Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Sounds Fake But Okay (October 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67046 67046-16796478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event navigation details - http://bit.ly/35VIVhJ

The Spectrum Center is inviting UM alumni and co-creators of the asexuality-focused podcast Sounds Fake But Okay to talk about being content creators in the asexual community. Learn about why these two friends came together to make the podcast, how they've kept it going for over two years, their evolution as creators, and maybe pick up something new to listen to!

Check out the other Asexual Awareness Week events at http://bit.ly/AsexualAwareness19

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:38:51 -0400 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Times, dates, and locations for all three Asexual Awareness Week events from the Spectrum Center in the colors of the asexual flag - black, gray, white, and dark purple.
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
King Talks Informational Webinar (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68527 68527-17096919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This webinar will allow you to learn more about the King Talks, including expectations and application tips.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/K4x9A.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:17:28 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
Complex Systems Seminar | (Soft) Matter of Life and Death: Biophysical Consequences of Death and Reproduction in Bacterial Biofilms (October 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68311 68311-17045990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Biofilms are surface attached communities formed by bacteria and other microbes. Biofilms that form in nature typically feature different taxa, species, and multiple strains of the same species. These cells compete for nutrients and space. Due to the broad prevalence of biofilms, bacteria have evolved various competitive strategies, many of which are antagonistic. This includes a number of complex toxin delivery systems, which kill competitors but not kin. Because biofilms are densely packed, cell death and reproduction hold emergent mechanical consequences. When a cell dies and lyses, the biofilm may partially ‘cave-in;’ when a cell reproduces, it pushes other cells out of its way. This deadly competition creates a feedback loop. Death and reproduction modify biofilm structure; structural changes impact subsequent death and reproduction. In this talk, I will explore the intertwined relationship between intercellular killing and biofilm materials properties, explaining both the new physics that arises and its biological impact.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:48:50 -0400 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Peter Yunker
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (October 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68621 68621-17105387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Hannah will be presenting Abandoning Obsolete Technologies in Medicine: Preliminary Evidence.

Abstract: The extent that medical practice relies on evidence varies by specialty. Practices that become popular based on promising case studies are especially susceptible to evidence reversal. Medical reversal occurs when a procedure that is common in clinical practice is shown to be ineffective or even harmful. Failure to quickly abandon reversed practices dampens productivity in the medical sector and results in wasteful spending. I present preliminary evidence about the speed of de-adoption, using the procedures of vertebroplasy and percutaneous coronary interventions as case studies.

Marlous will be presenting The Great Convergence: Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa and Asia, 1870-2010.

Abstract: While human capital has gained prominence in new vintages of growth theory, economists have struggled to find the positive externalities of mass education in developing economies. We shed new light on the economic significance of the global ‘schooling revolution’ by looking at a different indicator of human capital accumulation – the relative price of skilled labor – and placing it in a long-term global perspective. Based on a new wage dataset we constructed for various blue- and white-collar occupations in 50 African and Asian countries between 1870-2010, we reveal that skill-premiums have fallen dramatically everywhere in the course of the 20th century, and that they have now converged with levels that dominated in the West already for centuries. While such a ‘great convergence’ in skill-premiums is not a sufficient condition for Schumpeterian growth by itself, the growing availability of affordable skills is a necessary condition. Our findings therefore shed a more optimistic light on the long-term economic gains of mass education in the global South than standard growth regressions have hitherto done.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:16:51 -0400 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T12:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Phenotypic and genotypic changes in the evolution of antibiotic resistance after decades of relaxed selection (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65001 65001-16501300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
Populations often encounter environmental changes that remove selection for the maintenance of certain phenotypic traits. The resulting decay of these traits under relaxed selection reduces an organism’s fitness in its prior environment. However, how these traits subsequently evolve upon restoration of selection is not well-understood. We addressed this question using Escherichia coli strains from the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) that have been independently evolving for multiple decades in the absence of antibiotics. We confirmed that these derived strains have typically become more sensitive to various antibiotics during this time. We then asked how readily the bacteria could overcome these losses of intrinsic resistance through subsequent evolution when challenged with these same drugs. In our study, we focused on the role that genetic background plays in this process, with attention to the tension between evolutionary repeatability and contingency. We found that idiosyncratic responses in evolvability dominated over trends of diminishing returns, such that the potential to evolve increased resistance was hampered on some derived genetic backgrounds. We further subjected a time-series of clones from one LTEE population to tetracycline and showed that evolutionary constraint occurred early in its history. Taken together, our results indicate that the evolution and diversification of a single species in an antibiotic-free environment can render resistance evolution unpredictable, even for closely related strains. Current work is now centered on characterizing the genomic changes underlying resistance to address whether the same genes are the focus of selection when strains have evolved for decades in the absence of antibiotics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:47:45 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar petri dishes with colorful filter effect
Financial Wellness Panel (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67003 67003-16794260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

CEW+ presents a financial wellness program for students to support the successful navigation of financial issues. The program will feature a panel of U-M experts who will share their expertise, followed by a Q&A for participants to ask questions about budgeting, managing student loans, and other financial issues.

Panelists:

Kristin Bhaumik is the Associate Director of Financial Wellness for University of Michigan Office of Financial Aid and founded ‘The Financially Savvy Student’ course which is offered for credit. She was named 2016 Financial Educator of the Year by CashCourse and the National Endowment for Financial Education.

Doreen Murasky, LMSW, ACSW is the Student Program Manager at CEW+ and has many years of experience working with students faced with complicated financial challenges. She has a deep understanding of the financial aid system, which supports the coordination of emergency and scholarship funding.

Mark Munzenberger is a University of Michigan Credit Union Financial Education Specialist. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in consumer financial wellness programs. Mark is a certified credit and housing counselor, a certified professional in learning and performance, and also has a certification from the National Financial Educators Council.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:46:49 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar one dollar bill on a white background
LinkedIn Networking (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67777 67777-16949871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Have a LinkedIn profile and want to learn how to maximize your use of the platform? Join the Hub for a virtual workshop to find out how to navigate LinkedIn to expand your network and connect with UM alumni! This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:31:06 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Design meeting
Ph.D. Pathways: Transferable Skills for Ph.D. Students (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65453 65453-16599592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you a graduate student who struggles with identifying the skills and strengths that you have gained through academic and professional experiences? Articulating transferable skills and strengths is a key part of the career development process. Come and learn from the University Career Center staff about how to effectively identify your skill-set using the skills identified by My IDP and Imagine Ph.D.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/bvvwY.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:21 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Student Activities Building Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Student Activities Building
Complex Systems & Soft Matter Group Seminar | The life and death of turbulence (October 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68414 68414-17080052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

A special seminar co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Soft Matter Group - Chemical Engineering to be held at the North Campus Research Center

ABSTRACT:
Turbulence is the last great unsolved problem of classical physics. But there is no consensus on what it would mean to actually solve this problem. In this colloquium, I propose that turbulence is most fruitfully regarded as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and will show that this perspective explains turbulent drag behavior measured over 80 years, and makes predictions that have been experimentally tested in 2D turbulent soap films. I will also explain how this perspective is useful in understanding the laminar-turbulence transition, establishing it as a non-equilibrium phase transition whose critical behavior has been predicted and tested experimentally. This work connects transitional turbulence with statistical mechanics and renormalization group theory, high energy hadron scattering, the statistics of extreme events, and even population biology.

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To get to the research auditorium, enter via Building 18 Visitors entrance, show ID, up stairs to the right (the big granite egg)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:31:16 -0400 2019-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Swanlund Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld
ADVANCE STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshop: REFRESHER (October 23, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67641 67641-16909314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The ADVANCE Program

The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts.

These workshops are designed to provide them both with background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract. Workshops are scheduled for the fall term. These workshops are open to all faculty.

REGISTRATION FULL. This date has reached capacity. To be added to the wait list or to check into availability for other workshop dates, please contact Jamie Saville (jsaville@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:31:35 -0400 2019-10-23T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T10:20:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The ADVANCE Program Workshop / Seminar The Big M above the words ADVANCE Program and University of Michigan
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 23, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-23T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Designing a DEI Workshop (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67762 67762-16928723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop is only for participants in the DEI Professional Development Certificate who are facilitating workshops related to DEI as part of their certificate requirements. This interactive training will provide an overview on workshop design principles and best practices for facilitating workshops.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Xem9p
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:17:32 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
From #MeToo to #NowWhat: Cultivating Safe, Harassment-Free Learning and Working Environments (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66467 66467-16736427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Organizational Learning

This interactive event will update the campus community on the current status of the Sexual Harassment/Sexual Misconduct initiative, reflecting on the work that has been undertaken over the past 18 months and why our efforts matter. In addition, we will discuss the shift from education and training to transformational culture change. The event will close with a large, World Cafe-style group dialogue to connect diverse perspectives as we look forward to the work that lies ahead.

Questions about the event can be emailed to ol.sexualmisconduct@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:02:44 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar #metoo
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68015 68015-16983970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research - Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:57:45 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Trent Buskirk
School of Social Work's Bystander Intervention Training (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67608 67608-16900799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The School of Social Work’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion brings bystander intervention skills for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful and safe communities. The training is based on a nationally-recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:06:15 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar School of Social Work Building
Accessibility for Large Courses (CRLT) (October 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66587 66587-16761658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Council for Disability Concerns

Large courses present particular challenges for designing accessible learning environments that effectively anticipate a range of student bodies, minds, and learning needs. In this workshop, faculty will consider several principles of universal design and think together about how to apply them in courses with large numbers of students. Key topics include classroom technology policies, student privacy, and recognizing and resisting ableist assumptions when working with students to implement individual accommodations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:09:25 -0400 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Council for Disability Concerns Workshop / Seminar University of Michigan campus- aerial view
Construction Seminar (October 23, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66411 66411-16734210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Tyler Bergin has had an interesting professional route to get to Project Superintendent managing projects over $100 Million. He has had different roles from Engineer, Project Engineer, Assistant Superintendent with two different companies in two very different markets. This talk will review his unique experiences working in the professional ranks of construction engineering and management.

Company: Turner Construction 2015-Current
Role: Superintendent/ Project Superintendent
Projects: Top Golf Webster ; Houston Community College - Missouri City Campus, University of Houston - Fertitta Center Renovation; Texas Southern University, Library Learning Center; Houston ISD - Bellaire High School Rebuild

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:17:29 -0400 2019-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Speaking American English (October 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

Are you looking to increase confidence in your use of American English? The University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL) at U-M offers a special workshop designed for non-native English speakers who want to expand their communication skills. Our program provides the perfect environment for you to reach your personal goals and we’re registering now!

Our certified Speech and Language Pathologists use techniques technically known as accent reduction to help non-native speakers feel more at home in their communications — whether that’s giving a presentation or taking notes in a class with a native speaker with a fast cadence. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the accents of our clients, but to enhance communication skills for greater confidence in all settings. Participants will set their own individual objectives at the start of the workshop and will work to reach those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction, facilitated by a Speech and Language Pathologist.

The workshop will run from October 16 to December 18, 2019. Participants will meet weekly on Wednesdays. The time is TBD. There will be no meeting on November 27. The program cost is $275.00, plus the purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

If you have questions, need assistance, or want more information, please call (734) 764-8440 or visit https://mari.umich.edu/ucll

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves and Neutron Rich Dense Matter (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67178 67178-16805259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

In 2017 gravitational waves, oscillations of space-time, were detected from the collision of two neutron stars. This historic event provides new insight into very dense neutron rich matter. We compare these observations to the PREX II experiment. PREX uses parity violating electron scattering to precisely locate the 126 neutrons in 208Pb. Despite differing in size by 18 orders of magnitude, both the Pb nucleus and a neutron star are made of the same neutrons, with the same strong interactions, and have the same equation of state (pressure as a function of density). Therefore, PREX II has important implications for neutron star mergers and the structure of neutron stars.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:47:34 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves, Very Dense Matter, and Laboratory Experiments (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65283 65283-16565502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In 2017 gravitational waves, oscillations of space-time, were detected from the collision of two neutron stars. This historic event provides new insight into very dense neutron rich matter. We compare these observations to the PREX II experiment. PREX uses parity violating electron scattering to precisely locate the 126 neutrons in 208Pb. Despite differing in size by 18 orders of magnitude, both the Pb nucleus and a neutron star are made of the same neutrons, with the same strong interactions, and have the same equation of state (pressure as a function of density). Therefore, PREX II has important implications for neutron star mergers and the structure of neutron stars.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:17:02 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Macroeconomics (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68255 68255-17037409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:40:24 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:20:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Towards a Systematic Control Framework for Dynamic Locomotion (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68567 68567-17103234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

To accomplish dynamic locomotion of legged systems, we need a systematic understanding of hardware, real-time controls, motion planning, and state estimation. Therefore, a robust control framework with full consideration of the hardware is crucial but not available yet even with the current state-of-the-art techniques. Kim will explain challenges between classical control techniques (e.g. bandwidth of feedback control, uncertainty, and robustness) and high-level planning (e.g. step planning, visual perception, and trajectory optimization). Kim will also showcase some of my recent results on various legged platforms delving in different functionalities and control formulations and why a systematic understanding is critical to accomplish dynamic locomotion control. The tested robots include point-foot bipeds (Hume, Mercury), robots using liquid-cooling viscoelastic actuators (Draco), and a quadruped robot using proprioceptive actuators (Mini-Cheetah).

Donghyun Kim is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the biomimetic robotics lab, which is known for building cheetah robots. Donghyun's primary research area is in dynamic locomotion of legged systems with a focus on the development of a control framework and its experimental validation. During his Ph.D. at UT, Donghyun developed frameworks including joint-level feedback control, whole-body control, footstep planners, and robustness analysis for passive-ankle biped robots. At MIT, he developed controllers for high speed running of quadruped robots and demonstrated the Mini-Cheetah robot running up to 3.7 m/s. He is now extending his research area to a perception-based high-level decision algorithm to push forward robots' athletic intelligence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:05:19 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar mini-cheetah robot
Identify. Connect. Apply: Strategies for finding and pursuing new job opportunities (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65396 65396-16575589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Are you having difficult finding new employment opportunities? Are you interested in connecting with an industry professional, but not sure how to go about doing so, or what to say when you do meet?

This session will provide participants with strategies and resources for identifying new employment opportunities, networking with professionals, and creating customized application materials.

This is a College of Engineering event.

NOTE: Space at this workshop is available on a first to arrive basis. Please plan to arrive early to ensure a seat.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Aug 2019 23:33:04 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Pathways & Prep: Social Impact (October 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66106 66106-16686729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Discover possibilities within the social impact field that spark your interest and determine which might be right for you to explore next. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to identify social impact internships and specific strategies for succeeding in the application process. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:21:05 -0400 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar globe
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities in Detroit (October 23, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64820 64820-16452975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive workshop introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways--with an emphasis on working with communities in Detroit.

This workshop is open to all students, including ones in small classes or student organizations with less than 10 students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:36:59 -0400 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
International Economics & Labor Economics Seminar (October 24, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68302 68302-17043869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:38:06 -0400 2019-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 24, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Rackham North: Developing a Social Media Strategy for Your Scholarly Career (October 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65454 65454-16599593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you planning on going into the job market soon? Did you know 92% of companies (including colleges and universities) use or plan to use social media to recruit. Many graduate students have a love/hate relationship with social media. They know they “have to do it” that it’s the “right thing to do,” but is it necessary in higher education? You may be wondering, if you are planning to go the faculty tenure route, is it really necessary? At this workshop, you will learn how to think more strategically about your social media strategy and presence as a scholar. More specifically, you’ll decide what type of “professional persona” you are trying to portray and then you’ll learn some tactics and techniques for building your social media network.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/K449A.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:17:28 -0400 2019-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
Tech Talk (October 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68150 68150-17045984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of 20-minute drop-in sessions designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:42:35 -0400 2019-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T15:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Tech Talk Drop in Sessions
EEB and the Institute for Global Change Biology Thursday Seminar: The long-term climate change mitigation potential of working lands (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65474 65474-16605608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Land management has been proposed as a means to help lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. Research in California has shown significant potential to lower methane emissions from waste management and subsequently increase short-term soil carbon (C) storage via amendments of composted organic material. However, effective climate change mitigation will require long-term or sustained emissions reduction and C sequestration. We used field experiments and modeling to explore the long-term potential of improved agricultural practices on greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem C cycling. A decade following a one-time application of composted organic matter to grassland soils, amended plots accumulated approximately 9 Mg C ha-1 more soil C in the top 30 cm than paired controls. Aboveground plant growth was also higher in the amended plots after 10 years. Soil C stocks and C sequestration rates in compost-amended plots were resistant to rainfall and temperature changes predicted by Earth Systems Models (ESMs). We used two climate models (HadGEM and CanESM) and two climate change scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) to determine the sensitivity of rangeland C dynamics to climate change with and without composted amendments to the year 2100. Drier sites yielded surprisingly high rates of C storage and were less sensitive to climate change than wetter sites. We also used a new micrometeorological approach to estimate greenhouse gas fluxes from composted manure, green waste, and food waste, the highest emitting organic waste streams. We found that manure and green waste had considerably lower methane emission factors than food waste, and that all composted wastes had lower emission factors with composting than with landfilling or slurrying. Our results show that there are alternative management approaches can both lower greenhouse gas emissions and sequester atmospheric CO2 over short and long time periods, and thus provide viable climate change mitigation approaches.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/0JjEXOx9mQ8

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:54:38 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar EEB Seminar Silver
Technology-enabled structural health monitoring and control of large-scale structures (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68510 68510-17094812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has tremendous
potential to detect incipient failures of structures, e.g. onset of damage
and unexpected behavior during extreme climatic events, so that
corrective actions can be employed in a timely manner. This talk will present an overview of powerful SHM techniques that enable extracting hidden structural information under a variety of challenging situations towards diagnosis, prognosis and control of large-scale structures.

Ayan Sadhu is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University in Canada.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:04:16 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar structure
Resume Lab (October 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64102 64102-16147471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Library

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to great!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:24:21 -0400 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 University Library Workshop / Seminar
Undergraduate Research Panel (October 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64438 64438-16349019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Come learn more about the STAR Scholars Program from several program alumni who have gained research experience since participating in the program. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:02:44 -0400 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Research Panel
INDUSTRY INSIDERS- Real Estate (October 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66707 66707-16770294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Want to explore the intersection of land development, sustainability, property management, and investment with your liberal arts degree? RSVP to Industry Insiders: Real Estate to learn from U-M alumni the breadth of career opportunities within the real estate industry. RSVP opens Wednesday, September 4th. Deadline is Sunday, October 6th at 11:59 p.m. in the LSA Opportunity Network. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:20:00 -0400 2019-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Industry Insiders
Men of Color Leading in the Classroom (M-CLIC) Roundtable (October 24, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67876 67876-16960549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)

Men of Color Leading In the Classroom (M-CLIC) is designed to impact the number of African American, Latino and Native males entering the teaching profession while meeting the needs of the targeted populations for which the efforts are designed to serve. Through M-CLIC we hope to serve all students interested in enrolling in the School of Education at the University of Michigan and pursuing a career in education post-graduation. You can join M-CLIC as a community college student or University of Michigan student.

Our monthly M-CLIC RoundTables are a chance to meet other students pursuing education and professional educators working in the field today.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:51:39 -0400 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 Student Activities Building Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) Workshop / Seminar M-CLIC 10/24
Financial Literacy (October 24, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68653 68653-17130520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Alice Lloyd Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

How’s budgeting going? Do you want to find ways to save more money? Come build financial literacy skills and consider positive spending habits by thinking through your financial priorities, wants, and needs!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:16:48 -0400 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Alice Lloyd Hall First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar Financial Literacy Flyer
Take Time Before You Sign (October 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68661 68661-17130528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Know your housing options for next school year? If not, no worries! Whether you want to live on or off campus, in a residence hall, or if you want to join Fraternity and Sorority Life, we can provide helpful information with key details regarding your housing options!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:04:46 -0400 2019-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar TTBYS Flyer
Machine Learning in Survey Research (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68286 68286-17039621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Adam Eck (assistant professor of computer science, Oberlin College), as he conducts a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning in Survey Research”. This workshop is designed for population/survey researchers and analysts of all skill levels, and will present an introduction to machine learning concepts and their applications to survey research (such as sample frame creation, respondent modelling, and open-ended response coding).

Topics Include:
• Introduction to machine learning and its applications to survey research
• Decision trees and random forests
• Deep learning and other neural network-based techniques
• ML techniques to model respondent behaviors, assist with coding of open-ended responses, and more
• Demonstration using R and Python

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP).

BIO:
Adam Eck is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Oberlin College. His primary research and teaching interests include: intelligent agents and multiagent systems, machine learning, data science, and computer-aided education.

More specifically, Adam enjoys learning about and developing solutions within decision making under uncertainty (how should agents gather information and behave to maximize rewards in complex, dynamic environments), reinforcement learning (how can agents learn how their worlds' operate in order to guide their decisions), and sequential supervised learning using recurrent neural networks (how can we predict future outcomes based on sequences of past observations).

REGISTRATION:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:01:52 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Machine Learning in Survey Research poster
Write-Together (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66015 66015-16680439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. Write-Together sessions bring graduate writers into a common quiet space to work. We will periodically offer helpful handouts on a range of writing and work productivity topics, and a Sweetland representative will also be on-site to answer any brief writing questions you may have. Breakfast refreshments will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:54:10 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
U of M Construction Research Symposium (October 25, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68128 68128-17011968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Learn about the ongoing construction research projects. Many PhD students and postdocs will present their research. In addition, a couple of teams from this year's CEE 530 will present their class projects and thus, new Masters' student can see how their projects look like, which will help their preparation for the next year's CEE 530.

Last but not least, students will have a chance to meet our construction industry alliance program partners providing you with a great networking opportunity with professionals. Lunch will be served!

Time: Oct. 25 (Friday) 9:30-11:30AM
Place : Blue Lounge
Lunch will be served from 11:15AM.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:30:35 -0400 2019-10-25T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar construction
Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S. (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66702 66702-16770287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

In the U.S., states compete to attract firms by offering discretionary subsidies, but little is known about how states choose their subsidy offers, and whether such subsidies affect firms' location choices. In this paper, I use an oral ascending (English) auction to model the subsidy ``bidding" process and estimate the efficiency of subsidy competition. The model allows state governments to value both the direct and indirect (spillover) job creation of firms when submitting bids, and firms to take both subsidies offered and state characteristics into account when choosing their location. To estimate my model, I hand-collect a new and unique dataset on state incentive spending and subsidy deals from 2002-2016. I estimate both the distribution of states' (revealed) valuations for firms that rationalizes observed subsidies, and firms' valuations for state characteristics. In order to allow states to value potential spillovers, I estimate the effect of subsidy-winning firms' locations on the entry decision of smaller firms, using a discrete choice entry model. I provide the first empirical evidence that states use subsidies to help large firms internalize the positive spillovers, in the form of indirect job creation, they have on the states. Moreover, subsidies have a sizable effect on firm locations. In particular, I find that without subsidies approximately 68% of firms would locate in a different state, and the number of anticipated indirect jobs created would decrease by 32%. With subsidies, total welfare (the sum of state valuations and firm profits) increases by 22%, but this welfare gain is captured entirely by the firms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:43:03 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jie Peng, Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Davis (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63886 63886-15977788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Diffusion MRI is an in vivo and non invasive imaging technology that uses water diffusion as a proxy to probe architecture of biological tissues. Diffusion MRI technology has been widely used for white matter fiber tracts reconstruction. It also has many clinical applications in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
In this talk, We discuss various statistical models for analyzing diffusion MRI data. These models aim to elucidate local (voxel-level) neuronal fiber organizations based on D-MRI measurements, which are in turn used as inputs in tracking algorithms to reconstruct white matter fiber tracts. We focus on their capability in resolving crossing fibers -- a major challenge in diffusion MRI data analysis, and their computational scalability. We also discuss spatial smoothing schemes that leverage information from neighboring brain voxels. These methods are applied to both synthetic experiments and to real D-MRI data from large imaging consortium.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:19:27 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Jie Peng
Transferring into Automated Driving Era: Opportunities and Challenges (October 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68654 68654-17130521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk provides a summary of important human factors issues associated with Automated Vehicle technology development, and potential solutions.

Shan Bao is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:20:48 -0400 2019-10-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Manufacturing Seminar Series (October 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68554 68554-17096951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, October 25, 2019 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker, with Alan Taub. Taub is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

In this presentation, Taub will expalin the role of Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) and its connection with the University of Michigan in developing these new lightweighting technologies will be highlighted.

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KEE1YVxoQ9tvu25fOoVTpi-V8DM05_LcQlB8hXPfE48/edit

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:59:24 -0400 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar MFG Seminar
Virtual Alumni Connection: Rebecca Manuel (October 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67580 67580-16898647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Rebecca Manuel serves as Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, Europe at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), an investment management firm in Montréal.

CDPQ is one of North America’s leading long-term institutional investors, with net assets totalling CA$326.7 billion and investments in more than 75 countries. They manage funds primarily for public and parapublic pension and insurance plans. With the highest credit ratings from DBRS, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, CDPQ invests in major financial markets, private equity, infrastructure and real estate, globally, in all sectors of the economy.

Rebecca has over 25 years of financial services experience, including as Partner, Strategy and Investor Relations at Pollen Street Capital; as Managing Director, Global Sovereign Wealth Fund Coverage, Investment Banking, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch; and as Global Head of Sovereign Wealth Coverage and Global Head of Loan Syndicate at Royal Bank of Scotland. She was named one of Financial News’s “100 Most Influential Women in EMEA Finance” in 2008 and 2010.

She graduated from the University of Michigan with an individualized concentration in 1984; she focused her studies on international economic relations. She also holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Rebecca has lived in Paris and London since 1998, with her husband and two children.

Rebecca is happy to discuss issues surrounding careers in international financial services, the advancement of women and minorities in finance, the role resilience plays in academic and career success, and how liberal arts students should position themselves during their job search.

This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:54:46 -0400 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar rm
Macroeconomics (October 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68263 68263-17037419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:20:05 -0400 2019-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Alumni Connections: Creating a Career and Life That You Love with Marc Gutman (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67536 67536-16890105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The story we imagine is the life we live. What if you could design a life and career that you love? It wasn’t always that way for Marc, but at an early age he was determined to find the ideal work / life integration. Join Michigan graduate, Marc Gutman as he shares his experiences from Michigan to Hollywood to Colorado and everything in between. Gain insights on how to be intentional yet give yourself the freedom to explore who you really want to be. Hint: you don’t always have to have it all figured out! Keynote followed by open Q&A session.This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:01:23 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar MG
Alumni Connections: Principal Lawyer Leslee Cohen (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67485 67485-16864384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

As one of Illinois' 'top 50 Women Lawyers', Leslee concentrates her practice in securities law, corporate finance and general corporate law. She counsels a variety of entities, from small entrepreneurs and start-up companies to large established businesses, across many industries from real estate to technology. She is also passionate about mentoring aspiring female lawyers and entrepreneurs.This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:09:13 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar lc
Biophysics Student Seminar (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68668 68668-17130536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Shiyuan Wang - Yang Lab
Talk title: Understanding the Mitotic Oscillations with a Droplet-based System: How Does ATP Level Affect Oscillation Characteristics?

Ryan Hayes - Brooks Lab
Talk Title: Towards Protein Design with Rigorous Alchemical Calculation of
Folding Free Energies

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:42:14 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Building a Dialogic Community: Skills for Faculty and Staff (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67576 67576-16898619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

A series of lunch and learn workshops led by the Program on Intergroup Relations as part of the U-M DEI Summit. Workshops will focus on dialogic skill-building for faculty and staff. This series is generously supported by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

All sessions have a maximum capacity. Please click the Registration link below to reserve your spot.

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What Is Intergroup Dialogue: This Is How We Do It
October 18, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Introductory
Learn about the Program on Intergroup Relations' approach and pedagogical underpinnings to the work rooted in dialogue, power, privilege and oppression.

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Who I am and why it matters: Understanding your social group identities and how it impacts your work
October 25, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Donna Rich Kaplowitz & Cesar Vargas-Leon
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using tools for exploring social group identity and their relations to power and privilege, this workshop has participants examine and reflect on how their social group identities impact their work. Self reflection and sharing is expected.

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Successfully Navigating Power Dynamics with Generative Listening
November 1, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher & Hamida Bhagirathy
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using the tool of generative listening, participants will learn about their strengths, skills, and capacities to create change, while focused on surfacing the power dilemmas in the workplace and navigating those dynamics to productively move DEI agendas forward in their context. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon and answer questions such as “When have I had success in dealing with the power structure? Where have I experienced roadblocks, and what were they? How can collective and coalitional action fuel the power I need to remove roadblocks?”

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(Good) Sh*t Happens: Conflict, Identity and Power
November 8, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This interactive session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn strategies for navigating conflict that specifically focus on balancing power, noticing and surfacing dynamics and attending to how social identities and positionality impact conflict and conflict resolution. Participants will also consider how to reframe conflict as positive, productive and natural.

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Dominant Narratives
November 15, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Stephanie Hicks
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
In this workshop we will explore the influence of social power, hegemony and dominant (meta, grand or master) narratives in classrooms and other dialogic settings. Participants will learn about an approach called Multipartiality and the technique of counter narratives.

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Advanced Strategies and Techniques for Multipartial Facilitation
November 22, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher
Level: Advanced
This session is for participants already familiar with dominant narratives and multipartiality as a facilitation technique, to explore a deeper dive into the nuances of these skills.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:37:38 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Workshop / Seminar Building a Dialogic Community
Human Performance Seminar (836): Michael Lau, PhD, Human Factors Leader, Nemera (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68164 68164-17020446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Human Performance Seminar Series (836) from the Center for Ergonomics is open to all U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title: Human Factors in Medical Device Design and Development

Abstract: The importance of human factors within the development of medical devices and combination products has risen greatly within the last 10 years. FDA and international guidance/standards have prescribed a comprehensive, risk-based, human-centered design approach supported by usability data. The human factors engineering role has become a pivotal role in organizations to define, design for, and protect the needs of users throughout the development process. This talk will share current practices and case study at Nemera - Insight Innovation Center - Chicago (formerly Insight Product Development), a design innovation consultancy that focuses on developing solutions for the med device and pharma industries. This talk will focus on the types of activities conducted and the human factors skill set needed to succeed in this industry.

Bio: Michael Lau, PhD, is the human factors leader at Nemera. He completed his doctorate in IOE in 2011 under Dr. Armstrong. As an HF consultant, Michael and his team work with many different pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer managed healthcare companies, from start ups to Fortune 500. His work encompasses devices in the surgical, combination product, diagnostic, parenteral, and other areas and many different patient populations such as rare diseases, autoimmune disorders, and other debilitating conditions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:51:27 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:50:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Human Performance Seminar (836): Michael Lau, PhD, Human Factors Leader, Nemera
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Corey Lester, U-M College of Pharmacy (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68541 68541-17096935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE faculty, staff, and PhD students. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Wednesday, October 23, 2019. Space is limited to 20 participants.

Title:
Leveraging pharmacy and medication data to improve human health

Abstract:
Following the life cycle of prescription drugs, from prescribing decisions to their associated outcomes, I discuss research opportunities and challenges in the medication use domain. I’ll focus on outpatient pharmacy (e.g., retail and mail-order environments) and share my past research designing and evaluating the use of technology on pharmacy practice outcomes. I share future directions in the field and cover relevant data generated by the industry. My primary goal for this lunch and learn is to communicate with IOE researchers and learn more about the perspectives of its faculty, researchers, and students in order to improve my own research and knowledge of the discipline. I hope that by introducing my work we can identify potential opportunities for collaboration. I have also identified several federal grant announcements that are relevant to medication safety, machines, and processes. I want to strengthen connections between Industrial and Operations Engineering and the College of Pharmacy.

Bio:
Corey Lester is a research assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. He received an MS and PhD in Social and Administrative Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Pharmacy. Previously, he graduated with a PharmD from the University of Rhode Island in 2012. His area of interest focuses on improving medication use outcomes by preventing errors, improving pharmacist work, and optimizing drug therapy with machine knowledge. He is currently evaluating machine learning applications for transcribing electronic prescription directions, using a publicly available application programming interface to detect wrong drug selection errors, and determining the impact of these technologies on healthcare.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:11:47 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Corey Lester
MCDB Seminar: Telomerase RNA Biogenesis: Human Genetics to Therapeutic Prospects (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67357 67357-16839925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: JK Nandakumar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:28:46 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar micrograph of teleomeres
Ready, Set, PAUSE: Figuring out your Pre-Health Journey (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68099 68099-17009831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Come learn from pre-health advisors about what medical schools are looking for, what the application process is like... and how to avoid burnout.

RSVP >> https://forms.gle/ci5UYSZcBdTq4kpAA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:24:53 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Pre-Health
ASCE Seminar Series: ECRC (October 25, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66242 66242-16719617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Engineering Career Resource Center's mission is to offer comprehensive career development services to College of Engineering students to support a successful transition from campus to career, and to assist employers with developing and maintaining successful recruiting relationships with Michigan Engineering.

ECRC are passionate about providing excellence, innovation, and integrity through their services and relationships.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:41:13 -0400 2019-10-25T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Economics at Work (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68592 68592-17105348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

avid Saferstein is the co-founder, co-owner and Chief Executive Officer of Titan Capital ID, LLC (“Titan”), one of the largest private real estate lenders in the New York City metropolitan area. Since becoming CEO of Titan Capital in January of 2005, Mr. Saferstein has helped Titan originate over $3 Billion in bridge loans. Titan has offices in New York City, Connecticut and Miami. Mr. Saferstein oversees all aspects of the business including but not limited to loan origination, loan servicing, asset allocation, investor relations, credit facility relations with FDIC banks and property management of real estate owned.

Prior to joining Titan Capital, Mr. Saferstein founded G&D Trading Company, a broker/dealer specializing in derivatives trading with seats on the American Stock Exchange, Pacific Coast Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, COMEX, & CBOE. Mr. Saferstein is also the founder of the Saferstein Family Charitable Foundation which provides annual grants, research awards and educational support for Masters level programs for 5th year fellowship and other young investigators in the field of IBD and other gastrointestinal diseases.

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:55:05 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Intersex Awareness 101 (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67121 67121-16803023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join the Spectrum Center in a workshop all about intersex identity and how society's idea of sex isn't as clear-cut as it's made out to be in honor of Intersex Awareness Day (October 26th). The workshop is based on the presentation available from intersex advocacy organization InterAct as a part of their 4intersex campaign. Snacks will be available, including vegan and gluten-free offerings.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:50:05 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Date, time, and location of the Intersex Awareness 101 workshop. The themeing is based around the colors and shapes on an Australian-created Intersex flag, which is a deep purple ring on a golden yellow background.
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Accelerating Teams to High Performance (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68784 68784-17147190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mary R. Anderson
Executive Director, Human Resources - Global Markets and Mobility
Ford Motor Company

Mary Anderson has 30 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and Organization Development. She has had the distinguished opportunity to work in three of the top companies in the world including General Electric, General Motors and Ford Motor Company. Mary has a B.A. in business and an M.A. in Human Resources & Labor Relations from Michigan State University.

She began her career at General Electric during the Jack Welch era, and over a ten year period worked for GE Medical, Aircraft Engines and Plastics. In addition to managing and executing the traditional HR functions such as recruitment, compensation planning, succession planning, employee development, labor relations and performance management, she also became certified in GE benchmark processes such as Workout, Change Acceleration (CAP), Six Sigma, Strategic Planning and Team Development.

Mary calls the Metro Detroit area home, and to broaden her sphere of experience and influence in the community, she transitioned to the Truck division of General Motors.

While at GM, Mary ran the $11 million GM Truck training organization and streamlined operations, cutting costs by $1.5 million. She launched the performance management process for GM Truck, which won the Chairman’s award and became a company best practice translated across all divisions globally.

After a successful stint with GM, Mary accepted an exciting offer to work at Ford Motor Company to lead the strategic planning process and performance management for the newly formed North American Operations. She has since held several HR positions including the lead negotiator with the UAW at the local and national levels, as well as assignments with Ford Credit and Product Development including HR oversight for more than 50k engineers, supply chain management leaders, and 9 VPs worldwide.

Mary’s current role as top HR leader for Global Markets and Mobility has provided her the opportunity to help shift Ford’s 115 year business model from traditional OEM to transportation juggernaut including setting up Argo AI – the Autonomous Vehicle subsidiary with a market cap of $4B, the formation of a new Human Centered Design organization, China Business Unit, International Markets organization, and the lead architect for running vehicle products and services as end-to-end businesses.

Mary has left a legacy at Ford by developing the first Global Organization Development practice and creating tools to improve individual, team, and organization effectiveness. She has mentored and taught countless HR professionals and business leaders how to accelerate teams to high performance, lead high-impact change efforts, create enduring strategic plans and deploy them across the business, and how to design elegant and efficient organizations to deliver results.

Mary also gives back to the community through her role on the Advisory board at MSU’s HR & Labor Relations master’s program as well as volunteering as a tutor for students at the Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Boxing Gym.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:20:13 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Alumni Connections: Denham Capital Founder Stu Porter (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68577 68577-17103243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

“Doing Well by Doing Good,” A Private Equity Firm’s approach to developing Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets. With offices in London, Boston, and Houston Denham Capital invests directly in renewable energy in emerging markets. Stuart Porter, the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Denham Capital has over 30 years of senior investment experience. Join him this Friday, October 25th in the LSA Opportunity Hub to learn more about a private equity firm’s approach to “Doing Well by Doing Good.”

Mr. Stuart Porter is the founder of Denham Capital Management LP and serves as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Porter brings almost 30 years of senior investment experience to Denham Capital. Mr. Porter serves on the Investment Committee and the Valuation Committee. Prior to founding Denham Capital, Mr. Porter was a founding partner of Sowood Capital Management LP and, prior thereto, was employed as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Harvard Management Company, Inc. where he focused on public and private transactions in the energy and commodities sectors. Mr. Porter began his career at the Chicago Board of Trade as an independent trader in the bond pit and post graduate school, worked on the GSCI desk at J. Aron the commodities division of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Porter received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:46:22 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Stu Porter
Economic Theory (October 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68618 68618-17105384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:15:30 -0400 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage (October 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68167 68167-17020451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: History of Art

Department of Classical Studies
DEI Committee

Roundtable:
Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage: Museums, Universities, and the Ethics of Community Engagement

October 25, 2:30-3:30PM
Classics Library

This roundtable was prompted by similar events in US universities (e.g. Brown University), after the publication of the Savoy report in November 2018 (The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Towards a New Relational Ethics.) The report, which we attach to this announcement, defines Restitution (“What restitution means”) and outlines its implications beyond questions of legitimate ownership which often dominate discussions on the topic.
From the report (page 29):

“Restitutions open up a profound reflection on history, memories, and the colonial past, concerning the history as well as the formation and development of Western museum collections. But just as importantly the question of restitution also bears on the question of the different interpretations or conceptions of cultural heritage, of the museum, and their various modalities of the presentation of objects as well as their circulation and, in the end, the nature and quality of relations between people and nation.”

According to the report, stolen and looted object constitute a “diaspora” and additional violence is inscribed onto the objects themselves as they are altered, reshaped, varnished, cleaned, etc. How are such objects to be “restituted” and “repatriated”, the report asks? (page 30). And why seek to repatriate at all? Does repatriation foster community engagement? What are the power dynamics among the multiple stakeholders in such engagements?

The report raises questions that resonate beyond African Art and with this event we hope to raise similar questions as they pertain to our institutional and disciplinary practices.

The roundtable brings together specialists from different fields:

Brendan Haug, Assistant Professor, Classical Studies and Archivist of the UM Papyrology Collection
Shelley Perlove, Professor Emerita, History of Art
Ray Silverman, Professor History of Art, DAAS, Museum Studies
Lisa C. Young, Lecturer IV, Anthropology, Research Affiliate Museum of Anthropology

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:46:12 -0400 2019-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall History of Art Workshop / Seminar
Alumni Connections: Entertainment Agent David Lubliner (October 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67700 67700-16918028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

David is a Motion Picture Literary Agent at United Talent Agency, which he joined in January, where he represents writers and directors for Film and Television. Before that, David worked in the same capacity at both WME and William Morris Agency for several years.

David’s longtime clients include Paul Weitz (About A Boy), Chris Weitz (Rogue One) Jim Taylor (Sideways), Rob Letterman (Detective Picachu) and Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl).Lubliner currently works with United Talent Agency, which was co-founded by U-M grad Peter Benedek.

Lubliner will share insights on the industry and ways his LSA education prepared him for a career in talent development.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:15:29 -0400 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar David Lubliner
Alumni Connections: New York-based Nonprofit Managing Director Andrew Rubinson (October 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67780 67780-16949874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Nonprofit executive Andrew Rubinson of Urban Dove will lead an exploration of the nonprofit professional landscape in New York City. Specific topics will include information about youth development, education, and youth-adjacent organizations such as Urban Dove; larger professional development programs such as the Coro Fellowship, and strategies for LSA students to land a job in NYC.

This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:10:51 -0400 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar ar
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics (October 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66278 66278-16725792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The birth of the field of nonlinear optics occurred in Randall Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1961 when Franken, Hill, Peters, and Weinreich observed for the first time the generation of optical harmonics. This discovery was rapidly followed by the observation of numerous other nonlinear effects such as optical rectification, frequency mixing, self-focusing, and parametric oscillation. In this talk we review the physics, birth, growth, and modern day applications of nonlinear optics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:04:49 -0400 2019-10-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar HERCULES LASER Credit Joseph Xu
The Premodern Colloquium. Calvary in Kitzingen: Dragging Your Cross through Eighteenth-Century Franconia (October 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66418 66418-16734217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This paper represents the first substantial study of the image of the Kreuzschlepper (cross-dragger), a monumental roadside sculpture of Christ carrying his instrument of martyrdom to Mount Calvary only found in the cultural region of Franconia and first introduced to these lands at the end of the seventeenth century.

For more information, please email willette@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:07:33 -0400 2019-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Webinar: Accessing and Using Two Disability/Rehabilitation Studies for Secondary Analysis: Boston RISE and Early Intervention - Colorado (October 28, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68236 68236-17028954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This webinar will highlight two studies in the Archive of Data on Disability to Enable Policy and research (ADDEP) at ICPSR:

1) Boston Rehabilitative Impairment Study of the Elderly (Boston RISE) (https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ADDEP/studies/37045)

2) Early Intervention -- Colorado Study (EI-CO) (https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ADDEP/studies/37320)

PIs and research team members from Boston RISE and EI-CO will discuss the collection and organization of their archived data, and how the data can be used for secondary analysis. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions to both research teams.

Register at http://bit.ly/323qu8u.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:05:12 -0400 2019-10-28T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-28T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Workshop / Seminar Webinar announcement for Accessing and Using Two Disability/Rehabilitation Studies for Secondary Analysis: Boston RISE and Early Intervention - Colorado
Indo-Pacific Diplomacy (October 28, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67588 67588-16900774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This opportunity is open to Ford School students, who will receive a separate sign up email. A light lunch will be served.

Monday, October 28: Indo-Pacific Diplomacy:What to Look for at the November 4 East Asia Summit in Bangkok

The South China Sea. The Korean Peninsula. Trade tensions. Myanmar’s Rakhine State and the plight of displaced persons from the Rohingya community. These are among the many diplomatic issues expected to be discussed by the 18 leaders from around the Indo-Pacific Region participating in the East Asia Summit (EAS) to be held in Thailand on November 4. Retired U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shields, whose 33-year Foreign Service career in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Washington included deep involvement in the 2013 EAS in Brunei and the 2017 EAS in the Philippines, will share personal insights, as an experienced diplomatic practitioner no longer speaking for the U.S. government, on what to expect from the 2019 EAS.

Monday, November 4: After the Bangkok East Asia Summit: Prospects for Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

Just as the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Bangkok concludes on November 4, Ambassador (Ret.) Shields will offer his personal views, not U.S. government policy positions, on what just happened diplomatically in Bangkok and what lies ahead for diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2020. One of the unique things about the EAS system is the importance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair/host country. Ambassador (Ret.) Shields will look at the transition from Thai chairmanship in 2019 to Vietnamese chairmanship in 2020. He will analyze what that might mean with regard to the South China Sea, trade uncertainties and other challenges that lie ahead for diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific in 2020.

About the speaker

Ambassador (Ret.) Daniel Shields consults, teaches courses and conducts simulations relating to diplomacy and U.S.-Asia relations. From 2015-18, while on detail from the U.S. State Department as the Diplomatic Advisor to the Commandant at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he helped educate future strategic leaders on how to integrate the diplomatic, informational, military and economic (DIME) instruments of power to achieve national security objectives. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei from 2011-14, handling sensitive South China Sea-related issues in connection with Brunei’s hosting in 2013 of the various Summits involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Ambassador (Ret.) Shields led two other U.S. diplomatic Missions in Southeast Asia as Chargé d’Affaires (at times when no Ambassador was in place.) In response to an urgent request from the State Department, he temporarily left the Army War College for six months in 2017 to serve as the Chargé at the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, traveling to Manila to support participation by the President and Cabinet Secretaries in the ASEAN-related Summits. His other Chargé duty was for 15 months, mainly in 2009, when he led Embassy Singapore in supporting then-President Obama’s participation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.

His early to mid-career assignments were mainly in Japan and China, including as Political Minister Counselor at Embassy Beijing from 2004-07. He speaks Japanese and Chinese. His first tour in the Foreign Service was as a Vice Consul at Embassy Manila from 1985-87, where he witnessed firsthand and reported on the People Power demonstrations and the fall of the Marcos regime.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:39:33 -0400 2019-10-28T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-28T12:50:00-04:00 Weiser Diplomacy Center Workshop / Seminar
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed (October 28, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68303 68303-17043871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 11:45am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract
We show that individuals narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Across six experiments including 2,360 subjects, individuals equalize components of payoffs rather than overall payoffs. When earnings are comprised of “small tokens” worth 1 cent and “large tokens” worth 2 cents, subjects frequently equalize the distribution of small (or large) tokens rather than equalizing total earnings. When payoffs are comprised of time and money, subjects similarly equalize the distribution of time (or money) rather than total payoffs. In addition, subjects are more likely to equalize time than money. These findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:50:54 -0400 2019-10-28T11:45:00-04:00 2019-10-28T12:45:00-04:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
ADVANCE STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshop (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67642 67642-16909315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: The ADVANCE Program

The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts.

These workshops are designed to provide both background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract. Workshops are scheduled for the fall term. These workshops are open to all faculty.

Please Register here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_esPhF8p7Cc9vpXf

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:16:59 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:50:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library The ADVANCE Program Workshop / Seminar The Big M above the words ADVANCE Program and University of Michigan
Ph.D. Pathways: Deconstructing the Job Search—Comparing and Contrasting the Academic and Non-Academic Job Search Timeline (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65455 65455-16599594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The job market is competitive for Ph.D. students, both within and outside of academia. It is increasingly important for Ph.D. students to be ready to explore both realms. The University Career Center will host a workshop that explains both timetables in preparing for the academic and non-academic job market, discussing the differences and similarities. Students will be exposed to strategies for navigating both job markets concurrently and specific resources that can be used.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/3qqKK.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:17:24 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
King Talks Information Session (October 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68824 68824-17157564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session will allow you to learn more about the King Talks, including expectations and application tips.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/VP9kw.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:17:11 -0400 2019-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T14:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Finding Fellowship/Funding Workshop for International Students (October 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68626 68626-17107487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Graduate Rackham International (GRIN) invites you to join us on finding fellowship and funding workshop. As an international student, it is not always easy to find funding. With the lead of Foundations and Grants Librarian Paul Barrow we will discuss how funding searches and the application process. Bringing your own laptop is encouraged to utilize the resources during the session. Paul will be flexible in and after the session to answer all questions. If you have questions about the event, please e-mail zhengsy@umich.edu.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/K4x8q.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:17:32 -0400 2019-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Careers in Computing Faculty Panel - Science Success Series (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67115 67115-16803017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Many Michigan students broadly want to work with computers but aren't sure what majors and career paths are available. Join faculty from Computer Science, Epidemiology, Industrial and Operations Engineering, and Music, Theater, and Dance as they discuss the the surprising possibilities available for careers in computing. Find your path to use your skills and make a difference.

October 28 3:00-4:00 PM
Room 5179 Angell Hall
RSVP here: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/careers-in-computing-panel/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:25:52 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
DANG! Meeting (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68540 68540-17096933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Data Analysis Networking Group

The Data Analysis Networking Group (DANG!) is a forum for post-docs, grad students, and other researchers at the University of Michigan to discuss how to analyze, present, and visualize their data. Monthly meetings cover requested topics or specific problems & solutions that we have encountered. Don’t know how to visualize your results? Come to DANG!, and hopefully as a group we can come up with a method. Did you recently discover an amazing R package or script? Come to DANG!, and share with us how you accomplished that. Our hope is that these meetings & discussions will foster new ideas within our respective fields.

https://um-dang.github.io/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:04:03 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Library Data Analysis Networking Group Workshop / Seminar DANG!
Grad School 101 (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68100 68100-17009832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Interested in attending graduate school but not sure where to start? Join representatives from Rackham Graduate School to learn about what to look for in graduate programs, the application process, timelines, and what you can do now to make yourself a great candidate.

RSVP >> https://forms.gle/N8MuzX3s1ToSher87

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:34:57 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Grad School 101
HEP-Astro Seminar | Lensing and Delensing: Results and Updates from BICEP/Keck and the South Pole Telescope (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67014 67014-16796441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information from the low-redshift universe. Therefore, its measurement is useful for constraining cosmological parameters that describe structure formation, e.g. Omega_m, sigma_8, and the sum of neutrino masses. In this talk, I will present a measurement of and the cosmological constraints from the CMB lensing potential and its power spectrum using data from the SPTpol 500 deg^2 survey. From the minimum variance combination of the lensing estimators from all combinations of SPTpol temperature and polarization data, we measure the lensing amplitude A_MV = 0.944 \pm 0.058 (Stat.) \pm 0.025 (Sys.), which constitutes the tightest lensing amplitude measurement using ground-based CMB data alone. Restricting to only polarization data, we measure the lensing amplitude A_Pol = 0.906 \pm 0.090 (Stat.) \pm 0.040 (Sys.), which is more constraining then our measurement using only temperature data. As SPT-3G, the successor to SPTpol, and other CMB experiments continue to lower the CMB map noise levels, polarization data will dominate the signal-to-noise of lensing measurements for angular multipoles below at least several hundred. Looking to the future, high signal-to-noise measurements of lensing enabled by deep polarization maps is crucial for constraining the sum of neutrino masses and the amplitude of inflationary gravitational waves through delensing. If time permits, I will give an update on the current effort of delensing the BICEP/Keck telescope data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:16:53 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Public Finance & Labor Economics: A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66768 66768-16776775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to calculate both the benefit that each policy provides its recipients (measured as their willingness to pay) and the policy’s net cost, inclusive of long-term impacts on the government’s budget. We divide the willingness to pay by the net cost to the government to form each policy’s Marginal Value of Public Funds, or its “MVPF”. Comparing MVPFs across policies provides a unified method of assessing their impact on social welfare. Our results suggest that direct investments in low-income children’s health and education have historically had the highest MVPFs, on average exceeding 5. Many such policies have paid for themselves as governments recouped the cost of their initial expenditures through additional taxes collected and reduced transfers. We find large MVPFs for education and health policies amongst children of all ages, rather than observing diminishing marginal returns throughout childhood. We find smaller MVPFs for policies targeting adults, generally between 0.5 and 2. Expenditures on adults have exceeded this MVPF range in particular if they induced large spillovers on children. We relate our estimates to existing theories of optimal government policy and we discuss how the MVPF provides lessons for the design of future research. All estimates can be also viewed in our interactive web tool at www.policyinsights.org.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:23:30 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Focus Group for First-Year Ph.D. Students: North Campus (October 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68627 68627-17107488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham is conducting focus groups to better understand the first-year experience of our Ph.D. students. All participants will receive a $10 digital Amazon gift card upon completion of the session. Dinner will be provided.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/O4X1w.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:17:32 -0400 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Interactive Workshop to create exhibition "Blood Underwater" (October 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68771 68771-17147158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join the Residential College Studio Art program for open studio time with visiting artist Elshafei Dafalla to assist in creating the exhibition "Blood Underwater".

Elshafei Dafalla will be working with RC and LSA students to realize new work for this exhibition, using the gallery as a studio space, and working primarily with pastels and canvas.

Statement about Blood Underwater
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Water, as a natural resource, has been weaponized or made treacherous against people seeking safety and security. Some have been tortured or killed through waterboarding, others have been forced into oceans to die or disappear. Refugees across world regions have drowned crossing bodies of water in hopes for a better life.

Millions of people all over the world are being tortured, disappeared, and forcibly displaced by repressive regimes and wars while governments of other countries are denying them a safe place to live. There are now as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically motivated torture survivors living in the U.S. And over 70 million refugees in the world according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the highest number in the almost 70 years since the refugee agency was founded.

During this time of rapid political change worldwide, the Blood Underwater Workshop and Exhibition offers an opportunity for students, activists, members of civil society organizations, and NGOs to come together as change agents to protect human rights, freedom and dignity, and to spread peace, justice and love.

Blood Underwater is a collaborative work, which encourages deep thinking and creative expression. It provides a voice for community members and activists, especially from political, national, racial, religious and other minorities, to express their concerns about global suffering through art. Participants gather around a large canvas with paints and music and are guided through a series of artistic expressions by “artivist” Elshafei Dafalla. The purpose is to use art to protest against violence, torture, enforced disappearances and other forms of brutality.

Blood Underwater is a demand for “freedom, peace and justice” -- from San Salvador to Khartoum to Sindh -- and throughout the world. This visual narrative will recognize men and women who have been murdered because they wanted to live in freedom, political prisoners, people forced from their homes, and those who have been tortured for standing up to dictatorships.

The Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another, and to refugees, asylum seekers, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering, and what can be done about it.
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Eishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at Sudan University for Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Elshafei has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work, holding artist residencies, participating in community building activities, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally. An extended interview with Elshafei was created by the Washington DC-based, nonprofit, Center for Concern. He's also created a series of short videos: Wagala, Unshackled Memory, Root Cause, Made By Survivors.

The exhibition will be on display November 4-22, M-F, 10am-5pm, at the Residential College Art Gallery at 701 East University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109. Free and open to the public.

There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on November 1 from 6-8pm. The exhibition runs through November 22.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:24:36 -0400 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Workshop / Seminar Blood Underwater
Pathways & Prep: Public Health Panel Discussion (October 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66108 66108-16686732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you interested in pursuing a career in public health? Here is your chance to hear from graduate students and doctoral candidates from University of Michigan’s Public Health program! Learn from each of their educational journeys and paths through public health, as well as their expertise, experience, and things they wish they had known in undergrad. We will explore epidemiology, health behavior and health education, nutritional science, and health management and policy. You can submit your own questions ahead of time using the following link: https://forms.gle/JiaKSm6AFxkdiKQ58.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:03:25 -0400 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar stethoscope
Change it Up! (October 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67967 67967-16977572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Change it Up! Empowers faculty and staff to safely and successfully intervene in situations that negative impact in the University of Michigan campus community. Help us build an inclusive, respectful, and safe community while expanding your skills and confidence!

Register for a session: 10/17, 10/30, 11/19

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:03:25 -0400 2019-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Engineering Workshop / Seminar Change it up, DEI Engineered
Change It Up! (Faculty only) (October 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68295 68295-17043864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Change it Up! Empowers faculty and staff to safely and successfully intervene in situations that negative impact in the University of Michigan campus community. Help us build an inclusive, respectful, and safe community while expanding your skills and confidence!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:59:28 -0400 2019-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Michigan Engineering Workshop / Seminar Change it up, DEI Engineered
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Mentoring Plan Workshop (October 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67187 67187-16807431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Due to a high demand for the Mentoring Plan Workshops, the MORE Committee is offering a third workshop this Fall.
This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor. Faculty and students will work independently to identify their own objectives and styles initially, and then faculty-student pairs will have time to work together to develop a mentoring plan: a two-way document to codify goals, needs, and shared expectations. Our mentoring committee places high value on this exercise because we know that of the Rackham students who have written mentoring plans, 86% report that they find them useful.
Registration is required of both the faculty and student. Lunch is provided. If a faculty member has recently attended a MORE workshop, they may attend the last hour of the workshop only.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:22 -0400 2019-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Complex Systems Seminar | Stephanie Forrest 'The Biology of Software: Evolution, Robustness, Diversity' (October 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68316 68316-17045998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

**Please note, if this room's capacity is exceeded, there will be a simulcast into the next room of talk slides and audio**

Stephanie Forrest is Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University, where she directs the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation, Security and Society. Her research focuses on the intersection of biology and computation, including cybersecurity, software engineering, and biological modeling.

Abstract:
Software today is a complex adaptive system. Although we think of computer programs as the products of intelligent design, they also evolve inadvertently through the actions of many individual programmers, often leading to unanticipated consequences. Similarly, economic and political incentives produce arms races between competitors and adversaries, which in turn have shaped the cyber landscape.

The talk will give examples of evolution, robustness and diversity in the context of software, describing how these concepts provide new insights and suggest new approaches to problems such as repairing software bugs and cybersecurity. It will present recent results on the mutational robustness of software and describe a new algorithm for bug repair that leverages neutral mutations.


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Prior to joining ASU in 2017, Professor Forrest was at the University of New Mexico and served as Dept. Chair 2006-2011. She is a member of the Santa Fe Institute External Faculty and 2013-2014 served at the U.S. Dept. of State as a Senior Science Advisor for cyberpolicy. She was educated at St. John's College (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:11:45 -0400 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Stephanie Forrest
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (October 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68831 68831-17161711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Shooshan will be presenting Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch.

Abstract: Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an exogenous increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, citizens in Flint became aware of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees with lead tests by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock, then decreased them afterwards. This led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary care treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our results suggest following lead tests, children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic and that establishing care reduces the likelihood a parent will take their child to receive care at the emergency room for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting.

Martha will be presenting Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Contraceptives Increases Use among Low-Income Women.

Abstract: In the U.S., nearly half of pregnancies are unintended, and unintended pregnancies occur twice as often among poor relative than in the U.S. population overall. The cost of effective contraception may be among the most important drivers of unintended pregnancies. Even with generous subsidies under Title X of the Public Health Services Act, the insertion of an IUD at Planned Parenthood costs $223 for uninsured women earning between 100 and 150% of the poverty line. To examine the role of costs in determining the use of contraception, the Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) has randomized over 1,800 women at Michigan Planned Parenthood (PPMI) clinics to receive vouchers that reduce out-of-pocket costs for contraceptives. Using follow-up surveys and administrative records, we report on how vouchers for contraceptives impacted the use of any birth control the use of long-run acting contraceptives.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:13:33 -0400 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The ecosystem consequences of wildfire activity over space and time: a field station perspective (October 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65002 65002-16501301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Recent changes in ecosystem properties highlight major uncertainties about how disturbances will interact with ongoing climate change. Shifting fire regimes may lead to long-lasting directional changes or shifts in biogeochemical states, potentially impacting carbon and nitrogen balance over large spatial and temporal scales. However, data have been lacking to test these ideas over longer timescales – and to consider their implications for future projections – until only recently. A network of paleoecological records will document the role of climate in past fire-regime variability, and the potential for changing biogeochemical impacts will be evaluated. Combined with inferences from ecosystem and Earth system models, these results characterize how disturbances shape biogeochemical dynamics across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The important role of biological stations in catalyzing cutting-edge research, education, and outreach will also be explored.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:24:40 -0400 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ecosystem Wildfire - McLauchlan
Are They Getting It? Low-Stakes Ways to Assess Student Learning (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65244 65244-16557478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are quick and useful ways to gather information on what, how much, and how well students learn. Instructors can use the data to create more effective learning environments. Participants in this session will experience several types of CATs and strategize ways to use CATs in their own class.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:21:07 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Economic History: Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error (October 29, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68313 68313-17045991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

A growing body of evidence suggests that intergenerational mobility in the United States has declined over the past 150 years. However, research that finds high relative mobility in America’s past is based on data with few or no black families, and therefore does not account for the limited opportunities available for African Americans. Moreover, historical studies often measure the father’s economic status with error, which biases estimates towards higher mobility. Using new early 20th century data, I show that the persistence of economic status from father to son is over twice as strong after accounting for racial disparities and for measurement error. After addressing these two issues, I estimate that relative mobility has increased over the 20th century. The results imply that there is greater equality of opportunity today than in the early 20th century, mostly because opportunity in the past was never that equal.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:51:40 -0400 2019-10-29T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
CM-AMO Seminar | Many-body Physics of Ultracold Gases in Synthetic Dimensions: from Self-trapping to Quantum Strings (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68736 68736-17147124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Synthetic dimensions alter one of the most fundamental properties in nature, the dimension of space. They allow, for example, a low-dimensional system to act as effectively higher-dimensional. Experiments on ultracold systems create synthetic dimensions using internal or external degrees of freedom of particles for highly controllable quantum simulation.

We consider two methods to create synthetic dimensions in ultracold gases - momentum states of ultracold atoms, and rotational states of ultracold dipolar molecules. In the atomic system with the momentum-state lattice, which has been realized experimentally in the Gadway group, pairs of Raman lasers drive momentum-state transitions, realizing tunnelings in the synthetic lattice. In the molecular system, microwaves can be used to induce rotational-state transitions, realizing tunnelings in the synthetic lattice which can span hundreds of sites. Both systems can show many-body physics due to strong interactions arising respectively from contact interactions and dipolar interactions. We discuss the many-body physics of these systems, ranging from momentum-dependent self-trapping that has been experimentally observed in the atomic systems, to a novel string phase that is theoretically predicted to occur in the molecular systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:16:50 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Studying Made Simple (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68102 68102-17009834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Believe it or not, studying is a skill that you need to learn... and most students actually don't know how. Come learn how to tackle different study strategies, and excel on exams.

RSVP >> https://forms.gle/bPBB7zXKbTeGrgfy5

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:46:15 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Studying Made Simple
Travel demand estimation: The cornerstone of future urban mobility services (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68655 68655-17130522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

There is an increased interest among both private and public urban
transportation stakeholders to develop and use urban mobility models to inform the design and the operation of their services. This talk presents computationally efficient algorithms for high-dimensional, static and dynamic, demand calibration problems. To tackle these problems, we formulate analytical metamodels with a complexity that scales linearly with network size, making them suitable for large-scale networks. We benchmark the approach versus standard calibration algorithms, and discuss Berlin and Singapore case studies. We will discuss ongoing work on real-time calibration algorithms.

Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:25:24 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation
UROP - Keeping a Laboratory Notebook Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67697 67697-16918024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop is for current UROP and MRADS students only.
Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/QARMq

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:47:33 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Lab Notebook QR Registration Code
UROP Intro to Lab Safety Workshop "OSEH" (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67443 67443-16855675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Registration for this workshop is required, as space is limited.

The workshop is designed to provide general training on the topic of laboratory health and safety to UROP students who will be working in laboratory or shop spaces that have research hazards. This course does not meet the training requirements for employees (required to take BLS025W). Beyond this training lab directors, instructors, professors, or supervisors of students must provide lab-specific safety and health training focused on the hazards and materials present.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:53:35 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP lab safety QR registration code
UROP Intro to Spreadsheet Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66508 66508-16744943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop is intended to support UROP students in addressing skills needed in Excel and Google Sheets to meet the needs of their UROP Project.

Students must register as space is limited

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Microsoft Excel 2016 to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Google Sheets to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:44:27 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Excel Registration QR Code
UROP Intro to Statistical Concepts Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67861 67861-16960520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Statistics Basics for UROP Students.
Registration Required: https://myumi.ch/3qWB7

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:31:37 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar Statistical Concepts QR Code for Registration
UROP Intro to Zotero Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66540 66540-16744991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Need help organizing and managing your research citations and PDFs? We’ll cover the basics of creating and managing a personal bibliographic database using Zotero, including importing citations from online resources and generating formatted bibliographies. In addition, we'll learn how Zotero integrates with Microsoft Word and learn about using the collaborative features in Zotero too.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:27:15 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Zotero Workshop Registration QR Code
UROP Introduction to R Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66533 66533-16744981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop will introduce strategies for working with data and basic statistics using R. The workshop will also cover basic data visualization techniques utilizing R. No experience with R is required as we will provide an introductory overview of the software.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:59:55 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP R Workshop Registration QR Code
UROP Matlab Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66528 66528-16744973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP students learn the basics of Matlab to support their UROP mentor's project requirements.

Students are encouraged to bring their own laptop to the workshop.

Students can download the Matlab program for free:
https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/university-of-michigan-820543.html

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:35:38 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Public Health II UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Matlab Registration QR Code
Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #1 - Poverty Alleviation (October 29, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67604 67604-16900792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Michigan Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of October, we will address Goal 1: Poverty Alleviation. Four award-winning Ross faculty members will share their research in an informal setting and students will have the opportunity to brainstorm possible next steps for how the research can be applied to real-world applications that make a positive impact.
October's Faculty Experts: Bill Lovejoy, Aneel Karnani, Ted London, and Jerry Davis

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:12:18 -0400 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Lovejoy, London, Karnani and Davis
Focus Group for First-Year Ph.D. Students: Central Campus (October 29, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68628 68628-17107489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Rackham is conducting focus groups to better understand the first-year experience of our Ph.D. students. All participants will receive a $10 digital Amazon gift card upon completion of the session. Dinner will be provided.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/O4X1w.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:17:33 -0400 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Lenses of Leadership: Social Action and Transformation for Student Leaders (October 29, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67928 67928-16969020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join student leaders across campus to reflect and develop your own social justice leadership skills with purpose and commitment to values of: empathy, critical consciousness, upholding justice, equity in purpose, collective action, and controversy with courage.

Please RSVP: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/2019_dei_student_leaders

Dinner will be provided

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:55:59 -0400 2019-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar Image of event flyer
UROP - SPSS Workshop (October 29, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67927 67927-16966910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop introduces UROP students to SPSS in 90 minutes. Specifically, this workshop briefly covers each of the following:
- Managing and importing your data (i.e., loading your data into SPSS)
- Compute new variables (e.g., compute mean scores across multiple variables, recode and label categorical variables)
- Visualize data (e.g., boxplots, scatterplots, histograms)
- Compute summary statistics (e.g., means, standard deviations, medians) and correlations
- Compare means with t-tests
-Analyze relationships among multiple variables with linear regression (i.e., like Y = mx + b but fancier)

Importantly, you'll leave with materials to review these skills on your own.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/erv9m

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:41:34 -0500 2019-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar SPSS Workshop Registration Code
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 30, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-30T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Interactive Workshop to create exhibition "Blood Underwater" (October 30, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68771 68771-17147159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:30am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join the Residential College Studio Art program for open studio time with visiting artist Elshafei Dafalla to assist in creating the exhibition "Blood Underwater".

Elshafei Dafalla will be working with RC and LSA students to realize new work for this exhibition, using the gallery as a studio space, and working primarily with pastels and canvas.

Statement about Blood Underwater
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Water, as a natural resource, has been weaponized or made treacherous against people seeking safety and security. Some have been tortured or killed through waterboarding, others have been forced into oceans to die or disappear. Refugees across world regions have drowned crossing bodies of water in hopes for a better life.

Millions of people all over the world are being tortured, disappeared, and forcibly displaced by repressive regimes and wars while governments of other countries are denying them a safe place to live. There are now as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically motivated torture survivors living in the U.S. And over 70 million refugees in the world according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the highest number in the almost 70 years since the refugee agency was founded.

During this time of rapid political change worldwide, the Blood Underwater Workshop and Exhibition offers an opportunity for students, activists, members of civil society organizations, and NGOs to come together as change agents to protect human rights, freedom and dignity, and to spread peace, justice and love.

Blood Underwater is a collaborative work, which encourages deep thinking and creative expression. It provides a voice for community members and activists, especially from political, national, racial, religious and other minorities, to express their concerns about global suffering through art. Participants gather around a large canvas with paints and music and are guided through a series of artistic expressions by “artivist” Elshafei Dafalla. The purpose is to use art to protest against violence, torture, enforced disappearances and other forms of brutality.

Blood Underwater is a demand for “freedom, peace and justice” -- from San Salvador to Khartoum to Sindh -- and throughout the world. This visual narrative will recognize men and women who have been murdered because they wanted to live in freedom, political prisoners, people forced from their homes, and those who have been tortured for standing up to dictatorships.

The Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another, and to refugees, asylum seekers, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering, and what can be done about it.
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Eishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at Sudan University for Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Elshafei has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work, holding artist residencies, participating in community building activities, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally. An extended interview with Elshafei was created by the Washington DC-based, nonprofit, Center for Concern. He's also created a series of short videos: Wagala, Unshackled Memory, Root Cause, Made By Survivors.

The exhibition will be on display November 4-22, M-F, 10am-5pm, at the Residential College Art Gallery at 701 East University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109. Free and open to the public.

There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on November 1 from 6-8pm. The exhibition runs through November 22.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:24:36 -0400 2019-10-30T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Workshop / Seminar Blood Underwater
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68016 68016-16983972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research
Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:22 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Youjin Lee
Microaggressions (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67763 67763-16928724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Microaggressions—the subtle everyday verbal and nonverbal slights and insults which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages. Microaggressions can effect anyone! This course is recommended as a follow up to Change it Up! Bystander Intervention.
This workshop will

Provide a brief review and history of microaggressions
Identify how our background influences how we perceive and experience other people
Discuss the ways we can build strong relationships
Identify ways to apply this information to your work environment

Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/mn9gg.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:17:33 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Construction Seminar (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66412 66412-16734212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Chelsea serves as Assistant Director at the University Career Center, providing strategic oversight and management for our career coaching and advising team. In addition, Chelsea coaches and counsels undergraduate and graduate students from a wide spectrum of career interests in individual counseling and advising appointments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:14:15 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Speaking American English (October 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

Are you looking to increase confidence in your use of American English? The University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL) at U-M offers a special workshop designed for non-native English speakers who want to expand their communication skills. Our program provides the perfect environment for you to reach your personal goals and we’re registering now!

Our certified Speech and Language Pathologists use techniques technically known as accent reduction to help non-native speakers feel more at home in their communications — whether that’s giving a presentation or taking notes in a class with a native speaker with a fast cadence. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the accents of our clients, but to enhance communication skills for greater confidence in all settings. Participants will set their own individual objectives at the start of the workshop and will work to reach those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction, facilitated by a Speech and Language Pathologist.

The workshop will run from October 16 to December 18, 2019. Participants will meet weekly on Wednesdays. The time is TBD. There will be no meeting on November 27. The program cost is $275.00, plus the purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

If you have questions, need assistance, or want more information, please call (734) 764-8440 or visit https://mari.umich.edu/ucll

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Macroeconomics (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68840 68840-17163791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:30:13 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Getting a Letter of Recommendation: Politely Making a Big Ask (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68894 68894-17188754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Newnan-ELI Fall 2019 Undergraduate Sessions

Any interested international undergraduate students are invited to this free session, a conversation with Newnan and ELI about effectively procuring great letters of reference from faculty members. In this session, we will look together at what a solid letter of recommendation contributes to your application for grad school, an internship program, a scholarship, or other future endeavors you may be considering. We will identify what information to supply to your recommenders, and how to ask most politely (with a higher likelihood of "yes"). If time allows, we can practice making the ask with one another.

Registration Required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/20505

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:31:02 -0400 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
IISS Workshop. Divine Revelation and Mystical Philosophy in al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī's Epistemology (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68474 68474-17086375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Ṣafavid twelver shiʿi polymath by the name of Mulla Muḥsin-Muḥammad (1007/15991090/1679), nicknamed al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, was known as an exegete, a traditionist, a theologian, a philosopher and a mystic. This article will argue that al-Kāshānī’s epistemological framework in ʿAyn al-yaqīn (Certainty Itself), written in 1627, is founded upon the simultaneous distinction and integration of three epistemological paradigms: 1. demonstrative reason, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation. Al-Kāshānī’s epistemological position is particularly intriguing because the three epistemic resources are true on two levels. First, each is true in itself despite its relationship with the other two epistemic resources. Second, the interaction of all three are deemed to yield higher harmonies of epistemic verity. Hence, the distinction between the spheres of 1. demonstrative reason, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation does not entail their lack of correlation from al-Kāshānī’s epistemic stance.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:40:28 -0400 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Ph.D. Dissertation Write-In (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68114 68114-17011954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Spend some time getting a jump start on your writing. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgKyK.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:17:21 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
International Economics (October 31, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68608 68608-17105368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:38:38 -0400 2019-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Tech Talk (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68150 68150-17045985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of 20-minute drop-in sessions designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:42:35 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Tech Talk Drop in Sessions
Expect Respect Workshop (October 31, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67837 67837-16958337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

This workshop will utilize the CLARA method of effective listening and communication in order to practice and reinforce respect for individuals on a daily basis.
Benefits of a respectful environment include:
• Building and sustaining high quality relationships
• A safe space leading to elevated levels of trust
• Enhanced creativity, output and community-building

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:32:09 -0400 2019-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Workshop / Seminar Expect Respect Workshop
Copyright and Your Dissertation: Don’t Get Spooked! (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65441 65441-16597583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Have you ever wondered what is the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism? Do you know when it’s okay to use copyrighted works without permission or how to get permission when you need it? Explore these and other questions about copyright and dissertations in a workshop facilitated by Melissa Levine, Director of the U-M Library Copyright Office. This workshop is primarily designed for students in the Rackham Graduate School, but all are welcome.

Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:35:00 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar copyright symbol
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Safe Shared Mobility Through Game Based Learning (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68885 68885-17188744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview of an experiment to help vulnerable road users understand their safety critical roles in shared mobility scenarios.

Dr. Aditi Misra is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s CMISST group.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:30:52 -0400 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Departmental Seminar (899): Santanu Dey, Georgia Tech — *Convexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program* (October 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66536 66536-16744985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental 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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Title:
Convexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program

Abstract:
An important approach to solving non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) to global optimality is to use convex relaxations and branch-and-bound algorithms. In our first result, we show that the exact convex hull of the solutions of a general quadratic equation intersected with any polytope is second-order cone representable. The proof is constructive and relies on the discovery of an interesting property of quadratic functions, which may be of independent interest: A set defined by a single quadratic equation is either (1) the boundary of a convex set, or (2) the boundary of union of two convex sets or (3) it has the property that through every point on the surface, there exists a straight line that is entirely contained in the surface. We next study sets defined for matrix variables that satisfy rank-1 constraint together with different choices of linear side constraints. We identify different conditions on the linear side constraints, under which the convex hull of the rank-1 set is polyhedral or second-order cone representable. Finally, we present results from comprehensive set of computational experiments and show that our convexification results together with discretization significantly help in improving dual bounds for the generalized pooling problem. (This is joint work with Asteroide Santana and Burak Kocuk.)

Bio:
Santanu S. Dey is A. Russell Chandler III Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dey's research interests are in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex optimization arising in areas such as electrical power engineering, process engineering, civil engineering, logistics, and statistics. Dr. Dey has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for INFORMS Optimization Society (2011-2013) and has served on the program committees of Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017. He currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, MOS-SIAM book series on Optimization, is an area editor for Mathematical Programming C and is an associate editor for Mathematical Programming A, Mathematics of Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:07:37 -0400 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899): Santanu Dey, Georgia Tech
Rackham North: Knowing Your Strengths (October 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65456 65456-16599595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Research shows that knowing and focusing on your strengths helps to increase your engagement and satisfaction at work. Learn how using a strengths-based approach will help you to achieve higher levels of overall personal well-being, productivity, and professional success. As a pre-requisite of this workshop, you will take the Gallup Strengths assessment to learn your top five strengths. The registration deadline for this session is October 24 to allow time for you to take the Gallup Strengths assessment. During the workshop, you will engage in a series of activities that will enhance your self-awareness of your top strengths and help you to identify how to apply your strengths in your professional life.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKKzn.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:17:39 -0400 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Crafting a Compelling Cover Letter (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66110 66110-16686734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Do cover letters have you at loss for words? Not sure where to start? Come work alongside peers and Hub coaches to practice a step-by-step process for writing compelling cover letters. Participants are encouraged to identify a job description of interest before the workshop and are invited to bring copies of drafted letters. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:40:43 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Cover letter
EEB Thursday Seminar: Unraveling the tangled web: the evolutionary impact of hybridization (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65475 65475-16605609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

How distinct species persist in the face of gene flow is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology, reinvigorated by the recent realization that hybridization is surprisingly common. Though it is now appreciated that gene flow often occurs before, during, and after speciation, little about the evolutionary impact of hybridization is understood, from the ecological and behavioral forces driving hybridization to the ways in which selection acts on hybrid genomes. Our research addresses these questions using replicate, recently formed hybrid populations of swordtail fish. I will discuss work mapping the locations of hybrid incompatibilities and investigating the role of selection on these regions in hybrid genome evolution. I will also discuss our work investigating how selection on incompatibilities interacts with other genetic processes such as recombination. Together, this work highlights a set of mechanisms that shape hybridization on a population and genetic level.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/NX1wEe5CCzk

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:16:23 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Image of Hybrid Fish
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
UROP - Creating Effective Presentations using PowerPoint or Google Slides Workshop (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67114 67114-16803014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP students probably already know how to make slides in PowerPoint or Google Slides, but do you know how to create a presentation that will keep your audience's attention, as well as clearly communicate your message? This workshop will examine principles that support more effective communication, regardless of the software you use. We'll talk about visual design guidelines, how to ensure better audience comprehension, and other things to keep in mind when putting together a presentation. We'll also talk about a few lesser-known features of presentation software that will make it easier to build a useful and consistent presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:28:24 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar PowerPoint for Presentations Registration
Law and Economics (October 31, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68323 68323-17046000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:20:14 -0400 2019-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Write-Together (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66016 66016-16680440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. Write-Together sessions bring graduate writers into a common quiet space to work. We will periodically offer helpful handouts on a range of writing and work productivity topics, and a Sweetland representative will also be on-site to answer any brief writing questions you may have. Breakfast refreshments will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:17:37 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Evidence from Near-Miss Accidents (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68382 68382-17071652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

We present evidence consistent with time-varying risk preferences among automobile drivers. Exploiting a unique dataset of agents’ high-frequency driving behavior collected by a mobile phone application, we show that driving behavior changes after driving mishaps. Following “near-miss” accidents (measured by hard brakes or hard turns), drivers drive more conservatively, which is consistent with increased risk aversion following such mishaps. In a preferred specification, a near-miss triggers a reduction in driving distance of 8.12 kilometers, in-car cellphone use by 88.80%, and highway use by 34.88%. Calibration results indicate that such changes in behavior are consistent with an increase in risk aversion of [???]% and a reduction in annual insurance cost amounting to about 0.05–1.54% of the average car insurance premium.

Paper joint with Yi Xin, Caltech

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:20:15 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Mentoring Plan Workshop (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64851 64851-16462990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor. Faculty and students will work independently to identify their own objectives and styles initially, and then faculty-student pairs have time to work together to develop a mentoring plan: a two-way document to codify goals, needs, and shared expectations. Our mentoring committee places high value on this exercise because we know that of Rackham students who have written mentoring plans, 86% report that they find them useful.
Registration is required of both the faculty member and the student. Lunch is provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:15:38 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Heping Zhang, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63887 63887-15977789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice, and we often rely on regression models to make inference. A long-standing problem with such regression analyses is the lack of effective diagnostic tools for validating model assumptions. The difficulty arises from the fact that an ordinal variable has discrete values that are labeled with, but not, numerical values. The values merely represent ordered categories. In this paper, we propose a surrogate approach to defining residuals for an ordinal outcome Y. The idea is to define a continuous variable S as a ``surrogate'' of Y and then obtain residuals based on S. For the general class of cumulative link regression models, we study the residual's theoretical and graphical properties. We show that the residual has null properties similar to those of the common residuals for continuous outcomes. Our numerical studies demonstrate that the residual has power to detect misspecification with respect to 1) mean structures; 2) link functions; 3) heteroscedasticity; 4) proportionality; and 5) mixed populations. The proposed residual also enables us to develop numeric measures for goodness-of-fit using classical distance notions. Our results suggest that compared to a previously defined residual, our residual can reveal deeper insights into model diagnostics. We stress that this work focuses on residual analysis, rather than hypothesis testing. The latter has limited utility as it only provides a single p-value, whereas our residual can reveal what components of the model are misspecified and advise how to make improvements.

This is a joint work with Dungang Liu, University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:43:56 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Heping Zhang
ISD Manufacturing Seminar Series (November 1, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68798 68798-17153401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 8, 2019 from 11:00am-12:00pm in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker, with Xun Huan, Ph.D. Professor Huan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

In this presentation, Dr. Huan will talk about finding the most useful data and how using a careful design of limited data acquisition opportunities can lead to substantial resource savings.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/b94JCeg23jJwu3Li9

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:25:41 -0500 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar MFG Seminar
Biophysics Talk Title: TBD (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64274 64274-16274484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: TBD

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:39:20 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Building a Dialogic Community: Skills for Faculty and Staff (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67576 67576-16898620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

A series of lunch and learn workshops led by the Program on Intergroup Relations as part of the U-M DEI Summit. Workshops will focus on dialogic skill-building for faculty and staff. This series is generously supported by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

All sessions have a maximum capacity. Please click the Registration link below to reserve your spot.

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What Is Intergroup Dialogue: This Is How We Do It
October 18, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Introductory
Learn about the Program on Intergroup Relations' approach and pedagogical underpinnings to the work rooted in dialogue, power, privilege and oppression.

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Who I am and why it matters: Understanding your social group identities and how it impacts your work
October 25, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Donna Rich Kaplowitz & Cesar Vargas-Leon
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using tools for exploring social group identity and their relations to power and privilege, this workshop has participants examine and reflect on how their social group identities impact their work. Self reflection and sharing is expected.

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Successfully Navigating Power Dynamics with Generative Listening
November 1, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher & Hamida Bhagirathy
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using the tool of generative listening, participants will learn about their strengths, skills, and capacities to create change, while focused on surfacing the power dilemmas in the workplace and navigating those dynamics to productively move DEI agendas forward in their context. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon and answer questions such as “When have I had success in dealing with the power structure? Where have I experienced roadblocks, and what were they? How can collective and coalitional action fuel the power I need to remove roadblocks?”

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(Good) Sh*t Happens: Conflict, Identity and Power
November 8, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This interactive session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn strategies for navigating conflict that specifically focus on balancing power, noticing and surfacing dynamics and attending to how social identities and positionality impact conflict and conflict resolution. Participants will also consider how to reframe conflict as positive, productive and natural.

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Dominant Narratives
November 15, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Stephanie Hicks
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
In this workshop we will explore the influence of social power, hegemony and dominant (meta, grand or master) narratives in classrooms and other dialogic settings. Participants will learn about an approach called Multipartiality and the technique of counter narratives.

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Advanced Strategies and Techniques for Multipartial Facilitation
November 22, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher
Level: Advanced
This session is for participants already familiar with dominant narratives and multipartiality as a facilitation technique, to explore a deeper dive into the nuances of these skills.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:37:38 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Workshop / Seminar Building a Dialogic Community
Demystifying Work-Life Balance (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65482 65482-16605628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Research on the concept of dual-centric provides helpful guidance on strategies for balance. Studies show that people with a dual focus on work and personal life are less stressed and more successful than those whose primary focus is on just work, or just personal life. In this interactive workshop we will review the strategies these dual focused people follow to achieve balance, and engage in related exercises.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Boo87.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:23 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
EEB Seminar Series: Leveraging the power of place to explore, educate and predict how the natural world works now and in the future (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68571 68571-17103237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Field stations provide platforms for transformative long-term and placed-based research as well as extraordinary opportunities for education and outreach. Dr. Classen will discuss her field station vision using some examples from her own work exploring ecosystem and global change ecology. Broadly, the Classen group explores how ecosystems function and how biotic and abiotic interactions influence patterns and processes within and among communities and ecosystems. Working across scales from the micro (soil food webs) to the macro (regional carbon fluxes) as well as across diverse terrestrial ecosystems (forests, meadows, bogs; tropics, arctic, temperate) the Classen lab uses a combination of observations, experiments, and models to answer ecological and global change questions

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:07 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. Classen in the field
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, U-M IOE (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68543 68543-17096938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE PhD students, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Wednesday, October 30, 2019.

Title:
Contextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization: Theory and Applications to Chronic Diseases

Abstract:
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide, requiring the surveillance and monitoring of patients to assess disease progression and determine if a treatment is warranted. Even when a suitable treatment is prescribed, dosing it correctly remains a significant challenge because proper dosage is highly volatile among patients. This involves adaptively learning a personalized disease progression control model conditional on patient-specific contextual information. We formulate this as a new contextual multi-armed bandit under a two-dimensional patient-specific control with a nested structure, which sequentially selects both treatment and corresponding dosage based on contextual information of patients, with the goal of minimizing disease progression risk. We develop contextual learning and optimization algorithms that integrate the strength of contextual bandit learning with online convex optimization. Comparing with the clairvoyant optimal policy, we prove a T-period regret, which is provably tight up to a logarithmic factor. We illustrate the effectiveness of our methodology by using case data on patients with type 2 diabetes. We believe that our contextual learning and optimization framework could be widely used in many other service systems.

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Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh is a PhD candidate in Operations Research at the Industrial and Operations Engineering department of the University of Michigan. His main research interests have broadly focused on developing efficient and effective data-driven algorithms with theoretical performance guarantees for several core problems in healthcare operations and medical decision making. Methodologically, he focuses on statistical machine learning algorithms such as contextual multi armed bandits, online convex optimization, and reinforcement learning. For applications, he focuses on online resource allocation for healthcare operations, readmission problem, managing chronic disease progression, and personalized medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:27:13 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, U-M IOE
MCDB Seminar: UTI Pathogenesis, Host-Pathogen Interface, Antibiotic-sparing therapeutics (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67348 67348-16839904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Matt Chapman

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:23:11 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar high resolution micrograph of pathogenic bacteria binding to tissue
Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 59651-16898652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

**Fall 2019 KICK-OFF WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 23RD**

Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations marks the third run of the professional development event hosted by Tau Beta Pi aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills. The series will be co-hosted/sponsored by TBP and the graduate societies of MSE, ECE, ChE, and MACRO and also sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs! As "learning-by-practice" event, it aims to help students learn how to effectively convey the "big picture" value of their research to a diverse audience, while also engaging a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering. The event is aimed primarily at graduate students planning to take their candidacy exam, but anyone is welcome to participate! We will host 7-10 events each term, and event dates/times will be announced on a rolling basis.

Each session is structured to have student speakers (2-3 per session) make a timed (15-20 min) presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel (3-4 panelists). Our expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience), highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.

If you would like to participate as a speaker/audience, please fill out the links below. We will follow-up with you with scheduling details. NOTE: The event is open to ALL CoE students, regardless of TBP membership status.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:20:21 -0500 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar TBP Speaker Series
Time Management (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68662 68662-17130529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

How do you manage your time? Time is a form of currency: you want to spend it well in order to grow and achieve your goals! Bring your schedule and learn how to effectively manage your academics to be successful inside and outside the classroom!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:15:13 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 School of Nursing First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar FYE/School of Nursing Flyer
ASCE Seminar Series: GHD (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66245 66245-16719620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people, GHD operates across five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America - and the Pacific region. GHD employs more than 10,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture, GHD connects the knowledge, skill and experience of their people with innovative practices, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits.

Committed to sustainable development, GHD improves the physical, natural and social environments of the many communities in which they operate. GHD are guided by their workplace health, safety, quality and environmental management systems, which are certified to the relevant international standards (ISO and OHSAS).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:43:49 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Economics at Work (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68594 68594-17105353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Rachel is currently the Head of Business Development at One Rockwell, a full-service ecommerce agency.
Her career is powered by a passion for helping brands grow their business, and in a belief that an exceptional brand story and the right technology are the foundational elements to sustained success. At One Rockwell she leads a team to generate leads, expand agency verticals, and collaborate with product to constantly evolve their offerings. Previously, over three years at Lyst, she co-led US partnerships generating industry buy-in for their proprietary technology and helping the site to amass over 2.5 million live products in their largest market.
Strengths include creative problem solving, industry alignment, a deep understanding of the ecommerce ecosystem, and creating a superior retail experience. Rachel has worked with brands including Dior, COTY, Vera Bradley, Schiaparelli Haute Couture, Farm Rio, American Eagle/aerie, and more. She carries an Economics degree from the University of Michigan and is on the Board of Advisors for the Michigan Fashion Media Summit (MFMS).


Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:10:18 -0400 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Reusable Launch Systems, Space Sustainability and Economic Growth, and the Development of Green Spaceports (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68981 68981-17205330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Charles J. Lauer
Co-founder & VP Business Development, Rocketplane Global Inc.

This presentation will review the fundamental economic drivers that will create a robust and diverse cis-lunar space economy over the next 30 years and how these forces support the UN Sustainability Goals. New space industries such as lunar and asteroid resource development, in-space assembly and satellite servicing, and active debris removal will be discussed. Reusable launch vehicle developments will be discussed including the Rocketplane Global program here in Michigan and the development of a Green Spaceport under the Michigan Launch Initiative.

Mr. Lauer is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He is a successful real estate planning consultant and developer, and the President of Peregrine Properties, Ltd. in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Lauer has been responsible for negotiating, obtaining regulatory approvals and arranging financing for over $350 million in numerous successful real estate development projects; as well as having served as the Planning Commission Chairman in his local community for more than 10 years. He is also a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Rocketplane Global, Inc. He has been researching and developing potential business opportunities in space since 1991, and has published many general interest articles and technical papers on commercial space development. Mr. Lauer has been a consultant to Boeing, NASA and several space start-ups on commercial space projects. He is now actively involved in the planning and development of several new spaceport projects around the world; and is an Advocate and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Space Frontier Foundation. He is a member of the IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee; a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Space Safety Foundation; and a member of the Suborbital Spaceflight Safety Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is also a Guest Lecturer and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Commercial Space Operations Program Advisory Board, and a member of the FastForward Working Group studying point-to-point suborbital space transportation policy and technology issues.

Mr. Lauer has also been involved in the development and commercialization of several next-generation renewable energy technologies including advanced wind turbines for land as well as offshore wind farm applications; hybrid wind/solar energy farms; wave energy development, manufacturing and deployment, and new algae-based biofuels production. His focus in this business sector is in creating public-private partnerships in key geographic markets around the world and creating joint venture project teams to implement the technology development and manufacturing capacity necessary to commercialize these Green Technology programs.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Rocketplane XS reusable launch platform
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Writing Workshop (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68782 68782-17147188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Please join us for a discussion of pre-circulated papers by University of Michigan graduate and postdoctoral students.

Faculty Respondents: Michael Awkward, Madhu Dubey, Emily Lordi, Kevin Quashie, Xiomara Santamarina, Megan Sweeney, Courtney Thorsson, Jason Young

Participating PhD students and Postdocs: Samantha Adams, Alexander Aguayo, Lauren Benjamin, Kyle Frisina, Jeremy Glover, David Hutchinson, Valentina Montero-Roman, Emily Na, Hayley O'Malley, Yeshua Tolle, Sydney Tunstall, and Jessica Walker

We very much welcome auditors, but please email Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) and Yeshua Tolle (ygtolle@umich.edu) by Wednesday, October 30th to receive access to the papers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:53:46 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Alumni Connections: International Journalist Patti Waldmeir (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67937 67937-16969027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Patti Waldmeir majored in English and math in the LSA Honors college and went on to win a Marshall scholarship to study English at Clare College, University of Cambridge, in the U.K., where she obtained a master’s degree.

Patti has worked as a foreign correspondent for 40 years, almost all of it for the Financial Times. She has been a correspondent for the FT since 1980, based in London, Washington, Johannesburg/Cape Town, Shanghai, and most recently Chicago.
Patti started her career covering the continent of Africa, including a decade covering the transition from white to black rule in South Africa, after which she wrote a prize-winning book about the transition. Patti went on to become U.S. editor of the Financial Times, and then spent a decade as FT’s U.S. legal columnist before moving to Shanghai to cover China for the publication for 8 years.
Patti is now a columnist and feature writer for the Financial Times writing about the U.S. Midwest.

Patti will speak to students about her path from the liberal arts to journalism, what it’s like to have a global career and navigate different cultural environments, and balancing life and career goals.

This event is intended for undergraduate LSA students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:34:19 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar PW
Economic Theory (November 1, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68619 68619-17105385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:17:30 -0400 2019-11-01T14:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Sanjay Govindjee: The NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computation and Simulation Center (SimCenter) at Berkeley: An Overview (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68406 68406-17077949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: In October 2016, the National Science Foundation award the NHERI SimCenter to Berkeley. The SimCenter is the computational satellite to the eight experimental sites of the NHERI constellation. Its primary goal is to advance natural hazards engineering through the use of simulation. The center develops and stands-up open-source software to simulate the effects of seismic, wind, and water loads on structures with a focus on regional assessments of damage at high resolution under uncertainty. The SimCenter’s work includes both research and educational components.

The SimCenter has just completed Year 3 or its original mandate and now offers a wide selection of user friendly front end applications that permit local as well as HPC cloud based execution of simulations. Simulations can be of single detailed structural models subjected to a variety of harzards using state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice loading methodologies. They can also be of a larger regional nature using simpler models and further coupled to forward uncertainty propogation with Monte Carlo methods with or without surrogating. Engineering demands can be further propogated into damage and loss, downtime and recovery, using Hazus methodologies, FEMA P58 methods, or user provided techniques with our hazard-blind framework. All elements of the SimCenter’s software are desgined in a plug-n-play fashion to promote detailed research into natural hazard effects with the ability to see impacts on a larger scale.

In this presentation, I will give an overview of the SimCenter’s recent activities and discuss research needs and how researchers can participate in the SimCenter’s activities, along with a preview of upcoming developments anticipated in Year 4.

Bio: Sanjay Govindjee is the Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Professor in Engineering. His main interests are in theoretical and computational mechanics with an emphasis on micro-mechanics of nonlinear phenomena in solid materials.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:14:21 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar S. Govindjee
Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. (November 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68126 68126-17011966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo will lead a workshop about mapuche poetry, with the reading of selected poems and the display of performances that exhibit the political tensions in the context of violence and displacement of mapuche people living in urban areas of what we call today Chile. The conversation will be in Spanish with translations into English.

Daniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018), El territorio del viaje (2017), and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work, La Guerra Florida, were recently translated into English.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:20:40 -0400 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon (November 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66294 66294-16725811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The muon is a heavier version of the electron and was first discovered in cosmic rays but is now studied extensively in accelerator experiments. Many properties of the muon have been measured with exquisite precision and are essential to our understanding of the interactions of elementary particles, but mysteries remain. This talk will be all about the muon and what we expect to learn by studying this marvelous, mysterious particle.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:16:44 -0500 2019-11-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Fermilab
Ripple Dev Workshop (November 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68985 68985-17207392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chrysler 133
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for a technical workshop to learn about Ripple’s framework and get some hands-on experience developing DApps for Ripple’s platform. Lunch will be provided and we'll also be raffling off some Ripple swag! RSVP here.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:00:17 -0500 2019-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 Chrysler 133 Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Applied Microeconomics/IO & Public Finance Seminar: Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation (November 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66770 66770-16776783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

Public housing benefits are rationed through waitlists. This paper argues that the range of allocation policies used across U.S. cities involves a trade-off between two policy objectives: maximizing welfare gains for tenants, and targeting the most economically disadvantaged applicants. Using waitlist data from Cambridge, MA, I develop and estimate a model of public housing preferences in a setting where heterogeneous apartments are rationed through waiting time. Counterfactual simulations show that the preferred mechanism depends on social preferences for redistribution. However, many cities use systems that would be suboptimal in Cambridge for any value of redistribution.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:12:55 -0400 2019-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T11:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Indo-Pacific Diplomacy (November 4, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67588 67588-16900776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This opportunity is open to Ford School students, who will receive a separate sign up email. A light lunch will be served.

Monday, October 28: Indo-Pacific Diplomacy:What to Look for at the November 4 East Asia Summit in Bangkok

The South China Sea. The Korean Peninsula. Trade tensions. Myanmar’s Rakhine State and the plight of displaced persons from the Rohingya community. These are among the many diplomatic issues expected to be discussed by the 18 leaders from around the Indo-Pacific Region participating in the East Asia Summit (EAS) to be held in Thailand on November 4. Retired U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shields, whose 33-year Foreign Service career in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Washington included deep involvement in the 2013 EAS in Brunei and the 2017 EAS in the Philippines, will share personal insights, as an experienced diplomatic practitioner no longer speaking for the U.S. government, on what to expect from the 2019 EAS.

Monday, November 4: After the Bangkok East Asia Summit: Prospects for Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

Just as the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Bangkok concludes on November 4, Ambassador (Ret.) Shields will offer his personal views, not U.S. government policy positions, on what just happened diplomatically in Bangkok and what lies ahead for diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2020. One of the unique things about the EAS system is the importance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair/host country. Ambassador (Ret.) Shields will look at the transition from Thai chairmanship in 2019 to Vietnamese chairmanship in 2020. He will analyze what that might mean with regard to the South China Sea, trade uncertainties and other challenges that lie ahead for diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific in 2020.

About the speaker

Ambassador (Ret.) Daniel Shields consults, teaches courses and conducts simulations relating to diplomacy and U.S.-Asia relations. From 2015-18, while on detail from the U.S. State Department as the Diplomatic Advisor to the Commandant at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he helped educate future strategic leaders on how to integrate the diplomatic, informational, military and economic (DIME) instruments of power to achieve national security objectives. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei from 2011-14, handling sensitive South China Sea-related issues in connection with Brunei’s hosting in 2013 of the various Summits involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Ambassador (Ret.) Shields led two other U.S. diplomatic Missions in Southeast Asia as Chargé d’Affaires (at times when no Ambassador was in place.) In response to an urgent request from the State Department, he temporarily left the Army War College for six months in 2017 to serve as the Chargé at the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, traveling to Manila to support participation by the President and Cabinet Secretaries in the ASEAN-related Summits. His other Chargé duty was for 15 months, mainly in 2009, when he led Embassy Singapore in supporting then-President Obama’s participation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.

His early to mid-career assignments were mainly in Japan and China, including as Political Minister Counselor at Embassy Beijing from 2004-07. He speaks Japanese and Chinese. His first tour in the Foreign Service was as a Vice Consul at Embassy Manila from 1985-87, where he witnessed firsthand and reported on the People Power demonstrations and the fall of the Marcos regime.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:39:33 -0400 2019-11-04T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-04T12:50:00-05:00 Weiser Diplomacy Center Workshop / Seminar
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Complexity and shrouded attributes in incentive schemes: The case of the ratchet effect (November 4, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68614 68614-17105375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 11:45am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

This paper shows that the impact of workplace incentive schemes can depend on the complexity of the scheme, and also the cognitive ability of the worker population, because these matter for whether certain features of the scheme are shrouded attributes. Specifically, the findings indicate that complexity and bounded rationality can cause workers to overlook a dynamic aspect of workplace incentive contracts that would otherwise create perverse incentives to reduce effort, the so-called ratchet effect. The findings are based on a combination of large-scale, long-term field experiments within a warehouse, online experiments conducted with the same worker population, and online experiments conducted with workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The field experiments find only a weak ratchet effect. The online experiments build the case that for many workers, particularly those with lower cognitive ability, ratchet effects may be weak because in the relatively complex scheme, the dynamic aspect of incentives is a shrouded attribute. Making the scheme simpler causes the ratchet effect to emerge. The evidence suggests that there may be an optimal degree of complexity that allows firms to harness static incentives while avoiding perverse dynamic incentives. A systematic analysis of what types of changes to the contract make the ratchet effect stronger or weaker provides findings with implications for incentive design as well as shedding light on the nature of complexity in general.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:15:37 -0400 2019-11-04T11:45:00-05:00 2019-11-04T12:45:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Exploring Virtual Internships: The Flexibility of Working Remotely (November 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66111 66111-16686735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

What is a virtual internship and how can you harness one to further your academic and career goals? You will leave with a better understanding of what virtual internships are and how they can benefit you. We will also highlight virtual internships offered through the LSA Opportunity Hub and ways to identify quality virtual opportunities. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:47:53 -0400 2019-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Map compass camera
On the Peripheries of the Subaltern: Intersectional Identities and Internalized -isms (November 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68596 68596-17105352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Grounded in theoretical frameworks of “otherness,” such as Spivak’s “subaltern” and Canagarajah’s “periphery,” this workshop will explore the intersection of multiple identities which are simultaneously held by every individual.
After participants engage in an exploration of these intersectional identities, they will then analyze how biases—like colorism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and xenophobia—can still be internalized within communities which are also marginalized.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/xm919.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:17:00 -0400 2019-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Teaching In Tumultuous Times (November 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65245 65245-16557483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Hateful graffiti, travel bans, mass shootings, threatening emails: Students report feeling alienated or confused when instructors in their courses do not acknowledge such unsettling events. As instructors, we need to decide whether and how to address such events with our students. This workshop provides an opportunity for instructors to think and work through several strategies for engaging with students about emerging events on campus and beyond.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:23:06 -0400 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T14:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
HEP-Astro Seminar | Exoplanet Systems as Laboratories for Planet Formation (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64646 64646-16404982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

With knowledge of thousands of exoplanet systems from the NASA Kepler Mission, we are closer than ever to understanding how planets form. Patterns in exoplanet populations, compositions, and planetary system architectures are already revealing the most common outcomes of planet formation. I will discuss how I use exoplanet systems as laboratories to test theories of planet formation. My work ranges from characterizing broad patterns across many planetary systems to studying individual systems through their transits, transit timing variations, and radial velocities. In the next ten years, we will measure exoplanet multiplicities, orbital periods, masses, radii, eccentricities, inclinations, obliquities, dynamical interactions, atmospheric compositions, and host star properties using a combination of ground-based and space telescopes. These detailed observations of our exoplanet laboratories will allow us to place the solar system in its galactic context.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:16:25 -0500 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Resume Lab (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68103 68103-17009835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

RSVP >> https://forms.gle/VcEbedAGKAkaobYt9

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:00:50 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Resume lab
The Molecular and Integrative Physiology Seminar Series is proud to present and welcome all to attend: (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69102 69102-17244692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

"Designing chemogenetic and optogenetic tools for mapping and modulating GPCR signaling."

Light refreshments will be served at 3:45pm

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:41:57 -0500 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar
The Brahman: Xenology in Amīr Khusrow’s Alexandrine Mirror (November 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68980 68980-17205324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to welcome Dr. Prashant Keshavmurthy, who will be workshopping a paper titled “The Brahman: Xenology in Amīr Khusrow’s Alexandrine Mirror” on Monday, November 4, 5:00-7:00 PM in room 1022 South Thayer Building.

Keshavmurthy's paper is part of a section of two or three chapters of a book he is writing on kinds of alterity in pre-modern Persian literature. The book explicates the logics of five key modes of alterity through encounters with which Persianate selfhood defined itself over the first millennium of Persian literature. Attending to these figures of foreignness lets us infer claims for the self through what the self expels, fears, desires, deems ugly or appropriates. Conceived in five interlocking sections on the foreigner, strange sexual practices, the anthropology of barbarism, linguistic barbarism and diasporic identity, this book explores literary articulations of Persianate selfhood in multiple genres by putting into question modern studies that characterize pre-modern Persian literature in terms of confident humanist self-knowledge.

Keshavmurthy is an Associate Professor of Persian Studies in McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies. He is the author of Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark (Routledge, 2016), a monograph on the relations between poetics, mysticism and politics in the works of the Persian poet ‘Abd al-Qādir Bidel (d.1720) and his circle. He teaches courses on Persian literature, pre-modern Persianate literary theory, and selfhood and autobiography in Islamic societies. He is currently making a verse translation into English of Amir Khusrow’s (d.1325), Persian romance, Eight Paradises, a translation into English prose of Daryoush Ashouri's widely acclaimed Nietzschean interpretation of Hāfiẓ, ‘Irfān va rindi dar shi‘r-i Hāfiẓ (Tehran: Nashr-i markaz, 2011) as well as working on a study of figures of foreignness in a millennium of pre-modern Persian literature.

Please email Shahla Farghadani (sfarghad@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the chapter in advance. Light refreshments will be served.

This workshop is co-sponsored by Middle East Studies and Comparative Literature.

For more information see: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/iranian-studies/blog/1029

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:30:01 -0400 2019-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar Mukunda, Alexander is Lowered into the Sea, 1597-8
Getting Your Credits to Transfer: Navigating a Decentralized University (November 4, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68895 68895-17188755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Newnan-ELI Fall 2019 Undergraduate Sessions

All interested international undergraduate transfer students are invited to this session, a conversation with Newnan and ELI about how to navigate the complex credit transfer approval process in this large, decentralized university. You might be particularly interested in this session if you have credits that have not successfully transferred yet, or if you're thinking about taking a future summer course at another school that you'd like to transfer back to Michigan.

Registration Required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/20506

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:35:21 -0400 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-05T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Complex Systems Seminar | Network reconstruction and community detection from dynamics (November 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68329 68329-17046008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The observed functional behavior of a wide variety large-scale systems is often the result of a network of pairwise interactions between individual elements. However, in many cases these interactions are hidden from us, either because they are impossible to be measured directly, or because their measurement can be done only at significant experimental cost. In such situations, we are required to infer the network of interactions from the observed functional behavior.

In this talk, I will present a scalable nonparametric Bayesian method to perform network reconstruction from observed functional behavior, that at the same time infers the modular structure (or "communities") present in the network. I will show how the joint reconstruction with community detection has a synergistic effect, where the edge correlations used to inform the existence of communities are also inherently used to improve the accuracy of the reconstruction which, in turn, can better inform the uncovering of communities. I will illustrate the use of the method with observations arising from epidemic models and the Ising model, both on synthetic and empirical networks, as well as on data containing only functional information.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:25:09 -0400 2019-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Tiago Peixoto
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (November 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68832 68832-17161712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:19:09 -0400 2019-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T12:50:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Using mechanistic experiments, macroecology, and the Michigan Biological Station to understand biodiversity in a changing world (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65003 65003-16501302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

In this talk, I'll summarize our work aimed at understanding the factors that shape biodiversity, from m2 quadrats to the globe. In particular, I will highlight how our work blends macroecological approaches, physiological experiments in the lab, and experimental manipulations in the field, mostly on ants. My view is that this synthetic approach, across scales, is the best way to understand and predict how biodiversity responds to global change drivers. Field stations are perfect launching pads for this kind of research and for introducing students, across disparate disciplines, to biodiversity and the services and functions it provides. Field stations can also be hubs for interdisciplinary collaborations and provide opportunities to ask, and address, pressing and fundamental questions across fields. The UMBS has been both a launching pad and hub for decades and is poised for continued growth and success.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/ND2ttvGjZ7U

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:06:58 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Experimental manipulations in the field, mostly on ants.
Ph.D. Pathways: Developing a Growth Mindset and Discussing the Value of the Ph.D. (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65483 65483-16605629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The Ph.D. is the highest level of education, however, the job market and many other factors sometimes lead to a lack of confidence in career goals and skills. The University Career Center will provide an interactive workshop that motivates you to develop a growth mindset in both career exploration and the job search to encourage you to be bold in advancing your career!
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QAAkE.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:23 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Student Activities Building
Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 59651-16900773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
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Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

**Fall 2019 KICK-OFF WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 23RD**

Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations marks the third run of the professional development event hosted by Tau Beta Pi aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills. The series will be co-hosted/sponsored by TBP and the graduate societies of MSE, ECE, ChE, and MACRO and also sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs! As "learning-by-practice" event, it aims to help students learn how to effectively convey the "big picture" value of their research to a diverse audience, while also engaging a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering. The event is aimed primarily at graduate students planning to take their candidacy exam, but anyone is welcome to participate! We will host 7-10 events each term, and event dates/times will be announced on a rolling basis.

Each session is structured to have student speakers (2-3 per session) make a timed (15-20 min) presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel (3-4 panelists). Our expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience), highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.

If you would like to participate as a speaker/audience, please fill out the links below. We will follow-up with you with scheduling details. NOTE: The event is open to ALL CoE students, regardless of TBP membership status.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:20:21 -0500 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar TBP Speaker Series
Labor Economics & Economic History: Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration (November 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68314 68314-17045992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

The northern United States long served as a land of opportunity for black Americans, but today the region's racial gap in intergenerational mobility rivals that of the South. I show that racial composition changes during the peak of the Great Migration (1940-1970) reduced upward mobility in northern cities in the long run, with the largest effects on black men. I identify urban black population increases during the Migration at the commuting zone level using a shift-share instrument, interacting pre-1940 black southern migration patterns with predicted out-migration from southern counties. The Migration's negative effects on children's adult outcomes appear driven by neighborhood factors, not changes in the characteristics of the average child. As early as the 1960s, the Migration led to greater white enrollment in private schools, increased spending on policing, and higher crime and incarceration rates. I estimate that the overall change in childhood environment induced by the Great Migration explains 28% of the upward mobility gap between black and white households in the region today.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:11:17 -0400 2019-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
CM/AMO Seminar | X-ray Vision of Spins, Charges and Orbitals for Understanding Emergent electronic States in Complex Oxides (November 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65481 65481-16605627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Many of the most remarkable properties of quantum materials come from the interplay of multiple charge, orbital and spin degrees of freedom. Probing all of these with a single technique is consequently highly desirable. In this talk, I will describe how resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) opens up important new possibilities for measuring these degrees of freedom. This includes observing precursor charge density wave correlations in cuprates [1], observing orbital hybridization in iridates [2], and characterizing the spin behavior within the transient state of photo-doped Sr_2IrO_4 [3].

References
1. H. Miao et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 114, 12430–12435 (2017); H. Miao et al., Phys. Rev. X 8, 011008 (2018); H. Miao et al., Phys. Rev. X 9, 031042 (2019)
2.Y. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 106401 (2019)
3. M. P. M. Dean et al., Nature Materials 15, 601-605 (2016); Y. Cao et al., Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 377: 20170480 (2019)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 18:16:20 -0500 2019-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Finding Research: Using the Psychology Research Opportunity Tool (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68186 68186-17026794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

The Psychology Department has a new online tool for helping students find research. This interactive workshop will teach you how the tool works and provide tips for making a competitive profile. Bring your laptop to actively work on your profile during this session. There will also be FREE PIZZA! Please RSVP to help us order enough: https://myumi.ch/jxgrN

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:37:23 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Obtaining a research position flyer
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 6, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-06T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
From Design to Control: Robotics at the Intersection of Design, Engineering, and Construction (November 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68992 68992-17211727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Despite the opportunities presented by new technologies, the building construction process remains highly resource intensive, with considerable room for improving efficiency. This becomes acutely important in the face of climate change; while new, more sustainable materials are an important step, material optimization strategies are just as important, and these techniques rely almost exclusively on digital fabrication and robotic manufacturing and construction technologies. In this talk I will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face the use of robotics in the design and construction industry. We will discuss a range of existing and emerging design to fabrication workflows, as well as several case studies which demonstrate how the use of industrial robots as a prototyping platform opens the door to new modes of construction.

Wesley McGee is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the FABLab at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:51:46 -0400 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar robotic manufacture
Unconscious Bias in Everyday Life (November 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65524 65524-16607709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The unconscious mind is a powerful and intrinsic force in helping to shape our overall behavior in our everyday lives. This interactive session is designed to examine how unconscious bias can affect one’s perceptions, decisions, and interactions.
You will learn to:

Identify how bias and the processes of the unconscious mind can impact your decisions and results
Utilize strategies to practice more conscious awareness so you are better able to advocate for inclusion in your organization

You will benefit by:

Understanding the science and research of unconscious bias
Having an increased awareness of your own diverse background, and its influence on your perceptions

This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/ovv8X.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:23 -0400 2019-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
CSAAW Presents "Lunch with the Director" (November 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69084 69084-17242645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location:
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

If you're new to complex systems, this is a great chance to come ask questions about CSAAW, the Complex Systems Center, or what complexity science is and how complex systems might be relevant to you. Otherwise, this is a great chance to chat with us and eat a free lunch!

Please RSVP to csaaw-organizers@umich.edu by 5 pm on Monday November 4, and tell us your dietary restrictions, so that we can order lunch for everyone.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:54:04 -0500 2019-11-06T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar CSCS Director Charles Doering
Introduction to Lean (November 6, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66413 66413-16734213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Brad Booker currently serves as the Regional Lean Manger for Turner’s Great Lakes Region, which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Brad joined Turner as a Field Engineer in 1994, after earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and completing Officer Basic Course as a Reserve Army Officer. He was a Project Manager in the Special Projects Division until 1998 when he joined the Estimating Department. He was an estimator for 2 years then joined the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center team as the Project Engineer from 2000 - 2002. As that project was completed Brad was activated and served 14 months on active duty as a Captain in the United States Army.

Upon his return in 2004 he worked on a variety of academic and science buildings at several community colleges where he held positions as a Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Senior Project Manager. His last project prior to taking his current position was replacing the video boards at Soldier Field.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:14:48 -0500 2019-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Speaking American English (November 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

Are you looking to increase confidence in your use of American English? The University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL) at U-M offers a special workshop designed for non-native English speakers who want to expand their communication skills. Our program provides the perfect environment for you to reach your personal goals and we’re registering now!

Our certified Speech and Language Pathologists use techniques technically known as accent reduction to help non-native speakers feel more at home in their communications — whether that’s giving a presentation or taking notes in a class with a native speaker with a fast cadence. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the accents of our clients, but to enhance communication skills for greater confidence in all settings. Participants will set their own individual objectives at the start of the workshop and will work to reach those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction, facilitated by a Speech and Language Pathologist.

The workshop will run from October 16 to December 18, 2019. Participants will meet weekly on Wednesdays. The time is TBD. There will be no meeting on November 27. The program cost is $275.00, plus the purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

If you have questions, need assistance, or want more information, please call (734) 764-8440 or visit https://mari.umich.edu/ucll

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Pablo Zavattieri: Clever Architectures, Interfaces and Competing Mechanisms in Biological Materials (November 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68376 68376-17071647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract:Nature uses modest constituents to synthesize composite materials with exceptional mechanical properties for structural and impact resistance purposes. In most cases, these materials achieved outstanding mechanical properties avoiding the typical trade-offs often attained by manmade materials. While these materials require modern microscopy techniques to characterize their complex hierarchical structures, most of our learnings come from the way these materials mitigate catastrophic damage, revealing the most important mechanisms and features of their inner structure that contribute to energy dissipation and toughening. Considering the current progress in material synthesis and manufacturing, these new concepts have converged to the field of architected materials. In this talk, I will describe some interesting mechanics problems that we encountered as we studied some extraordinary species, and how we can translate these lessons learned to architected materials. In particular, I will focus on a few examples related to how the combination of clever architectures, interfaces, material properties and competing mechanisms can promote delocalization to mitigate catastrophic failure, hence, improving toughness and impact resistance without sacrificing other important mechanical properties. Most of this discussion is driven by how we can eventually translate these lessons learned to the development and manufacturing of architected materials.

Bio: Dr. Pablo Zavattieri is a Professor of Civil Engineering and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Zavattieri received his BS/MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the Balseiro Institute (Argentina) and PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:43:07 -0400 2019-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar P. Zavatteri
Department Colloquium | Physics Adventures in Cancer Research: Cell Motility, Signaling, and Metastasis (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67015 67015-16796442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Struck by the near total absence of physics thinking and methods in biological research, for the last 30 years, the speaker has endeavored to understand certain phenomena utilizing methods that are based on Physics and are applied to the interpretation of complex biological data. She will discuss 3 examples. In conclusion, we will discuss: Are we ready for the Physics laws of Biology?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:16:15 -0500 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Department Colloquium | Physics Adventures in Cancer Research: Cell Motility, Signaling, and Metastasis (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67179 67179-16805260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

Struck by the near total absence of physics thinking and methods in biological research, for the last 30 years, the speaker has endeavored to understand certain phenomena utilizing methods that are based on Physics and are applied to the interpretation of complex biological data. She will discuss 3 examples. In conclusion, we will discuss: Are we ready for the Physics laws of Biology?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:37:37 -0500 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Macroeconomics (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68257 68257-17037411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:03:09 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:20:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Creating Positive Change through Working with K-12 Youth (November 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65064 65064-16627850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you in planning to work with K-12 youth this year? Whether you are tutoring, mentoring or supporting after school programs, this session will help you develop skills to support participant learning and meet program goals. You will also reflect on your own motivations and learning through these experiences.

This interactive workshop introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with youth, including classroom management, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:34:15 -0400 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 School of Education Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
International Economics (November 7, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68609 68609-17105369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:35:21 -0400 2019-11-07T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
The Dawn of Mobility Revolution (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69097 69097-17244688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mobility industry is going through significant transformation with three driving forces: autonomy, connectivity, and electrification (ACE). This talk discusses those disruptive technologies under the framework of S Curve described in the book of Innovator’s Dilemma. In order to predict the future, we should look back and review how internal combustion engine (ICE) disrupted the transportation industry in early 1900s and how society reacted to the new technology back then. Fast forward 100 years, we will take a peek into the future and understand how the three forces and big data will forever change the way we measure, operate, and manage transportation system. The talk concludes with a discussion on the challenges we are facing in this emerging area.

Dr. Bo Wang is a mobility analytics manager working at Global Data Insights & Analytics (GDIA) organization at Ford Motor Company. He is leading a team of data scientists and developers building AI driven mobility analytics products from inception to production.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:18:16 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Departmental Seminar (899): Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Tech (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66425 66425-16736298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental 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 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Title:
Distributed Computational Methods For Healthcare Access Modeling

Abstract:
The research presented in this seminar has been motivated by one of my research programs to bring rigor in measurement of and inference on healthcare access, with a recent book to be released, titled Healthcare System Access: Measurement, Inference and Intervention. I will begin with an overview of the underlying framework to assess healthcare access with a focus on health policy making. I will use this framework to motivate the access model, a classic assignment optimization but with many important computational challenges, including spatial dependence in the outcome measures, complex system constraints, large-scale decision space among other. I will present computationally efficient methods for addressing large-scale optimization problems accounting for spatial coupling in the context of uncertainty quantification.

Bio:
Nicoleta Serban is Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Serban's education and research trajectory makes her unique in the pursuit of data-driven discovery endeavors. While trained as a mathematician at the most prestigious university in Romania, she pursued a doctoral degree in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her doctoral research focused on fundamental statistical methods with application to genomics and protein structure determination. After graduation, she changed fields to take a tenure-track position in an engineering school at Georgia Institute of Technology. While at Georgia Tech, she has been engaged in engineering-focused research spanning multiple fields, including enterprise transformation, degradation modeling and monitoring, and healthcare among others. Her research record is quite diverse, from mathematical statistics to modeling to data analysis to qualitative insights on causality and complexity. Dr. Serban’s current research emphasis is on health analytics using massive data sets to inform policy making and targeted interventions. To date, she has published more than 60 journal articles, and a collaborative (with Dr. William B. Rouse) book titled Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare published by MIT Press. She is the Editor for physical sciences, engineering, and the environment for the Annals of Applied Statistics. She has reviewed for multiple funding agencies and she has served in multiple workshops and meetings organized by the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:43:56 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899): Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Tech
Latinx Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68924 68924-17197022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: University Library

Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to Latinx communities and to recognize the accomplishments of Latinx folx. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, in-person assistance, reference materials, and refreshments. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. People of all backgrounds are invited to participate.

Wikimedia’s trouble in representing topics related to gender, race, and nationality are well-documented. While the reasons for the gaps are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female, queer, and PoC participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge. In an attempt to help address these issues and to broaden the the community base of Wikipedians, and as part of the Latinx Heritage Month Celebrations at the University of Michigan, the library will be hosting this Latinx Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:57:41 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall University Library Workshop / Seminar Mason Hall
Rackham North: Postdoctoral Orientation (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65597 65597-16621791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Each month, an orientation session is offered for all new postdoctoral research fellows at the University of Michigan. The orientation session includes information about the role of postdocs, working with your P.I./supervisor, campus resources, benefits and vacation, and membership in the U-M Postdoc Association.
Light refreshments will be served. Informal networking will begin at 3:00 p.m. with the formal program beginning at 3:15 p.m.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/xmm8G.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:16:08 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Bioscience Grad School and Career Panel (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68919 68919-17197018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

This panel is the opening event of the new student org FIRST: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching. If you are a student interested in non-medical science careers, or are looking for help preparing for the grad school application process, email FIRST.Contact@umich.edu to join our new org.

Panel Info
Date: Thursday, November 7th
Time: 4pm
Place: 1010 BSB

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:24:56 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST
CM Theory Seminar | Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy of Symmetry Broken States in Monolayer Graphene (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65284 65284-16565503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Cyclotron resonance—the resonant absorption of light by charge carriers in a strong magnetic field—is widely used to measure the effective band mass of (semi-)conducting materials. This works because the CR absorption in systems having a parabolic dispersion—a reasonable description of most materials—is unaffected by inter-particle interactions. An intriguing corollary is that, for instance, in high mobility GaAs heterostructures when the electronic transport shows remarkably complex behavior in the fractional quantum Hall regime, there is still only a single cyclotron resonance peak that is qualitatively little different from a low-mobility device. But: in materials with a linear dispersion such as graphene, this proscription on spectroscopy of interactions does not hold. We have built a dedicated infrared magnetospectroscopy setup for exploring the cyclotron resonance of interacting Dirac systems, and will report progress including an exciting observation of full integer symmetry breaking of the underlying Landau levels in monolayer graphene. We will also discuss plans for `shining light’ on other correlated electron systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:16:20 -0500 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
EEB Thursday Seminar: Carnivores - competition and connectivity (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65477 65477-16605610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current extinction rates are comparable to five prior mass extinctions in the earth’s history, and are strongly affected by human activities that have modified more than half of the earth’s terrestrial surface. Increasing human activity restricts animal movements and isolates formerly connected populations, a particular concern for the conservation of large carnivores, but no prior research has used high throughput sequencing in a standardized manner to examine genetic connectivity for multiple species of large carnivores and multiple ecosystems. We used RAD SNP genotypes to test for differences in connectivity between multiple ecosystems for African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) and lions (Panthera leo), and to test correlations between genetic distance, geographic distance and landscape resistance due to human activity. We found weaker connectivity and a stronger correlation between genetic distance and landscape resistance for lions, and propose a new hypothesis that adaptations to interspecific competition may help to explain differences in vulnerability to isolation by humans.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/ekCd9EWl5G4

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:14:28 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Wild dog at sunset, EEB Seminar
HOW I DID IT: THE POWER OF MENTORSHIP (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68254 68254-17037408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Did you know students with mentors are 130% more likely to hold leadership positions?
This is the subject being discussed by a panel of women in leadership in organizations like the City of Detroit, Morgan Stanley, and UNINTERRUPTED, to name a few. What do they all have in common? Apart from all being women of color, each one attributes their professional success to one key touchpoint: mentorship.

Join us as we engage in meaningful conversations with these successful LSA Alumni about the importance of mentorship in today’s professional landscape. During this interactive panel, you’ll hear about their individual experiences at U-M as they trace their student journeys and identify impactful opportunities they leveraged during their time as undergraduates. You’ll also learn how they’ve navigated their social and professional identities in this globalized marketplace. Afterward, network with alumni panelists and build personal, authentic connections.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:24:50 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar mentorship panel
How To Sell Your Story (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68881 68881-17188740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Journalist, author, and television personality, Amy Tara Koch (UM English '89), will discuss how to craft a pitch, the importance of nailing a headline, and tips on how to communicate with editors. Essential intel for aspiring journalists!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:27:06 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Amy Tara Koch
Law and Economics (November 7, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68324 68324-17046001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:21:55 -0400 2019-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Perfecting the Personal Statement- Virtual Workshop (November 7, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66112 66112-16686736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join the LSA Opportunity Hub to unpack the graduate school personal statement and develop strategies to showcase your personal, professional, and academic experiences! By the end of this workshop, you'll have next steps for brainstorming and writing a personal statement that best represents you.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:58:09 -0400 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar personal statement
Intel Information Session (November 7, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69071 69071-17222109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Intel is back on campus and engaging with interested grad level engineers and scientists. Representatives will be around to give a talk on Intel and network. This is a great way to learn about job opportunities after grad school. Food will be provided! Please come and enjoy some food and hear about life at Intel. RSVP is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:36:14 -0400 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Herbert H. Dow Building
Tech Interview Workshop for PhDs (November 7, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69070 69070-17222108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Looking to better understand the tech interview process for PhD students? Wondering what kind of interview questions to expect for Google internships and full time engineering roles? Join us for a session designed to shed light on and bust myths about the technical interview process. You’ll get both tips from Google engineers and the chance to practice common types of coding problems. RSVP is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:31:54 -0400 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Herbert H. Dow Building
Healing Justice As Building Cultural Resilience (November 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68171 68171-17020456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Our Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resistance workshop series is back! Last fall, SiD faculty member Diana Seales coordinated 5 workshops for students and community members to learn about, discuss, and practice healing justice. This time, the series is back with some updates and an additional workshop.

All workshops are free and open to the public and include a light dinner.

If you are coming from Ann Arbor as a registered student or someone who wants to drop in for one or more workshops, please email Craig Regester (regester@umich.edu) to confirm your transportation.

SERIES INFORMATION:

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

Healing Justice is woven through each of the workshops. Dr. Page of the Kindred Healing Justice Collective (often attributed with coining the phrase) describes Healing Justice as identifying how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.”

Additionally, this series is led entirely by indigenous community members and activists. The practice of ritual, which is deeply tied to healing justice and cultural organizing, often comes at the risk of cultural appropriation. As we try to create cross-cultural community healing spaces, it is vital to understand Anishinaabe culture as we stand on their land. This series will struggle with that idea, with the challenge of ritual in the modern era, and will encourage people not familiar with healing justice to get outside their comfort zones and confront the ways in which the destruction of indigenous healing practices and colonization are deeply interconnected.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

October 3rd: Dreams as Empowerment - using dreams for self-healing, transformation, and intuition
Workshop by Zoë Villegas of Gemineye Tarot

October 10th: How to Build Community Through Active Story Sharing and Movement - Dress comfortably and be ready to move: this workshop will include aspects of traditional as well as modern interpretations of Great Lakes Indigenous Dances
Workshop by Christy Giizigad of Aadizookaan

October 17: Herbs & Ceremony - how ritual can be used for personal and activist self-care
Workshop by Adela Nieves Martinez of Healing by Choice!

November 7th: Using Tarot and Folk Magic as Defense Against Colonialized Structures and Oppression
Workshop by Zoë and Alejandra Villegas of Gemineye Tarot

November 14th: Understanding Anishinaabe Healing Practice to Create Cross-Cultural Community Healing Spaces
Workshop by Chantel Henry of American Indian Health and Family Services

November 21st: Beat back the oppressors! Electronic recordings, learning, and sharing. Learn the basics of beat making and ‘chop’ while discussing music and art as a form of resistance.
Workshop by Sacramento Knoxx of Aadizookaan

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:24:09 -0400 2019-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Workshop / Seminar Healing justice poster with dates and workshop titles
Virtual Alumni Connections: Lumen Art Projects Founder Carla Rapoport (November 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68520 68520-17094822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Carla is an arts entrepreneur whose goal is to create more opportunities for artists creating with today’s tech tools.

She founded the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology in 2012, which celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. In 2018, she founded the not-for-profit Lumen Art Projects (https://lumenprize.com/), to manage both the prize and a new business providing exhibitions, commissions, and events engaged with art and technology globally.

Before that, she worked as a financial journalist for the Financial Times, Fortune Magazine, and The Economist Group located in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and London.

An established writer, speaker, and consultant on art and technology, she has spoken at numerous panels, conferences, and events around the world.

You can read media interviews with Carla here: https://www.niio.com/blog/the-lumen-prize-a-conversation-with-founderdirector-carla-rapoport/ https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/carla-rapoport-interview-lumen-prize-digital-art

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:48:57 -0400 2019-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Carla Rapoport
Write-Together (November 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66017 66017-16680441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Write-Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. Write-Together sessions bring graduate writers into a common quiet space to work. We will periodically offer helpful handouts on a range of writing and work productivity topics, and a Sweetland representative will also be on-site to answer any brief writing questions you may have. Breakfast refreshments will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:54:11 -0400 2019-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
ISD Design Science Seminar (November 8, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69144 69144-17252909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 9:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 8, 2019 from 9:30-11:00 am in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Design Science Seminar Series with speaker Malcolm McCullough, Ph.D. Dr. McCullough is a Professor of Architecture, Taubman Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the books Downtime on the Microgrid (forthcoming 2020), Ambient Commons (2013), Digital Ground (2005), and Abstracting Craft (1997) all with the MIT Press.

Whereas “the smart city” has most often been understood as a totality, top-down and always-on, in today’s climate-altered reality more agendas instead need to advance a more locally clustered, adaptive resilience. Otherwise, the most salient aspect of any future smart city is its fragility. While not a report on complexity simulations, this talk reexamines some perhaps-familiar principles of adaptive clustering from three less conventional perspectives.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:37:09 -0500 2019-11-08T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar DESCI Seminar