unfairness: Children Prefer Compensation over Punishment

Abstract: Humans are willing to punish individuals who violate fairness norms, even if they have to pay a cost and are not directly affected. This so-called third-party punishment is a way to intervene against transgressions and is known to stabilize norms. However, punishment is not the only way to restore justice in such situations. Rather than punishing a perpetrator, a third-party could also compensate a victim for their loss. To date, there is no research that investigated children’s evaluations of punishers in comparison with compensators. In the current research, we examined children's evaluations of third-party punishers and compensators. Five- to 9-year-old children heard a story in which a divider distributes candies selfishly between the self and a recipient. Then, a third-party punisher takes candies from the unfair divider, whereas a third-party compensator gives candies to the victim. We measured children’s liking for each third-party on a Likert scale and their forced-choice preference. Results revealed that children evaluated both third parties positively, but they preferred compensators over punishers. The current research has implications for the development of understanding on justice restoration.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Freund
Dialogue and Difference: The Point of “Pointless” Language in British and Persian Exchange 1812–1923 (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60292 60292-14857789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Niloofar Sarlati is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, and a finalist in the LSA Collegiate Fellows Program at the University of Michigan.

Her talk explores how longstanding conventions of Persian courtesy became suspect indices of "primitive" (versus “civilized”) society in Western discourse and thus of a self-perceived “defective” modernity in early-twentieth-century Iran. She argues that transformations in the understanding of language, social interaction, and human life itself were articulated through discursive shifts in time-value, truth-value, and exchange-value that took shape in a broader dialogue between English and Persian in the long nineteenth century.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:55:44 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Presentation Tisch Hall
Population Studies Center Brown Bag (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58257 58257-14450650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Population Studies Center

2018-19 Population Studies Center Brown Bag series

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Presentation Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:09:10 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Population Studies Center Presentation
Science, Technology, and Society and Digital Studies Forum: Tour and discussion (January 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58521 58521-14510843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. The exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Open galleries from 4-5 p.m. will be hosted by UMMA staff. At 5 p.m. participants will convene for an open discussion about the exhibit. The conversation will begin with a dialogue between the artist Osman Khan (U-M School of Art and Design) and the cultural critic Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M American Culture) facilitated by Jennifer Robertson (Art History and Anthropology). Meet in the exhibition in the A. Alfred Taubman I gallery on floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall wing the the Museum.

 

This program is organized and presented in partnership with the Science, Technology, and Society Program and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:17:08 -0500 2019-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Anecdotes from COP24: Bringing International Climate Negotiations Home to Ann Arbor (January 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60071 60071-14816984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ClimateBlue

Maanya is a second year master’s student at the University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability. As part of her master’s thesis, Maanya is looking at understanding various factors that influence farmers’ decisions in deciding sowing dates of rice in India and to what extent climate variability impacts these decisions. Prior to joining SEAS, Maanya studied the impact of climate change on the Himalayan glaciers. Broadly, she is interested in the field of climate change impacts on natural resources and their adaptive capacities. At COP24, she followed climate adaptation communication with respect to developing countries.

Tim is a senior in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts where he studies in the Program in the Environment (PitE) and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). He is also pursuing minors in Energy Science and Policy and Urban Studies. Tim is particularly interested in understanding political barriers to developed countries’ adoption of market-based climate change mitigation strategies--including emissions trading and carbon pricing policies--at sub-national and national levels. He is currently preparing his undergraduate thesis on the role of environmental NGOs and pressure groups in advancing the mitigation efforts of European Union member states. At COP24, Tim followed talks on carbon markets and examined NGO influence strategies.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
In a joint presentation, Tim and Maanya will discuss anecdotes from COP24, tying their experiences and take-aways to the current US climate policy landscape and opportunities/challenges for future progress. Specifically, they will draw lessons from the negotiations on economic diversification, the just transition, and science-inclusive policy and direct suggestions towards US stakeholders which may be applied in local climate work.

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Presentation Sun, 20 Jan 2019 07:13:58 -0500 2019-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ClimateBlue Presentation
UM Psychology Community Talk (January 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52628 52628-12908319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Sickness and memory: How the immune system changes your brain.

ABSTRACT:
Memory is critical for the ability to function in the world. By storing and retrieving information about the relationships between places, events, and outcomes, our memories allow us to adjust our behavior to act in accordance with the current situation. We use our memory to navigate around our environment, efficiently finding our way to work and back home; to avoid dangerous places and things, to find food, and to recognize families, friends and colleagues. This central role of memory in our everyday lives means that disorders of memory are particularly impactful. Deficits in memory are one of the first and most notable symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, because they severely impact the ability for individuals to function independently in the world. Excessively strong memories are also problematic. For example, persistent memories of trauma contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder, leading to individuals avoiding places that trigger retrieval of those memory. But how do memory processes go bad? One thing we know about memory systems is that many different factors in our lives can change how well memory is stored. Stress can make some memories stronger, and some memories weaker. Illness also changes how well we can learn and remember information. This flexibility in how memory systems work also means that they are vulnerable to disruption by stress and sickness. In this talk I will describe how changes in immune signaling during sickness can interfere with memory formation and discuss this in terms of both post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.



BIO:
Natalie Tronson is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. After her undergraduate degree from the University of New South Wales, in Australia, Dr. Tronson moved to the United States and completed her PhD at Yale University, followed by a post-doctoral position at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how the brain stores and retrieves memory, how memory is changed during stress and illness, and sex differences in these processes. Dr. Tronson’s research combines behavioral approaches and molecular analyses in an animal model of memory, with the goal of identifying new ways to prevent and treat memory disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.

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Presentation Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:27:54 -0500 2019-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation trpnspn
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59085 59085-14677961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brain Extracellular Matrix: Not Just Fluffy Filler

Neurons and glia don’t just float in empty space; like all other organs, the brain contains a complex meshwork of sugars and proteins known as the extracellular matrix (ECM). Understanding how brain ECM contributes to neural functioning, disease states and animal behaviours is a growing field of research, and one that holds a great deal of therapeutic potential. This talk will briefly cover the history of brain ECM work, explain how brain ECM can contribute to cognitive and anxiety-like behaviours, and give insight into this relatively understudied but important biological substrate.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:47:17 -0500 2019-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation aoc
Transfer Students: What to Expect at the University Career Center’s Winter Events (January 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59259 59259-14719683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Wondering whether or not you should attend a career fair? Not sure how to prepare for each of these events? The winter career fairs start early in the term, but they are important opportunities to connect with professionals- both to explore different career fields and to engage with prospective organizations. Talk with a coach from the University Career Center about making the most of your time at any of the winter career fairs and why you should attend, even if you aren’t currently looking for a job or internship. This session will go over how to talk with employers, how to highlight the skills you bring as a transfer student, and what to put on your resume.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:35:09 -0500 2019-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Presentation
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (January 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57631 57631-14244000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The complexity of We-ness: Interpersonal determinants of health among sexual and gender minority couples

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Presentation Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:15:15 -0500 2019-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation gamarel
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Overview of fNIRS (functional near infrared spectroscopy) (February 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60396 60396-14875122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rachel Upjohn Building
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:36:56 -0500 2019-02-01T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Rachel Upjohn Building Department of Psychology Presentation
CCN Forum - Development Talks (February 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58027 58027-14392484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Karthik Ganesan:

Title:
Silent lip reading generates speech signals in auditory cortex: Evidence from intracranially implanted electrodes in humans

Abstract:
Audiovisual integration plays a vital role in speech perception, especially during face-to-face communication. Crossmodal activation of auditory processes by visual stimuli is an important aspect of natural speech perception. It has been previously shown that lip reading activates areas areas in the primary auditory cortex (PAC) including the superior temporal gyrus (STG). Though visual stimuli have been shown to influence neural representations in auditory cortex, it has not been conclusively shown whether auditory and visual stimuli activate the same population of neurons in the PAC. Here, we examine the spatial distribution of silent lip reading signals in the PAC in a large cohort of patients to study if this is indeed the case. We recorded electrocorticographic (ECoG) activity from macroscopic depth electrodes implanted within the STG of 13 patients with epilepsy. On each trial, patients were presented with one of three types of stimuli: (1) single phonemes, (2) videos showing the lip movements articulating each phoneme (visemes), or (3) videos showing audio-visual speech movements. Group-level analyses using parametric statistics were performed to show that visual lip -reading generates neural responses broadly along the PAC, spatially overlapping with the distribution of phoneme responses. Furthermore, we also investigated whether the identity of these phonemes and visemes could be discriminated from neural responses in auditory areas. Several electrodes across patients reliably discriminated between specific instances of the phonemes or visemes. However, preliminary analyses indicate that auditory and visual speech information are encoded at distinct areas of the STG. These results demonstrate that observing silent visual speech crossmodally activates speech-processing areas in a content-specific manner in the PAC. It is also shown that maximum information for phoneme discrimination in the PAC is carried in the frequency band of 4-8 hz.

Dalia Khammash

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Probing cortical inhibition in visual cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation

Abstract:
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive method to stimulate localized brain regions. Despite widespread use in motor cortex, TMS is seldom performed in sensory areas due to variable, qualitative metrics. Our objective was to assess the reliability and validity of tracing TMS-induced phosphenes (short-lived artificial percepts) to investigate the stimulation parameters necessary to elicit decreased visual cortex excitability with paired-pulse TMS at short inter-stimulus intervals.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:05:27 -0500 2019-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ganesan.khammash
Short and Snappy Tours (February 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58539 58539-14510861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:13 -0500 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short and Snappy Tours (February 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58540 58540-14510862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:13 -0500 2019-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Mark Webster Reading Series (February 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58519 58519-14510841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Rachel Ann Girty and Justin Balog.    Rachel Ann Girty is a writer and classical mezzo-soprano from Southfield, Michigan. The farthest west she's ever been is the Kansas-Missouri state line. 

Justin Balog is a writer and arts administrator from Beach Park, IL. He is a first authored, scientist with work appearing in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.

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Presentation Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:16:14 -0500 2019-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Age of the Internet in Comic Books: Book Club Tour (February 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58524 58524-14510846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

On the occasion of the exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, UMMA and Vault of Midnight-Ann Arbor have partnered up to form the UMMA Book Club: The Age of the Internet in Comic Books. Join David Choberka, Andrew W. Mellon Manager of Academic Outreach & Teaching, for a discussion in the gallery that connects the art on view to themes in the selected comics. Open to anyone, regardless of participation in the book club. Meet at the UMMA Store.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecelia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:11 -0500 2019-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations (February 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58498 58498-14510820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The story of Japanese archaeologist Ryoichi and evidence of his worldwide excavations are explored by Patrick Nagatani in this series of photographs. Nagatani presents a narrative of Ryoichi’s archeological work, supported by images of excavation sites, unearthed artifacts, and Ryoichi’s own journal pages. According to the photographs, Ryoichi discovered evidence of an automobile culture buried at sites across several continents: Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon, and a necropolis in China. Docents will introduce this provocative and playful series that compels viewers to reflect on how photographs and institutions, such as museums, shape our knowledge of the past and present.

Lead support for Proof: The Ryoichi Excavations is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, and Michigan Engineering.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:07 -0500 2019-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-03T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Using Sequential Mixed Methods Research to Develop Research Partnerships: An Example from Urban Indian Mental Health (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59054 59054-14677930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The Indian Health Service of the United States government oversees 34 Urban Indian Health Organizations, charged with providing mental health services to American Indians living in major US cities. Starting in 2014, University of Michigan researchers in the Department of Psychology began contacting these sites, largely through cold calls, to participate in brief surveys regarding their available mental health services. Using this initial contact as a springboard to develop a relationship, a four-year project including multiple visits to several of these health centers was ultimately conducted. This presentation will discuss how a sequential mixed methods approach to research can be applied in the development of long-term research relationships while also improving the depth and quality of the research itself, using this multi-year project in urban Indian health to illustrate these points.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:33:05 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Pomerville
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59086 59086-14677962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Oral Contraceptives and Cognition: A Methodological Perspective on Heterogeneity

Eighty-five percent of women in the United States will use oral contraceptives (OCs) for at least 5 years of their life. Given its prevalence, surprisingly little is known about the psychological and cognitive consequences of “the pill” – consequences that may influence women’s decisions to initiate, continue, or discontinue pill use. Relatively consistent findings are beginning to emerge with respect to memory and spatial abilities, but research on the cognitive correlates of OC use is challenging and riddled with limitations. A primary challenge is heterogeneity: Women are biologically and socially unique, and they use different types of OCs for different reasons. This suggests that the cognitive effects of OC use may also be unique – to subgroups of users or even to individual women! In this talk, I will present methodological innovations that overcome past heterogeneity-related research limitations in order to capture the effects of OC use on cognition, highlighting effects that are relatively uniform across users and those that are unique to individuals. I will accomplish this by: (1) discrediting the notion that differences in personal characteristics between OC users and naturally cycling women are responsible for differences in cognition, (2) removing heterogeneity among OC users by placing them into homogeneous groups (based on the active ingredients in their pills) before examining effects on cognition, and (3) capitalizing on heterogeneity by applying person-specific temporal network models to 75-day diary and cognitive testing data from naturally cycling women and women using different types of OCs.

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Presentation Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:34:01 -0500 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation beltz
Introduction to National Scholarships/Fellowships (February 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59203 59203-14717501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships recruits and prepares U-M undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and recent alums for major national scholarship and fellowship competitions such as the Rhodes Scholarship for post-graduate study at Oxford. Join ONSF Director, Dr. Henry Dyson, to learn more about the opportunities that ONSF supports for various graduate and career tracks as well as what it takes to be a competitive applicant. More detailed information available at: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:14:53 -0500 2019-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Mason Hall
Love Beyond Bounds (February 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59487 59487-14745556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

SAPAC, in co-sponsorship with Spectrum Center and CEW+, are bringing Corey Kempster and Jari Jones to talk about their relationship and love. The event is specifically near Valentine's Day, a holiday that is often very heteronormative and hurtful for people who hold marginalized identities. We hope that by creating an affirming and inclusive space that is a great representation of love and healthy relationship norms we can promote inclusivity and respect in all relationships on our campus!

Jari Jones is an actress/model/singer/activist who channels her talents into powerful trans-centric storytelling. She has been featured on FX’s Pose, starred in an Off-Broadway show called “The Sex Myth,” and just finished filming a movie with Leyna Bloom, directed by Martin Scorsese. Corey Kempster is a counselor for LGBT youth who are experiencing homelessness in addition to doing some modeling and acting. Together they have become an icon for healthy, positive queer relationships and have done numerous speaking and activism events around the country.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:53:10 -0500 2019-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Presentation Blue poster with stars and planets on it with bold pink text spelling love beyond bounds and reiterating the time and location details.
CSEAS Southeast Asia Practice and Scholarship Series. Perspectives on the State of Journalism (February 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57832 57832-14323261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Contemporary journalists covering the various countries of Southeast Asia face unprecedented challenges in the form of suppression, censorship, incarceration, and violence.

This roundtable discussion presents perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Panelists: Orlando de Guzman, documentary filmmaker, Ilaya Films; Arlyn Gajilan, correspondent, Thompson Reuters; Tyrell Haberkorn, associate professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Hkun Lat, freelance documentary photographer, Myanmar

Moderator: Allen Hicken, professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to alibyrne@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:07:09 -0500 2019-02-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Presentation event_poster
Award winning Augmented and Virtual Reality Artist visiting UofM's Stamps and Duderstadt Center (February 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60726 60726-14957190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

We have a great opportunity to engage with an amazing AR and VR engineer and artist. In collaboration with Stamps School of Art and Design, The Duderstadt Center will be hosting Tamiko Thiel on Thursday, February 7. There will be two events on Thursday and we will have Tamiko's VR artwork available to experience at the Duderstadt Center’s Visualization Studio starting Thursday morning at 9am through Friday afternoon at 1pm.

Tamiko's Bio: http://tamikothiel.com/main.html

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Presentation Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:03:18 -0500 2019-02-07T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Presentation Tamiko Thiel Event Poster
Introduction to National Scholarships/Fellowships (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59205 59205-14717506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships recruits and prepares U-M undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and recent alums for major national scholarship and fellowship competitions such as the Rhodes Scholarship for post-graduate study at Oxford. Join ONSF Director, Dr. Henry Dyson, to learn more about the opportunities that ONSF supports for various graduate and career tracks as well as what it takes to be a competitive applicant. More detailed information available at: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:14:35 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Mason Hall
PSC & GFP Brown Bags (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57646 57646-14246158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Actions speak louder than words: How mixed-methods action research promotes student-oriented policy

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:35:39 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation lorraine
Award winning Augmented and Virtual Reality Artist visiting UofM's Stamps and Duderstadt Center (February 7, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60726 60726-14957189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

We have a great opportunity to engage with an amazing AR and VR engineer and artist. In collaboration with Stamps School of Art and Design, The Duderstadt Center will be hosting Tamiko Thiel on Thursday, February 7. There will be two events on Thursday and we will have Tamiko's VR artwork available to experience at the Duderstadt Center’s Visualization Studio starting Thursday morning at 9am through Friday afternoon at 1pm.

Tamiko's Bio: http://tamikothiel.com/main.html

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Presentation Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:03:18 -0500 2019-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Digital Media Commons Presentation Tamiko Thiel Event Poster
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Ada Limón, Poetry Reading (February 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58516 58516-14510838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her other books include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. Her new collection, The Carrying, was released by Milkweed Editions in August of 2018 and has been called “her best yet” by NPR, “remarkable” by The New York Times, “exquisite” by The Washington Post, and one of the Ten Titles to Pick Up Now by O Magazine. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:17:15 -0500 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Grainger: Corporate Info Session & Resume Review (February 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60000 60000-14812530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Hear from two Michigan alumni about what Grainger does, how our Michigan educations prepared us for success in both supply chain and business, and what opportunities are available. A resume review will follow the presentation.

We will be looking for talent to join the team for our Summer 2019 intern program and for full time roles starting Summer 2020.

RSVP by 2/6: https://myumi.ch/6xAkm

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:56:07 -0500 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation man and woman in formal suit standing beside each other
CCN Forum: The Functional Dissection of Wernicke’s Area (February 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59047 59047-14675846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In his talk, he will review recent scientific advances in our understanding of the human language region called Wernicke’s Area. New methods of detailed neurophysiologic recordings are revealing how speech sounds, and their phonetic and prosodic properties, are encoded by local cortical activity. We propose a new model of the functional map within Wernicke’s Areas, one that integrates selectivity for speech inputs with internal state.

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Presentation Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:39 -0500 2019-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Chang
Short Student Tours (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58545 58545-14510867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:16 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short Student Tours (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58543 58543-14510865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:16 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Yoga Study Break at UMMA (February 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58584 58584-14513820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Participate in the ancient practice of yoga in the beautiful surroundings of the Museum of Art. This will be gentle yoga, especially appropriate for students in the throes of midterms, led by a U-M RecSports teacher. All levels and community members welcome. This event is free but registration is required. Please bring your own yoga mat.​

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:17:19 -0500 2019-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Paul Rand: The Designer's Task (February 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58500 58500-14510822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Paul Rand was a giant of American design whose influential career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. His visionary and pithy conceptions of corporate and non-profit brand identities—though often graphically minimal—embody the artist’s complex philosophy, interest in modernist aesthetics, and singular wit. This exhibition features posters, book covers, and packaging designs from the entirety of Rand’s career. Visit Paul Rand: The Designer’s Task with an UMMA docent to explore the genre of graphic design within the context of the art museum and examine how Rand’s intellectual process and impact on visual culture developed over time.

Lead support for Paul Rand: The Designer's Task is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Linking Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) into Developmental Psychopathology: Self-regulation and its Neural Correlates as Intervention Targets in Early Childhood (February 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59055 59055-14677940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Early childhood interventions might help prevent progression towards chronic impairment. However, current treatments for child psychopathology are often ineffective and difficult to access, with as many as 50% of children continuing to suffer from mental health problems even after treatment. To pave the way for more effective treatment and prevention strategies, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project launched by the National Institute of Mental Health has been championed as a systematic framework for linking symptoms (e.g., internalizing), across the normal to abnormal range, to behavior and neural circuits indexing constructs of relevance to psychopathology. Nonetheless, integrating RDoC into developmental psychopathology, especially the application of RDoC to early childhood, has been understudied.

To fulfill the promise of RDoC and integrate RDoC into developmental psychopathology, I argue that it is critical to 1) identify and establish early behavioral markers that could differentiate typical vs atypical development over time; 2) link these early behavioral markers to neurobiological mechanisms that are associated with emotional maladjustment; and 3) understand how these behavioral and neural markers could be modulated via intervention. In this talk, I will first examine whether specific self-regulation skills at age 3 are related to the development of internalizing and externalizing trajectories across time. Then I will link identified self-regulation vulnerabilities to neural correlates (i.e., error-related negativity; ERN) to understand the development of internalizing problems among preschoolers. Finally, I will conclude with my ongoing direction of targeting self-regulation and its neural correlates via self-regulation trainings as novel intervention for children with internalizing problems.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:26:51 -0500 2019-02-11T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ip
Developmental Brown Bag: Computational psychiatry approaches to understanding developmental risk factors for externalizing psychopathology (February 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59217 59217-14717522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Several recent and ongoing large-scale studies of child and adolescent development have succeeded in collecting rich longitudinal data from psychosocial, behavioral and neural levels of analysis. Although these projects offer researchers an unprecedented opportunity to investigate developmental factors that contribute to mental health outcomes, they also present significant challenges due to the need to draw interpretable conclusions from high-dimensional data and integrate measurements over several levels of analysis. The emerging field of computational psychiatry, which emphasizes the use of mathematically-specified models for measuring clinically-relevant mechanistic processes that underlie observed behavioral and/or neural data, offers potential solutions. I will present a brief overview of this approach and two specific applications. The first involves the use of a mathematical model of go/no-go task performance to clarify mechanistic processes indexed by task-related neural activations in late adolescence and inform the prediction of substance use in emerging adulthood. The second involves efforts to use linear growth modeling to assess relationships between pubertal timing, risk for substance abuse in adolescence, and individual differences in reward evaluation circuitry which may mediate that risk. These lines of research suggest that quantitative model-based approaches can facilitate the use of large-scale longitudinal data sets to better understand and predict externalizing psychopathology.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:07:17 -0500 2019-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Weigard
Meeting # 1 of Winter Semester (February 11, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60444 60444-14894512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Next meeting is around the corner! Ready for Pizza a captivating talk on evolution, plant macroevolution, and transcriptomics.  

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Presentation Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:00:10 -0500 2019-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation Mason Hall
Café Shapiro (February 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58120 58120-14426741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

Through its over 20 years of existence, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers, their friends, families, and the wider community. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!

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Presentation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:51 -0500 2019-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Presentation Cafe Shapiro
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59088 59088-14677963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:26:18 -0500 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
International Studies Information Session and Q&A (February 12, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52598 52598-12874399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. All sessions will be held in Weiser Hall located at 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Please contact: is-michigan@umich.edu.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:52:32 -0400 2019-02-12T16:15:00-05:00 2019-02-12T17:15:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Presentation photo
Nonprofit Board Fellows Forum (February 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58104 58104-14424598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Panelists will discuss the value of a younger perspective on nonprofit boards and the efforts in place to adapt to this generational shift.

Confirmed panelists include:

Diana Kern, Executive Director of Legacy Land Conservancy
Shamyle Dobbs, Chief Executive Officer of Michigan Community Resources
Jeff Henning, Partner at Ernst & Young

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Presentation Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:57:55 -0500 2019-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Presentation Nonprofit Board Fellows Forum
Café Shapiro (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58120 58120-14426742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

Through its over 20 years of existence, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers, their friends, families, and the wider community. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!

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Presentation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:51 -0500 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Presentation Cafe Shapiro
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58029 58029-14392485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Martha Berg: "Loyal friend or dutiful citizen? Cultural variation in moral leniency toward close others"

Ariana Orvell: “You” and “I” in a foreign land: Examining the normative force of generic-you"

Darwin Guevarra: TBA

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:11:07 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation berg.guevarra
PSC & GFP Brown Bags (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57644 57644-14246157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

“Getting through those ups and downs”: Resources within Black/African American married couples’ advice on how to make marriage work

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Presentation Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:53:03 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation sparks
EHAP Speaker Series: Hormonal Contraceptives and Breast Cancer: A Case of Evoluntionary Mismatch (February 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56620 56620-13958283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In the evolutionary past, women of reproductive age rarely menstruated as they were usually pregnant or breast-feeding. In modern societies, the evolutionarily novel pattern of frequent menses, and the associated increase in endogenous hormonal exposure, is a risk factor for breast cancer. It is unclear, however, whether oral contraceptives further increase or actually decrease hormonal exposure. My collaborators and I examined variation in hormonal exposure across frequently prescribed oral contraceptive (OC) formulations with the goal of providing a quantitative comparison of endogenous and exogenous hormonal exposure. Endogenous data came from 12 published studies of serum estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) in European or American women. Exogenous data came from pharmacokinetic package insert data for seven different OC formulations. We found that, with the exception of one formulation, median ethinyl estradiol (a synthetic estrogen) exposure over one menstrual cycle was similar to median E2 exposure. However, median exposure from progestins (synthetic progesterone) was 4-fold higher than the median endogenous exposure from P4. Given that breast cancer risk has a dose-response relationship to hormonal exposure, these findings are cause for concern. Not all formulations produce the same exposures, making these findings also pertinent to contraceptive choice. Our results are discussed in the light of a recent Danish study on hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:08:09 -0500 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Strassman
IOE 899 Seminar Series: Jing Li, Arizona State University (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60367 60367-14866475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The IOE 899 Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4:00 pm-5:00pm.

Abstract:
When learning a new skill, people can transfer their knowledge about other related skills they have grasped to expedite the learning. This human ability has inspired the development of a class of statistical machine learning models called Transfer Learning (TL). TL is an excellent choice for Precision Medicine because it allows for building a robust model for each patient based on not only the data of that patient but also transferred information from other patients.

An important problem that the existing TL literature has overlooked is “negative transfer”, referred to as the situation of worse performance of a TL model than a model without transfer learning. We provide theoretical study on the risk of negative transfer, which further motivates the development of a positive TL model to prevent negative transfer. This model is applied to building patient-specific models using smartphone-generated activity data such tapping, speaking, and walking to telemonitor patients with the Parkinson’s Disease. Telemonitoring belongs to the emerging health care platform of mHealth, which utilizes wireless technologies to enable remote monitoring of patient conditions and timely medical decisions.

Additionally, this talk will briefly introduce our developments of TL models in other health care applications, including multi-modality imaging data fusion for early detection of the Alzheimer’s Disease and hierarchical modality and feature selection from neuroimaging data for subtype identification of migraine.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:36:17 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Autonomous systems in the intersection of controls, learning theory and formal methods (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60932 60932-14990924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ufuk Topcu, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin

Autonomous systems are emerging as a driving technology for countlessly many applications. Numerous disciplines tackle the challenges toward making these systems agile, adaptable, reliable, user friendly and economical. On the other hand, the existing disciplinary boundaries delay and possibly even obstruct progress. I argue that the non-conventional problems that arise in the design and verification of autonomous systems require hybrid solutions at the intersection of learning, formal methods and controls.


I will discuss three problems at varying levels of detail. The results in the first problem will help program autonomous systems in hours---as opposed to the current levels of days or weeks---to deliver complex missions in dynamic and adversarial environments with provable guarantees of correctness. My studies of the second problem have resulted in a series of new reinforcement learning algorithms. These algorithms---unlike conventional learning algorithms---provide strong guarantees with respect to given formal specifications expressed in variants of temporal logic during training and execution. The third problem focuses on developing verifiable algorithms for control-oriented learning that will help autonomous systems survive abrupt and possibly severe run-time damage or faults with minimal sacrifice in the mission objectives. Throughout the talk, I will place the results in the context of aerospace applications with concrete examples.

About the Speaker:

Ufuk Topcu joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in Fall 2015. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008. He held research positions at the University of Pennsylvania and California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the theoretical, algorithmic and computational aspects of design and verification of autonomous systems through novel connections between formal methods, learning theory and controls. He has received the NSF CAREER and AFOSR YIP awards.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:39:36 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation topcu
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Major Jackson, Poetry Reading (February 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58520 58520-14510842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is the editor of Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and included in multiple volumes of Best American Poetry. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:17:04 -0500 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60257 60257-14855600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

presentation by James Munene (PhD, Anthropology)

The presenter will discuss his work at the Ethnografiska Museet (Museum of Ethnography) in Stockholm, home to over 900 collections of African objects. This museum’s identity in a changing world and its representation of these objects will be explored.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:20:34 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Etnografiska Museet
CCN Forum: Metacognition and the Ancient Problem of "Knowing Thyself" (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59854 59854-14795159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

I describe research at the intersection of cognitive and social psychology investigating how accurately people evaluate their intellectual, professional, and social performances—a task not only at the heart of meta-cognition but also the ancient Western exhortation to “know thyself.” In particular, I discuss the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect, which asserts that inexpert and unknowledgeable individuals fail to recognize (scratch that, cannot be expected to recognize) just how severe their deficits are. I discuss the mechanisms underlying the effect, and also its social cognitive extension: People in general not only have difficulty identifying intellectual weaknesses in themselves but also genius and virtuosity in other people.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:59:12 -0500 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Dunning
Short Student Tours (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58549 58549-14510871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:17 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short Student Tours (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58548 58548-14510870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:16 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (February 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58502 58502-14510824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s explores large-scale works of art by Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving, within the context of highly-charged debates of the early 1970s about aesthetics, politics, race, and feminism. This exhibition explores the gendered and racialized terms upon which great art was defined and assessed, and the strategy of artists to question the identity and aesthetics of the artist making the art. UMMA docents will help visitors look through the lens of the four artists’ works to explore the aesthetic choices inherent in abstraction as well as the acts of staining, pouring, draping, —or even taking apart the wall itself—within this charged political context.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:08 -0500 2019-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag: The Costs of Sexy: Exploring the Impact of Media’s Sexualization of Girls and Women (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59218 59218-14717523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

ABSTRACT
The mainstream media have emerged as a prominent force in the sexual socialization of American youth, with teens consuming nearly 7.5 hours of media a day. However, media portrayals of women are often quite limited, with heavy emphasis on their beauty, sexiness, and sexual appeal. How might regular exposure to this content shape how young women view themselves and their abilities? Most of the existing research testing this question has focused on traditional media, mainly magazines, and on consequences for young women’s mental health. In this talk, I present findings from several studies that extend this work by testing contributions of traditional and social media, and consequences for girls’ and young women’s sexual health, experiences of intimate partner violence, and academic cognitions.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:02:28 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ward
LGBTQ Affirming Doctors and How to Navigate Systems Panel (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59917 59917-14797384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This panel will share practical tips and consideration for navigating and fostering relationships with LGBTQ friendly providers and resources. Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School and the Spectrum Center.
Pre-registration is required at https://myumi.ch/aK2Ob

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:16:18 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
MICDE Seminar: Bridging the divide: fostering interdisciplinary collaborative research in computational cognitive neuroscience (February 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60858 60858-14979670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:20:25 -0500 2019-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation
Science, Technology, and Society and Digital Studies Forum: Tour and discussion (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61224 61224-15054307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. The exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Open galleries from 4-5 p.m. will be hosted by UMMA staff. At 5 p.m. participants will convene for an open discussion about the exhibit. The conversation will begin with a dialogue between the artist Osman Khan (U-M School of Art and Design) and the cultural critic Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M American Culture) facilitated by Jennifer Robertson (Art History and Anthropology). Meet in the exhibition in the A. Alfred Taubman I gallery on floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall wing the the Museum.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:17:13 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Automated Driving Tech Talk hosted by Aptiv (February 18, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61126 61126-15036280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Michigan Applied Robotics Group

Come meet with Aptiv engineers at the Automated Driving Tech Talk hosted by Aptiv and the Michigan Applied Robotics Group! Starting at 4PM, Aptiv will be showcasing their autonomous vehicle next to the wave field behind FXB. At 5PM, Aptiv CTO Glen De Vos will be speaking on their development of autonomous technologies. Afterward, Aptiv team members will be around to collect resumes, network and talk more about the exciting opportunities at Aptiv. Food will be provided!

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Presentation Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:31:35 -0500 2019-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Michigan Applied Robotics Group Presentation Aptiv CTO Glen De Vos
Café Shapiro (February 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58120 58120-14426744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

Through its over 20 years of existence, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers, their friends, families, and the wider community. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!

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Presentation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:51 -0500 2019-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Presentation Cafe Shapiro
Informal methods talk/roundtable: Current issues in computational neuroimaging of brain function (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60859 60859-14979671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:21:32 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Reduced-Order Model Framework for Thermochemical Non-equilibrium Hypersonic Flows (February 19, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60960 60960-14997734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Robyn L. Macdonald, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics Department, University of Minnesota

The gas flow around a hypersonic vehicle involves many different physical phenomena occurring on a broad range of time and length scales. In particular, non-equilibrium chemistry directly affects the heat transfer to the vehicle. The conventional approach to model chemical non-equilibrium was developed nearly 40 years ago and relies heavily on calibration with heritage experimental data. Recent advances in both computational chemistry and computational resources have enabled the construction of extremely detailed models for the chemical non-equilibrium effects based on ab initio quantum chemistry data, called the state-to-state (StS) approach. Unfortunately, due to their enormous cost StS calculations can only be used in highly simplified test cases. This motivates the development of reduced order models for chemical non-equilibrium. The model reduction framework proposed is based on the maximum-entropy principle, and leverages quasi-classical trajectory (i.e., atomistic) calculations to compute n-moment kinetic data for a reduced set of molecular states, thus providing the crucial link between the ab initio quantum chemistry data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The talk covers the key aspects involved in model development, namely: the model reduction framework, the use of scattering calculations to integrate the ab initio data, and the application of the model to CFD.

About the Speaker

Dr. Robyn Macdonald received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. In December 2018, she successfully defended her PhD thesis with her work titled “Reduced-order model framework for thermochemical non-equilibrium hypersonic flows”. Her PhD research focused on the development of quantum chemistry informed reduced order models for thermochemical non-equilibrium hypersonic flows. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Computational Hypersonics Research Lab at the University of Minnesota studying turbulence in hypersonic flows. Dr. Macdonald is recipient of National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2015); and her post-doctoral research is supported by the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2018). During her PhD she received a number of awards: including the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (declined to accept NDSEG), Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship (declined to accept NDSEG), and AE Faculty Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the department of Aerospace Engineering at UIUC. In addition, her work on reduced order models for thermochemical non-equilibrium, first presented at the AIAA Aviation Forum 2017, was awarded the Weaver Thermophysics Best Student Paper Award from AIAA as well as selected as Editor’s Pick when published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:39:11 -0500 2019-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation mac
NII/Psychology/fMRI Talk: Hyperalignment: modeling the shared information encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale cortical topographies. (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60860 60860-14979672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:20:46 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange Residency | Panel Discussion (February 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59766 59766-14786519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

The Anishnaabe Theatre Exchange is a collaborative project using theatre to activate networks with Native communities in the Great Lakes region, and involves University of Michigan students, faculty and staff with the Cultural Department of the Chippewa Sault Ste. Marie Tribe, Lake Superior State University and Bay Mills community members. This panel discussion will address social issues which persist on Native American reservations including domestic violence and suicide.

All events are free and open to the public. Visit www.lsa.umich.edu/world-performance for more info.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

This residency is co-sponsored by the U-M Residential College, CEW+, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama, Institute for Humanities, SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Department of American Culture.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:01:58 -0500 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Three Sisters Poster
Café Shapiro (February 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58120 58120-14426745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

Through its over 20 years of existence, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers, their friends, families, and the wider community. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!

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Presentation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:51 -0500 2019-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Presentation Cafe Shapiro
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60532 60532-14908087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan Han:
"Experts & Overconfidence"


Susannah Albert-Chandhok:
"Does actively using social media improve mood? It depends on how you use it"

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Presentation Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:23:41 -0500 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation albert
Introduction to National Scholarships/Fellowships (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59206 59206-14717507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships recruits and prepares U-M undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and recent alums for major national scholarship and fellowship competitions such as the Rhodes Scholarship for post-graduate study at Oxford. Join ONSF Director, Dr. Henry Dyson, to learn more about the opportunities that ONSF supports for various graduate and career tracks as well as what it takes to be a competitive applicant. More detailed information available at: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:13:56 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Mason Hall
U-M Spectrum Center Presents: Dialoguing with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58527 58527-14510849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Leah's work has been widely published and anthologized, most recently in The Deaf Poets Society, Glitter and Grit, and Octavia's Brood, including work in the anthologies Dear Sister, Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, and Visible: A Femmethology, among others. A VONA fellow, she holds an MFA from Mills College. In 2010, she was named one of the Feminist Press' 40 Feminists Under 40 Shaping the Future, and she is a 2013 Autostraddle Hot 105 member.

Join Leah and the Spectrum Center for a conversation on the intersection of queerness, race, and disability in today's society. Leah will treat us with her latest work on the aforementioned topics and bring us to her own world. 

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is part of a series of keynote speakers Spectrum Center is hosting on campus covering radical queer advocacy and activism work in collaboration with several departments and student organizations at University of Michigan. 

This program is presented by the U-M Spectrum Center, and co-sponsored by Trotter Multicultural Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), University Housing Diversity and Inclusion, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Residential College, School of Social Work DEI, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Presentation Thu, 03 Jan 2019 18:16:10 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Dissertation Defense: Advanced Predictive Control Strategies for More Electric Aircraft (February 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61053 61053-15024938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

William Dunham

Dissertation Committee:
Professor Ilya Kolmanovsky (co-chair)
Associate Professor Anouck Girard (co-chair)
Dr Brandon Hencey, Air Force Research Laboratory
Professor Jing Sun, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (Cognate)

Presentation Info:
February 21st, 2019
GM Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center

Next generation aircraft designs are incorporating more extensive electrical distributions that cover a broader range of applications, increasing the power levels to be met and the complexity of their operation. The expansion of the electrical grid cascades out into the engine, where the generators extract power from. This dissertation develops advanced predictive control strategies that account for the interactions between the subsystems in order to enable the potential benefits of a More Electric Aircraft (MEA), such as improved efficiency and reliability.

First, models representing the engine and power subsystems of the MEA, including their interactions, are developed. The control objective in this MEA system is to actuate the engine and power subsystem inputs to satisfy demands for thrust and power loads while enforcing constraints on compressor surge
and bus voltage deviations.

Second, model predictive control (MPC) strategies incorporating disturbance rejection, coordination between the subsystems, and anticipation of the changes in the power loads are shown to be effective in the MEA.

Third, a Distributed MPC is formulated that accounts for separately developed subsystems through controller privacy and differences in update rates.

Finally, a Scenario Based MPC is proposed to handle stochastic transitions in the thrust and power load references.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:54:16 -0500 2019-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Presentation will
GFP/PSC colloquium speaker (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57647 57647-14246159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Intersectionality: Connecting Gender with Race at Work.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:13:39 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation rosette
EHAP Speaker Series (February 21, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56623 56623-13958286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:54:10 -0400 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Marco
IOE 899 Seminar Series: LLamasoft, Inc. (February 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60636 60636-14934830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The IOE 899 Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm.

Presenters:
Ali Taghavi, Network Optimization team manager
Jeremy Castaing, Transportation Optimization team manager

Abstract:
In this presentation, we discuss two ongoing research projects from the Applied Research team at LLamasoft. First, we look at how to integrate safety stock costs into a Network Optimization problem, and we show why previous approaches are either sub-optimal or become practically unsolvable. Second, we present a constraint-based Vehicle Routing algorithm that uses an evaluation sub-routine flexible enough to consider real-world constraints such as driver breaks, recharging of electric vehicles and dock doors. We then discuss the pros and cons of this approach compared to more traditional, MIP-based, methods.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:26:21 -0500 2019-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Hierarchical Control for Electro-Thermal Coordination of Aircraft Energy Systems (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61258 61258-15061101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Herschel C. Pangborn
PhD Candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and Teaching Fellow
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aircraft energy systems are governed by nonlinear dynamics spanning multiple timescales and physical domains. They can be viewed as ‘systems-of-systems,’ forming complex networks of interconnected elements that convert, store, and exchange energy. Due to electrification and increasing on-board power demands, managing the thermal and electrical energy of these systems has become a significant challenge, limiting their capability, safety, and efficiency. This talk will present a hierarchical control framework for vehicle energy management that meets this challenge by facilitating the coordination of dynamics across multiple physical domains and timescales. Analysis methods ensure the stability and feasibility of this control framework, while experimental validation certifies its applicability as game-changing technology for advanced vehicles, bridging the theory-practice gap. Recent results to be presented include a hardware-in-the-loop implementation of electro-thermal hierarchical control and a decentralized passivity-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach that leverages the system structure to guarantee closed-loop stability, including under switching. These tools are applicable to conditions in which the environment serves as a heat sink, such as subsonic and supersonic aircraft, as well as a heat source, such as hypersonic and space systems. While the talk will focus primarily on the former, a brief discussion of the latter will be included.

About the Speaker

Herschel C. Pangborn is a PhD candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the dynamic modeling, optimization, and control of vehicle energy systems. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University in 2013 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2015. His research in the Alleyne Research Group has included collaborations with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the NSF Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), the Center for Integrated Thermal Management of Aerospace Vehicles (CITMAV), and the University of Illinois Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC). He is also an Engineering Consultant for CU Aerospace, supporting the Thermosys simulation toolset for analyzing the behavior of both single phase and phase-change thermal management systems. He is a Student Liaison for the Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD), and in this role has organized invited technical sessions and career development events at multiple ASME conferences.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:26:30 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Café Shapiro (February 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58120 58120-14426743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others, it provides a fresh audience, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.

Through its over 20 years of existence, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers, their friends, families, and the wider community. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!

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Presentation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:33:51 -0500 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Presentation Cafe Shapiro
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Xubu Yue and Seokhyun Chung (February 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61332 61332-15088052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Open to all IOE graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, February 20.

1st Presentation: Xubo Yue on "Variational Inference of Joint Models using Multivariate Gaussian Convolution Processes"

Abstract:
In recent years, the multivariate Gaussian process (MGP) has drawn significant attention as an efficient non-parametric approach to predict longitudinal signal trajectories. We would like to exploit the MGP to explore the following question: can we use both time-to-event data (also known as survival data) along with predicted longitudinal signals to obtain a reliable event prediction? In this work, we present a non-parametric prognostic framework for individualized event prediction based on joint modeling of both longitudinal and time-to-event data. Our approach exploits a multivariate Gaussian convolution process (MGCP) to model the evolution of longitudinal signals and a Cox model to map time-to-event data with longitudinal data modeled through MGCP. Taking advantage of the unique structure imposed by convolved processes, we provide a variational inference framework to simultaneously estimate parameters in the joint MGCP-Cox model. This facilitates scalability to large data settings and safeguards against model overfitting. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches built on two-stage inference and strong parametric assumptions.

Bio:
Xubo Yue is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a Master’s degree in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan, and Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and Applied Mathematics from the University of Macau. Xubo’s current research focuses on Multivariate Gaussian Processes and Bayesian optimization for reinforcement learning.


2nd Presentation: Seokhyun Chung on "Functional Principal Component Analysis for Extrapolating Multi-stream Longitudinal Data"

Abstract:
The advance of modern sensor technologies enables collection of multi-stream longitudinal data where multiple signals from different units are collected in real-time. In this article, we present a non-parametric approach to predict the evolution of multi-stream longitudinal data for an in-service unit through borrowing strength from other historical units. Our approach first decomposes each stream into a linear combination of eigenfunctions and their corresponding functional principal component (FPC) scores. A Gaussian process prior for the FPC scores is then established based on a functional semi-metric that measures similarities between streams of historical units and the in-service unit. Finally, an empirical Bayesian updating strategy is derived to update the established prior using real-time stream data obtained from the in-service unit. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and can effectively account for heterogeneity as well as achieve high predictive accuracy.

Bio:
Seokhyun Chung is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in industrial and management engineering from the Korea University. Seokhyun’s current research interests include development of machine learning and Bayesian non-parametric models in order to analyze large-scale data collected from IoT devices in connected environments such as smart factories, wearable devices, and battery management system for electric vehicles.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:46:09 -0500 2019-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Short Student Tours (February 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58552 58552-14510874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:17 -0500 2019-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short Student Tours (February 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58551 58551-14510873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short & sweet 15-minute peeks at the UMMA collection. ​Meet at the UMMA Store.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:17:17 -0500 2019-02-22T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Mark Webster Reading Series (February 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58528 58528-14510850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends—a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Rachel Cross and Eirill Falck.

Rachel Cross is a writer from the Midwest. Her fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fugue, Day One, and elsewhere. You can find her online at rcross.net.

Eirill Falck, is a writer from Oslo, Norway.

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Presentation Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:17:05 -0500 2019-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (February 24, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58504 58504-14510826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. Join UMMA docents as they explore the more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects—in this exciting exhibition.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:17:16 -0500 2019-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59090 59090-14677968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Neuroendocrinology and Behavioral sequelae of sepsis: toward an understanding of post-intensive care syndrome

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:38:51 -0500 2019-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation joanna
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60533 60533-14908088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Izzy Gainsburg:
"Beliefs About Beauty: A Subset of Beliefs about whether Value is Objective or Subjective"

Todd Chan:
"I'm not with them: Defensive othering of co-ethnics in response to American identity denial"

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Presentation Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:04:14 -0500 2019-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation izzy
EHAP Speaker Series: Paleolithic or Paleomythic? Learning from 21st century hunter-gatherers about the evolution of the human diet (February 28, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56665 56665-13960664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The world’s few remaining foraging populations are often used as referential models of human evolution and ancestral health – with topics ranging from the so-called “Paleolithic Diet” to the “hunter-gatherer workout” or even “re-wilding the microbiome”. We live in a time when our industrialized modes of subsistence have never been more dissimilar to those of our past, the Neolithic farmers or the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Despite this, there has been an increase in public curiosity and a revitalized effort on the part of scientists to better understand the lifeway that has characterized 95% of human evolution – that of nomadic foraging for wild foods. But what can modern day hunter-gatherers really tell us about our evolutionary past? Here, I discuss the ways in which data collected among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania are critical for evolutionary reconstructions of nutrition and behavior. I explore foraging profiles across the lifespan, seasonal differences in diet composition, and the phylogenetic diversity of Hadza gut microbiota. I discuss how these findings may have implications for understanding human health and behavior in the post-industrialized west. As we are increasingly aware of the role that microbes play in biology, evolution, and in health and disease patterns, it is important to properly contextualize data collected from the world’s most vulnerable small scale societies – particularly as there is great potential for the commercialization of microbiome research. Furthermore, as shifts in diet composition are often linked to many key milestones in human evolution (like brain expansion, cooperation, and family formation), it is necessary to clearly articulate how data from hunter-gatherers can inform our understanding of both our evolutionary past and our contemporary present.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:07:24 -0500 2019-02-28T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ALYSSA
IOE 899 Seminar Series: Andrew Gordon Wilson, Cornell University (February 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60374 60374-14866476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The IOE 899 Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm.

Abstract:
In this talk, we introduce a scalable Gaussian process framework capable of learning expressive kernel functions on large datasets, implemented in our new library GPyTorch. We then develop this framework into an approach for deep kernel learning, with full predictive distributions and automatic complexity calibration. We will consider applications in crime prediction, epidemiology, counterfactuals, and autonomous vehicles. We will also present our work in understanding loss geometry in deep learning, leading to practical training methods with scalable uncertainty representation and improved generalization.

Bio:
Andrew Gordon Wilson is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Previously, he was a research fellow in the Machine Learning Department at CMU working with Eric Xing and Alex Smola. He completed his PhD with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge. Andrew's interests include probabilistic modelling, scientific computing, Gaussian processes, and deep learning. His webpage is https://people.orie.cornell.edu/andrew.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:21:38 -0500 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Towards Better Autonomous Systems: Recent Advances at the Intersection of Control and AI (February 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59289 59289-14728213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Panagiotis Tsiotras
Dean’s Professor
School of Aerospace Engineering & Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Georgia Institute of Technology

Robotics and autonomous machines are already transforming our lives and society in many different ways, some of which we are only now starting to comprehend. From self-driving cars, drones, digital assistants and medical robots to AI & ML tools used by insurance companies, consumer electronics and the entertainment industry, these intelligent machines (and the algorithms that drive them) will change how we work, we commute, we learn, and we operate and interact with each other. Control theory has a major role to play in designing and building the next generation of safety-critical autonomous systems. Algorithmic control theory, in particular, reflects the current trend of merging of control, computer/computational science, information theory, and communications, into a new discipline for optimization-based, on-line, control synthesis, which is a crucial ingredient for these autonomous systems to reason about, and operate in, high-dimensional search spaces, in the presence of uncertainty or malicious adversaries, and under severe time and informational constraints. In this talk I will present some of the recent work conducted at the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory (DCSL) at Georgia Tech that aims at answering some of these challenges, which lie at the intersection of control, AI, and robotics.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Panagiotis Tsiotras is the Dean’s Professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he is also the Director of the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory (DCSL) and the Associate Director for Research in the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). He is also affiliated with of the interdisciplinary Center for Space Technology and Research (C-STAR) and the Decision and Control Laboratory (DCL) at Georgia Tech. He has held visiting research appointments with at Ecole des Mines (Mines ParisTech), INRIA-Rocquencourt in France, MIT, and JPL. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Mathematics. His current research interests are in optimal and nonlinear control and their connections with robotics, AI, and decision-making for autonomous systems. He has published more than 300 articles in these areas. He is currently serving as the Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Space Robotics, while in the past he served in the Editorial Boards of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Control Systems Magazine and the Journal on Dynamical and Control Systems. He is a recipient of the IEEE Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control, the NSF CAREER award, the Sigma Xi Society Excellence in Research award, and the Outstanding Aerospace Engineer award from Purdue. He is a Fellow of AIAA and IEEE, and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Gamma Tau honor societies.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:35:05 -0500 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation tsio
Public Talk: Phil Tinari, Director and CEO, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (February 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60956 60956-14993222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Phil Tinari is the Director and CEO of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), a leading Chinese independent institution of contemporary art in Beijing. At this talk, Tinari will discuss Chinese art and its global context, with reference to his work at UCCA, as well as curatorial projects at the Guggenheim and SFMOMA. Since 2011, Tinari has led UCCA's transformation from a founder-driven, private museum into China’s leading independent, international institution of contemporary art, culminating in 2017 with a restructuring that has brought the institution, originally known as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, into the patronage of a new group of mainly Chinese trustees. During Tinari’s tenure, UCCA has become known for both its artistic program and its operational model. It has mounted more than seventy exhibitions and a wide range of public programs, bringing artistic voices both established and emerging, Chinese and international, to a growing audience of nearly a million visitors each year.

Prior to joining UCCA, Tinari launched LEAP, an internationally distributed, bilingual magazine of contemporary art published by the Modern Media Group, in 2009. A widely published writer and critic, he is a contributing editor of Artforum, and was founding editor of that magazine’s Chinese edition in 2007. He was co-curator, with Alexandra Munroe and Hou Hanru, of the 2017 exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, now on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and opening in November at SFMOMA. In 2016 he was named a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations. Fluent in Mandarin and based in Beijing since 2001, Tinari holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and is currently completing a doctorate in art history at Oxford.

 

This talk is co-presented by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, the Confucius Institute, and UMMA, and coincides with the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (February 2 - May 26, 2019).

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:16:42 -0500 2019-02-28T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60263 60263-14855606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Timnet Gedar (PhD candidate, History)

The presenter weaves together a history of the Eritrean war for independence with the practical work of writing object labels and exhibit introductions at the National Museum of Eritrea in order to understand the meaning and challenges of interpretive content at museums — especially museums in a postcolonial African setting.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:39:56 -0500 2019-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation National Museum of Eritrea
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59319 59319-14730600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Colin Shephard and Augusta Funk. 

Colin Shepherd is a writer and editor from New York City. 

Augusta Laurel Funk was raised in Southwest Montana and Northeast Ohio. Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tinderbox, Passages North, Meridian, and other journals. She's a Scorpio.

 

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2019-03-01T19:00:00-05:00 2019-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (March 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58796 58796-14561444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s explores large-scale works of art by Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving, within the context of highly-charged debates of the early 1970s about aesthetics, politics, race, and feminism. This exhibition explores the gendered and racialized terms upon which great art was defined and assessed, and the strategy of artists to question the identity and aesthetics of the artist making the art. UMMA docents will help visitors look through the lens of the four artists’ works to explore the aesthetic choices inherent in abstraction as well as the acts of staining, pouring, draping, —or even taking apart the wall itself—within this charged political context.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Presentation Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:16:33 -0500 2019-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 2019-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation woman wearing sunglasses wall graffiti
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (March 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58798 58798-14561446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The internet has changed every aspect of contemporary life—from how we interact with each other to how we work and play. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. Join UMMA docents as they explore the more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects—in this exciting exhibition.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:20 -0500 2019-03-10T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Developmental Brown Bag:How might Improving Methodology Improve Policy? The Case of Special Education Research (March 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59219 59219-14717524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: An often underlooked issue is the importance of using the right methods to answer research questions that have significant policy implications. Specialized policies may be required to address issues specific to certain at-risk populations. Though understanding these populations is important, they can be difficult to study. A prime example are children with disabilities, who are legally entitled to a free and appropriate education in U.S. schools, usually through the receipt of special education services. Researchers have long struggled with the lack of an appropriate comparison group to children with disabilities, especially when assessing best-evidence practices or the impact of receiving specialized services. As a result, research on the education of children with disabilities has largely relied on correlational or descriptive statistics, which are then used to make decisions about laws, regulations, and funding allocations. In this talk, Dr. Woods explains how improving methodological choices about specialized populations can substantively change the conclusions we draw about how (in)effective specialized services might be. Obtaining a better understanding of how education impacts at-risk populations like children with disabilities would not only improve policy, but could also alter the way we value the education of children with disabilities.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:00:16 -0500 2019-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Effects of Vascular Aging on Murine and Human Hemodynamics Revealed by Computational Modeling: Applications to Hypertension Research (March 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62022 62022-15276095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Aging is a primary risk factor for increased central arterial stiffness which is both an initiator and indicator of cardiovascular, neurovascular and renovascular disease. It is hypothesized that an insidious positive feedback loop exists between arterial stiffness and systemic blood pressure. The clinical measurement to assess arterial stiffness non-invasively is carotid to femoral Pulse Wave Velocity (cf-PWV), yet controversy still remains. There exists a need to evaluate cf-PWV as an early diagnostic of progressive vascular stiffening and to better assess the potential effects of regional variations in central mechanical properties on blood hemodynamics that adversely affect microcirculation in the heart, brain and kidneys.



Computational modeling is a powerful tool to understand the complexity of central arterial function. In this work we used a robust, data-driven computational framework that combines 3D geometric vascular models, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) analyses, Windkessel models to represent the distal vasculature and an external tissue boundary condition to represent perivascular support. FSI methods allowed to account for the deformability of the central vessels and included spatially variable anisotropic tissue properties.



We first introduced a data-driven FSI computational model of the human aorta to simulate effects of aging-related changes in regional wall properties and geometry on several metrics of arterial stiffness. Using the best available biomechanical data, our results for PWV compared well to findings reported for large population studies while rendering a higher resolution description of evolving metrics of aortic stiffening. Our results revealed similar spatio-temporal trends between stiffness and its surrogate metrics, except PWV, thus indicating a complex dependency of the latter on geometry. Furthermore, our analysis highlighted the importance of the tethering exerted by external tissues.



Due to difficulty in obtaining detailed information on evolving regional mechanical properties in humans, we focused on mouse models of vascular aging, which offer the advantage of easier longitudinal studies and data accessibility. We developed a workflow to combine in vivo and in vitro biomechanical data to build mouse-specific computational models of the central vasculature. These FSI models are informed by micro-CT imaging, in vitro mechanical characterization of the arterial wall, and in vivo ultrasound and pressure measurements. We reproduced central artery biomechanics in adult wild-type, fibulin-5 deficient mice, a model of early vascular aging, and naturally aged wild type mice. Findings were also examined as a function of sex. Computational results compared well with data available in the literature and suggested that PWV does not well reflect the presence of regional differences in stiffening and it is affected by vascular wall stiffness heterogeneities. Modeling is also useful for evaluating quantities that are difficult to measure experimentally, including local pulse pressures at the renal arteries and characteristics of the peripheral vascular bed that may be altered by disease.



Notwithstanding the many advantages of animal models, it is important to consider that invasive experimental procedures may alter the quantity of interest. Advanced computational models offer a unique method to evaluate these measurements. Herein we evaluated the effects of commercially available catheters on the very parameters that they are designed to measure, namely murine blood pressure and PWV. We investigated two different setups and observed that both alter the measured values of PWV.



Lastly, we showed preliminary results involving automatic parameter estimation and expansion of the FSI framework to account for the large motions imposed by the heart on the aorta.

Chair: Alberto Figueroa

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:22:35 -0400 2019-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Biopsychology Colloquium (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59092 59092-14677969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Microstructure of Behavior and Brain Rhythms in Goal and Sign Trackers

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Presentation Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:43:50 -0500 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation siu
Novel Models to Image and Quantify Bone Drug Efficacy and Disease Progression in Vivo: Addressing the Fragility Phenotype (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62023 62023-15276097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Bone is a composite biomaterial of mineral crystals, organic matrix, and water. Each contributes to bone quality and strength and may change independently, or together, with disease progression and treatment. Even so, there is a near ubiquitous reliance on ionizing x-ray-based approaches to characterize bone mineral density (BMD) which only accounts for ~60% of bone strength and may not adequately predict fracture risk. In a rare and severe bone disease such as osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), the hallmark genotypic and phenotypic variability makes clinical management particularly challenging. Treatment strategies rely on anti-resorptive bisphosphonates which address osteoclastic, but not osteoblastic deficiencies. Radiographic characterization of efficacy identifies structural, but not biomaterial-level alterations. Together, there is an unmet need for improved treatment strategies and means to longitudinally monitor treatment outcomes at the biomaterial-level to improve clinical management of bone disease.



This thesis will describe a novel model to understand and predict individual patient treatment response to an emerging therapeutic, sclerostin antibody (SclAb) prior to clinical exposure. We then challenge the current bone imaging gold-standard with the characterization of a novel zero echo time (ZTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that may hold promise in identifying matrix-level and biochemical changes characteristic of OI and other diseases.



SclAb has gained interest as a promising bone-forming therapeutic suggesting a novel treatment strategy through inhibition of endogenous sclerostin but effects in human pediatric OI bone remains unknown. We treated bone samples retrieved from pediatric OI patients during surgery with SclAb in vitro and quantified transcriptional response of Wnt-related genes. Results demonstrated a bone-forming response in a manner paralleling pre-clinical experience. Factors inherent to the unique phenotypic/genotypic patient profile such as the patient’s baseline cellular phenotype appear to govern response magnitude; OI patients with low untreated expression of osteoblast-related genes demonstrated the greatest magnitude of upregulation during treatment. To expand findings in vivo, we developed a novel OI xenograft model where bone was implanted into a host-derived microenvironment. The model was efficacious; bone was bioaccessible by the host and retained patient-derived bone cells throughout implantation. Treatment increased bone density and volume with a variable outcome between cortical and trabecular bone. Patients with low baseline osterix demonstrated robust human-derived osterix-expression with treatment supporting in vitro findings. The validated xenograft model can be used to establish patient-specific factors influencing treatment response suggesting a personalized medicine approach to managing OI.



Characterization of treatment efficacy for OI, as well as other metabolic bone diseases, is complicated by the lack of imaging modality able to safely monitor material-level and biochemical changes in vivo. To improve upon BMD, we tested the efficacy of a 3D ZTE-MRI approach in an estrogen-deficient (OVX) model of osteoporosis during growth. ZTE-MRI-derived BMD correlated significantly with BMD measured using the gold standard, µCT, which significantly increased longitudinally over the duration of the study. Growth appeared to overcome estrogen-deficient changes in bone mass yet ZTE-MRI detected significant changes consistent with estrogen deficiency by ten weeks in cortical water, cortical matrix organization (T1) and marrow fat. Findings point to ZTE-MRI’s ability to quantify BMD in good agreement with the gold standard and detect biochemical alterations consistent with disease independent of the mineral phase suggesting its value for bone imaging. Together, results from this thesis indicate a new treatment design and non-ionizing imaging strategy to improve management of bone diseases such as OI.

Chair: Kenneth Kozloff

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:27:45 -0400 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Library Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
UK Scholarships (March 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61535 61535-15126011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Join Dr Henry Dyson on Tuesday, March 12th from 6-7 pm in the LSA Honors Lounge, 1330 Mason Hall. For more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-kingdom.html

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:42:23 -0500 2019-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Mason Hall
A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection (March 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61444 61444-15106030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge, and thousands of human remains.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:54:40 -0500 2019-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T19:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Samuel J. Redman
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60535 60535-14908090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Iris Wang:
Who makes a good advisor? Decision making styles as cues of advice quality

Kaidi Wu:
Hypocognition: Implications for Everyday Objects and Social Privilege

Meg Seymour:
The biological cost of childhood sexual abuse is exacerbated by positive self-views.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:53:37 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation wang
UK Scholarships (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61536 61536-15126012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Join Dr. Henry Dyson and Ross Academic Advising on Wednesday, March 13th from 4-5 pm in Jeff T. Blau Building 1570. For more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-kingdom.html

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:48:40 -0500 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Jeff T. Blau Hall
Parental Ethnotheories and the Parenting: A Cross-cultural View (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61807 61807-15188668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

CHGD Hosting Visiting Speaker:

Dr. Harkness will present findings and reflections from her cross-cultural collaborative research about parents and children in Africa, Asia, Europe and the U.S.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:24:28 -0500 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Harkness
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: Non-academic career paths and available UM resources (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57648 57648-14246160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:44:20 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation fredrick
EHAP Speaker Series: Evolutionary mismatch and the rise of benign intestinal worms: A new and more effective approach to clinical immunology? (March 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61806 61806-15188651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Parker’s lecture will address “Biome Depletion Theory” and the potential medical implications of this theory. The dramatic reduction of complex eukaryotic symbionts, primarily helminths and protists, from the ecosystem of the human body in Western society has contributed to a wide range of chronic inflammatory-related diseases. Such diseases include allergic conditions, many digestive disorders, and autoimmune conditions. Emerging evidence is pointing toward a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, including migraine headaches, chronic fatigue, and anxiety disorders as being associated with biome depletion. Work toward restoring the biome for health will be discussed.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:10:13 -0500 2019-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation parker
IOE 899 Seminar Series: Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60375 60375-14866479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The IOE 899 Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm.

Title: Gradient Based Criteria for Sequential Design

Abstract:
Computer simulation experiments are commonly used as an inexpensive alternative to real-world experiments to form a metamodel that approximates the input-output relationship of the real-world experiment. While a user may want to understand the entire response surface, they may also want to focus on interesting regions of the design space, such as where the gradient is large. In this paper we present an algorithm that adaptively runs a simulation experiment that focuses on finding areas of the response surface with a large gradient while also gathering an understanding of the entire surface. We consider the scenario where small batches of points can be run simultaneously, such as with multi-core processors.

Joint work with Collin B. Erickson, Matthew Plumlee, and Susan M. Sanchez

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:39:32 -0400 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture Series - Air Platforms Needed by the United States Air Force in the 21st Century (March 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59290 59290-14728215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Ravi Chona
USAF Senior Scientist & Director, Structural Sciences Center
Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433

The geopolitical demands levied on today’s US Air Force call for radically new mission capabilities very different from those that have served our nation so well in projecting US airpower since the end of World War II. These range from platforms that can “go-high, go-far, go-fast” and do this on-demand, to platforms whose planned in-service life and design characteristics are more akin to commodity products like automobiles, flat-panel TVs, or domestic appliances like dishwashers or clothes dryers. This talk will enumerate some of the key technical challenges from an air platform designer’s perspective and will detail ongoing efforts within the US Air Force Research Laboratory, amongst its academic partners, and by the US aerospace industrial base, that are vectored towards making these very different capabilities a part of the US Air Force’s fleet in the decades ahead.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Ravi Chona, a member of the Senior Scientific & Professional Service of the United States of America, is the US Air Force Senior Scientist for Structures, a Department of Defense senior technical leadership position he was recruited to in 2003. In 2005 he established the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Structural Sciences Center and serves as its Director. He is charged with ensuring that the US Air Force possesses the cutting-edge aero-structural solutions essential to fielding revolutionary air and space platforms, that can, in turn, assure the air dominance required by the national security and strategic needs of the United States. Previously, he was a member of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty (1987-2003) and the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Design in Engineering (1999-2003) at Texas A&M University. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and enjoyed the unique privilege of having as his graduate advisor and mentor, the late Professor George R. Irwin – the founding father of engineering fracture mechanics.

Dr. Chona’s professional contributions have been recognized via: NSF-Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991); Select Young Faculty Award (1992) and Teaching Awards at Texas A&M, Mechanical Engineering Department (1997) and College of Engineering (1998); Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (2004); election as a Fellow of ASTM International (2000), Fellow of the ASME (2001) and Fellow of SEM (2002); the George R. Irwin Medal (2003), the Fracture Mechanics Medal (2014) and the Edward T Wessel Award (2016) from ASTM International; President, Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM (1997-1998); Chair, ASTM International Technical Committee E08 on Fatigue & Fracture (2006-2011); Member, the National Academies’ US National Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (2001-2009); Member, Executive Board of ICF: The International Congress on Fracture (2009-present); multiple Editorial Board Memberships; and US National Delegate to the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue & Structural Integrity - ICAF (2005-present). He is one of a select few of the 7,500+ career senior civilian leaders in the Executive Branch of the US Government that has been honored through a Presidential Meritorious Senior Professional Award and has the extremely rare distinction of having received this recognition on two separate occasions (2010; 2016).

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Presentation Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:59:55 -0400 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation chona
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Marilyn Chin, Poetry Reading (March 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59320 59320-14730601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Professor Emerita at San Diego State University and presently serving as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets, Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and author. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, her works have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin’s books of poems include A Portrait of the Self as Nation, Hard Love Province, and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, and she has also published a book of magical fiction.   Chin has won numerous awards, including the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, two NEAs, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan. She is featured in a variety of anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women and The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry, and The Best American Poetry.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:21 -0500 2019-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60267 60267-14855616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Craig Harvey (PhD candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology)

This presentation will provide a brief introduction to Lyon’s Lugdunum - Musée et théâtres romains and how the museum is making its collection more accessible to scholars via an online database and new gallery spaces outside the museum due to recently moving most of its storage to a decentralized location.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:27:21 -0500 2019-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Lugdunum, Musee et theatres romains
12th Annual Gramlich Showcase of Student Work (March 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61172 61172-15045295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public.

Join the conversation on Twitter: #fordschoolgramlich

Each spring, Ford School faculty and staff nominate dozens of outstanding student research and service projects for recognition at the Gramlich Showcase of Student Work. Established in 2008 to honor internationally renowned economist and former Ford School dean, Ned Gramlich, this event features exceptional student work on a broad range of local, national, and international policy challenges.

For students, the showcase is an opportunity to share their academic work and service engagement with the broader community – to teach others about major policy challenges, to respond to thought-provoking questions, and to engage in dialogue about complex problems. For guests, the showcase represents an opportunity to learn about contemporary domestic and international problems, and the policy interventions designed to tackle them.

Join the Ford School community for hors d'oeuvres and refreshments as we celebrate the insightful policy work of our talented students. You're sure to learn something new!

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Presentation Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:46:09 -0500 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Presentation
CCN Forum: Conspicuous Consumption in Close Relationships: A Signal of Relationship (March 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59048 59048-14675847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Most male songbirds use their song to attract females, including extra-pair partners. In male humans, conspicuous consumption—the consumption and display of luxury goods as an ostentatious expression of wealth and status—serves similar functions. Conspicuous consumption in humans has been found to increase sexual selection, costly signaling of mating qualities, and the perception of heterosexual men’s mate attraction motives. Because the literature has focused more on the conspicuous consumption of single men, the function of men’s conspicuous consumption within a committed romantic relationship has been overlooked. Through three studies, the current research explores the association between heterosexual men’s conspicuous consumption, self-reported satisfaction of their current committed romantic relationship, and their female partners’ beliefs and behavioral reactions to this consumption. The current study adds to the previous literature by providing a framework to understand men’s motivation to consume luxury products and women’s response to their conspicuous consumption within a committed romantic relationship.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:16:41 -0400 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Liu
Short Student Tours (March 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59321 59321-14730602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents will enliven your afternoon and kick off the weekend with a brisk but intense encounter with a few key pieces of art and an engaging theme connecting their selections. Love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, or other entry points will draw you in for a sweet peek at the UMMA collection. Each tour will last 10-15 minutes. Meet at the UMMA Store. 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:22 -0500 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short Student Tours (March 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59322 59322-14730603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents will enliven your afternoon and kick off the weekend with a brisk but intense encounter with a few key pieces of art and an engaging theme connecting their selections. Love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, or other entry points will draw you in for a sweet peek at the UMMA collection. Each tour will last 10-15 minutes. Meet at the UMMA Store. 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:22 -0500 2019-03-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq (March 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58801 58801-14561449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of UMMA’s new Power Family Program for Inuit Art, the Museum presents a special exhibition of two incredible, intertwining stories. One traces the development of contemporary Inuit art in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the present. The other relates the fascinating story of the Power family’s important role in supporting and promoting Inuit art from the outset, bringing public attention to its artistic strength and cultural importance. The Power family’s collection is unusual in its strong representation of early contemporary carvings, incised drawings on ivory and antler, soapstone sculptures, and prints that evolved as Inuit artists developed their own artistic voices and responded creatively to their changing world. 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:17:19 -0500 2019-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq (March 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58802 58802-14561450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of UMMA’s new Power Family Program for Inuit Art, the Museum presents a special exhibition of two incredible, intertwining stories. One traces the development of contemporary Inuit art in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the present. The other relates the fascinating story of the Power family’s important role in supporting and promoting Inuit art from the outset, bringing public attention to its artistic strength and cultural importance. The Power family’s collection is unusual in its strong representation of early contemporary carvings, incised drawings on ivory and antler, soapstone sculptures, and prints that evolved as Inuit artists developed their own artistic voices and responded creatively to their changing world. 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:21 -0500 2019-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq (March 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58803 58803-14561451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of UMMA’s new Power Family Program for Inuit Art, the Museum presents a special exhibition of two incredible, intertwining stories. One traces the development of contemporary Inuit art in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the present. The other relates the fascinating story of the Power family’s important role in supporting and promoting Inuit art from the outset, bringing public attention to its artistic strength and cultural importance. The Power family’s collection is unusual in its strong representation of early contemporary carvings, incised drawings on ivory and antler, soapstone sculptures, and prints that evolved as Inuit artists developed their own artistic voices and responded creatively to their changing world. 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:21 -0500 2019-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Science Brown Bag: DHEA moderates the impact of early trauma on the HPA axis response (March 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59065 59065-14677941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

BACKGROUND: Early trauma can lead to long-term downregulation of the HPA axis. However, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) has neuroprotective effects that may reduce the need for downregulation of the axis in response to stress. Furthermore, high DHEA/cortisol ratios are often conceptualized as reflecting a protective profile due to high availability of DHEA. In this study we explored if DHEA and DHEA/cortisol ratios moderated the association between early trauma and the cortisol response.

METHODS: The sample consisted of 80 adolescents (aged 12-16) who completed the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Trier Social Stress Test. Cortisol was modeled using saliva samples at seven timepoints after the start of the TSST. Cortisol and DHEA ratios were examined at baseline and 35 minutes post-stress initiation.

RESULTS: Early trauma was associated with lower activation slope and peak levels but DHEA moderated this effect. Specifically, at high levels of DHEA, the impact of CTQ on cortisol peak levels was no longer significant. High DHEA/cortisol ratios were associated with an intensification of the impact of CTQ on peak levels.

CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that DHEA can limit blunting of the HPA axis in response to early trauma. However, this protective effect was not reflected in high DHEA/cortisol ratios. Instead, high ratios were associated with a greater effect of early trauma. Therefore, high DHEA and high DHEA/cortisol ratios may reflect
different, and often opposite, processes. Our findings indicate that DHEA/cortisol ratios do not necessarily reflect a protective neuroendocrine profile.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:07:10 -0400 2019-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation science
Developmental Brown Bag: Value-Based Decision-Making: A Valuable Model for Adolescent Behavior (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59220 59220-14717525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lay theories of adolescence see this period as a vulnerable time of risk-taking and susceptibility peer influence. A more novel perspective views adolescence as a stage optimized for exploration, including of new motivations and emerging identities in ways that foster both autonomy and connectedness. While the dominant neurodevelopmental approaches have relied on dual-systems and imbalance models to explain adolescent behavior, I will argue that motivated behavior during adolescence can be modeled by a general value-based decision-making process centered around value accumulation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Interestingly, neuroimaging studies of self-related processes demonstrate enhanced engagement of the vmPFC in adolescence, which may both facilitate and reflect the development of identity by integrating the value of potential actions and choices. This approach advances models of adolescent neurodevelopment that focus on reward sensitivity and cognitive control by considering more diverse value inputs, including contributions of developing social processes related to self and identity. It also considers adolescent decision making and behavior from adolescents' point of view rather than adults' perspectives on what adolescents should value or how they should behave.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:01:50 -0400 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Defense Dissertation: Performance Characterization of a Low Power Magnetic Nozzle (March 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61791 61791-15186435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Timothy Collard

Committee:
Dr. Alec Gallimore, Co-Chair
Dr. Benjamin Jorns, Co-Chair
Dr. John Foster, Cognate Member
Dr. Mark Kushner, Member
Dr. Justin Little, University of Washington, Member

The thrust and efficiency performance of low-power magnetic nozzles is analytically and experimentally investigated. The inherent advantages of these devices, including the electrodeless design and the potential to be propellant-agnostic, coupled with the potential to efficiently accelerate the propellant makes low-power magnetic nozzles attractive propulsion options for small satellites. A theoretical model was developed to predict low-power magnetic nozzle performance and identify fundamental differences in operation between these devices and their higher power counterparts.

An experiment was designed to inform the theoretical model to provide insight into the fundamental plasma dynamics within a low-power magnetic nozzle. This test article consisted of a reconfigurable inductively-coupled plasma source and an electromagnet. Electrostatic probes and laser induced fluorescence are used to measure the plasma properties throughout the plume. By coupling the experimental results with the theoretical framework two novel effects that reduce device performance are identified: $1$) neutral-collisional effects impedes ion acceleration and $2$) non-uniform power deposition degrades source and divergence efficiency. These effects arise from the low input power and the thruster design parameters. Experimental characterization of a reconfigured test article demonstrates that performance can be recovered by accounting for these two effects when designing the thruster and selecting the operating parameters.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:38:31 -0500 2019-03-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Presentation tim
UK Scholarships (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61537 61537-15126014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Join Dr. Henry Dyson and Engineering Honors on Monday, March 18th from 4-5 pm in 133 Chrysler Building.For more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-kingdom.html

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:47:23 -0500 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Chrysler Center
Creating Near Native Habitats in Built Environments (March 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58245 58245-14444189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Matt Demmon, director of native landscapes division at Plantwise, discusses ways of thinking about creating plant communities and how planting design and new models of landscape maintenance can help us create resilient, beautiful plantings that have the best chance of fulfilling the stormwater and ecosystem functions we are trying to create. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club.

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Presentation Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:31:08 -0500 2019-03-18T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-18T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Feasibility of Using the Utah Array for Long-term Fully Implantable Neuroprosthesis Systems (March 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62024 62024-15276098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Damage to the spinal cord can disrupt the pathway of signals sent between the brain and the body and may result in partial or complete loss of both motor and sensory functions. The loss of these functions can have devastating implications on the quality of one’s life, interfering with activities of daily living related to walking, bladder and bowel control, trunk stability, and arm and hand function. Current approaches used to help improve and restore mobility require residual movement to control, which can be unintuitive and inoperative by individuals with higher level cervical injuries. In order to develop technology used by individuals of all levels of injury, it is necessary to generate control signals directly from the brain. This thesis is intended to address the clinical limitations of implantable neural recording systems, and thus lay the foundation for the development of a design and safety profile for a fully implantable intracortical system for motor restoration.

We first present the design and testing of a 96-channel neural recording device used to mate with an existing functional electrical stimulation (FES) system in order to facilitate brain-controlled FES. By extracting signal power within a narrow frequency bandwidth and reducing overhead processer operations, a 25% power reduction is achieved. This establishes the feasibility for an implantable system and enables the integration of the neural recording device with implantable FES system. The specifications of this platform can be used as a guide to develop further application specific modules and dramatically accelerate the overall process to a clinically viable system.

With a functional device, the next step is to move towards a clinical trial. Here we investigate the potential safety risks of future modular, implantable neuroprosthetic systems. A systematic review of 240 articles was used to identify and quantitatively summarize the hardware-related complications of the most established intracranial clinical system, deep brain stimulation, and the most widespread experimental human intracranial system, the NeuroPort, including the Utah microelectrode array. The safety and longevity data collected here will be used to better inform future device and clinical trial design and satisfy regulatory requirements.

The stability and longevity of the Utah array are critical factors for determining whether the clinical benefit outweighs the risk for potential users. We investigate the biological adverse response to the insertion of the Utah array in a rhesus macaque. We examined the health and density of neurons around the shanks of the array in comparison to control brain. Non-human primate animal models allow us to further examine the effects of the implantation of the Utah array on neural tissue, which cannot be done with humans. Information gained through this will continue to increase the pool of safety data for the Utah array and emerging intracranial devices.

Overall, we developed a neural recording device to be used for brain-controlled FES and examined the potential safety concerns reported in the human literature and experimentally using non-human primates. These results represent significant progress towards a clinically-viable system for motor restoration in people suffering from spinal cord injury.

Chair: Cindy Chestek

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:25:50 -0400 2019-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Biopsychology Colloquium: Let me try that again: how sex influences learning, decision making, and modeling autism (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59094 59094-14677970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:32:22 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grissom
Living Poetry / Braving Joy: Naomi Long Madgett + Gabrielle Civil (March 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59388 59388-14737056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Naomi Long Madgett and Gabrielle Civil will join us in the Hopwood Room for a public conversation about living a literary life: What does it mean to be a black woman / poet today? How has the role or impact of poetry changed? What’s most vital in a poet’s education? How can we rethink and reclaim publishing? How we can bridge the divides between different schools of poetry? How can we reconcile the ivory tower and the community center? What can poetry do in our communities? What good books are we reading (songs are we singing, art are we seeing)? What do we love? How can we brave joy?

About the presenters:

Mentored by poet Langston Hughes, Naomi Long Madgett moved to Detroit in 1946. In the 1960s, she joined a group of African American writers who met regularly at Boone House, including Margaret Danner, Dudley Randall and Oliver LaGrone. Madgett was named Detroit poet laureate in 2001. In her poetry, influenced by the work of Emily Dickinson, John Keats, and Langston Hughes, Madgett often engages themes of civil rights and African American spirituality. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including One and the Many (1956), Exits and Entrances (1978), and Octavia and Other Poems (1988, reissued and expanded in 2002). In 1972, Madgett founded Lotus Press. She edited the anthology Adam of Ifé: Black Women in Praise of Black Men (1992), and her own work was included in the anthologies The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949 (1949, edited by Langston Hughes) and Ten: Anthology of Detroit Poets (1968, edited by Oliver LaGrone). A selection of her papers, documenting her poetry career and the history of Lotus Press, is held by the University of Michigan’s Special Collections Library.

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty original solo and collaborative performance works around the world. Signature themes included race, body, art, politics, grief, and desire. Since 2014, she has been performing “Say My Name” (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls)” as an act of embodied remembering. She is the author of Swallow the Fish and Tourist Art (with Vladimir Cybil Charlier). She currently teaches Creative Writing and Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.Experiments in Joy is forthcoming from CCM Press.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:58:25 -0500 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Presentation Gabrielle Civil in a yellow dress, Naomi Long Madgett sitting on a couch
Aerospace Department Seminar Series: Analytic Methods and Solutions for the Design of Morphing Aircraft (March 19, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62149 62149-15302373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Doug Hunsaker, Assistant Professor, Utah State University

Future military and commercial aircraft may employ morphing technologies to reduce fuel burn, decrease RADAR signature, and improve maneuverability. These future possibilities present new challenges in aircraft design and optimization that cannot be fully understood through computational methods alone. Just as analytical solutions from thin airfoil theory, lifting-line theory, slender body theory, and others formed the foundation of aircraft design methods in the past century, similar solutions must be obtained to fully understand relationships between morphing aircraft parameters and aircraft performance. This is increasingly important as the number of design variables and geometries increase with increasing morphing capability. Example methods and solutions will be presented that demonstrate how such analytical solutions can be obtained and employed in the design of future morphing aircraft.



About the Speaker

Doug Hunsaker is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty in 2016, he worked for 4 years in industry, including work for Scaled Composites on the Stratolaunch and SpaceShipTwo programs, as well as consulting for multiple drone companies. Doug’s research focus is on analytical and low-fidelity methods for aircraft design and optimization, with an emphasis on subsonic and supersonic morphing aircraft. He currently has grants with the Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, and NASA to develop and explore relationships of morphing parameters to aircraft performance and control. Doug also has a strong interest in bio-inspired flight.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:47:57 -0400 2019-03-19T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation doug
Value the Voice: The Shoulders of Giants (March 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59516 59516-14748075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members).​  Light food and refreshments will be served in the Commons at 6:30 prior to the start of the program.​

Value the Voice will take place on Tuesdays, September 18, November 13, January 22, March 19, 7 p.m. UMMA Auditorium.

For more information, please contact Keith Jason at mrjason@umich.edu or 734-764-9128

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Non-Invasive Venous Thrombus Composition and Therapeutic Response by Multiparametric MRI (March 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62019 62019-15276094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or a blood clot in a deep vein (commonly the legs), is known as the silent killer—there may be few or no symptoms, yet a section of the thrombus could break free and travel to the lungs causing a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism. DVT and its complications affect 900,000 people in the U.S. each year, with one third of cases resulting in fatality. Anticoagulants (the standard treatment) pose serious bleeding risks and rely on the patient’s fibrinolytic system to break up the thrombus, which is often incapable of doing so thus leading to post thrombotic syndrome (PTS) in almost 50% of patients. Removing the DVT completely via thrombolytic treatments may improve quality of life by reducing PTS. However, thrombolysis is only effective on acute thrombi. Impaired success with thrombolytic treatment is due to heterogeneity in the thrombus (old clot, which is unable to be broken up, intermixed with fresh clot, which can easily be broken up). This problem is largely overlooked based on an inability to determine thrombus composition.

Currently, the only method for determining disease stage is the patient’s recollection of when their symptoms began, which is inherently unreliable and could put the patient at risk. Further, thrombi of the same chronological age may organize at different rates in different people. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to provide information about thrombus composition (clot age), and thus inform patient-specific treatment planning.

Since there are several limitations to studying DVT in humans, animal models are key tools for understanding the disease. Mouse models are the most commonly used, providing a unique biological environment to study disease progression and treatment. Any model requires rigorous characterization and standardization to ensure reproducibility between studies. Our first objective was to quantify structural and functional changes in the healthy venous system of young and aged mice of both sexes, at rest and under conditions which simulate exercise. Second, we assessed the endogenous response to two models of DVT mimicking the two possible clinical scenarios: total or partial occlusion.

Following the necessary model characterization, we developed a multiparametric MRI approach to probe thrombus composition without the need for contrast agents. Our results show imaging correlation with known composition by histology. This method provides a novel approach to study thrombus composition, and could eventually be used clinically to provide patient-specific treatment planning for DVT.

Additionally, we investigated the impact of exercise, an emerging therapeutic option, on thrombus composition. Using an in-cage running wheel, our results show that spontaneous exercise – both alone and in combination with standard treatment – reduces initial thrombus size and contributes to thrombus resolution. We found that exercise increases acute fibrin content, attenuates local inflammation, and decreases sub-chronic collagen content in pharmacologically treated mice.

This work provides 1) the first in vivo characterization of the murine venous system in health and disease, 2) a foundational methodology to determine thrombus composition by MRI, and 3) insights on the impact of exercise on DVT. This research can help DVT investigators from the animal model perspective, and provides a step forward in characterizing thrombus composition for patient-specific DVT treatment planning.

Co-Chairs: Joan Greve and Jose Diaz

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:19:12 -0400 2019-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
Social Area Brown Bag (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60536 60536-14908091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

"Nadia Vossoughi:
"Intraminority Intergroup Relations between Mono- and Multi-racial people""

Sakura Takahashi:
“Cultural differences in the association of habitual use of emotion regulation strategies with depression""

Veronica Derricks: "Examining the Impact of Witnessing Gender Bias on Academic Outcomes"

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:20:21 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation nadia
BLI Speaker Series: What's going on in the world of work? (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61871 61871-15223795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The recipe for career success used to be clear: get into the best college you can, study something practical, take a job with a name-brand corporation, work your way up the career ladder, and retire to Boca with a company pension and health plan.

But with the corporate world dis-integrating, careers turned into jobs and now jobs are turning into gigs. What are the opportunities and hazards for leaders in this new world of work? Does everyone have to learn Python and SQL, or can you get by on great soft skills?
This talk has all the answers.

Jerry Davis is the Associate Dean for Business+Impact at Michigan Ross, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance.

Davis’s research is broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.

The Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) is a student-powered, faculty-guided community dedicated to developing student leadership learning and practice. The BLI Speaker Series offers an opportunity to explore the rich body of research about engaged leadership and to hear from faculty, organizational leaders and alumni who have worked to develop their own leadership capacity.

Open to the public, free of charge, light snacks

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:03:46 -0400 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Presentation BLISS
School is a Game... (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53016 53016-13200559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Presenter Barry Fishman is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and School of Education.

His work focuses on games as models for more engaging learning environments, and academic innovation in K-12 and higher education.

This After 5 presentation does not require Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership and is open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:46:50 -0400 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T20:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Presentation After 5
Dissertation defense: Developments for the next generation of evolutionary paleobiology (March 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60942 60942-14990933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Caroline presents her dissertation defense.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:22:12 -0500 2019-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation phylogenies showing human ancestors
Acoustic Methods for Histotripsy Feedback (March 21, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62025 62025-15276099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Histotripsy is a therapeutic ultrasound modality that employs clouds of inertial cavitation to noninvasively destroy unwanted tissue. Histotripsy systems are, traditionally, transmit-only systems incapable of receiving ultrasound. For guidance, an ultrasound imaging probe is placed in the center of a histotripsy array. On B-mode ultrasound imaging, the region of tissue destruction appears as a hypoechoic zone after a substantial amount of treatment has occurred. However, this level of histotripsy feedback is insufficient for several reasons. First, histotripsy treatments occur in a 3D space, yet B-mode imaging is 2D. While 3D ultrasound imaging exists, the large footprint of 3D probes would occupy a substantial portion of the acoustic window for therapy. Second, histotripsy-treated lesions only appear hypoechoic on B-mode after a substantial amount of treatment has occurred resulting in poor sensitivity. Developing receive-capable histotripsy arrays would enable a multitude of feedback mechanisms. The overall objective of this dissertation is to develop receive-capable histotripsy systems and new feedback mechanisms enabled by this technology that improve histotripsy treatment efficacy and patient outcomes.

In the first part of this dissertation, the technical details associated with the development of receive-capable histotripsy systems are discussed. First, the challenges of designing highly-parallelized data acquisition systems that are capable of operating over a high dynamic range are outlined and solutions are proposed. Next, the various stages of prototypes that were developed are explored. Finally, two fully-functional receive-capable histotripsy systems are described in detail: a retrofit system that can enable receive-capability for any existing histotripsy system, and a new histotripsy system that incorporates receiver electronics in with high-voltage drivers.

In the second part of this dissertation, several feedback methods for monitoring the extent and progression of histotripsy treatment are discussed. In particular, a new feedback method is investigated, which uses the cavitation collapse time to monitor tissue damage. Upon initiation of a histotripsy bubble cloud, a series of shockwaves are emitted during its initial expansion. Once the bubble cloud expands to a maximum radius, it begins to collapse inward on itself, and, during the final stage of collapse, another shockwave is released. Using a receive-capable histotripsy array, these shockwaves can be acquired thus allowing for a measurement of the overall lifespan of the bubble cloud. This acoustic measurement is optically validated using a high-speed camera. It was found that this lifespan, defined by the cavitation collapse time, correlates directly with the extent of histotripsy treatment. Ex vivo bovine liver samples were treated, and it was found that the change in collapse time directly correlates with hepatocyte destruction.

In the final part of this dissertation, a receive-capable histotripsy system was used to implement acoustic aberration correction. Natural heterogeneities of tissue can result in upwards of 10% variation of sound speed throughout the acoustic path of propagation for histotripsy. These sound speed variations result in acoustic aberrations that significantly defocus histotripsy pulses through phase aberration and result in lowered focal pressure and treatment efficacy in vivo. By using a receive-capable histotripsy system to acquire the expansion shockwave construct from the initial expansion of the histotripsy bubble cloud, time reversal acoustics was implemented to correct for these acoustic aberrations and refocus subsequent histotripsy pulses. Using this method, over 20% of lost pressure due to phase aberration is recovered, and the histotripsy system power required to induce cavitation was reduced by approximately 31.5%.

Chair: Zhen Xu

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:28:12 -0400 2019-03-21T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T10:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: Being the Blue Butterfly: How to forge a non-traditional path through research and practice (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57649 57649-14246161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Ngo is fully licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Injury Prevention Center. She will present her intervention research, funded by a Career Development Award through the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ngo will present her trauma-informed, technology enhanced, contemplative therapy intervention to reduce problem drinking and intimate partner violence. Using her own research trajectory, Dr. Ngo will illustrate the strategies and skills which psychologists (and others) can apply to navigate the professional world to forge their own path, despite the pressures and challenges they may face.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:45:20 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ngo
EHAP Speaker Series: Psychological correlates of uric acid: An evolutionary mismatch hypothesis. (March 21, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56667 56667-13960676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Uric acid (UA), the final metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides in the primates including humans, presents a paradox that may best be understood as an evolutionary mismatch. Whereas it is known as a substantial risk for gout and cardiovascular malfunctioning, it also serves as a major agent that de-oxidizes the brain. We may therefore hypothesize that UA increases when vigorous actions including culturally sanctioned behaviors are carried out. Through this effect, UA may facilitate such behaviors, leading to psychological and social benefits. These benefits of UA may, in turn, could override its cost in the health domains. In this talk, I will outline this hypothesis, and provide initial evidence for it with data from Japanese adults.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:15:57 -0400 2019-03-21T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation K
IOE 899 Seminar Series: Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University (March 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60376 60376-14866481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The IOE 899 Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm.

Title: Pricing Analytics for Reusable Resources

Abstract:
We consider the problem of pricing for reusable resources, which are items that can be consumed and reused afterwards such as hotel rooms, cloud computing, shared vehicles, and rotable parts. We develop a model to maximize a combination of profit rate, market share, and service level, which also captures the special dynamics of reusable resources. We prove that a static pricing policy achieves strong performance guarantees compared to a fully dynamic pricing policy. We also discuss the a large scale implementation of our pricing model at at Dassault Falcon Jet in the context of rotable spare parts.

Bio:
Adam Elmachtoub is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he is also a member of the Data Science Institute. In 2014-2015, he spent one year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center working in the area of Smarter Commerce. He previously received his B.S. degree from Cornell ORIE in 2009, and his Ph.D. from MIT ORC in 2014. In 2016, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was named Forbes 30 under 30 in science. http://www.columbia.edu/~ae2516/

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:43:25 -0400 2019-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: “Tiny-but-tough” Gallium Nitride Nanoelectronics for Extreme Harsh Environments (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60965 60965-14997738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Debbie G. Senesky, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Gallium nitride (GaN) nanoelectronics have operated at temperatures as high as 1000°C making it a viable platform for robust space-grade (“tiny-but-tough”) electronics and nano-satellites. In addition, there has been a tremendous amount of research and industrial investment in GaN as it is positioned to replace silicon in the billion-dollar (USD) power electronics industry, as well as the post-Moore microelectronics universe. Furthermore, the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for pioneering research in GaN that led to the realization of the energy-efficient blue light-emitting diode (LED). Even with these major technological breakthroughs, we have just begun the “GaN revolution.” New communities are adopting this nanoelectronic platform for a multitude of emerging device applications including the following: sensing, energy harvesting, actuation, and communication. In this talk, we will review and discuss the benefits of GaN’s two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) over silicon’s p-n junction for space exploration applications (e.g., radiation-hardened, temperature-tolerant Venus probes). In addition, we will discuss recent results that advance this nanoelectronic device platform for extreme-environment Internet-of-things (IoT) systems for combustion and down-hole monitoring.

Short Bio:
Prof. Debbie G. Senesky is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and by courtesy, the Electrical Engineering Department. In addition, she is the Principal Investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab). Her research interests include the development of nanomaterials for extreme harsh environments, high-temperature electronics, and robust instrumentation for Venus exploration. In the past, she has held positions at GE Sensing (formerly known as NovaSensor), GE Global Research Center, and Hewlett Packard. She received the B.S. degree (2001) in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California. She received the M.S. degree (2004) and Ph.D. degree (2007) in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Senesky recently chaired the 2018 Women in Aerospace Symposium (WIA2018) at Stanford University. She has served on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE IEDM), International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers), and International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S). She is currently the co-editor of three technical journals: IEEE Electron Device Letters, Sensors, and Micromachines. In recognition of her research, she received the Emerging Leader Abie Award from AnitaB.org in 2018, Early Faculty Career Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2012, Gabilan Faculty Fellowship Award in 2012, and Sloan Ph.D. Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:25:20 -0500 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Presentation deb
UK Scholarships (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61539 61539-15126015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Join Dr. Henry Dyson on March 21st from 4 to 5 pm in the LSA Honors Lounge, 1330 Mason Hall. For more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-kingdom.html

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:53:27 -0500 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation Mason Hall
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Anthony Marra Prose Reading (March 21, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59518 59518-14748077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Anthony Marra is the author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf​ Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in France and was the first English-language novel to win the Athens Prize for Literature in Greece. Marra received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop before fellowship and teaching at Stanford University.  

His work has been honored with the National Magazine Award, the Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2017, Marra was included in Granta’s decennial list of best young American novelists, and won the $50,000 Simpson Prize in 2018, which he will put toward finishing a new novel about exiles in 1940s Hollywood, slated for release in 2019.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:16:39 -0400 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Predictive Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT) Enables Systems (March 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62304 62304-15346464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Abstract
The Internet of things (IoT) enabled systems have become increasingly available in practice. Examples include GM’s OnStar® tele-service system, the InSite® telemonitoring system from GE, smart home appliances and various personalized remote structural or health monitoring systems. The unprecedented data availability in such connected systems provides significant opportunities for smart data analytics but, at the same time, it reveals critical challenges. First, the high dimensional stream data with heterogeneity, diverse data types and complex spatiotemporal structure often hinders establishing a unified analytics framework. Second, individual-level data has become available in large scale and consequently, there is a pressing need for individualized modeling and prediction.

In this talk, we try to address some of these challenges through predictive data analytics methodologies designed for IoT enabled systems. Specifically, we establish non-parametric models that predict the evolution of condition/system monitoring signals through borrowing strength from historical and in-service data. These frameworks leverage on kernel methods, functional component analysis and Bayesian inference. Further, we discuss how these methods can consistently scale to big data settings. The methodologies are validated using numerical studies and a case study with real world data in the application to cloud-based vehicle health monitoring service systems.

Bio
Raed Al Kontar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and an affiliate with both the Michigan Institutes for Data science (MIDAS) and Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE). His research broadly focuses on developing data analytics and decision-making methodologies specifically tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) enabled products/systems.

Raed received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2018 and M.S in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2017. He also received his B.S in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2014. Some of his awards include: Best Paper Award Finalist from Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS 2018, Best Student Paper Award Winner from QSR Section of INFORMS 2017, E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship from Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Valedictorian and student speaker in the graduation commencement ceremony at AUB.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:13:08 -0400 2019-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Presentation Raed Al Kontar
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Marcia Fampa (March 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61913 61913-15239137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, March 18.

Title: The challenging Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem

Abstract:
The Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem (ESTP) asks for a network of minimum length interconnecting a given set of points in n-dimensional space. We present well known geometric properties of the optimal solution of the ESTP and discuss their application in the development of solution methods. We focus on mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulations and branch-and-bound algorithms, identifying characteristics of the problem that make it a big challenge in optimization, particularly when n is greater than 2. Finally, we investigate what can still be done to improve our ability to solve this problem in the broader context of MINLP.

Bio:
Marcia Fampa is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she has been since 1997. She is at the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), at UFRJ, where she has supervised more than 25 PhD and master students. Marcia did her undergraduate studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), receiving an engineering degree in 1987. She received her PhD Degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1996. Marcia has published a book on linear optimization, and over 50 papers in scientific journals and conferences. Her main research interest is Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP), with focus on the development of convex relaxations for MINLP problems.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:54:10 -0400 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Presentation U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering wordmark
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (March 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60265 60265-14855615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Megan Berkobien (PhD candidate, Comparative Literature)

The presenter will discuss challenges faced by Detroit’s Scarab Club, a gathering space for artists to foster a more vibrant arts community, to become more inclusive as it updates its programming and exhibitions to better position itself as a gallery and arts venue that uplifts artists from within the city.

http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/museums-at-noon/

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Presentation Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:04:57 -0500 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Scarab Club
CCN Forum: (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59049 59049-14675848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:17:21 -0500 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Abagis
CCN Forum: Reducing task distraction in adults with and without ADHD through non-stimulant medication interventions (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59918 59918-14797385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often considered to be a disorder in children and adolescents, but is in fact diagnosed in 2.5% of adults. A main behavioral correlate of ADHD is heightened levels of distractibility by external irrelevant stimuli, causing difficulties staying focused on the current task. We conducted a visual search training regimen over five daily sessions with participants diagnosed with ADHD and healthy controls. In the task, irrelevant color singleton distractors appeared during self-timed visual search on 50% of trials. Participants completed transfer tasks before and after training and at a follow-up session one month later. In this talk I will discuss: the findings from an initial behavioral study establishing differences in distraction between control and ADHD participants; the current preliminary findings from the training study; and a proposal for an upcoming study to investigate the neural and behavioral correlates of tDCS and visual attention training.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:11:41 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Abagis
2019 MDes Public Talk: Designing Decisions (March 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60349 60349-14866439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Follow the path of four projects that address the challenges that healthcare professionals face as they try to support patients and policymakers in making informed decisions. Discover designed interventions to support patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers navigate the complexities of appropriate care.

These public talks, by the third graduating class of Stamps Master of Design in Integrative Design program, will discuss ways design can help encourage reflection, communicate needs, cultivate collaboration, and support decision-making.

This event includes four public talks by Prachi Bhagane and Bruna Oewel, Kady Jesko, Hyeryoung Kim, and Katherine Jones.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:15:27 -0500 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Presentation https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/1000x501-2019-gradtalk-designing-decisions-01.jpg
41st Annual Alden J "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Gala (March 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60289 60289-14857787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Alden J. “Butch” Carpenter entered the University of Michigan Law School in 1977, with a passionate goal in mind and heart. He desired to become an advocate for the urban community’s benefit and edification by using his professional skills in business and law. His untimely passing on February 2, 1978 left the entire University community stunned and deeply saddened. On February 21, 1978, the BLSA membership, recognizing the importance of Butch’s chosen life work, voted unanimously to honor his memory and vision by establishing the Alden J. “Butch” Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Fund. Each year, the Fund awards scholarships to three outstanding first-year BLSA member law students who are interested in business law and have demonstrated commitment to community development.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:13:57 -0500 2019-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Presentation Butch Carpenter
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59520 59520-14748079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Katarina Bishop and Thea Chacamaty. 

Katarina Bishop is a writer from Alabama. Her favorite things about the South are buttermilk biscuits and chocolate gravy. 

Thea Chacamaty is a writer from California. Her writing is devoted to the coast, the desert, San Francisco, and rock & roll. 

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:24 -0500 2019-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Short Student Tours (March 23, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59523 59523-14748082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Student Docents will enliven your afternoon and kick off the weekend with a brisk but intense encounter with a few key pieces of art and an engaging theme connecting their selections. Love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, or other entry points will draw you in for a sweet peek at the UMMA collection. Each tour will last 10-15 minutes. Meet at the UMMA Store. 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Presentation Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:16:51 -0400 2019-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T15:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Cosmogonic Tattoos (March 24, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58800 58800-14561448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished Stamps School of Art and Design professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative of reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community. UMMA docents will introduce the juxtaposed images and help connect the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity.

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:21 -0500 2019-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Clinical Science Brown Bag: PROGrESS: Neural Activation during Reappraisal and Assessment of Emotion Associated with PTSD (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59066 59066-14677942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition often associated with deficits in regulating emotion, particularly in reappraising negative emotions. These deficits have been associated with differences in neural activation in emotion processing regions such as the amygdala and regulatory medial (mPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices (dlPFC). This study assessed neural mechanisms associated with emotion regulation and appraisal in veterans following treatment for PTSD symptoms. Thirty six veterans with PTSD were assigned to evidence-based treatments and completed a series of emotion regulation and appraisal tasks while undergoing fMRI scanning prior to and following treatment. The Emotion Regulation Task (ERT) assessed neural activation during passive viewing, maintenance of emotional response, and reappraisal of emotional response to distressing images. PTSD symptom ratings were also taken for participants prior to and following treatment. ERT results for activation during “maintain” trials subtracted from activation during “reappraise” trials revealed that individuals with PTSD (M = 0.24, SD = 0.43) showed greater dmPFC activation than trauma-exposed combat controls (CC; M= 0.04, SD = 0.38; t(51.89)= 2.01, p = .05). In concert, symptom improvement over time was inversely related (F(3, 36) = 3.66, p = .02, R2 = .17) to activation in the dmPFC (t(39)= -2.84, p < .01), bilateral amygdala (t(39) = -2.38, p = .02), and dlPFC (t(39) = -2.26, p = .03). Present findings suggest that those who demonstrate greater reduction of symptoms over time with treatment may exhibit less pretreatment activation in the amygdala and prefrontal regions of interest during cognitive reappraisal compared to maintenance of emotion. . This is one of the first studies to examine neural activation across different treatments for PTSD and provides greater insight into emotion regulation and processing in PTSD.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:23:53 -0400 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Joshi
Developmental Brown Bag: (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59221 59221-14717526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:41:53 -0500 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Adolescent Neurodevelopment in a Social and Policy Context (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62301 62301-15346455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Recent advances in the study of adolescent neurodevelopment have sparked both scientific and policy debates. “Drilling down” approaches have uncovered complexities within the “developmental maturity mismatch” (DMM) hypothesis that contrasts a rapidly developing, hyper-activated arousal/reward/incentive network and a more gradually developing prefrontal system. Current work focuses on integration across these networks, and with other circuits, challenging an overly simplistic “hot” system as a sole source of problematic risk behavior, and a “cold” system as the sole source of self-regulated behavior. “Ramping up” approaches take note of robust, convergent population findings evincing the similarity of key patterns: DMM (and its corollary of enhanced neuroplasticity up to about age 25 years); self-reported risk behavior (such as sensation seeking); and population level trends (such as the waxing and waning of behavioral misadventure, and the age-crime curve). The social and policy implications for adolescents of these developmental trajectories are profound: the excess mortality and morbidity resulting from health risk behavior/behavioral misadventure; justice system sanctions for juveniles, prominently in the Miller and Montgomery Supreme Court decisions regarding juvenile life without parole (JLWOP); early life and concurrent stress and adversity as they “get under the skin,” impacting a wide array of developmental health outcomes, including stress dysregulation, achievement, and mental and physical health. This talk focuses on the tension between convergent “ramping up” evidence and the drive for precision in neurodevelopmental models through “drilling down” – population science meets neuroscience – and how interpretations of that tension speak to choices in policy and prevention.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:40:15 -0400 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Keating
UM Psychology Community Talk: Enhancing Well-Being in School-aged Children (March 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52630 52630-12908321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS, 2017) reports that 1 in 5 children living in Michigan experiences a mental health problem and many do not get the services that they need to assist them. Government officials recently stated the need as “critically important” (MDHHS, 2017). Costs to individuals and to society are very high. For example, children with anxiety disorders are found to have poorer academic achievement, more interpersonal and social problems, and substance abuse relative to those without anxiety disorders. Further they are 3-5 times more likely to have doctor’s visits and 6 times more likely to be hospitalized than children without such anxiety. Research shows that childhood depression is a risk factor for trouble in school, social withdrawal, sleep problems, aggression, and feeling hopeless. Children with depression are at high risk for suicide in adolescence. It is important to note that many more children are prodromal – that is, they may have some signs of adjustment problems but have not yet reached the threshold of receiving a diagnosis – or are simply undiagnosed. Yet research studies show that children’s mental health problems are amenable to treatment. Clearly, more affordable and available services are necessary to meet this need, for without help, there is no doubt that the optimal development of children with such problems will be diminished. Further, we know that all children - even those without adjustment problems - can benefit from programs that enhance their coping skills, boost their self-esteem and empower them to be better at identifying and solving problems. This presentation describes a program designed to enhance the well-being of all school-aged children, whether they have symptoms of adjustment problem or not. There is incontrovertible evidence from research studies that children who are more able to manage their emotions and to use proven strategies to reduce stress and solve problems, have healthier lives, greater academic success, better mental health, and more satisfying social relationships. This presentation shows how the Kids’ Empowerment Program (KEP) is built on best practices that are derived from research studies and from the results of the successful Kids’ Club Program for children exposed to violence.

Sandra Graham-Bermann, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. As director of the Child Violence and Trauma Lab she studies resilient coping, and the behavioral and emotional adjustment of women and children, as well as interventions designed to assist them. Over 30 years she has developed measures of children’s fears and worries, traumatic stress, attitudes and beliefs about violence, family stereotyping, and conflict in sibling relationships. In addition to longitudinal studies of Head Start preschool children she has designed and evaluated interventions for women and children exposed to violence using randomized control trials. These interventions have been adapted for use with Spanish speaking women and children, Alaska Native and Alaskan Indian women and children, and Swedish families who experience intimate partner violence. With great support for their effectiveness in advancing well-being and reducing psychopathology, the programs are now used in 38 states and four countries. A fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), she serves on 4 journal editorial boards and is author of 125 peer-reviewed publications and 3 edited volumes. Dr. Graham-Bermann received the APA Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology, the APA Nicholas Hobbs Award for outstanding research contributions, as well as an honorary doctorate from the School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, at Örebro University in Sweden. Her current research is focused on enhancing the well-being of all school-aged children.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:52:14 -0400 2019-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation sandy
Biopsychology Colloquium: Under the Influence: probing the extended amygdala in the context of drugs, alcohol, and stress. (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59095 59095-14677971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:04:45 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation zoe
Sports Medicine Club Meeting (March 26, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62582 62582-15407777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Bickner Auditorium (CCRB 3735)
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

On Tuesday, March 26th at 6pm we will have Carol Teener, the Admissions Director at the University of Michigan Medical School, coming to speak to our club! She will be talking about the admissions process to medical school, what makes an applicant competitive, etc. Come with any questions or concerns you may have! Pizza will be provided! 

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:00:13 -0400 2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T19:15:00-04:00 Bickner Auditorium (CCRB 3735) Maize Pages Student Organizations Presentation
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: The role of Causal Attribution in the Relationship between Discrimination and Subjective Health (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60537 60537-14908092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:10:57 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation perry