Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Heterochromatin Organization and Dynamics- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70990 70990-17766487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Serena Sanulli, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF, will give a seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry on Tuesday 1/14/20 at 12:00pm in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:42:55 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Sanulli
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70876 70876-17726693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week for our first brown bag lunch of the winter 2020 semester

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:50:02 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
Human Genetics Seminar Series (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70959 70959-17819225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Human Genetics

"Polycomb group proteins reprogram sensory neurons to define taste preferences and obesity risk"

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:58:43 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Human Genetics Workshop / Seminar image1.png
Allen Sanderson: Teasing Out Ephemeral Data from HPC Applications or in SITU Visualization and Analysis (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71107 71107-17777072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: It is well known that as HPC applications have grown, I/O has become a bottleneck, which has required scientists to turn to in situ tools for data exploration. The focus of this exploration has typically been on simulation data. However, applications also produce ephemeral data that is optionally written to disk for post hoc analysis, but not otherwise saved or utilized by the application in subsequent time steps. One example of ephemeral data is runtime performance data. In this talk I will present the infrastructure implemented for efficiently collecting this and other data within the Uintah framework which was coupled to VisIt’s in situ toolkit for analysis and visualization. This collection and coupling allows performance data to be visualized using multiple domains giving insight previously not possible. As part this coupling, we take advantage of VisIt’s in situ custom user interface to create a “simulation dashboard” that allows for in situ computational steering and visual debugging allowing for improvements in the development and simulation workflow.

Bio: Allen Sanderson, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:02:08 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar A. Sanderson
Free-living amoebae in drinking water networks: a treasure trove of intracellular (novel) bacteria (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70025 70025-17497481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are unicellular eukaryotes, ubiquitous in natural and man-made water environments. There, FLA play important roles in regulating microbial populations, as they feed on bacteria and other small eukaryotes by a mechanism involving ingestion by phagocytosis. It is thought that this predatory pressure favored – on multiple occasion – the adaption of several microorganisms (mainly bacteria) to the intracellular lifestyle, by stimulating the arising of resistance mechanisms against phagocytosis.

Thus, we aim to study FLA and their associations with microorganisms, as it stands out as pertinent model not only for better understanding the establishment of symbioses, but also for decrypting mechanisms employed by several bacterial pathogens thriving within eukaryotic cells.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:23:21 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Pharmacology Seminar Series (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71115 71115-17777081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Michigan Pharmacology

Kellie Machlus, Assistant Professor, BWH Hematology Division, Harvard Institutes of Medicine

"Novel Mechanisms by which Megakaryocytes Regulate Platelet Production in Health and Inflammatory Disease"

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:22:22 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library Michigan Pharmacology Workshop / Seminar Machlus seminar
AEM Training for LSA Web Content Managers (January 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69395 69395-17318552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Virtual workshop that introduces LSA Department personnel to the Adobe Experience Manager content management system.

Use the website link to navigate to the AEM Training registration form.

Training required to gain website author permission.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:01:41 -0400 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Adobe Experience Manager
Newnan Writing Workshop (January 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71235 71235-17791935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Should you prepare differently for in-class exam essays and research essays? Yes! Learn about the different expectations that instructors have for these two types of assessment in a workshop at the Newnan Center from 1:00pm-2:00pm on January 15. Email Nick Gupta for more information: ngup@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:46:30 -0500 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Image of a person writing
SC2 Workshop Series: VisIt- Open Source, Interactive, Scalable, Visualization, Animation and Analysis Tool (January 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70465 70465-17600681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Learn to interactively visualize and analyze data ranging in scale from small (<101 cores) desktop-sized projects to large (>105 core) leadership-class computing facility simulation campaigns. Dr. Allen Sanderson, an expert from the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (Utah), will teach this workshop. If you’re unfamiliar with VisIt, check out how it can help you visualize your data.

Instructor: Dr. Allen Sanderson, Research Scientist, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah

Space is limited.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:44:04 -0500 2020-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar SC2: Scientific Computing Student Club
CCMB Seminar: "Synchrony and its Breakdown" (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71232 71232-17791934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

A Seminar by Complex Systems Affiliated Faculty Member Indika Rajapakse,
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

CCMB Seminar Series – sponsored by DCMB

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:51:06 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Gear Your Career (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69563 69563-17362159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Get all the goods you need for your job search! Have a professional head shot taken, sign up to get business cards printed, and/or consult briefly with a U-M career and professional development expert on your LinkedIn profile. Light refreshments will be served. This event is a collaboration between the University Career Center and Rackham Graduate School.
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/yK7nM.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
MLK Day Department Colloquium | Creating our Future: Attracting and Retaining the Best Students from All Backgrounds (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71015 71015-17768616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Physics now must compete for the best and brightest. How do we collectively locate, nurture, and advance students who will become our colleagues regardless of opportunities they may or may not have had as they began their studies? There is good evidence that strategies used to attract us into the field are missing large numbers of capable and eager students. I will discuss programs and new approaches that are opening the door to students who may not have felt welcome in the past, but who are now bringing their insights and hard work to solving the next generation of physics problems. We will discuss how the Michigan physics department can help with and benefit from these programs.

This is an inaugural MLK Day Department Colloquium.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:16:44 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Pre-Law Personal Statement Workshop (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71227 71227-17791927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

January 15th, 4PM - 5PM - G243 Angell Hall (Newnan Advising Conference Room)

February 4th, 4PM - 5PM - G243 Angell Hall (Newnan Advising Conference Room)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:46:01 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Pre-Law Image
Hub Pathways & Prep: Social Work (January 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70720 70720-17619602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Discover the variety of career pathways that exist within the field of social work. We’ll walk through the range of industries in which social work professionals are employed and identify the resources and opportunities that can help you explore a career in social work during your time in the College of LSA.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- An LSA student
- Interested in a career in social work
- Hoping to find an internship in the field of social work

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Discover the range of industries and roles in which social work professionals are employed
- Explore differences in workplace culture across industries and consider which environments you would prefer to work in
- Learn about the attributes, skills, and education needed to succeed in social work
- Find out about extracurricular activities, campus resources, and internships that can prepare you for a career in social work

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:21:09 -0500 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Student and staff member collaborating on computer
"Catholic End of Life Ethics after Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans" (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70258 70258-17556177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Michael Redinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, Co-Chief, Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, Western Michigan University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:59:09 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Being Human in STEM: An Experiment in Partnering with Students to Address Issues of Equity in STEM (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69259 69259-17275351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

When student protesters occupied the Amherst College library for four days in November of 2015, the campus community was transfixed by the painful testimonials shared by marginalized students about their experiences at Amherst as individuals identifying as Black, brown, female, queer, trans, disabled, international, among others. In response to letters from a Black neuroscience major and a non-binary biochemistry and biophysics major, every STEM department wrote a letter of support, pledging to work with students to address their concerns. The following semester, Chemistry professor Sheila Jaswal collaborated with students to develop a project-based course, titled “Being Human in STEM” (HSTEM), to actively engage STEM students and departments in learning about and enhancing inclusion in STEM settings. Now in its sixth iteration, students drive the academic inquiry, investigating both the local experience and the literature on diversity in STEM. They then use that research to design tools and interventions to share with and enhance their own STEM community.  In this seminar, Professor Jaswal will describe how HSTEM course projects and activities have continued the conversation started by students during the Uprising, connected STEM inclusion efforts across the Amherst campus, and produced resources such as the “Inclusive Curricular Practices” handbook, that have been used by STEM educators from high schools, colleges, universities, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence institutions. She will present evidence on the impact of the HSTEM course and practices on students, faculty and staff at Amherst, and provide examples of how a growing network of institutions, including Yale, Brown, Williams, and the University of Utah, are adapting the HSTEM model to their own STEM community needs. 

Please visit website for more information on speaker: http://www.beinghumaninstem.com/sheila-jaswal.html

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:58:03 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Rackham North: Ph.D. Pathways—Elevator Pitch for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate (January 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70535 70535-17604928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? If so, this integrative workshop will help you to develop a strong pitch that can be used in networking opportunities, such as career fairs or conferences. In addition to developing your elevator pitch, we will briefly discuss networking strategies and resources.
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/dOdvn.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities in Washtenaw County (January 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64821 64821-16452979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
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 Washtenaw County.

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 10:37:29 -0400 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:30:00-05:00 Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
Finding Your Voice: Confidence and Clarity for Public Speaking (January 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70423 70423-17594475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

When you give a presentation, does your voice express confidence? Is it loud enough? Do your listeners easily understand you? Is your audience engaged? Come to this workshop to explore voice and pronunciation techniques to make your presentations shine. You will receive hands-on practice presenting for one minute on a topic of your choice such as a self-introduction, an overview of your broad area of research, a new development in your field, or a quick story of something interesting you’ve experienced.

Bring a script or outline with you to explore together.

Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:59:52 -0500 2020-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yixin Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (January 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69914 69914-17483044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods assume that we observe all confounders, variables that affect both the causal variables and the outcome variables. But whether we have observed all confounders is a famously untestable assumption. We describe the deconfounder, a way to do causal inference from observational data allowing for unobserved confounding.

How does the deconfounder work? The deconfounder is designed for problems of multiple causal inferences: scientific studies that involve many causes whose effects are simultaneously of interest. The deconfounder uses the correlation among causes as evidence for unobserved confounders, combining unsupervised machine learning and predictive model checking to perform causal inference. We study the theoretical requirements for the deconfounder to provide unbiased causal estimates, along with its limitations and tradeoffs. We demonstrate the deconfounder on real-world data and simulation studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:21:57 -0500 2020-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Yixin Wang
Student Engagement Seminar Series – Discussion (January 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69926 69926-17483060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Group discussions are widely used in the college classroom as a way for students to explore, understand, and reflect on course content. Students have the opportunity to think through ideas while using peers as a sounding board. Effective group discussions are equitable, structured, and have a learning objective. This seminar will explore criteria for designing an effective discussion assignment, including writing quality discussion questions and facilitating positive group exchange.

This seminar is part of the Student Engagement Series & Panel Discussion. The series includes evidence-based learning activities and strategies to prepare students for learning, engage in meaningful discussions and group work, and capture attention with complementary activities during lectures. Instructors and staff who are looking for specific and practical ways to increase engagement or simply freshen up a course are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:49:52 -0500 2020-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Hatcher Graduate Library
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Niusha Navidi, U-M IOE (January 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68552 68552-17096948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 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 Thursday, January 16, 2020.

Title:
Adaptive Submodular Ranking and Routing

Abstract:
We study a general stochastic ranking problem where an algorithm needs to adaptively select a sequence of elements so as to “cover” a random scenario (drawn from a known distribution) at minimum expected cost. The coverage of each scenario is captured by an individual submodular function, where the scenario is said to be covered when its function value goes above a given threshold. We obtain a logarithmic factor approximation algorithm for this adaptive ranking problem, which is the best possible (unless P = NP). This problem unifies and generalizes many previously studied problems with applications in search ranking and active learning. The approximation ratio of our algorithm either matches or improves the best result known in each of these special cases. Furthermore, we extend our results to an adaptive vehicle routing problem, where costs are determined by an underlying metric. This routing problem is a significant generalization of the previously-studied adaptive traveling salesman and traveling repairman problems. Our approximation ratio nearly matches the best bound known for these special cases. Finally, we present experimental results for some applications of adaptive ranking.

Bio:
Fatemeh Navidi is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Professor Viswanath Nagarajan. Her research interests include Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty, Design and Analysis of Adaptive Approximation Algorithms and Machine Learning.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:54:18 -0500 2020-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar photo of Niusha Navidi
ASCE Seminar Series (January 17, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71140 71140-17783438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

As an innovator, collaborator and future maker, Black & Veatch is characterized by curiosity, a trait that helps them find solutions to clients' most complex challenges. Safety, sustainability and responsibility also are ingrained into every Black & Veatch professional, and they’re designed into all projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:59:43 -0500 2020-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Laying Out the National Space Security Enterprise (January 17, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71594 71594-17844795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Brandon Cesul
Technical Fellow & Principal Systems Engineer, Centauri

The National Space Security Enterprise is changing faster than it ever has in the nearly 70 year history of military space utilization. What is the Space Force? What is Space Command? What’s the difference between all these ASAT tests being reported in the media? What are the policy decisions and international laws that govern military and national security use of space? All these questions and more will be covered by Dr. Cesul’s talk covering an introduction to the US National Space Security Enterprise, the organizations, missions, and outlook for the future of space warfare.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:36:25 -0500 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Brandon Cesul
Hub Studio: LinkedIn (January 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70358 70358-17586186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

LinkedIn is more than just an online resume — it’s real power is in connecting you to new people and increasing your social capital. Stop by the Hub anytime between 3-5 p.m. to focus on building a strong LinkedIn presence with the help of Hub staff. This studio is self-directed, open work time for you to build your profile, discover new features, and maximize your network — all in an effort to achieve your professional goals.

You should attend this studio if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready
- Looking to build or broaden your professional network
- Exploring internship or research opportunities by leveraging professional networks

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Build your LinkedIn Profile from top to bottom through the feedback of Hub staff and other peers
- Gain access to resources that can help with all aspects of LinkedIn including choosing an appropriate headshot, writing a clear headline, writing your short summary, finding connections, and so much more
- Hear from Hub coaches on standby to answer your questions and share tips

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:52:11 -0500 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Student and staff member collaborating on computer
NERS Colloquium: Nuclear Power for Deep Decarbonization: Insights from Recent Modeling (January 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70137 70137-17540918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Avoiding the worst consequences of climate change hinges on the transition to a deeply decarbonized global energy system. The development and deployment of promising, low-carbon energy technologies that could facilitate this transition—including nuclear power—is severely constrained by non-technical factors, including economics, but especially socio-political factors. This talk will present two new, interdisciplinary methods for evaluating some of these constraints. First, recent research on the performance of U.S. advanced fission innovation will be presented: this research has generated a new approach for evaluating technology development programs sponsored by the federal government. Second, insights will be presented from a recent study on the role of public opposition in constraining the deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization. This research is being extended to endogenously integrate societal preferences regarding energy technologies into energy system optimization models. Failure to integrate socio-political constraints leads to mathematically feasible, but socially unacceptable, decarbonization pathways, rendering greenhouse gas mitigation yet more difficult. This new wave of research, grounded in industrial engineering and the decision sciences, seeks to inform the design of emerging energy systems and to improve decision making by technology developers, policy makers, and researchers.

Speaker Bio
Ahmed Abdulla is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research investigates the deployment of emerging energy systems; specifically, it optimizes the design of these energy systems and seeks to integrate real-world constraints into energy system models. Dr. Abdulla’s work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Results from his research have been published in leading journals, including "Nature Climate Change" and the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;" they have also been featured in the "Wall Street Journal," "Bloomberg News" and "The Los Angeles Times." Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Abdulla was Assistant Research Scientist in the Center for Energy Research at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:10:18 -0500 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Ahmed Abdulla
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

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 modeling, 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.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Diversity Thumball Session (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69748 69748-17415373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Boyer Building
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The Diversity Thumball is a fun training tool that tackles DEI topics with smarts and sensitivity. We toss it around in a group and ask participants to share their reaction to whatever prompt lies under their thumb. It’s a way to start moving beyond our (mis)education!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:33:16 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 Boyer Building Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Diversity Thumball
Using Improv for School & Work (January 21, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69746 69746-17415371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Presenter:
Gary Lehman, Adult Improv series, Education Director
Gary Lehman has been learning and performing improv since 2003. Gary is a middle and high school teacher during the day and teaches computers, makes the yearbook, coaches forensics, oversees the student sketch comedy troupe Voodoo Theatre, directs the middle school musical and play, and directs the high school improv group. Gary has a Master’s of Fine Arts in Drama & Theater, with a concentration in Improvisation from Eastern Michigan University. Gary is a nine-year member of the Resident Cast at Go Comedy Improv Theater in Ferndale, and is the Director of Go U: The Improv Academy. Gary is a member and Co-Director of the League of Pointless Improvisers. Gary has graduated from the following improv training programs : Improv Inferno (Am Arbor 2004), Second City Detroit Intro program (2005), Second City Detroit Conservatory (2006), Second City Detroit Graduate program (2008), iO Chicago Summer Intensive (2010), Annoyance Theater Summer Intensive (Chicago 2011), and UCB Level 101 Intensive (2018). Gary has lead workshops at Eastern Michigan University, University of Michigan, and University of Michigan Medical School.

Description:
In this workshop we will use improv exercises to work on aspects of human interaction, listening, group dynamics, and the improv concept of YES AND. This will be an active, participative, on-your-feet workshop. The focus is on using these exercises to work on and talk about the experience the individuals have playing them, and not on performance or performing comedic improv. We will still have fun, so come join the group and play!

Space is limited, so please register by 1/17 at https://forms.gle/Mipe7HkWbPmaUQtv5. For questions, please email ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:56:10 -0500 2020-01-21T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Complex Systems/EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar | "Complex interactions and spatial patterns in ecological communities" (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70643 70643-17611230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

*NOTE THIS SEMINAR STARTS AT 12:00 NOON*
IT IS A BROWN BAG SEMINAR (lunch is not provided, though normal Complex Systems coffee etc. will be available)
ABSTRACT
Ecological communities are very complex systems comprising species that interact with each other in spatially extensive settings. Understanding the rules that govern these systems and how they behave in time is fundamental, but it is also of practical importance since it concerns the maintenance of biodiversity in the face of global change. In this talk I combine results from experiments in manipulable communities of small animals and microorganisms with math modeling, and large scale analyses of functional trait information to advance our understanding of the organizational principles linking ecosystems across scales: from individuals’ traits, to the assembly of ecological networks, and the emergence of macroscopic spatial patterns. These findings contribute insights into how local and spatial dynamics interact to influence large scale properties of ecosystems. But they also lead to new questions about the rules of life, highlighting the strong need for a refinement of theoretical methods, more large scale field observations, and creative laboratory experiments that leverage modern technologies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:25:43 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar ashkaan fahimipour headshot
Distress Signals: Supporting Students Facing Mental Health Challenges (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70214 70214-17549974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Distress Signals unpacks a common interaction—Jade visits her professor during office hours to discuss an extension for a paper—into a complex meditation on mental health and instructor responsibility. The performance (which at first unfolds chronologically and then repeats certain interactions with different faculty behavioral choices) is interspersed with facilitated discussion. Together, audiences examine the productive and problematic behaviors and attitudes on display in the instructor’s choices, and receive research-based strategies and campus resources to help them better support students. This session is appropriate for faculty, graduate student instructors, and academic leaders.
In this session, participants will:

Familiarize themselves with current information about the landscape of student mental health issues.
Identify principles that can productively shape instructor interactions with students in mild to moderate distress.
Reflect on how their own practice of supporting students in distress might be informed by these principles.
Receive information about relevant campus resources, proactive ways of supporting student well-being, and steps to take to support a student in high distress.

Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/7ZrxB.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Fluorescence Microscopy Tools to Illuminate RNA and Protein Dynamics in Live Cells (Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar) (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71069 71069-17774925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Esther Braselmann, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, will be presenting the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday 1/21/2020 at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:18:32 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
CM-AMO Seminar | Probes of Novel Electronic States in Mesoscopic and 2D Quantum Materials (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71240 71240-17794027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Recent advances in the development of exfoliated 2D materials and other mesoscopic systems (e.g. semiconducting nanowires) have led to the discovery of intriguing topological, magnetic, and superconducting states. However, many bulk probes which have been invaluable in understanding complex electronic states such as those found in high-temperature superconductors are no longer applicable. Additionally, many scanned probes which can study physics on the nanoscale are incompatible with the highest quality, state-of-the-art 2D materials-based devices which rely on encapsulation with hexagonal boron nitride. In this talk I will present magnetic imaging studies of more traditional mesoscopic systems, including imaging current distributions in micron-scale devices and studying novel nanowire-based superconducting devices. Secondly, I will describe more recent work realizing low-disorder graphene devices which facilitated the discovery of new topological states of matter. Finally, I will discuss prospects for studying 2D materials both with magnetic imaging and on-chip THz spectroscopy using superconductivity in exfoliated flakes as an example.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:17:05 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
181 Fremont: Resilience and Innovation in Design (January 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71573 71573-17842679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The 181 Fremont Tower, located in San Francisco’s downtown Transbay District, is an 802-foot-tall, 56-story high rise. It is the tallest mixed-use building in the city, featuring 435,000 square feet of Class A office space and 67 luxury residences. The architectural vision for the tower includes a tapering, faceted façade that highlights an integrated mega-frame structural system. A visual recess between the commercial and residential levels functions as both a mechanical space and residential amenity level with a double-height, open terrace around the perimeter. To maximize usable floor space in the slender tower, a steel-only lateral force-resisting system was used instead of a more traditional concrete core. The novel damped mega-brace system and uplifting mega- columns enhance the building’s performance under seismic and wind loads while reducing steel tonnage by approximately 25% compared to a more conventional design. The damped braces also eliminate the need for a tuned mass damper in the light structure, freeing up the penthouse level for a luxury condominium. Transfer structures at level 39 and level 2 carry load to the corner mega-columns to create column-free spaces at the residential amenity level and ground-floor lobby. The project achieved both a LEED Platinum rating as well as the world’s first Resilience-based Earthquake Design Initiative (REDi) Gold rating, having been designed for immediate re-occupancy and minimal loss of functionality after a design-level earthquake. Resulting from a collaborative effort between the building owner, design, and construction teams, 181 Fremont Tower features an unprecedented design and a pioneering resilience strategy to protect the building and its occupants long into the future.

Jason Krolicki is a structural engineer and founding Principal at Resurget Engineering PLC. A native to the Detroit area, Jason has nearly 20 years of structural engineering experience and led award
winning projects around the world; including giant observation wheels, mixed-use high-rise structures, university buildings, hospitals, hotels and office buildings. Utilizing his experience and passion for design,
he approaches projects focused on performance and innovation. Jason holds a Civil Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in earthquake engineering from the
University of Pavia Italy.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:11 -0500 2020-01-21T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Copyright and Coffee: Your Dissertation (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70754 70754-17642225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Have you ever wondered what the difference is 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 Raven Lanier. This workshop is primarily designed for students in the Rackham Graduate School.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:45:43 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar copyright symbol
EWRE Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70026 70026-17497482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Aerosol production from wave breaking is one of the most abundant sources of aerosol globally, but emissions from freshwater lakes are poorly understood in comparison to sea spray aerosol(SSA). In addition, harmful algal blooms (HABs) can lead to aerosolization of toxins like microcystins, which has the potential to lead to exposures to local populations. Given their small size and chemical complexity there is a significant analytical challenge when measuring these environmental contaminants. Herein, the chemical and physical properties of lake spray aerosol (LSA) from pristine freshwater and HABS are discussed. We will discuss measurements of particles along the coasts of the Great Lakes, inland, and aloft at cloud heights from flight measurements using a suite of microscopy, spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry measurements. As LSA can be generated and act as CCN, IN or eject toxic materials from harmful algal blooms, an improved understanding of LSA emission and physicochemical properties is needed to determine the impacts on meteorology, climate, and health in the Great Lakes region.

Andrew Ault is the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:27:46 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Medieval Lunch. Anglo-Saxon Time as an Enclosure. (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71373 71373-17819289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:31:43 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Pharmacology Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71200 71200-17785638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Michigan Pharmacology

Rong Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine

"RGS2 Regulates Dopamine Transmission and Drug Self-administration via Controlling Dopamine D2 Autoreceptors”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:49:59 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library Michigan Pharmacology Workshop / Seminar Rong Chen Talk
Hub Workshop: Resume Builder (Virtual) (January 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70361 70361-17586187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

According to a 2018 study, recruiters spend an average of 7 seconds reviewing an individual resume. This means resumes that stand out have a simple layout, prioritize relevant professional experience and skills at the top, and are shorter in length. Learn how to craft a resume that potential employers look at longer at our latest Resume Builder workshop.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Unfamiliar with resume building and don’t have one
- Finished drafting up your resume and just need a second opinion
- Looking to secure an internship or research opportunity for the summer
- Exploring post-grad opportunities and planning to apply for jobs

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Learn the nuts and bolts of resume building including goal-setting, tailoring the content to match job requirements and industry-specific information, and choosing optimal words and phrases
- Determine the common elements that make an effective resume by assessing sample resumes
- Identify professional strengths, skills, and specific interests and learn how to showcase and surface those throughout your resume
- Walk away with helpful resources like the Resume Checklist and Resume Blueprint

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:53:36 -0500 2020-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Individual working on laptop
Department Colloquium | Nuclear Physics from the Standard Model (January 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70952 70952-17760228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will discuss the status and future of calculations of nuclei based on the Standard Model of particle physics. With advances in supercomputing, we are beginning to quantitatively understand nuclear structure and interactions directly from the fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom. Recent studies provide insight into the neutrino-nucleus interactions relevant to long-baseline neutrino experiments, double beta decay, and theory predictions of dark matter cross-sections at underground detectors. I will also address new work constraining the gluonic structure of nuclei, which will be measurable for the first time at a future electron-ion collider, and explain how machine learning tools are providing new possibilities in this field.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:16:59 -0500 2020-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Hub Pathways & Prep: Virtual Internships (January 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70721 70721-17619603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Virtual internships are done entirely online and use email, online chat, or phone to facilitate conversation. Many exist in the fields of journalism, marketing, software development, consulting, I.T., and sales but opportunities for virtual internships exist in other fields as well.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- Currently enrolled LSA undergraduate who will return in the fall semester following the internship
- Eager to land a valuable internship opportunity that does not require commuting
- An International Student or student who can’t commit to a traditional internship because of legal, financial, geographical and time constraints

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Discover the nature of virtual internships and how they work
- Find out the education and extracurricular activities you can engage with during undergrad to explore and prepare for remote work.
- Understand the challenges and benefits associated with virtual internships
- Learn of the virtual internship opportunities offered through the Hub

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:54:52 -0500 2020-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Student and staff member talking
Growth and Grit - Developing a Mindset For Success (January 22, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70897 70897-17735191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:16:28 -0500 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Traffic Volume Estimation by Fusing Probe Vehicle Data and Loop Detector Data (January 23, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70038 70038-17499531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Traffic volume information is critical for traffic management and control. Traditionally, traffic volumes are primarily measured by fixed location sensors. However, the high installation and maintenance cost of fixed location sensors often leads to the missing data problem and the low coverage problem. In recent years, researchers have proposed to solve the problems using probe vehicle data. Nevertheless, when only low market penetration probe vehicle data are available, it is difficult to estimate real time traffic volume information if we consider each time slot and each road separately Noticing that traffic volumes in a transportation network are correlated spatially and temporally, we try to capture the correlation by fusing probe vehicle data and partial fixed location sensor data, which are complementary to each other In this work, we propose low rank representation methods to estimate the unknown traffic volumes. The proposed methods take advantage of the correlation of traffic volumes in different locations and different time slots and thereby achieve good estimation accuracy even if the probe vehicle data are sparse. Validation results show that the proposed methods can solve the missing data problem and the low coverage problem at the same time, and they have great potential for real world implementation.

Yan Zhao is currently a PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Yan also works with Professor Henry Liu in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on traffic state estimation and transportation network analysis using trajectory data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:48:37 -0500 2020-01-23T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rackham North: Distress Signals—Supporting Students Facing Mental Health Challenges (January 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70233 70233-17552075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Distress Signals unpacks a common interaction—Jade visits her professor during office hours to discuss an extension for a paper—into a complex meditation on mental health and instructor responsibility. The performance (which at first unfolds chronologically and then repeats certain interactions with different faculty behavioral choices) is interspersed with facilitated discussion. Together, audiences examine the productive and problematic behaviors and attitudes on display in the instructor’s choices, and receive research-based strategies and campus resources to help them better support students. This session is appropriate for faculty, graduate student instructors, and academic leaders.
In this session, participants will:

Familiarize themselves with current information about the landscape of student mental health issues.
Identify principles that can productively shape instructor interactions with students in mild to moderate distress.
Reflect on how their own practice of supporting students in distress might be informed by these principles.
Receive information about relevant campus resources, proactive ways of supporting student well-being, and steps to take to support a student in high distress.

Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/mnxVY.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:41:00 -0500 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
BME 500: Dr. Hua Wang (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70066 70066-17505688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Talk Overview:

Cancer immunotherapy has achieved significant clinical success in the past few years, but there remains tremendous room for the development of new-generation therapies with more robust and persistent antitumor immune responses. My research interests are largely directed towards understanding how cancer cells and immune cells can be manipulated or engineered using chemistry, material, and chemical biology approaches, in order to develop effective therapies for cancers, injured tissues, and other diseases. In this talk, I will start with my phd journey in exploring cancer-selective metabolic labeling and targeting, and then share how metabolic cell labeling can be utilized for tracking and targeted modulation of immune cells in vivo. Lastly, I will talk about a biomaterial-based antigen-free cancer vaccine for the treatment of poorly-immunogenic solid tumors.

Bio:

I am currently a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at Harvard University, aiming to integrate my research background in chemistry, materials science, and chemical biology with cancer immunotherapy and immunoengineering here. More specifically, I am exploring approaches to modulate or engineer cancer and immune cells in vivo, in order to improve and innovate current immunotherapies for cancers and other immune-related diseases. Before moving to Harvard, I earned my Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (08/2012-06/2016), and my Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China (08/2008-06/2012).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:54:33 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dr. Hua Wang
EEB Thursday Seminar: Explaining drivers of forest dynamics using trait-based approaches (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69039 69039-17220020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Identifying the mechanisms that drive the structure and dynamics of communities is a major challenge in ecology. Plant traits are being increasingly used to address this challenge as they provide insights into the critical phenotype-environment link. Such information is necessary to apply to questions regarding how forests are responding to changing environments and the implications of those changes for the long-term persistence of forests. In this talk, I will discuss how the use of trait-based approaches and different modeling tools has allowed me to address questions regarding the drivers that shape forests, and species responses to habitat loss and fragmentation.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:01:16 -0400 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar work in forest fragmentation
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (January 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Hub Workshop: Exploring Your Career Interests (January 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70362 70362-17586189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

The value of an LSA degree is that its broadness gives you the flexibility to explore wide-ranging career pathways. This workshop helps identify what you want in a career and the options most suited to your interests, skills, and values.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and sciences student
- Exploring potential majors/minors, interests and career pathways or have a clear idea of all three
- Looking for internship opportunities to help clarify career pathways to pursue
- Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Articulate your career interests or what work you find meaningful and enjoyable
- Uncover your career values or what you want out of your career in terms of scheduling, type of work, location, and climate
- Determine which skills you have and ones you want to cultivate
- Learn how to research career options that match your values, skills, and interests
- Find out what career pathways an LSA degree can provide
- Establish next steps in pursuing your career options

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:57:46 -0500 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Staff member facilitating workshop discussion
Poster Presentations: Interacting Fluently with Your Audience (January 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70424 70424-17594476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

We often frame poster presentations at academic conferences and symposia as “easier” and less high-stakes than presenting a paper or participating in a panel, but poster presentations are about 10% presenting and 90% interacting with one’s “audience” of a few people crowded around the poster in a busy, noisy conference space. This type of Q & A can feel daunting, but can also be fun and interesting to prepare for with other graduate students. In this workshop, we will not be working on poster design: instead, we’ll work on strategies for fluent communication with visitors to your poster.

If you have a poster presentation coming up, bring a sketch or draft of your poster so that you can practice taking questions from others at the workshop. Otherwise, come ready to practice formulating and responding to typical question types in poster presentations.

Sign up here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/5596

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:24:58 -0500 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago (January 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69910 69910-17483043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: We introduce the jackknife+, a novel method for constructing predictive confidence intervals that is robust to the distribution of the data. The jackknife+ modifies the well-known jackknife (leave-one-out cross-validation) to account for the variability in the fitted regression function when we subsample the training data. Assuming exchangeable training samples, we prove that the jackknife+ permits rigorous coverage guarantees regardless of the distribution of the data points, for any algorithm that treats the training points symmetrically. Such guarantees are not possible for the original jackknife and we demonstrate examples where the coverage rate may actually vanish. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals that the jackknife and jackknife+ intervals achieve nearly exact coverage and have similar lengths whenever the fitting algorithm obeys some form of stability. We also extend to the setting of K-fold cross-validation. Our methods are related to cross-conformal prediction proposed by Vovk [2015] and we discuss connections.

This work is joint with Emmanuel Candes, Aaditya Ramdas, and Ryan Tibshirani.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:18:08 -0500 2020-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Rina Foygel Barber
Mfg Research, Smart Mfg Seminar Series: Dealing with streaming data for smart manufacturing (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71195 71195-17785626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Abstract
Recent advances in sensor arrays, imaging systems, as well as data science and AI open an exciting opportunity to rethink the way we assure and optimize performance and quality in the manufacturing industry. With the increasing availability of high-dimensional, streaming data in the industrial practice, it is now possible to predict impending anomalies and breakdowns across a manufacturing plant much earlier, and over considerably longer time horizons. Also, with the increasing availability of large time-series data, nonparametric machine learning approaches are becoming attractive for the prediction and prognosis of anomalies and breakdowns. This talk will overview three methods, each aimed at addressing a particular challenge with anomaly detection in smart manufacturing processes.
Speaker Bio
Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in industrial and manufacturing engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He currently serves as Rockwell International Professor with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He is also the Director of Texas A&M Engineering Experimentation Station (TEES) Institute for Manufacturing Systems. His research in smart manufacturing addresses the harnessing of high-resolution nonlinear dynamic information, especially from wireless MEMS sensors, to improve the monitoring and prognostics, mainly of ultraprecision and nanomanufacturing processes and machines, and wearable sensors for cardiorespiratory processes. His research has led to over 160 peer-reviewed publications (101 published/accepted in journals and 68 in conference proceedings); five pending patents; $6 million in grants as PI/Co-PI from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the private sector; and 14 best-paper/poster recognitions. He is a fellow of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and his work has been recognized with Oklahoma State University regents distinguished research, Halliburton outstanding college of engineering faculty, and Fulbright-Tocqueville distinguished chair awards.

Co-organized by:
Judy Jin (Program Director, ISD Manufacturing; Professor IOE)
Chinedum Okwudire (Associate Chair, ISD; Associate Professor, ME)

Contact Kathy Bishar at kbishar@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:19:16 -0500 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam image
Robotics Seminar - Improving Multi-fingered Robot Manipulation by Unifying Learning and Planning (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71850 71850-17894524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Multi-fingered hands offer autonomous robots increased dexterity, versatility, and stability over simple two-fingered grippers. Naturally, this increased ability comes with increased complexity in planning and executing manipulation actions. As such, I propose combining model-based planning with learned components to improve over purely data-driven or purely-model based approaches to manipulation.

This talk examines multi-fingered autonomous manipulation when the robot has only partial knowledge of the object of interest. I will first present results on planning multi-fingered grasps for novel objects using a learned neural network. I will then present our approach to planning in-hand manipulation tasks when dynamic properties of objects are not known. I will conclude with a discussion of our ongoing and future research to further unify these two approaches.

Tucker Hermans is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where he is a founding member of the University of Utah Robotics Center. He was a visiting professor at NVIDIA Research during summer 2019. Professor Hermans is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. His research has been nominated and won multiple conference paper awards including winning the Best Medical Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2017 and the Best Systems Paper at CoRL 2019.

Previously, Professor Hermans was a postdoctoral at TU Darmstadt working with Jan Peters. He was at Georgia Tech from 2009 to 2014 in the School of Interactive Computing where he earned his Ph.D. in Robotics under the supervision of Aaron Bobick and Jim Rehg. At Georgia Tech he earned his M.Sc. in Computer Science He earned his A.B. in German and Computer Science from Bowdoin College in 2009.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:34:31 -0500 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar Objects held by robot hand.
Supporting Students and Colleagues with Mental Health Challenges, a Practical Workshop (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71744 71744-17877259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Physics Workshops & Conferences

Based on faculty interest, the Physics DEI committee is sponsoring an interactive workshop focused on practical strategies for supporting students and colleagues who may be experiencing mental health challenges. Refreshments will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:50:17 -0500 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 West Hall Physics Workshops & Conferences Workshop / Seminar West Hall
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Geunyeong Byeon, U-M IOE (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68553 68553-17096950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 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 Thursday, January 23, 2020.

Title:
Gas-Aware Unit Commitment

Abstract:
The work aims at synchronizing the electricity and gas networks to avoid potential catastrophic failures during Polar vortex events. Recent changes in the fuel mix for electricity generation and, in particular, the increase in Gas-Fueled Power Plants (GFPP), have created significant interdependencies between the electric power and natural gas transmission systems. However, despite their physical and economic couplings, these networks are still operated independently, with asynchronous market mechanisms. This mode of operation may lead to significant economic and reliability risks in congested environments as revealed by the 2014 polar vortex event experienced by the northeastern United States; The scarcity of natural gas put the reliability of the electricity system at high risk and agitated its market. To mitigate these risks, while preserving the current structure of the markets, we explore the idea of introducing gas network awareness into the standard unit commitment model and propose a bilevel optimization problem. We developed a novel Benders subproblem decomposition technique that addresses the computational challenge in solving the bilevel problem. The model and the solution approach are validated on a case study for the Northeastern United States that can reproduce the gas and electricity price spikes experienced during the early winter of 2014. The results on the case study show that gas awareness in unit commitment is instrumental in avoiding the peaks in electricity prices while keeping the gas prices to reasonable levels and demonstrate that the developed solution method outperforms up-to-date commercial solvers and standard Benders method. This is based on a joint work with Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck.

Bio:
Geunyeong Byeon is a PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan (U-M) where she is advised by Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck. She received her undergraduate degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from Korea University and obtained an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University. Her research interests are in the fields of operations research and data analytics, especially methodologies for large-scale optimization. She is particularly interested in applications in energy systems. She worked in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research intern in Summer 2019. She is a recipient of a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant and MICDE (Michigan Institute of Computational Discovery and Engineering) Fellowship.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:10:54 -0500 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Photo of Geunyeong Byeon
Rackham Doctoral Internships: Expanding Your Professional Horizons (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70979 70979-17762328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In this session, you will learn about two of Rackham’s current internship programs: Rackham Public Engagement Internships and the Biosciences Internship Grant. Program managers will discuss the application process for each program, and current students who participated will share their insights about applying and how they benefited from making an internship a part of their graduate school experience.
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/88w4x.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:41:00 -0500 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Writing Displacement-Exile-Incarceration (January 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68937 68937-17197038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

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 13:34:59 -0400 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo
ASCE Seminar Series (January 24, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71333 71333-17817106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

AEW provides Southeast Michigan clients with the quality of professional services and a focus on developing and growing long-term relationships. AEW's partners, managers and employees are dedicated to those they serve, the organization, and the achievements they have accomplished over many years.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:56:46 -0500 2020-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Andrew Wetzel: Simulating the Milky Way (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71427 71427-17825687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: The Gaia satellite mission, together with a multitude of ground-based observational surveys, now measure 6-D phase-space coordinates and multi-species elemental abundances for hundreds of millions of stars across the Milky Way. This new era of galactic archeology and near-field cosmology demands a new generation of simulations that achieve high dynamic range to resolve scales of individual stellar populations within a cosmological context. I will describe the new Latte suite of massively parallelized cosmological zoom-in simulations, run on the nation’s most powerful supercomputers, that model the formation of Milky Way-like galaxies at parsec-scale resolution, using the FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments) model for star formation and feedback. First I will discuss the formation of the Milky Way disk, including resolving for the first time the dynamics and lifetimes of giant molecular clouds and stars clusters at z = 0. These simulations also self-consistently resolve the formation of satellite dwarf galaxies around each Milky Way-like host. These low-mass galaxies have presented significant challenges to the cold dark matter model, but I will show progress in addressing the “missing satellites” and “too-big-to-fail” problems. Finally, I will discuss synthetic Milky Way surveys that we have created from the Latte simulations, which are publicly available, to provide theoretical modeling insight for the era of Gaia.

Bio: Professor Wetzel is an assistant professor in the physics department and in the astrophysics and cosmology group at the University of California, Davis. He is a theoretical/computational astrophysicist and cosmologist. Using the world’s most powerful supercomputers, he generates cosmological simulations to model the formation of cosmic structures, including galaxies and their stars. He uses these simulations as theoretical laboratories to develop and test models of galaxy formation, stellar dynamics, and the nature of dark matter, with emphasis on our own Milky Way galaxy.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:59:20 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar A. Wetzel
Navigating Funding Resources for International Internships Lab (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71420 71420-17825628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

It is part of Applying for Funding to Support your International Internship Workshop Series.

Hoping to apply for funding to support your international internship this summer, but aren’t sure where to start? Stop by the International Center on Friday, January 24th between 1-3 PM and bring your laptop! We’ll have cookies, coffee, and space for you to begin searching for funding while receiving guidance from International Center advisors. Note: this is not a presentation; rather, it is a dedicated time and space for you to begin your search -- with support from advisors when you have questions!

Space is limited, so please RSVP to let us know if you’ll be joining us!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:24:59 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Workshop / Seminar Funding
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: Boeing in Space (January 24, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71820 71820-17888061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Raenaurd Turpin
Chief Engineer and CTO,
Boeing Commercial Satellites

This new age of space exploration will require a robust, interconnected ecosystem of low-earth-orbit, cislunar, and deep-space platforms and operations. Even today, we can see how interconnected systems work in space….and the role that a strong space infrastructure – stretching from LEO to deep space – plays in successful missions. Along with aerospace engineering technologies, innovations from other industries are being applied to space: additive manufacturing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems…just to name a few. We are standing at another crossroads in human history as we venture deeper into space. At Boeing, we are building the future. Follow our journey – and maybe even join us – as we connect, protect, explore and inspire the world.

About the speaker...

Raenaurd Turpin is the Chief Engineer of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems and Common Products (CSCP). He also leads advanced satellite architecture development and technology insertion as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Commercial Satellite Business Development. In 2018, Raenaurd was recognized as Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) Engineer of the Year, in addition to BEYA Black Engineer of the Year. As Chief Architect and System Engineering Lead for the O3b mPOWER campaign, he led the team through a significant evolution of the design. Their efforts yielded increased efficiency (mass, power, operational complexity) and lower design complexity and risk, all while aligning to the customer’s affordability target. As a result, Boeing was awarded contracts to build seven satellites using this advanced digital payload design. Today, the O3b mPower constellation is in production

Turpin has also performed as a Major Supplier Program Manager for National Security Programs. In addition to this program management role, Raenaurd has also lead teams to develop the Next Generation of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) Satellites and implement Ground-Based Anti-Jam Enhancements for the existing WGS constellation.

Turpin has previously held roles in business capture as well as systems architecture & design, and began his career at Boeing as a phased array antenna analyst and digital signal processing (DSP) subsystem engineer, holding a patent for phased array calibration methodology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in 1997, played in the Rose Bowl as member of the PAC-10 Championship Football team, and completed credentials towards MS in Electrical Engineering in 1999.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:09:31 -0500 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Boeing Spacecraft
ConEco Seminar: A Role for Developmental/Genetic Mechanisms in Monarch Butterfly Conservation Considerations (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71999 71999-17911964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:06:19 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
NERS Colloquium: Risk Management Perspectives from the Design and Deployment of the Westinghouse AP1000 Reactors (January 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70138 70138-17540917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

The nuclear power industry has been historically plagued with considerable technology deployment risks, with project cost and schedule overruns presenting a significant risk to nuclear plant investors. The average realized cost of nuclear power plants built in the US was 3.18 times the planned cost. The industry has responded to these risks by employing various risk management practices to reduce the uncertainty associated with nuclear EPC projects. Some of these practices include streamlining the regulatory process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (in the case of US reactors), standardizing designs, and modularizing physical structures and components to improve construction and constructability. Although these risk-management processes have been put in place, there are still considerable cost and schedule excursions that have occurred in the construction of recent nuclear power plant projects. Notably, the Westinghouse Vogtle and V.C. Summer projects reported significant cost and schedule overruns to an extent that the Vogtle project required a significant government bailout and the V.C. Summer project was cancelled.

Sola Talabi, will share his experience as the Westinghouse Risk Manager for the Engineering Procurement and Construction work scope for the Vogtle and V.C. Summer projects. Sola will explore the issue of cost and schedule overruns from the perspective of potentially overly optimistic targets and inadequacies in project execution. Sola will also provide recommendations on how to address these cost and schedule challenges for advanced reactor deployment.

Speaker: Sola Talabi, Nuclear Industry Consultant
Sola Talabi has 19 years' experience in the nuclear industry, with 14 years at Westinghouse Electric Company, where he was  the Nuclear Power Plants Risk Manager, and also the a member of the Westinghouse Intellectual Property and Innovation Committees. As Risk Manager, Sola was responsible for risk  management of the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plant fleet, with deployments in China and the US. He was also responsible for managing risks on the Westinghouse scope of supply for plants in the UAE.

Sola’s risk responsibilities further included managing project development risk on the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor. Sola currently leads Pittsburgh Technical, which is a nuclear engineering practice that supports advanced nuclear deployment.

Sola holds the following degrees acquired at Carnegie Mellon University: a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy with a focus on risk management for large energy infrastructure projects, an MBA with a customized focus on energy, finance and operations, and a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Sola is also a PMI certified Risk Management Professional. Sola  has been recognized with leadership awards by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the National Black MBA Association. Sola has published several articles in peer‐refereed journals on the subjects of engineering, energy and risk management.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:06:58 -0500 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS logo
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68752 68752-17147140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Peer-Led Anti-Racism Teach-In (January 25, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71878 71878-17896711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Racial justice begins with anti-racism. Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices, and attitudes so that power is redistributed and shared equitably. This peer-led teach-in will engage analytically framework for examining systemic cultural, social, economic, and political forces in the community along with individual reflection. Our hope is to raise critical consciousness, understand the opportunities for actions, and how our resources can be distributed, which all of these are closely relevant to the work, legacy, and dream of Dr. King. (Light refreshments will be provided)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:46:39 -0500 2020-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Workshop / Seminar Michigan Union
Family Art Studio: Imaginary Places (January 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68753 68753-17147141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

DescriptionFamilies with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop. Take a tour of abstract paintings in UMMA's Collection Ensemble installation, as well as work by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, followed by a hands-on workshop where you will create an abstract painting of your own! Led by local artist and UMMA docent Susan Clinthorne.

Please note:  Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:17:17 -0500 2020-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
*CANCELED* Don Chisholm Jazz Vocal Masterclass with Sunny Wilkinson (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69950 69950-17485126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Stearns Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Vocal students from the Departments of Jazz and Musical Theatre perform for guest clinician Sunny Wilkinson.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:36 -0400 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 Stearns Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Sunny Wilkinson
The Premodern Colloquium. Producing the composite: stylistic pluralism in Antwerp art, c. 1510-1568. (January 26, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71568 71568-17842673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous activity. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles and dissertation chapters.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 08:28:39 -0500 2020-01-26T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Designing Learning Goals: Targeting Concepts Behind A Formula (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71357 71357-17819245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

What can we do to move our students beyond a “plug and chug” numerical competency to a deeper, conceptual understanding of formulae? In this session, instructors will learn about backwards design and the value of “beginning with the end in mind.” Instructors will then practice writing learning goals to target a common student misconceptions in their field, guided by research about discipline-specific bottlenecks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:19:25 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
"Killing the Chickens, Scaring the Monkeys? Demonstration Effects from PRC Coercion and Its Limits" (January 27, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71816 71816-17888057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: International Policy Center

Ja Ian Chong will host a talk at the Ford School discussing his research on how China uses economic punishment to elicit desired behavior from other states. A common claim about PRC economic statecraft is that it aims to discourage states from engaging in behavior Beijing finds undesirable by visibly punishing third parties. However, there is limited evidence about how such third party punishment works, particularly when states are more or less sensitive to such indirect demonstration effects. This paper seeks to address this question by examining the cases of the United Kingdom, France, Malaysia, and Taiwan. We argue that states with experience of direct punishment tend to be more resistant to demonstrations of punishment toward third parties

About the Speaker:

Ja Ian Chong is an Associate Professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order and security, contentious politics, and state formation. He works on US-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan politics.

To read more visit: https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/chong-ja-ian

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:23:37 -0500 2020-01-27T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T12:50:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) International Policy Center Workshop / Seminar Photo of Ja Ian Chong
DANG! Meeting (January 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68540 68540-17785640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
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 2020-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Data Analysis Networking Group Workshop / Seminar DANG!
HEP-Astro Seminar | New Result on K+→π+vv^- from the NA62 Experiment (January 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71101 71101-17777061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The decay K+→π+vv^-, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than 10exp(-10), is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the K+ → π+vv^- with a decay-in-flight technique. NA62 took data so far in 2016-2018. Statistics collected in 2016 allowed NA62 to reach the Standard Model sensitivity for K+→π+vv^- entering the domain of 10exp(-10) single event sensitivity and showing the proof of principle of the experiment. Thanks to the statistics collected in 2017, NA62 surpasses the present best sensitivity. The analysis strategy is reviewed and the preliminary result from the 2017 data set is presented.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:17:00 -0500 2020-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Hub Studio: Career Fair Prep (January 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70363 70363-17586190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Career fairs are great to attend for two reasons: it’s a one-stop destination to discovering new organizations, industry trends, and career opportunities out there and it provides direct access to industry professionals eager to recruit emerging young professionals like yourself. If you’re planning to attend a career fair this winter semester, first make a pitstop at the Hub’s Career Fair Prep studio between 4-6 p.m on Monday, January 27; this is self-directed, open work time for preparing a game plan ahead of the fair.

You should attend this studio if you are:
- A liberal arts and sciences student
- Looking to build or broaden your professional network
- Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready
- Exploring post-grad opportunities and are planning to apply for jobs

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Research and develop a priority list of participating organizations
- Craft a brief elevator pitch that best communicates your story to potential employers
- Get guidance on tailoring your resume to a specific position, organization, or industry
- Hear tips from Hub coaches on standby to answer your questions
- Gain access to resources on building resumes, elevator pitches, LinkedIn profiles, and more

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:58:36 -0500 2020-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Student and staff member talking
Resume Lab (January 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70408 70408-17594455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Get real time, personalized support by with 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!

Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at, we can help!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:14:00 -0500 2020-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Hatcher Graduate Library
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

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 modeling, 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.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Investigating Protein Degradation at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology (January 28, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70908 70908-17735213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: U. Jakob

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:28:03 -0500 2020-01-28T11:45:00-05:00 2020-01-28T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials on blue background
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The complete tree species of Panama (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69211 69211-17269216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:07:42 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar View of trees and water in Panama
Ph.D. Pathways: Converting CVs to Resumes (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70729 70729-17621669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you having a hard time synthesizing your academic experiences in hopes of landing a job beyond the professoriate? The process of crafting a strong resume can often be difficult for graduate students. This workshop is a hands-on opportunity for graduate students to learn how to effectively develop a resume using the foundation that they have laid with information from their CV.
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/2DQZG.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:41:00 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Special HEP-Astro Seminar | When Stars Go Nonlinear: Large Amplitude Tides and Stellar Oscillations (January 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71215 71215-17787739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Tides significantly impact the structure, evolution, and fate of many types of close binary systems, including short-period exoplanets, stellar binaries, and coalescing binary neutron stars. In many of these systems, the tide’s amplitude is so large that it cannot be treated as a small, linear perturbation to the background star. In this talk, I will show that nonlinear effects can greatly enhance the rate of tidal dissipation and thus the rate of binary evolution. As examples, I will describe how nonlinear tides influence the orbital decay of hot Jupiters and the gravitational-wave signal of coalescing binary neutron stars and white dwarfs. I will also discuss the nonlinearity of oscillation-modes in solar-like stars, which are excited by turbulent motions within the convective envelope. The rich oscillation spectra observed by space missions such as Kepler and TESS has revolutionized the field of asteroseismology and yielded a wealth of information about the internal and global properties of thousands of stars.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:16:58 -0500 2020-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Cognitive Diversity and Collective Intelligence (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72096 72096-17937823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

In 2019 Dr. Page was named John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management. He also is the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration and professor of management and organizations in the Ross School, and a professor of political science, complex systems and economics in LSA.

Dr. Page will be one of three recipients to receive their awards and give their talks at this time. The other two speakers are: John M. Carethers, whose presentation is titled “Human Conditions from Defective DNA Mismatch Repair” and Anna Suk-Fong Lok, whose presentation is titled “Elimination of Viral Hepatitis: A Tale of Two Viruses.” See link below for Record article about the three recipients.

A reception will follow the talks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:29:20 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Scott E. Page
All things Michigan Bridge (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71574 71574-17842681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation will include innovations and policy updates in the areas of bridge design and construction for MDOT bridges, along with updates on complex bridge projects MDOT has completed over the past few years such as accelerated bridge construction projects, non-redundant bridge strengthening, segmental bridge strengthening and rehabilitation, structural moves, carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) bridge elements, and the Gordie Howe International Bridge. This presentation will also include information on how bridge projects are funded, and how bridges are inspected, and maintained upon entering service. We will also have a discussion on the findings of the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse, and related recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Matthew J. Chynoweth is the Chief Bridge Engineer of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) as well as Director of the MDOT Bureau of Bridges and Structures. Matthew holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master’s in Structural Engineering from Wayne State University. He has 16 years of experience with MDOT and four years of experience in consulting
prior to joining MDOT. He is an Adjunct Faculty at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches structural engineering. Matthew is also an Executive Committee Member of the AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures, Chair of Technical Subcommittee T-6, Executive Committee Member of the American Segmental Bridge Institute, Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Bridge Engineering at the University of Buffalo.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:52:50 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Faculty Research for Impact: Addressing UN SDG #3 - Good Health and Well-Being (January 28, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70002 70002-17491347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

How are Ross faculty members advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through business research? Each month, Business+Impact hosts an interactive design micro-charette themed around one of these goals. During the month of January, we will address Goal 3: Good Health & Well-Being.  Several award-winning Ross faculty members (to be announced) 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.

This limited-size two-hour workshop will feature:

Faculty presentations on key research insights.
Discussion
Design micro-charrette using specific design tools for problem identification

Due to high interest in these workshops, we must cap attendance at 25. We aim to keep the numbers of participants at a size that can accommodate the space capacity of the +Impact Studio and provide meaningful group discussion.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:46:53 -0500 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Executive Residence (Ross Business School) Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Executive Residence (Ross Business School)
Hub MasterClass: Understanding Finance Valuations (January 28, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70684 70684-17619560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Valuation is an essential skill for any career in corporate finance, accounting, investment banking, and many other industries. During this skill-building workshop, you’ll learn directly from a field expert on what a financial valuation is, its application in a business-world setting, the steps to complete a valuation, and the opportunity to practice with real-time feedback.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts or sciences student
- Familiar with basic accounting knowledge — this is a prerequisite to participating
- Pursuing a career in Accounting, Finance or related fields after graduation

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Discover the main valuation methods used by industry practitioners today
- Try your hand at assessing a company’s value and get real-time feedback from a field expert
- Have the opportunity to practice finance valuations until it is a learned skill
- Determine if this is a potential career pathway for you

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:59:05 -0500 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Staff member facilitating workshop discussion
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants Panel (January 29, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71811 71811-17888047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Environmental Policy Association

Join the Environmental Policy Association next week on Wednesday, 1/29 at 11:30 to 1 in 1110 Weill Hall for an Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants Panel. Panelist will discuss the challenges of emerging contaminants such as PFAS. The panel will feature UM professors from Public Health and SEAS as well as representatives from the State of Michigan and the Michigan Environmental Council. Lunch will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:45:32 -0500 2020-01-29T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Environmental Policy Association Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Basalt (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70027 70027-17497483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The need to meet rising energy demands while mitigating climate change driven by associated CO2 emissions has motivated the development of geologic carbon storage systems. Until recently, most research focused on sedimentary reservoirs that rely primarily on short-term solubility and physical trapping mechanisms, where CO2 can migrate if structural security is compromised. This inherent leakage risk could be eliminated by leveraging the natural reactivity of basalt reservoirs, which are abundant in silicate minerals that dissolve rapidly under acidic conditions and can ultimately trap dissolved CO2 as solid carbonate minerals. However, our fundamental understanding of the conditions under which CO2 mineralization occurs and its viability as a permanent carbon sequestration pathway remain limited. This talk will highlight series of high-pressure core flooding experiments and complementary reactive transport modeling designed to evaluate the effects of temperature, fluid chemistry, and transport regimes on basalt dissolution and carbonate precipitation. Results indicate that basalts can effectively mineralize CO2 at representative subsurface stress conditions, but predominantly within buffered diffusion-limited zones (e.g. dead-end fractures) where reaction fronts developed from competing geochemical gradients. Carbonate precipitation was highly localized on reactive silicate minerals contributing key divalent cations and was significantly enhanced by elevated temperature and alkalinity. In combination, this work reveals how complex interactions between reservoir geochemistry and transport conditions drive the extent and spatial distribution of carbon mineralization reactions in basalt fractures, which will inform selection of storage sites and injection.

Anne Menefee in a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Anne received her B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Viginia. Her reserach is focused on improving our knowledge of fluid transport and geochemical controls for enhancing CO2 mineral carbonation in fractured basalt reservoirs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:44:27 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Pharmacology Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71201 71201-17785639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Michigan Pharmacology

Eric Small, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center

“Transcriptional regulation of fibroblast plasticity and cardiac fibrosis”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:55:46 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library Michigan Pharmacology Workshop / Seminar Small talk
Restorative Practices and Graduate Well-Being (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71457 71457-17827809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Framed around the values of student centeredness and care and using the model of wellness, this session aims to engage students in reflection around the eight key dimensions of personal well-being. Using Restorative Practices and the power of the circle process, students will share stories of well-being to inform the commitment to a culture of well-being in the U-M community.
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/7ZkzX.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:41:00 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
AEM Training for LSA Web Content Managers (January 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69395 69395-17318553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Virtual workshop that introduces LSA Department personnel to the Adobe Experience Manager content management system.

Use the website link to navigate to the AEM Training registration form.

Training required to gain website author permission.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:01:41 -0400 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Adobe Experience Manager
Preparing for the University Career Center's Winter Job and Internship Fair (January 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70257 70257-17556176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Wondering whether or not you should attend the upcoming Job and Internship Fair? Not sure how to prepare? The Job and Internship Fair starts early in the semester, but it is an important opportunity to connect with professionals- both to explore different career fields and to engage with prospective organizations. Talk with a coach from the University Career Center about making the most of your time at the Job and Internship Fair and why you should attend, even if you aren’t currently looking for a job or internship. This session will go over how to talk with employers, how to highlight the skills you bring as a transfer student, and what to put on your resume.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:29:50 -0500 2020-01-29T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T16:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Department Colloquium | New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71102 71102-17777062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The nature of the dark matter remains one of the most compelling outstanding questions in physics. Theoretical and experimental focus has been directed in the last several decades on New Physics at the weak scale, including the search for dark matter as a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). We are now looking beyond the WIMP window towards light hidden sectors, and new ideas to search for dark matter must be found. I describe some of these new ideas, including collective excitations in polar materials and superfluid helium, as well as low-gap targets like Dirac semimetals.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:17:10 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
GISC Event. Islamic Studies Reading Group: Hacking Islamic Law (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70265 70265-17556186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us for an Islamic Studies reading group!

We'll be reading selections from *Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law* by Rumee Ahmed and *Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography* by Ayesha S. Chaudhry.

For details, and to receive the readings, please contact IslamicStudies@umich.edu

Wed, January 29, 4:00 PM, 455 Weiser Hall

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at islamicstudies@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so please let us know as soon as you can.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:59:52 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar sharia-image
Honors Medical School application workshop (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71046 71046-17768658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Are you planning on applying to medical school this summer and want help in this process? If so, we invite you to attend this Honors Program workshop led by Stephanie Chervin, LSA Honors Program Pre-Med Advisor, to help you:

• Understand the timeline of the process from application to interview

• Choose target medical programs

• Get acquainted with the application service AMCAS

Bring your questions! This session is for current LSA Honors Program students only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:11:50 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:15:00-05:00 Mason Hall LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar Model organ
Make It Stick - Research-Based Learning Strategies You Need to Know (January 29, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70899 70899-17735192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

The study and learning strategies students often bring to college are often insufficient to help them succeed at the university level. Particularly in challenging STEM courses, students can't simply memorize or cram their way to a good grade. This workshop will focus on the popular learning strategies to avoid, as well as the top three strategies you don't know but are shown by research to be the most effective for long-term learning.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:18:11 -0500 2020-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar make it stick by Brown, Roediger III, and McDaniel
Coffee Chat: Bath & Body Works (January 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71974 71974-17905482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join professionals from Bath & Body Works to learn more about how careers in data analytics and marketing drive the world of retail.

You should attend this coffee chat if you are:
- An LSA junior interested in gaining a better understanding of a career in analytics OR marketing
- Want to know more about working for a leading retailer like Bath & Body Works
- Actively pursuing an internship opportunity for the summer of 2020 or are interested in pursuing a full-time career with Bath & Body Works

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Valuable connections with a leading retailer
- Experience promoting yourself and articulating the value of your LSA degree

How to apply:
- Submit your résumé by Tuesday, January 28

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:53 -0500 2020-01-30T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Chat
Complex Systems Seminar | "Using a wetland community-ecosystem model to explore ecosystem interactions and dynamics from a perspective of complex adaptive systems" (January 30, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71625 71625-17846977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50" and the LSA "Great Lakes Theme Semester".

Abstract: In the complexity research community, ecosystems are often considered to be examples of complex adaptive systems. However, complexity researchers often focus on species interactions in a community but exclude phenomena that ecosystem scientists view as central, such as carbon balance, water flows, and nutrient cycling. Ecosystem process models can provide a bridge between these fields. These models capture and represent our scientific understanding of ecosystem processes and their complex interactions and responses to external drivers. Some of these models also include the dynamics of individual species. In this seminar the Mondrian model will be examined, a community-ecosystem model of Great Lakes coastal wetlands developed by Currie and others here at Michigan. Model results and behavior will be examined from a perspective of complex adaptive systems. Mondrian is a complex, individual-based model that simulates thousands of individual plants of four species and their spatially-explicit competition, while strongly coupling the plant species functionality and competition to balanced ecosystem-level fluxes of carbon and nitrogen as well as water flows through a wetland. The model will be used to examine emergence and in nutrient cycling and community dynamics and to test hypotheses related to attractor behaviors in these variables on a range of time scales. The seminar will also touch on applied questions that the Mondrian model is used to address in coastal wetlands including nutrient retention, carbon storage, biodiversity and invasive plant species.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:05:00 -0500 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar William S. Currie
Global Insights into Brain Diversity, Development, and Lineage at Single-Cell Resolution (January 30, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70909 70909-17735214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: C. Duan

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:26:23 -0500 2020-01-30T11:45:00-05:00 2020-01-30T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials and yellow microscope on blue background
Writing the Teaching Statement (January 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71253 71253-17794046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

In this hands-on workshop, we will focus on a very important element in most academic job applications: the teaching statement. We will consider the criteria that review committees use in evaluating these statements, and we will assess examples of successful submissions in order to consider what makes for effective content, structure, and language. The workshop will include time for writing and revising an initial draft. Refreshments will be provided.

Register on the Sweetland website after January 15th.
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:49:45 -0500 2020-01-30T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T15:30:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham / Sweetland Workshop
A Cooperative Driving Framework for Urban Arterials under Mixed Traffic Conditions (January 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70039 70039-17499532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative driving framework is proposed to optimize the traffic signals and vehicle trajectories in a mixed traffic condition with regular vehicles (RVs), connected vehicles (CVs), and CAVsin an arterial corridor.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:46:50 -0500 2020-01-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rackham North: Future Faculty—Cover Letter Writing for Faculty Positions (January 30, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70980 70980-17762329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop will address writing cover letters for faculty positions. The session is designed to serve students across Rackham’s many disciplines, and will emphasize the structural, formal, aesthetic, and rhetorical characteristics of a strong letter of application. All participants will have an opportunity to work on—and potentially workshop—their own cover letters, so please bring your own materials with you.
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/4p2Go.
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, 17 Jan 2020 18:17:01 -0500 2020-01-30T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
EEB Thursday Seminar: River capture promotes evolutionary diversification in continental freshwaters (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69040 69040-17220021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Neotropical freshwaters house one of the greatest concentration of species and phenotypes on Earth, with more than 8,000 fish species representing approximately 10% of all living vertebrates combined, compressed into a tiny volume of aquatic habitat. The diversity of Neotropical freshwater fishes long predates the geological formation of the modern Amazon and Orinoco river basins, and the unparalleled diversity we observe today arose from an excess of speciation over extinction rates operating over a lengthy time period of tens of millions of years. In this paper we summarize the major phylogenetic and biogeographic dimensions of the Neotropical ichthyofauna, and review recent advances in understanding the roles of paleogeography, river capture, and other landscape evolution processes contributing to the formation of this singular fauna.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/1Qsk76-KDDk

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:02:04 -0400 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. James Albert map of distribution
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (January 30, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Making Conversation with Powerful People (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70425 70425-17594477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Making conversation can be one of the most challenging types of speaking to master in a second language. This can be particularly true with people in a position of authority, such as one’s research advisor, work supervisor, or future employer. In this workshop, we will explore conversation topics, turn-taking strategies, active listening, and sources for sample conversations. We will consider different types of conversations, such as seeming friendly and confident at a job interview or competent and insightful in a research group meeting.

Come ready to practice with one another and to identify effective ways to practice on your own.

Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:46:35 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Trivia Night at the TSC! (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72086 72086-17937814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Transfer Student Alliance is a new student organization just for transfer students. We are hosting a Trivia Night. Come hang out with us to meet new people, have fun, and learn more about our organization!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:26:19 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Dylan Small, Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (January 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69915 69915-17483046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Gun violence is a problem in America. There are many unresolved questions about what policies would reduce gun violence. I will discuss two attempts at causal inference about gun violence prevention policies that I have worked on, and highlight some ideas about causal inference I have sought to use in this work.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:13:43 -0500 2020-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Dylan Small
Declare ECE! (January 31, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71415 71415-17825624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Seeking to declare your CoE major? Attend Declare ECE! and learn more about the exciting and innovative field of electrical engineering and computer engineering and how you can pursue an ECE degree!

Electrical and computer engineering is at the heart of modern technology and innovation, including computers, cars, robotics, energy and more. ECE will provide the skills you need to CHANGE THE WORLD and GET A JOB!!!

Pizza will be provided!

Visit our website to RSVP for the event.

Scheduled Activities at Event:

– Opening presentation from Professor P.C. Ku, Associate Chair of ECE Undergraduate Affairs

– Presentation on available events and activities for ECE students

– Panel of current ECE students

– Learn about Fall 2020’s EECS 200 that offers hands-on design, build, and test opportunities

– Learn about Major Design Experience (MDE) options

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:43:41 -0500 2020-01-31T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Workshop / Seminar Declare ECE! Photo
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Scaling Time and Space (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63603 63603-15808601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do fluctuations in scale impact the way we look at the past? Ruth Mostern’s research spans millennia and examines how local practices and political agendas influenced the ecology of the Yellow River. This panel will explore the ways in which spaces are created, managed, and contested over time. Shifting between scales, speakers will discuss the interconnections and conflicts between the local and the universal, with case studies ranging from the localized spaces of the workroom and kitchen to the expanses of empire and imagined nationhood.

Featuring:

Erin Johnson (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Shohei Kawamata (Graduate Student, International and Regional Studies, University of Michigan)
Fusheng Luo (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Jian Zhang (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Alexander Clayton (chair; Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Ruth Mostern (respondent; Associate Professor, History, University of Pittsburgh)

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:35:04 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Hub Studio: Internship Search (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70365 70365-17586191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

This studio is self-directed, open work time to work towards launching or improving your internship search process. Use this focused time to identify what opportunities connect with your interests, discover the in-person and virtual internship opportunities available through the Hub’s Internship Program, and uncover other sources of internship opportunities.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- Currently enrolled LSA undergraduates who will return in the fall semester following the internship
- Eager to land a valuable summer internship or research opportunity

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Develop a personalized approach to locating, considering and identifying internships from within the Hub’s Internship Program and those sourced outside of the Hub.
- Get helpful resources including worksheets to help you explore your interests, tips & tricks for a productive internship search, as well as docs to help you prepare your application materials.
- See the Hub internship positions that are currently open for applications on the Opportunity Network
- Hear tips from Hub coaches on standby to answer your questions

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:51:15 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Student and staff member collaborating on computer
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Mark Daskin and Jon Lee, U-M IOE (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71482 71482-17834194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 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 Thursday, January 30, 2020.

Title:
Publishing 101

Abstract:
Publishing is at the heart of the advancement of scientific and engineering knowledge. It also plays a critical role in the lives of academics – students and faculty alike. For example, it plays a pivotal role in promotion and tenure decisions and also impacts student completion times and, in some cases, admission decisions.

In this seminar we will focus on several topics, including:
How to pick a journal for your work
How the review process works
The responsibilities of different roles (e.g. EiC, Department Editor, Associate Editor, Reviewers)
Advice on responding to reviewers

Bio:
Jon Lee is the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering and a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at UM. He was the founding Managing Editor of the journal Discrete Optimization. Jon was Chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society for 2010-2012, he was awarded the ICS (INFORMS Computing Society) Prize in 2010, and he was elected as a Fellow of INFORMS in 2013. Jon is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematical Programming (Series A), Editorial Board Member of the journal Optimization and Engineering, and Editorial Board Member of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics.

Mark S. Daskin is the immediate past Department Chair of the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He holds the Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professorship. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan in 2010, Daskin was on the faculty at Northwestern University (for 30 years) and the University of Texas (for a year and a half). He is the author of over 80 refereed papers and of two books: Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms and Applications (John Wiley, 1995; second edition, 2013) and Service Science (John Wiley, 2010. He is a past editor-in-chief of both IIE Transaction and Transportation Science. He served as the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University from 1995-2001.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:36:32 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Mark Daskin and Jon Lee
ASCE Seminar Series (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71334 71334-17817107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Since 1953, Klein & Hoffman have worked with building owners, campus and facility managers, condominium association boards and architectural firms, putting their client’s best interests at the forefront. Pragmatic and practical, Klein & Hoffman push the envelope while being mindful of budgets, consistently delivering superior results in high-rise buildings, campus environments, condo buildings and famous landmarks, including the Shedd Aquarium, O’Hare International Airport, and Loyola University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:01:01 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Economics at Work (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70946 70946-17758141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:58:56 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:10:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Searching for Scholarships for Transfer Students (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70259 70259-17556178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Are you looking for a scholarship to use for the 2020-2021 Academic year? Come hear Paul Barrow from the UM Library present the different tools available to you to aid in your search. Paul will demonstrate ways to do a search on one of the databases the UM supports, but also show you other resources to use.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:11:31 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
ConEco Seminar: Understanding the Potential of Wild Populations to Adapt to Climate Change: Lessons from Color Molting Mammals (January 31, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72010 72010-17914144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:52:22 -0500 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Financing Law School Workshop (January 31, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71231 71231-17791933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Lindsey Stetson, UM Law School’s Director of Financial Aid, presents information on financing your legal education with a focus on minimizing your debt.

Pizza will be served.

Registration requested: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/21932

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:35:07 -0500 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Pre-Law Image
NERS Colloquium: Medical Imaging Advances: Do All Bell-and-Whistle Options Impact Patient Care? (January 31, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70139 70139-17540914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Learn about the development of Computed Tomography from its inception in the early 1970s to the present; the medical applications of CT (e.g., diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and interventional CBCT); and the current state of how CT improvements are driven. The theme of the discussion will be to highlight the key technological advances that increased the value of CT in medicine. Examples of advancements with unquestionable benefit to patient care and other “advancements” with motivation rooted in unwarranted fear over radiation dose will be covered. This discussion will be presented in a manner suitable for the non-medical imaging expert to convey the larger themes related to technology advancement in the space of medical imaging.


Speaker: Timothy Szczykutowicz, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medical Physics

Dr. Szczykutowicz is an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Departments of Radiology, Medical Physics, and Biomedical Engineering. He received his Bachelors of Science in Physics from the SUNY University at Buffalo in 2008. He was active in medical physics at Buffalo in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Rudin with the Toshiba Stroke Research Center, working on vessel sizing and detector performance characterization. After his undergraduate studies, Dr. Szczykutowicz came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he earned his Masters and PhD in Medical Physics, receiving mentorship from Doctors Charles 'Chuck' Mistretta and Guang-Hong Chen. His dissertation was on fluence field modulated CT, a promising x-ray imaging technique that allows for imaging dose to be tailored to individuals. After his dissertation work, Dr. Szczykutowicz spent a year as a doctrinal fellow and imaging physics resident with the Department of Medical Physics at the UW before being appointed as a clinical health sciences Assistant Professor. The clinical and research activities of Dr. Szczykutowicz include: optimizing CT scan protocols, monitoring patient dose, developing new metrics to define image quality in the clinical setting, developing protocol management methodologies, fluence field modulated CT, dual energy CT, and assisting in various projects related to cone beam CT.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:45:32 -0500 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Speaker: Timothy Szczykutowicz
CANCELLED: Prison Creative Arts Project @ UM X Soundsmith Studios (February 1, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73795 73795-18320175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Weekly community workshops

Free & all ages

Music, writing, and visual art workshops hosted by University of Michigan students

No registration required.

Contact: vitalis@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:54:43 -0400 2020-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Soundsmith Studios
PICS Professional Development Workshop. Don't Sell Yourself Short: Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Strategies that Lead to Interviews (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71609 71609-17844813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

PLEASE NOTE: STUDENTS CAN DROP IN ANYTIME DURING THE 2-HOUR TIME BLOCK!

Drop in to have your resume, cover letter, and/or LinkedIn reviewed. This is a great opportunity to have these materials reviewed and updated prior to the career fair! If you have class or other commitments, you do not need to stay the entire time.

Cover letters and resumes tell your professional story. They are your first impression when seeking an employment opportunity. This session will help students create impact-centered resumes and cover letters. Resume basics, resume formatting and resume content will be discussed using examples from the resumes of the session participants. Students should bring PRINTED copies of their most up-to-date resumes as they will receive feedback from all the session participants as well as the instructor. Please RSVP at the following link to attend: http://myumi.ch/gj9xP.

This session will also teach participants how to use LinkedIn to research, network, and apply for jobs. Having a LinkedIn profile already created is highly encouraged and students must bring computers to this session.

Klementina (Tina) Sula teaches Network Your Way to an International Internship and Career to students in the Program in International and Comparative Studies. She also offers seminars and workshops for students on various professional development topics. Tina is currently the Chief Development Officer at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, where she is responsible for all of the hospital’s fundraising efforts. Previously, Tina served as the Director of International Giving and Engagement at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, spearheading the College’s fundraising efforts outside of the United States. Tina has also worked for the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Club de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and for the State Department (Main State) in Washington, D.C.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:21:18 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Workshop / Seminar PICS Professional Development Workshop. Don't Sell Yourself Short: Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Strategies that Lead to Interviews
The Art of Uniting Through Story (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71834 71834-17890221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Facilitated by The Diatribe, a non profit organization that uses performing arts to empower people to share their stories, raise awareness of social issues, and be active members in their communities, this workshop will help attendees to peel back the layers they have built to expose the raw, beautiful, and impactful pieces of their story that many fail to see as relatable. Attendees will get familiar with these two artists through listening to their story and soaking in their craft. Those attending will work on crafting their own stories through creative expression.
“The Art of Uniting Through Story” will be facilitated by Diatribe teaching artists Marcel “Fable” Price, and Ericka “Kyd Kane” Thompson.
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/E3p8b.
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, 21 Jan 2020 18:17:15 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Diversity Café (February 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69750 69750-17415376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Boyer Building
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The Diversity Café offers open, hosted conversations where we explore DEI-related questions that matter. It’s an opportunity to find common ground and strengthen our DEI communication skills. Our focusing question: “What does it take to shift one’s perception of a group of people, especially given long-held stereotypes?”

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:46:36 -0500 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 Boyer Building Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar image of people talking
HEP-Astro Seminar | Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of the LUX and LZ Dark Matter Detectors (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71241 71241-17794028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is a 250 kg active mass dual-phase time-projection chamber (TPC) operating at the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. Various sources, including ^{127}Xe, D-D neutrons, ^{83}mKr, Tritium, and AmBe neutrons are used to perform calibrations of detector responses to electron recoils (ER) and nuclear recoils (NR). I will present an ultra-low energy calibration of ER using an intrinsic ^{127}Xe source and of NR using a short pulsed D-D neutron generator. Radioactive isotope ^{127}Xe is formed in the LUX LXe volume due to cosmogenic activation before the detector was moved one mile underground. A measurement in the early stage of the LUX WS2013 science run unveils ~0.9 million ^{127}Xe atoms in the LUX LXe volume, which provides an ideal source for low energy calibrations. ^{127}Xe decay is a form of electron capture in which a high energy gamma (> 200 keV) is emitted, followed by an associated low energy X-ray cascade over the energy range of 190 eV to 33.2 keV. The relatively long mean free path (mfp) of the gamma-ray (> 0.9 cm) allows the EC decay to produce clearly identified 2-vertex events in the LUX detector. We observe the K (33.2 keV), L (5.2 keV), M (1.1 keV), and N (190 eV) shell cascade events and verify the relative ratio of observed events for each shell. We extract the means and sigmas of the charge signal yields associated with the K, L, M, and N shell events. The N shell cascade analysis includes single extracted electron (SE) events and represents the lowest-energy electronic recoil in situ measurements that have been explored in liquid xenon. A short pulsed D-D neutron NR calibration was performed in situ in the LUX detector in June 2016 after the completion of the LUX WS2013-16 science run. The calibration incorporates a pulsing technique with narrow pulses (20 us / 250 Hz). We have measured, with low systematics, the absolute rates of NR events with ionization signals down to 2 extracted electrons and zero, one or greater detected scintillation photons. A calibration measurement with absolute event rates of charge-only S2 events for the first time in a Xe TPC provides an important probe for ultra-low energy measurements of LXe Qy. This technique provides direct measurements of scintillation and charge yields down to (Ly) 0.45 keVnr and (Qy) 0.27 keVnr, respectively. New calibration results on ultra-low energy nuclear recoil yields are crucial to determine physics search sensitivities for large mass LXe TPCs (LZ experiment) for low mass WIMPs (< 10 GeV) and for coherent neutrino scattering (e.g. ^8B solar neutrino).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:16:42 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Guest Master Class: Thomas Hampson, baritone (February 3, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70008 70008-17493390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Perhaps the pre-eminent exponent of American art song, internationally-acclaimed baritone and recitalist Thomas Hampson will present a master class.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:15:33 -0500 2020-02-03T19:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Walgreen Drama Center
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

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 modeling, 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.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Complex Systems Seminar | "Human and Ecological System Characteristics Influence Gains from Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management" (February 4, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71748 71748-17877266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50"

Ecosystem-based fisheries management has emerged as a new approach to fisheries management, broadening the scope beyond the traditional single-fishery management paradigm. A broader scope, however, necessitates additional information on system components and new methodologies to design management approaches that consider ecological, human, and human-ecological connections. Although there have been calls for increased consideration of system linkages and ecological and socioeconomic components and outcomes, relatively little work has been done to-date. In this paper we develop a dynamic, integrated, human-ecological model. It incorporates ecological connectivity between species in the form of a foodweb, a human system comprised of fishers who choose among multiple fisheries to fish in subject to management program design, and fisher harvest linking the ecological and human components. We identify the human and ecological conditions under which gains from management approaches that account for the system connectivity relative to traditional single-fishery management policies are greatest, providing insight into when the returns to using more complex models to design fisheries management policies will be greatest.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:37:14 -0500 2020-02-04T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Kailin Kroetz
MCDB Remembering the past and rewiring the future: A protein-based inheritance paradigm (February 4, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70910 70910-17735215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: R. Stockbridge

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:31:02 -0500 2020-02-04T11:45:00-05:00 2020-02-04T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials and yellow microscope on blue background
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Using long-term enrichment experiments and existing nutrient gradients to determine the nutrient controls on carbon storage in an understudied seagrass ecosystem (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69212 69212-17269217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:26:48 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar underwater cinder block reef and seagrass
RNA Regulation at the Single Molecule Level: From Nuclear Organizations to Molecular Activity- Biological Chemistry Seminar (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71322 71322-17817082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Fangyuan Ding, Postdoctoral Fellow at CalTech in the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, will be presenting the Department of Biological Chemistry seminar on Tuesday February 4th, 2020 at 12pm in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:11:30 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Ding Flyer
Personal Finance: Stock Market Strategy: Equity Derivatives (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71847 71847-17894522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This workshop will demonstrate how equity derivatives (options) can be used to accomplish ALL of the following in a single setup:

• Create *and collect* profits when stocks go up.
• Create *and collect* profits even when stocks aren’t moving.
• Create and collect *profits*…during and after a market crash.
• Requires as little as 2 hours per week of direct attention.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:45:37 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Pre-Law Personal Statement Workshop (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71227 71227-17791928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend.

January 15th, 4PM - 5PM - G243 Angell Hall (Newnan Advising Conference Room)

February 4th, 4PM - 5PM - G243 Angell Hall (Newnan Advising Conference Room)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:46:01 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Pre-Law Image
Enhancing the Design and Performance of Highway Bridges using Ultra-High Performance Concrete (February 4, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71935 71935-17903256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is an advanced cement-based, fiber-reinforced composite material that is emerging as a popular solution to many challenges related to highway bridge performance and durability. UHPC-class materials exhibit mechanical and durability properties that far exceed those of both conventional and high-performance concretes. The Structural Concrete Group at FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) has been conducting research on UHPC-class materials for more than 15 years, and has played a significant role in the growing popularity of this innovative class of materials in the US bridge market.
The objective of this presentation is to introduce the state-of-practice for UHPC in US highway bridge market, and discuss how this material is innovating the way we design and construct highway bridges. The presentation will include: a review of the basic properties of UHPC-class materials; a discussion of the current deployments in the US bridge market; and a discussion of recent research conducted at TFHRC. Research topics to be discussed will include: prefabricated bridge element connections using UHPC; UHPC for bridge repair and rehabilitation; and recent research focused on understanding the fundamental material properties and structural response of UHPC-class materials.

Dr. Zach Haber is a research structural engineer on FHWA’s Bridge Engineering Research Team at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia, USA. Dr. Haber’s research areas include prefabricated bridge systems and applications of innovative materials in bridge engineering. He provides technical assistance and outreach to bridge owners, designers, and consultants interested in developing or deploying innovative bridge engineering solutions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:08:01 -0500 2020-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Hub Studio: Resumes (February 4, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71952 71952-17905456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Don’t underestimate the power of an effective resume — it has the ability to open doors to new internship opportunities and full-time roles. The misconception is that limited experience is the biggest barrier to success, but a poorly written resume is often the culprit. Stop by the Hub during this self-directed, open work time to draft a strong resume with the support of Hub coaches.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Unfamiliar with resume building and don’t have one
- Finished drafting up your resume and just need a second opinion
- Looking to secure an internship or research opportunity for the summer
- Exploring post-grad opportunities and planning to apply for jobs

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Determine the common elements that make an effective resume by assessing sample resumes
- Draft an effective resume with the support of Hub coaches
- Get real-time feedback from your peers by comparing resumes and exchanging insights
- Walk away with helpful resources like the Resume Checklist and Resume Blueprint

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:32:27 -0500 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Brainstorming over resume
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Healthcare: A WeListen Staff Discussion (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71610 71610-17844814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: WeListen Staff

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and lunch will be provided!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLFebruary

We will discuss Healthcare by learning about policies put forth by the Democratic and Republican parties, and examining systems in other countries. We'll also consider the impact of lobbyists on prescription drug costs, and discuss plans and terminology being used by 2020 presidential candidates.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute and LSA Psychology.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:44:16 -0500 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad WeListen Staff Workshop / Seminar Healthcare Flyer
Meet your Student Government Transfer Reps (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72319 72319-17974671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join your transfer reps from Central Student Government and LSA Student Government to discuss life as a transfer student at Michigan. Free donuts and hot chocolate will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:17:42 -0500 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
"Experimental and Clinical Findings of Potential EDC Exposure" (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71095 71095-17777068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Kenneth S. Korach is a Scientist Emeritus at the NIH. He received his Ph.D. in Endocrinology from the Medical College of Georgia where he characterized biochemical properties of estrogen receptors in the pituitary and hypothalamus. He did post doctorial training at Harvard Medical School with Prof. Lewis Engel on a Ford Fellowship. His research is concerned with the mechanisms of estrogen hormone action, effects of endocrine disruptors, hormonal carcinogenesis; reproductive biology; coupling of receptor signal. He aims to form a basis towards comparison to different disease states of the tissue(s) regarding toxicity, carcinogenesis and/or functional phenotypic alterations and susceptibilities to disease.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:24:17 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Health Researcher
Change It Up! (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71835 71835-17890222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

“Change It Up!” brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful, and safe communities. It 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.
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/3qA3m.
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, 21 Jan 2020 18:17:15 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Lateral circulation and its role in disrupting the classical pattern of intra-tidal stratification in estuaries (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70028 70028-17499522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The tidal cycle variability of stratification in an estuary is controlled by the interaction between tidal flows, bathymetry, and the estuary's longitudinal salt gradient. Two-dimensional analysis (in the vertical-longitudinal plane) of a straight, estuarine channel yields the classical theory of periodic stratification from tidal straining, and this mechanism typically works to enhance stratification on ebb tides and break it down through active mixing on flood tides. Ecological implications of mixing relative to tidal phase include whether sediment can reach perimeter habitats high in the tidal prism, whether phytoplankton reach sunlight, and whether hypoxia at depth persists longer than biology can tolerate. This pattern of stratification can be disrupted by density-driven exchange with shallow regions lining the channel: differential advection over channel-shoal bathymetry sets up lateral gradients in velocity, straining the salinity field and driving an input of fresher water at the surface of the channel during flood tides. Here, we present analytical scaling groups to weigh the contributions of longitudinal and lateral tidal straining and explore the conditions which lead to flood-tide stratification through this lateral exchange mechanism. Idealized, fully three-dimensional model results from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) are used to explore the parameter space described by the scaling groups.

Lissa MacVean is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on the physics of water in lakes, estuaries, and marine coastal environments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:47:33 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Synapse instability and degeneration: Mechanisms (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72328 72328-17974681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Cathy Collins
Yogesh Wairkar is a collaborator with her group.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:01:48 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials and microscope
Hub Pathways & Prep: Effective Digital Communication (February 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71957 71957-17905458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Ubiquitous email use and video conferencing are increasingly common across a wide range of jobs and industries, especially when working remotely. We’ll share the Do's and Don’ts of verbal and written communications. Ultimately, students will learn the art of communicating effectively (and professionally) through digital platforms.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Looking to sharpen your communication skills and get tips on professionalism in the workplace
- Preparing for a virtual interview, virtual internship or full-time remote position

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Understand how impactful digital communication is in internship and career opportunities
- Develop strategies for effective digital communication in the workplace.

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:49:12 -0500 2020-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Searching
POSTPONED: Speaking American English (February 5, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71150 71150-17783448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:30pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

ALL UCLL EVENTS HAVE BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

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 February 5 to April 15, 2020. Participants meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. There will be no meeting on March 4.
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 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:36:39 -0400 2020-02-05T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T16:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Department Colloquium | Approaches to Fully-3D Dedicated Molecular Breast Imaging (February 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71066 71066-17770769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Multi-Modality Imaging Lab at Duke has developed and characterized several dedicated (human) breast imaging devices which offer no compression (no pain!), fast scans, low dose imaging with ionizing radiation for the patient, and fully-3D, isotropic, high resolution quantitative in vivo image information for physicians. The first is a “one-stop” dedicated breast imaging system for utilizing in vivo molecular imaging with Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) using a 4x5 array of 4x4cm^2 pixelated CZT modules combined with low dose x-ray Computed Tomography (CT) utilizing a 40x30cm^2 CsI(Tl) flat-panel detector coupled to a TFT array. The subsystems were developed individually, then hybridized onto a single platform, allowing fully-3D motions of each subsystem. The 3D acquisitions facilitate overcoming sampling insufficiency issues associated with cone-beam CT imaging in the pendant breast frame. Novel x-ray filtering leading to quasi-monochromatic spectra have enabled low dose CT imaging comparable with standard mammography, providing quantitative accuracy within a few percent of NIST values, while optimizing dose efficiency for image quality. Next is a clinically available cardiac SPECT imaging system utilizing 19 compact (8x8cm^2) CZT cameras with pinhole collimators reconfigured for uncompressed, pendant breast and chest wall imaging. The third system utilizes LGSO scintillation crystals coupled to compact position-sensitive photodetectors in two opposed 15x20cm^2 flat panels enabling fully-3D acquisition for dedicated breast Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging; this open system can be combined with dedicated CT. The most current system design is for dual PET-MRI breast imaging using an ultra-high sensitivity configuration of PET detector modules to image both breasts simultaneously, and is evaluated by Monte Carlo techniques. These systems can be used to detect occult disease not otherwise seen in contemporary x-ray mammography or tomosynthesis, improve the specificity of cancer diagnosis, and monitor therapeutic response in patients, without causing additional pain (or fear) for the patient.

SHORT BIO: Martin Tornai is an Associate Professor of Radiology (tenured) and Biomedical Engineering, and a faculty member of the Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell and a PhD in biomedical physics from UCLA. Upon completing his doctoral research on intraoperative nuclear imaging devices in 1997, he was recruited to the Duke faculty where he has engaged in numerous activities locally, nationally and internationally. He is a founding faculty member of Duke’s Medical Physics Graduate Program which will celebrate it’s 15th anniversary, and is active on many administrative committees, teaching, and student research committees, helping guide students in their research efforts. His research interests include dedicated nuclear (SPECT & PET) and x-ray based (CT) breast imaging devices, with which several dozen women have been clinically scanned. Along with his numerous MS, PhD and post-doctoral students and various colleagues, he has published over 150 original papers, proceedings articles, and book chapters. His newer interests include dosimetry for nuclear medicine theranostic applications.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:17:08 -0500 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Minding the Gap: Gap Year Experiences for Science Students (February 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71516 71516-17836327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Have you considered taking a year after graduation to pursue a passion or opportunity before starting your career or graduate/professional school? So many exciting opportunities exist to develop your skills, travel, volunteer, and to learn more about yourself as well as those from backgrounds different from your own. Come check out some of the options that could have you choosing a gap year for yourself.

RSVP here: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/minding-the-gap-gap-year-experiences-for-science-students-2/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:12:36 -0500 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Coffee Chat: Capital One (February 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72392 72392-17998237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join professionals from Capital One to learn more about finance through the lens of one of the world's leading financial corporations.

You should attend this coffee chat if you are:
- Interested in gaining a better understanding of a career in finance
- Looking to learn more about working for a leading financial institution
- Actively pursuing a Business Analyst internship opportunity for the summer of 2020

What you'll gain by attending:
- A better understanding of the Business Analyst role
- Learn how to promote yourself and articulate the value of your LSA degree

How to apply:
- Complete this remainder of the form by Monday, 2/3 at 11:59p



***At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for undergraduate campus roles.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:54:18 -0500 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Talks
Designing Business Models for Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies (February 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71978 71978-17905486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

The +Impact Studio at Michigan Ross in partnership with the U-M Global CO2 Initiative and the Erb Institute is excited to offer an innovative workshop in which students will use design thinking methodologies to create business models for carbon capture and utilization technologies. Award-winning U-M faculty will share their research on these technologies in an informal setting, and participating students will have the opportunity to learn and apply the business model canvas to them. This process will result in ideas for sustainable businesses that work to meaningfully combat climate change, and further ways to get involved and potentially pursue these business ideas will be shared.

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/MKnvLLPYMyTr2mg86

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:59:23 -0500 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Global CO2 Initiative
WOLV TV On-Air Workshop (February 5, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72435 72435-18007176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

WOLV TV presents on-air reporting workshop with MDIV Local 4 reporter Kim Degiulio!

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOg_CL8F8kbGruPOB-Sya3ZDPGxfmIGkcVeFAwrEzaiQKe_g/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:13:10 -0500 2020-02-05T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Temporal Regulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier (February 6, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70911 70911-17735216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: G. Csankovszki & Wilinski

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:28:56 -0500 2020-02-06T11:45:00-05:00 2020-02-06T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials and yellow microscope on blue background
Tips for Filling out a Budget Sheet (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71421 71421-17825629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

It is part of Applying for Funding to Support your International Internship Workshop Series.

The budget sheet is a critical component of most campus funding applications. Come to this lunchtime event to hear tips for completing budget sheets -- including what NOT to do. We’ll provide pizza!

Space is limited, so please RSVP to let us know if you’ll be joining us!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:27:24 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Workshop / Seminar Funding
A Data-Driven Optimization Approach For the Dynamic Shuttle Dispatching Problem (February 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70040 70040-17499534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The problem of dispatching shuttles to serve trip requests can be mathematically formulated as a dial-a-ride problem (DARP). With on-demand mobility services gaining more popularity in recent years, the real-time application of DARP is attracting ever more interest. However, the fact that size of DARP grows exponentially with number of requests renders the current solution methodologies inadequate for online applications. In order to tackle this issue, we propose a general framework that shifts much of the computational burden of the optimization problems that need to be solved into an offline setting, thereby addressing on-demand requests with fast and high-quality solutions in real time. Furthermore, in order to improve the utilization rate of vehicles, we seek to dispatch our shuttle proactively, and not wait for the demand to be realized first. Using various numerical experiments, we demonstrate the benefits of the proposed method. Furthermore, we present a sensitivity analysis to show the performance of our methodology under different parameter settings.

Amir is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Neda Masoud.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:54:53 -0500 2020-02-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rackham North: Establishing a Positive Relationship with Your Research Advisor (February 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70536 70536-17604929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The advisor/advisee relationship is critical to graduate student success. Participants in this workshop will reflect on the roles that their advisor plays in their graduate education, as well as the importance of establishing a broader network of support. We will also discuss a process for developing and agreeing upon shared expectations with your advisor so that you set yourself up for a positive working relationship.
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/jx21d.
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, 14 Jan 2020 14:41:01 -0500 2020-02-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Surfing the Secretory Pathway (February 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72331 72331-17974682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Scientist working on Golgi membrane trafficking
This is an event from the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:01:11 -0500 2020-02-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar
EEB Thursday Seminar: Variable immunity and its consequences for parasite dynamics (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69041 69041-17220022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Infectious disease results from interactions between parasites and susceptible hosts in the environment. For many populations, we have a limited understanding of the mechanisms that shape host susceptibility and how those mechanisms interact with ecological factors to regulate the spread of disease. Focusing on a simple one-host one-parasite system with environmental transmission, I use theoretical and empirical methods to explore the causes and consequences of variable host immunity. I demonstrate how integrating immune defenses into host-parasite interactions can improve our understanding of disease spread in natural systems.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/g2rVoE-lFwM

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:02:51 -0400 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Daphnia specimen depicted.
The Job Market Workshop Series (Zoom Meeting) (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72610 72610-18026884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Job Market Series consists of 10 monthly workshops designed for psychology graduate students and postdocs who will soon enter the job market. All graduate students and postdocs are welcome to attend.

The series focuses primarily on the preparation of the application package for academic jobs, including workshops targeted to each section of the application (e.g. cover letters, research statements, etc.).

Two annual workshops dedicated to the non-academic job market are also included. The timing of the workshops was selected to match an ideal timeline for students who will enter the academic job market in the fall of each year.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:25:51 -0400 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Workshop / Seminar The Job Market Workshop Series Title Image
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (February 6, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Finding Your Voice: Confidence and Clarity for Public Speaking (February 6, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71800 71800-17885887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

When you give a presentation, does your voice express confidence? Is it loud enough? Do your listeners easily understand you? Is your audience engaged? Come to this workshop to explore voice and pronunciation techniques to make your presentations shine. You will receive hands-on practice presenting for one minute on a topic of your choice such as a self-introduction, an overview of your broad area of research, a new development in your field, or a quick story of something interesting you’ve experienced.

Bring a script or outline with you to explore together.

Registration is required, please sign up here: https://myumi.ch/88kqK

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:41:28 -0500 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Searching for Scholarships for Transfer Students (February 6, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70259 70259-17556179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Are you looking for a scholarship to use for the 2020-2021 Academic year? Come hear Paul Barrow from the UM Library present the different tools available to you to aid in your search. Paul will demonstrate ways to do a search on one of the databases the UM supports, but also show you other resources to use.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:11:31 -0500 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises Workshop (February 6, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71982 71982-17905521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (or TRE) is a simple yet innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking/vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return back to a state of balance. We have some yoga mats available, please bring your own if possible.

Lovella Calica is certified by TRE Global Certification Training Program and has liability insurance through Hands-On-Trade.

She started her practice in April of 2014 and finished my training in August of 2015. She has been providing TRE sessions to veterans, civilians, children, women, artists and various other people since that time. Practicing TRE drastically and rapidly improved her life tenfold. She felt that she jumped ahead in therapy about 5 years, without all the talking! As a survivor of childhood trauma she had been weighed down with guilt, anger and anxiety for much of her life. After doing TRE every other day for just one month, she felt great relief from these symptoms, which was even noticeable to peers. She had a new and healthier relationship with her body and felt that the space anxiety was taking in her body had been physically removed.

If you want more information on TRE, visit www.traumaprevention.com

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and 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 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:40:13 -0500 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Tension & Trauma Release Exercises Workshop will be held on Thursday, February 6th from 6-7:30pm in the School of Social Work's EEC room. It is suggested to wear comfortable clothes to the event.
Sculptor Capital Management Presents: How Operations makes a finance firm tick (February 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71946 71946-17903303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 9:00am
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Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and sales professionals generate revenue, but operations professionals are who ensure the success of the firm. If you are interested in helping firms more efficiently operate, shaping the talent of the organization, or ensuring that work complies with legal standards then join Sculptor for a crash course on the work.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- An LSA junior interested in learning about how firms run from people to processes
- Interested in pursuing a career in Manhattan
- Focused on a career in Operations, Human Capital, Legal, Compliance, IT, or Tax

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Valuable connections with a leading hedge firm interested in talented LSA students
- A better understanding of the variety of operations roles within a finance firm
- Hands on experience with a case study led by professionals who do the work

How to apply:
- Submit your résumé and write a few (brief) statements by Thursday, Feb 6th at 11:59p

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:21:20 -0500 2020-02-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Employer collaborating with students
Statistics Department Seminar Series: David Blei, Professor, Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69917 69917-17483049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods require that we observe all confounders, variables that affect both the causal variables and the outcome variables. But whether we have observed all confounders is a famously untestable assumption. We describe the deconfounder, a way to do causal inference with weaker assumptions than the classical methods require.

How does the deconfounder work? While traditional causal methods measure the effect of a single cause on an outcome, many modern scientific studies involve multiple causes, different variables whose effects are simultaneously of interest. The deconfounder uses the correlation among multiple causes as evidence for unobserved confounders, combining unsupervised machine learning and predictive model checking to perform causal inference. We demonstrate the deconfounder on real-world data and simulation studies, and describe the theoretical requirements for the deconfounder to provide unbiased causal estimates.

This is joint work with Yixin Wang. [*] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2019.1686987

Biography: David Blei is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, and a member of the Columbia Data Science Institute. He studies probabilistic machine learning, including its theory, algorithms, and application. David has received several awards for his research, including a Sloan Fellowship (2010), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2011), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011), Blavatnik Faculty Award (2013), ACM-Infosys Foundation Award (2013), a Guggenheim fellowship (2017), and a Simons Investigator Award (2019). He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. He is a fellow of the ACM and the IMS.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:19:09 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar David Blei
MFG Research-Smart Manufacturing Seminar - Human-Robot Collaboration: Current Status and Future Trends (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72189 72189-17955062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Abstract
Human-robot collaboration has attracted increasing attention, both in academia and in industry. For example, in human-robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace. However, the robots used today are controlled by pre-generated rigid codes that cannot support effective human-robot collaboration. In response to this need, multi-modal yet symbiotic communication and control methods have been developed. These methods include voice processing, gesture recognition, haptic interaction, and brainwave perception. Deep learning is used for classification, recognition and context awareness identification. Within this context, this seminar provides an overview of the current status of human-robot collaboration including its classification, definition and characteristics. At the end of the seminar, remaining challenges and future research directions will be highlighted.

Speaker Bio
Lihui Wang is a Chair Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research interests are focused on cyber-physical systems, human-robot collaboration, real-time monitoring and control, predictive maintenance, adaptive and sustainable manufacturing systems. Professor Wang is actively engaged in various professional activities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Manufacturing Research, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He has published 9 books and authored in excess of 500 scientific publications. Professor Wang is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, CIRP, SME and ASME, the President-Elect of North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, and the Chairman of Swedish Production Academy.

Co-organized by:
Judy Jin (Program Director, ISD Manufacturing; Professor IOE)
Chinedum Okwudire (Associate Chair, ISD; Associate Professor, ME)

Contact: Kathy Bishar (kbishar@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:17:52 -0500 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar Lihui Wang
Alumni Connections: Julie Schneider (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71945 71945-17905472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Julie Schneider, a pediatrician and faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine, will share how to achieve life balance as a woman and practicing physician, her journey from psychology major to med school, and advice on the med school experience. Julie will lead an in-person session for a limited group of 10 students (RSVP early!).

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- Interested in the hearing about the experience of women in medicine
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Interested in learning more about practicing medicine and/or education

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Opportunity to connect with an LSA graduate
- A better understanding of the Med School experience
- Advice on balancing life and practicing medicine

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:50:42 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Julie Schneider Headshot
Pre-Law Practice LSAT (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72239 72239-17963878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Participate in a proctored LSAT practice exam. Registration required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/21975

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:09:57 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Pre-Law Image
ASCE Seminar Series (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71575 71575-17842682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Jeffers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan. Her research focuses on analysis of structures subjected to extreme load events (e.g., fire, blasts, earthquakes), numerical analysis of complex systems, advanced finite element methods, structural dynamics, structural stability. Also interested in various topics within engineering education.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:04:47 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Economics at Work (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70947 70947-17760216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:59:24 -0500 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:10:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Statement of Purpose Peer Review Workshop (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71422 71422-17825630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

It is part of Applying for Funding to Support your International Internship Workshop Series.

The Statement of Purpose is the heart and soul of a campus funding application and can make or break your application. Come to this interactive workshop for an opportunity to get feedback on your personal statement through a guided peer review session. We’ll provide cookies and coffee.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to let us know if you’ll be joining us!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:29:49 -0500 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Workshop / Seminar Funding
AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Culture and Careers Panel Discussion (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72478 72478-18009388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ellen Chang -- Co-Founder, LightSpeed Innovations
Trudy Kortes -- Chief of Human Exploration & Space Operations, NASA Glenn
Kevin Michaels -- Managing Director, AeroDynamic Advisory
Tia Sutton -- Regulatory Engineer, Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association
Anthony Waas -- Chair, U-M Department of Aerospace Engineering

This panel discussion signals the completion of the “Introduction to the Aerospace Enterprise” component of Aero 285, and ushers in the Cultures and Careers components. Please join us for an enlightening panel discussion featuring a diverse group of speakers from academia, industry, government, consulting, and financial sectors. Each panelist will spend a few minutes providing insights into their individual career paths, and then also talk about what constitutes a culture of excellence in any entity within the Aerospace Enterprise. There will also be plenty of time for questions – both pre-submitted and from the audience.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:54:55 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Top row: Ellen Chang, Trudy Kortes, Kevin Michaels; Bottom row: Tia Sutton, Anthony Waas
Alumni Connections: Stephanie Steinberg (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72091 72091-17937822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Hear from Stephanie Steinberg, CEO and Co-founder of the Detroit Writing Room, an event and co-working space in downtown Detroit that offers professional coaching for any writing need. Earlier in her career as a journalist, Stephanie discovered a passion for entrepreneurship through her reporting on other entrepreneurs. While majoring in Communication and Media studies, Stephanie held the role of editor-in-chief of The Michigan Daily student newspaper. She went on to graduate from the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Interested in hearing about pursuing a career in journalism
- Interested in learning more about starting a small business in a city like Detroit

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Opportunity to connect with an LSA graduate
- A better understanding of the challenges and success of being an entrepreneur
- Advice on the skills and competencies needed for a successful career in journalism

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:37:59 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Stephanie Steinberg Headshot
Preparing a Strong CEW+ Scholarship Application (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69669 69669-17376522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Join the CEW+ Scholarship team for an overview of CEW+ Scholarship application components, tips on crafting a strong application, and answers to your questions about eligibility, the review process, award types, and more.

The CEW+ Scholarship Application will be available on January 15th and the application process closes on April 1, 2020, for funding available during the 2020-21 academic year.

RSVP here to attend: cew.umich.edu/events/preparing-a-strong-cew-scholarship-application

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:15:23 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar fingers typing on a laptop
ConEco Seminar: The Importance of Coastal Wetlands in Generating Unique Biodiversity and Conservation Opportunities (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72011 72011-17914147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series. Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:42:05 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
NERS Colloquium: How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation (February 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70140 70140-17540913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Solar energy’s path to widespread adoption provides a successful model that can be applied to other technologies we will need to address climate change.

Solar photovoltaics (PV) has become a substantial global industry—a truly disruptive technology that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. But,

How did solar become inexpensive? And why did it take so long?
As a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow I had the opportunity to dive deeply into these questions, drawing on new data sets, analyses, and interviewing 75 individuals in 18 countries. The concept of National Innovation Systems provides a theoretical structure for this assessment and helps explain that PV’s success has been the result of distinct contributions mainly by the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China—in that sequence. Flows of knowledge from one country to another—often embodied in equipment, and also as tacit knowledge in the heads of internationally mobile individuals—have been central to solar’s progress. One payoff from understanding the reasons for solar’s success is that it can serve as a model for other low-carbon technologies. I focus on direct air carbon capture and small nuclear reactors. However other technologies would have to progress much faster than PV to be helpful for climate change. Possible approaches for accelerating innovation include: dynamic R&D foci, codification of knowledge, public procurement, robust markets, enhancing knowledge mobility, and addressing political economy considerations.

Speaker: Professor Gregory F. Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses in policy analysis, energy systems, and international environmental policy. Nemet's research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it. He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College. He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019). He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019. He is currently a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:56:16 -0500 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Gregory F. Nemet
Activist Love Letters (February 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71056 71056-17770759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Activist Love Letters is a participatory performance & workshop with artist Syrus Marcus Ware that invites participants to think about their role in sustaining a movement and supporting their communities. If you could reach out to one person who moves you by what they do, who would it be? What would you say?

This event is presented in partnership with the U-M Trotter Multicultural Center and the Spectrum Center LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Activist Love Letters will be held in the Sankofa Lounge. Refreshments will be served.

Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate and educator. For 12 years, he was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is currently a facilitator/designer for the Cultural Leaders Lab (Toronto Arts Council & The Banff Centre) and is the inaugural artist-in-residence for Daniels Spectrum (2016/2017). He is a core-team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto.

As a visual artist, Syrus works within the mediums of painting, installation and performance to challenge systemic oppression. Syrus’ work explores the spaces between and around identities; acting as provocations to our understandings of gender, sexuality and race. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Gladstone Hotel, ASpace Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, SPIN Gallery and other galleries across Canada. Syrus holds degrees in Art History, Visual Studies and a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Image: Syrus Marcus Ware, installation view of Activist Love Letters, 2012 - ongoing. Courtesy the artist.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/activist-love-letters-tickets-86153949783

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:49:49 -0500 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Workshop / Seminar https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/activist-love-letters.jpeg
Foreign Policy Simulation (February 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72024 72024-17914211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Are you interested in international affairs or foreign policy? Do you enjoy debate and public speaking? Join blueMUN, U-M’s competitive Model UN Team for an immersive exercise in foreign policy. In a condensed version of a Model United Nations Conference, you will represent a country’s position to debate and propose a solution to an international issue. We will cover "Reducing the Global Energy Gap" through formal debate, negotiations, and resolution proposals. Lunch will be provided! Contact bluemun.exec@umich.edu to sign up.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:29:21 -0500 2020-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar blueMUN conference
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68758 68758-17147146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!) 

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive more than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:17:23 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Prison Creative Arts Project @ UM X Soundsmith Studios (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73795 73795-18320176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Weekly community workshops

Free & all ages

Music, writing, and visual art workshops hosted by University of Michigan students

No registration required.

Contact: vitalis@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:54:43 -0400 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Soundsmith Studios
Family Art Studio: Printing the World Around Us (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68759 68759-17147147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Families with children ages six and up are invited to look, learn, and create together in this hands-on workshop inspired by UMMA's second exhibition of Inuit Art, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Guided by local artist Sajeev Vadakoottu, participants will make a drawing of an image from their own imagination directly on a screen, essentially creating a stencil, and use that stencil to make prints on paper, bags or t-shirts. (Please bring your own canvas bags or t-shirts!)

Please note: Adults must accompany children. We cannot guarantee your spot if you arrive mroe than 15 minutes late.

Please also note: there will be video recording at this event. If you do not wish to participate, talk with an UMMA staff member on-site.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:16:58 -0500 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Write-Together (February 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72613 72613-18029054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 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.
Co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and the Sweetland Center for Writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:17:30 -0500 2020-02-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Guest Master Class: Valentina Igoshina, piano (February 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69957 69957-17485143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Prizewinner in the 2003 Queen Elizabeth and Jose Inturbi International Piano Competitions, Valentina Igoshina enjoys an international career as a soloist and concerto performer with many of the world’s major symphony orchestras.

Sponsored by the Daniel C. and Marilyn J. Glore Charitable Foundations for the Arts.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:15:37 -0500 2020-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Demonstrating a Commitment to Diversity (February 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71836 71836-17890223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) aptitude is now highly valued by many employers, both within and beyond academe. This interactive workshop will 1) show how employers are evaluating DEI in job interviews, 2) provide opportunities for reflection on how you demonstrate your commitment to DEI, and 3) provide time for students to practice answering common interview questions related to DEI. This workshop is designed primarily for graduate students seeking non-academic jobs.
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/yKOMW.
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, 30 Jan 2020 18:17:18 -0500 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Lunch & Learn: Citi (February 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72407 72407-18000390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join Citi Managing Director and LSA Alum, Stephen Edelman, for a lunch and learn on Monday, February 10 from 12-1p.

You should attend this coffee chat if you are:
- Interested in gaining a better understanding of a career in finance
- Looking to learn more about working for a leading financial institution

What you'll gain by attending:
- Learn how to promote yourself and articulate the value of your LSA degree
- An opportunity to connect with and learn from a leading finance professional and LSA alum

How to apply:
- Complete this remainder of the form by Wednesday, 2/5 at 11:59p
https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oiG45xRkekwfI1


Target Audience: Students graduating after December 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:42:40 -0500 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar listen up yall
Structure, Content, and Argument (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72136 72136-17942182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What kinds of arguments can you make with your scholarly writing, and how can you deploy previous work to shape and inform the writing work of your dissertation? This presentation assists graduate students in framing and positioning their writing relative to their fields, and addresses the kinds of structural and argumentative opportunities (and challenges!) the dissertation process offers, both in its discrete components and its cumulative effect. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/qgAkV.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:17:13 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Structure, Content, and Argument (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71255 71255-17794048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

What kinds of arguments can you make with your scholarly writing, and how can you deploy previous work to shape and inform the writing work of your dissertation? This presentation assists graduate students in framing and positioning their writing relative to their fields, and addresses the kinds of structural and argumentative opportunities (and challenges!) the dissertation process offers, both in its discrete components and its cumulative effect. Refreshments will be provided.

Register on the Sweetland website after January 27th.
https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:49:14 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Rackham / Sweetland Workshop
Coffee Chat: Citi (February 10, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72391 72391-17998236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join professionals on Monday, Feb. 10 from 1:30-3:30p, from Citi to learn more about finance through the lens of one of the world's leading finance firms

You should attend this coffee chat if you are:
- Interested in gaining a better understanding of a career in finance
- Looking to learn more about working for a leading financial institution

What you'll gain by attending:
- Learn how to promote yourself and articulate the value of your LSA degree
- An opportunity to connect with and learn from a leading finance professional and LSA alum

How to apply:
- Complete this remainder of the form by Wednesday, 2/5 at 11:59p

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:54:59 -0500 2020-02-10T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Talks
It’s Time for Action: Generating an Active Learning Plan (February 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71358 71358-17819247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Creating a plan to engage students in active learning can be challenging. In this workshop, you will learn about a variety of active learning techniques then begin to formulate a plan for implementing active learning in your own course.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:21:04 -0500 2020-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Special CM-AMO Seminar | Coherent Control of Quantum Pathway Interferences in Spinor Rubidium Condensates (February 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72526 72526-18011608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

Ultracold atoms are amongst the excellent test beds to study coherent quantum chemistry due to capabilities of controlling quantum states of the atoms with precision. In my talk, I will discuss how to control quantum pathway interferences in an ultracold molecule formation that is induced by a laser light, a process known as photoassociation (PA). We utilize a Rb-87 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) apparatus where all-optically-trapped condensates are prepared in superposition of different spin states in the F=1 hyperfine level. By controlling the cumulative phase of the reactants taking different scattering channels, we interferometrically control the normalized PA rate with perfect visibility. To control the relative phase between the two quantum pathways (scattering channels of spin 0 pairs and spin +1/-1 pairs), we exploit the inherent quadratic energy shift at low magnetic bias field strengths and a free evolution time after a spin population transfer with an RF pulse. Our method also serves as a robust measurement technique to determine quadratic Zeeman energy splitting.

Short bio:
Dr. Hasan Esat Kondakci received his Ph.D. in 2015 from CREOL, the College of Optics & Photonics at the University of Central Florida, where he studied photon statistics in disordered lattices under the supervision of Prof. Bahaa Saleh (primary) and Prof. Ayman Abouraddy. Following his Ph.D., he worked on diffraction-free space-time light sheets and coherence phenomena in Prof. Ayman Abouraddy's lab at CREOL. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Yong Chen's lab at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. His current research interests include spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, photo-association of ultracold atoms, and deterministic state rotations in d-dimensional Hilbert space.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:16:48 -0500 2020-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HEP-Astro Seminar | Low-energy Nuclear Recoils for Fun and Profit (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71764 71764-17879416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

I will discuss the rapidly-changing panorama of experiments seeking to measure the faint signals produced by keV and sub-keV nuclear recoils in radiation detectors. The initial interest in this area originated from searches for dark matter WIMPs, but has expanded with the demonstration of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. I will elaborate on the difficulties involved in understanding the response of detecting materials to this type of interaction, including some recent developments. I will also emphasize the opportunities for nuclear recoil detectors in areas beyond dark matter detection.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:16:48 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Hub Workshop: Crafting a Compelling Cover Letter (February 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71973 71973-17905481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

A cover letter isn’t a laundry list of your accomplishments — it’s an opportunity to make a strong argument in a few paragraphs for why you are the right candidate for the job. Come work alongside peers and Hub coaches to learn and practice a step-by-step process for writing compelling cover letters. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the tools to skillfully write your own cover letter. Participants are encouraged to identify a job description of interest before the workshop and are invited to bring copies of drafted cover letters if you have them.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- A liberal arts and/or sciences student
- Unfamiliar with cover letters and why they matter
- Finished drafting up your cover letter and want tips for revision
- Looking to secure an internship or research opportunity for the summer
- Exploring post-grad opportunities and planning to apply for jobs

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Learn about the elements that compose a cover letter
- Evaluate cover letter samples and identify what makes it effective
- Practice tailoring a cover letter to a specific job description
- Get real-time feedback from your peers by comparing practice cover letters and exchanging insights

RSVP now to save your spot.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:37:36 -0500 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Hub staff working with student
CANCELLED: COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS (February 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72691 72691-18059633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS with PCAP-The Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan

VISUAL ART-CREATIVE WRITING-THEATER-MUSIC:

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

BUSES 32, 32A, 32B, 32C

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:52:20 -0400 2020-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Community Workshops in Creative Arts
Coffee Chat: Point72 Academy (February 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72375 72375-17998153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join members of the Point72 Academy team for coffee chats on February 11 and 12 to learn about opportunities as early as your freshman year to launch your investing career.

Point72 is a global asset management firm led by Steve Cohen that uses Discretionary Long/Short, Macro, and Systematic strategies to invest in ten offices globally. We're looking for inquisitive minds who want to build a professional relationship and a career in investing.

If you are interested in attending, please complete the following form by Wednesday, February 5 at 11:59pm.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:52:17 -0500 2020-02-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Talks
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

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 modeling, 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.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Guest Master Class: Jerry Wong, piano (February 11, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69958 69958-17485144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Associate professor of piano at the Melbourne (Australia) Conservatorium, American pianist Jerry Wong has concertized and taught around the world, for many years at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:15:37 -0500 2020-02-11T10:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Coffee Chat: BP (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72377 72377-17998155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join professionals on Tuesday, Feb. 11 from BP to learn more about finance through the lens of one of the world's leading energy and commodity trading firms

You should attend this coffee chat if you are:
- Interested in gaining a better understanding of a career in finance
- Looking to learn more about how finance connects to a leading energy company

What you'll gain by attending:
- Learn how to promote yourself and articulate the value of your LSA degree
- An opportunity to connect with and learn from a BP employees and LSA alumni

How to apply:
- Complete this remainder of the form by Sunday, 2/9 at 11:59p

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:57:23 -0500 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Talks
Drop-in Academic Advising for Transfer Students (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72651 72651-18035595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Academic advisors from the LSA Newnan Academic Advising Center will be on hand to answer all your questions. Get a jump start on planning your courses for next semester. No appointment necessary.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:37:21 -0500 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Living in community: microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69215 69215-17269220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:01:59 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar magnified view of microbes
Mechanobiology of Nuclear Envelope Junctions- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72692 72692-18059647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Megan King, Associate Professor of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, will be presenting a seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry on Tuesday February 11th, 2020 at 12noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:05:16 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar King
Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment: Feb. 2020 Precision Health Seminar (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65113 65113-16517528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Precision Health

Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment: A Look at PHOEBE Laboratory Research

The mission of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory is to gain an improved understanding of how our built environments--or rather the man-made places and spaces of our neighborhoods and communities, such as buildings, parks, and transportation systems--can impact the health and well-being of individuals of all ages. This presentation will describe some of the research that has been conducted within the PHOEBE Laboratory, including the BEAP (Built Environment and Active Play), PEAT (Physical Environment and Active Transportation), and PLIGHT (Purple Line Impact on Neighborhood, Health and Transit) Studies. Highlights and findings from the BEAP and PEAT Studies on youth physical activity, sedentary behavior, and active transportation will be discussed. In addition, an introductory overview of the PLIGHT Study, a natural experiment examining the health impacts of the forthcoming Purple Line light rail line in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, will be presented.

Lunch will be provided for those who register by February 7.

Bio:
Jennifer D. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory. Her research interests focus on the relationship between the built environment and physical activity in addition to its impact on obesity and other public health outcomes. More specifically, much of her research has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental, social and cultural determinants of physical activity and using empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health outcome patterns and disparities among adults and children.

PHOEBE Laboratory research, such as the Built Environment and Active Play (BEAP) and Physical Environment and Active Transportation (PEAT) Studies, have incorporated state of the art techniques including spatial analysis and geographic information system modeling in order to objectively capture the role and relationship of physical activity determinants. While relying heavily on mixed methodology, crosscutting health issues, along with exposure (e.g., transit deserts) and outcome (e.g., obesity) disparities, have also been addressed in her physical activity and public health research program. Dr. Roberts currently leads the Purple Line Light Rail Impact on Neighborhood, Health and Transit (PLIGHT) Study, to investigate changes in light rail use, active transportation, overall physical activity, obesity, and obesity-related cardiovascular risks among Prince George’s County, Maryland, adults. The PLIGHT Study will also explore how contextual effects (e.g., built environment; “sense of community”) moderate these health outcome changes with the intended 2022 introduction of this new 16.2-mile light rail line.

Dr. Roberts was awarded a JPB Environmental Health Fellowship by Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This three-year fellowship will support her forthcoming research, Gauging Effects of Neighborhood Trends and Sickness (GENTS) Study: Examining the Perception of Transit-Induced Gentrification in Prince George’s County. GENTS will examine the risk of transit-induced gentrification and the associated health effects (e.g., anxiety) as related to the aforementioned Purple Line light rail. While the introduction of light rail in communities often encourages physical activity by way of active transportation, gentrification is often an unintended consequence and socioeconomic by-product of transit-oriented development.

Dr. Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree from Brown University. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and earned her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.



The U-M Precision Health Seminar Series invites expert speakers to share meaningful, relevant, and late-breaking research on varied aspects of precision health. The interdisciplinary educational series, which takes place monthly during the academic year, features topics ranging from genetics to big data to health implementation (and much more) and is open to students, faculty, practitioners, staff, trainees, and the general public. Our goal is to increase understanding of precision health data, tools, and applications, to engage the academic community to enhance precision health research, and to support the implementation of precision health to health systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:32:03 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Jennifer D. Roberts
Are You Looking to Do an Honors Thesis? (February 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70260 70260-17556180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

An Honors thesis is one of many ways to enrich your undergraduate education. Come to this session to hear from a Honors advisor about the benefits of and challenges to completing a thesis, the application process and deadlines, and the many values of completing a Honors thesis

This session is for all Transfer students, whether you have been thinking about doing a Honors thesis or this is the first time you have heard of such an opportunity.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:34:26 -0500 2020-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Career Convos: What is Finance? (February 11, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70015 70015-17905474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

At ‘Career Convos: What is Finance?’ students will explore the industry with professionals from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, BP and more. Come ready to explore questions like: What is [investment banking, risk, etc.]? What does it mean to work for a bulge bracket firm vs. a hedge fund? What do I need to do to break into the field? Representatives from these organizations will be there to help students explore the field and better understand whether a career in finance is potentially a good fit.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- An LSA student with an interest in pursuing a career in finance, no experience is required
- Have a desire to connect with and learn from leading firms in the industry
Graduating in December 2021 or later

What you’ll gain by attending:
- A better understanding of which career path in finance best fits your interests
- Learn how to connect your LSA experience to the finance field
- Valuable connections with leading finance firms interested in talented LSA students

How to Apply:
Submit your résumé and answers to the short prompts as one document by Feb. 9th @ 11:59p

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:11:04 -0500 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Table discussion
Board Fellows Forum: Building a Relationship of Trust between the Board Chair and Executive Director (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70654 70654-17611241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

What does it take to have a great relationship between a Board Chair and an Executive Director? How much should the two work hand-in-hand to lead the organization, set goals and priorities, and drive outcomes?

All nonprofit organizations strive for a high-functioning relationship between the Board Chair and Executive Director, but some fall short due to a disconnect in expectations of the roles.

Join the U-M Board Fellowship Program for a public forum discussing the Board Chair and Executive Director relationship. Panelists for the forum include:

Jamie Buhr, Board Chair, Michigan Theater
Russ Collins, Executive Director & CEO, Michigan Theater
Lori Bennet, Board Chair, Neutral Zone
Lori Roddy, Executive Director, Neutral Zone
Food will be provided, please RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-fellowship-forum-tickets-76025172337

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:01:04 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Board Fellows Forum
Pizza with LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors (February 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72696 72696-18059652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Come to the LSA Transfer Student Center and have pizza with LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors. Hang out, ask questions, and get to know the space!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:30:53 -0500 2020-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities in Detroit (February 11, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64820 64820-16452976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
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 2020-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
Coffee Chat: Point72 Academy (February 12, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72375 72375-17998154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 9:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join members of the Point72 Academy team for coffee chats on February 11 and 12 to learn about opportunities as early as your freshman year to launch your investing career.

Point72 is a global asset management firm led by Steve Cohen that uses Discretionary Long/Short, Macro, and Systematic strategies to invest in ten offices globally. We're looking for inquisitive minds who want to build a professional relationship and a career in investing.

If you are interested in attending, please complete the following form by Wednesday, February 5 at 11:59pm.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:52:17 -0500 2020-02-12T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Coffee Talks