Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. IT4U98: Getting the Most Out of Google Meet (October 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78164 78164-19987067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

IT4U98: Getting the Most Out of Google Meet. Wednesday, 10/28/20, 9-9:45 am. Madi Atkins (ITS) demonstrates how to secure your Google Meet sessions, collaborate within Meet, and utilize education-specific features to help with participant engagement and management. Register in Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S4KFhCzxQruS2qxyrtgTqA.

IT4U is a monthly series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information and Technology Services. Learn and apply tips and techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. View recordings of previous episodes on our MiVideo site: https://www.mivideo.it.umich.edu/channel/IT4U/121481171.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:07:22 -0400 2020-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T21:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar
How to Successfully Transition from Graduate School to Industry (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78897 78897-20148844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

How to Successfully Transition from Graduate School to Industry
Wednesday, October 28 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM | Zoom link to be sent on day of event to those who register.
Have you ever wondered what career opportunities exist for engineers and scientists outside of academia for MS and PhD holders? There are many - in fact, a career as a technical research scientist offer many of the same flexible work opportunities, tons of autonomy, and the chance to become a recognized industry expert. In this workshop, a recent engineering Ph.D. graduate will share how he made the choice between starting his career in industry or academia, what he looked for in a company, and thoughts on how to successfully transition from graduate school to corporate research. This workshop is sponsored by Owens Corning.

RSVP is required.
Contact: Alex Moy at acmoy@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:47:56 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
OrgBasics - Leadership Transitions (October 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76569 76569-19727082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This OrgBasics workshop will give student organization members resources, tools, and knowledge of how to effectively transition their organizations leadership.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:49:58 -0400 2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Fistbump with Gloves
Getting Started with StoryMaps (October 29, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77713 77713-19907681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Do you have a story to tell? Looking for innovative ways to communicate research? Interested in exploring multimedia assignments? Are location or geographic relationship a key component of your message?



Harness the power of maps to tell your story.



ArcGIS Story Maps provide a powerful, engaging, and inspiring alternative for educational activities, instructional delivery, dissemination of research, public outreach, and more! In this hands-on workshop, learn to use StoryMaps’ intuitive interface to combine interactive maps, text, images, and multimedia content into a web-based, visually compelling, responsive narrative.



(This will be a virtual workshop; Zoom connection info will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop.)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:20:02 -0400 2020-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar The Plan before the Adventure
Providing a Positive Remote Work Experience OL21PPRWE01 (October 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78847 78847-20131226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

This session will focus on supporting a positive remote work experience. We will discuss ways to engage your team in this new environment and how to maintain a continued practice of health and well-being, both for yourself and your team. This webinar is being provided as part of the Leading in Change and Transition webinar series.

Audience: Anyone in an entry to mid-level leadership role experiencing departmental changes or organizational uncertainty.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:23:36 -0400 2020-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
EEB Virtual Seminar: Genomic approaches into regulatory genetic variation (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78619 78619-20075970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Individual genomes carry many DNA sequence variants that alter gene expression. This regulatory variation shapes phenotypic traits within species and can fuel evolutionary change. My laboratory uses the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to answer fundamental questions about regulatory variation. In this seminar, I will present our recent results on the distribution of regulatory variation across the genome, the identity of causal DNA nucleotides that act in cis and in trans, and the genetic basis of variation in protein versus mRNA abundance.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:10:11 -0500 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Frank Albert eQTL Circles
SEMINAR: "COVID-19 Forecasting: Three Cheers for Simple Models" — Eric Bickel (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76755 76755-19743031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
COVID-19 Forecasting: Three Cheers for Simple Models

Abstract:
Over the last six months we have witnessed policymakers grappling with how to respond to the spread of COVID-19 across the globe. In the United States, policymakers at local, state, and federal levels have faced difficult decisions regarding the degree to which citizens should interact with each other, how much of the economy should be curtailed, and how to allocate scarce testing and hospital resources. These decisions have been informed and guided by a set of epidemiological models.

In this talk, we analyze the performance of the models used to forecast the spread of COVID-19 and relate differences in performance to differing modeling approaches and structures. For example, some COVID-19 models are “bottom-up” and model the interactions between individuals in detail. While other models are “top-down” and attempt to capture the high-level dynamics of the spread. Some models include uncertainty, while others are deterministic. Certain models are designed to inform policy decisions, while others are meant to provide forecasts.

We compare the performance of these models to a simple (one-parameter) model that we have used to forecast the spread of COVID-19 at the national, state, and local level. Surely large models with dozens of parameters, backed by a team of experts, should outperform a simple model that has one input and runs in Excel. As we discuss, a few COVID-19 models do achieve this level of success.

We will discuss this apparent paradox and the implications for decision analysis.

Bio:
Eric Bickel is a professor and director of both the Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management programs at The University of Texas at Austin. Eric holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management in the McCombs School of Business and directs the Center for Engineering and Decision Analytics (CEDA).

His research interests include the theory and practice of decision analysis and its application to corporate strategy, public policy, and sports. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Sports Illustrated. In addition, Professor Bickel and his research are featured in the documentary Cool It!. His research into climate engineering was named as the top approach to address climate change by a panel of economists, including three Nobel Laureates. He has also been a guest on the MLB Network show Clubhouse Confidential.

Eric joined Strategic Decisions Group in 1995, where he remains a director and partner. He has practiced decision analysis for 25 years. He consults around the world in a range of industries, including oil and gas, electricity generation/transmission/delivery, energy trading and marketing, commodity and specialty chemicals, life sciences, financial services, and metals and mining.

He is Past-President of the Decision Analysis Society.

Eric holds both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics from New Mexico State University.

Eric claims to be the only decision analyst listed in Hollywood's Internet Movie Database (imdb.me/jericbickel).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:28:06 -0400 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
BME Seminar Series: Sudin Bhattacharya (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75908 75908-19623826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:09:37 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Data Science and Global Health Equity Seminar (October 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78430 78430-20042434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the Center for Global Health Equity's seminar on Data Science. Panelists include:
Akbar Waljee (Medicine)
Bhramar Mukherjee (SPH)
Andries Coetzee (LSA)
Massy Mutumba (Nursing)
Gifty Kwakye (Medicine)
Moderated by John Ayanian

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:49:29 -0400 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Seminar Panelists
Virtual ​Art & Activism: Printing Totes & Posters for a Cause (October 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78627 78627-20077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please click here to register.

As we all look ahead to the November election, and think about the role artists play in activism, we want to get our creative juices flowing and print our own favorite slogan!

Timnet Gedar, PhD student in History, will share some background on the work of Botswana born artist Meleko Mokgosi, whose installation Pan African Pulp, is currently on view at UMMA and includes posters from Pan-African movements founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s as well as a few designed by Mokgosi.

Then Michigan-based artist Shayla Johnson will show you how to create a unique poster (or tote bag) featuring your own personal slogan and design. Shayla Johnson is founder and designer of Scarlet Crane Creations, a dedicated micro-batch textile printing house specializing in hand-printed fabrics for home decor products and lifestyle accessories. Unique surface patterns range from free flowing florals to abstract textures in order to produce stylish and sophisticated collections. Scarlet Crane Creations is housed at POST so you’ll have the opportunity to see Shayla’s work space, printing table, and work in process. Shayla also works for UMMA as a Museum Applications Developer.

This event is part of a collaboration between UMMA, the African Graduate Student Association, the African Student Association, and the African Business Council. All are welcome if there is space, but we will prioritize student participants as supplies are limited.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:15:45 -0400 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Science Communication & Public Engagement Fundamentals (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76471 76471-19719131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to IOE PhD students only.

The introductory-level, three-hour Science Communication and Public Engagement Fundamentals module introduces scientists and engineers to the latest science communication research and basic best practices for engaging with the public. Participants are introduced to the AAAS Framework for Public Engagement which can help them develop individual plans that include a public engagement goal and address ways to engage a relevant audience with tailored messages. Participants also brainstorm an engagement scenario and identify next steps to put their plans into action. This workshop is designed for scientists and engineers who don’t have much experience with public engagement, although experienced engagers may find it useful.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:29:54 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Science Communication & Public Engagement Fundamentals
"African-American Health Disparities and Moving Towards a Beloved Community in Health Care" (October 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78526 78526-20058227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents Patrick T. Smith, BS, MDiv, MA, PhD, Duke University

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:08:53 -0400 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
EIHS Workshop: Categorical Imperatives: The Stakes of Scholarly Units of Analysis (October 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75588 75588-19542900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do scholars determine the appropriate units of analysis for studying the past? What is at stake in the choice of a city, a province, a nation, a region, an empire, or even the world? This panel explores what is gained or lost when grouping people into naturalized territorial categories, as well as the agency of historical actors in rejecting or reconstituting these categories. Panelists will reflect on tensions between the boundedness of pre-given units of analysis and the freedom of historical actors to deploy, contest, or radically re-imagine the dominant ordering of their worlds from a diverse set of geographic and temporal perspectives: museums in late imperial Russia, gender and power in the Yuan court, interwar population exchanges in the Balkans, and multiculturalism and policing in 1980s Los Angeles.

Featuring:
Albert Cavallaro, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Andrea Valedón-Trapote, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
David Helps, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Lediona Shahollari, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Michael Witgen (chair), Professor, American Culture & History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0GQ6_D41Tp-OF6h451pYIw

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, 15 Oct 2020 06:58:57 -0400 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
Defense: Homeostasis and Functions of Ca2+ and Metal Stores in Lysosomes and Lysosome-related Organelles (October 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78678 78678-20099546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Thesis advisors: Richard Hume and Haoxing Xu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:45:48 -0400 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Yellow MCDB initials and microscope on blue
Economics at Work (October 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78078 78078-19957577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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.

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/nCQSPmbG9in5xSoN8

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:22:28 -0400 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Minicolloquium | Using Physics to Function: Phases and Fluctuations in Cell Plasma Membranes (October 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78914 78914-20154723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

The thermodynamic properties of plasma membrane lipids play a vital role in many functions at the mammalian cell surface. Some functions are thought to occur, at least in part, because plasma membrane lipids have a tendency to separate into two distinct liquid phases. We propose that these lipid mediated functions occur because the plasma membrane is biologically tuned close to a miscibility critical point at physiological temperature. In this talk, I will briefly summarize experimental support for this hypothesis, and discuss ongoing research in the Veatch lab aimed at understanding if and how cells exploit critical phenomena in membranes to accomplish biological functions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:15:33 -0400 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
NERS Colloquia: The Power of Neutron Fluctuation Analysis—an Overview and Some Recent Developments (October 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75534 75534-19519134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Due to the branching character of neutron transport in multiplying media (particle production by fission), neutron reactions and numbers are correlated in space and time. Hence the statistics of the neutron distribution become non-trivial (non-Poisson), and each statistical moment (mean, variance etc) carries independent information. This wealth of information was originally used only to determine subcritical reactivity during start-up (Feynman-alpha method) from the first two moments of the detector counts. However, the number of applications and corresponding new methods has exploded in the last two decades with new areas such as neutron fluctuations in accelerator driven systems (ADS) and multiplicity counting of neutrons and photons for nuclear safeguards, including developments in the detection statistics.
The talk will give an overview of both the principles of the methods, including an essay on the forward and adjoint forms of the master equations and their moments, as well as of the latest developments and applications, such as using fluctuations in the detector current to replace pulse counting techniques. This latter means that the statistical information of discrete underlying events can be unfolded from the continuous random processes which they induce. One advantage of such a method is that it is free from the dead time problem, present in pulse counting techniques. Thus the application area can be extended to high count rate processes, such as multiplicity measurements of high activity spent fuel or reactivity measurements by the Feynman- or Rossi-alpha methods in power reactors.

Bio
Imre Pázsit is full professor at the Department of Physics, Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering Group, at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. His research interests are transport theory of neutral and charged particles; fluctuations in neutron transport and atomic collision cascades; theory of multiplicity in nuclear safeguards; reactor diagnostics based on noise analysis including diagnostics of two-phase flow; elaboration of inverse methods in neutron noise diagnostics; intelligent computing methods such as artificial neural networks and wavelet analysis, and, recently, fractional kinetics and fractional diffusion processes.
Prof. Pázsit has published over 210 articles in international journals. Together with L. Pál, he authored the book “Neutron Fluctuations – a Treatise on the Theory of Branching Processes”, Elsevier (2008). He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the fourth recipient of the Leo Szilard Medal of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (2016). He is also Honorary Editor of the Elsevier journal “Annals of Nuclear Energy."

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:16:03 -0400 2020-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Fighting Change Fatigue and Developing Change Resilience OL21FCFDCR01 (November 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78885 78885-20133220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

With so much change taking place in our organization, employees are struggling to adapt and are looking for support from their leaders. This has led to a realization that we need to help employees develop their resilience. Work resilience has to be built by practicing specific behaviors and through support from the organization and its leaders. Leaders first need to help build resilience within themselves, then their team by implementing resilience techniques. This webinar is being provided as part of the Leading in Change and Transition webinar series.

Audience:
Anyone in an entry to mid-level leadership role experiencing departmental changes or organizational uncertainty

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:41:10 -0400 2020-11-02T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | First Evidence for Higgs Boson Decay to Muons (November 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77200 77200-19822146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Probing the Higgs boson coupling to the muon is one of the last experimentally accessible frontiers In the direct measurement of Higgs boson couplings at the LHC. This seminar will highlight the first evidence for the rare Higgs boson decay to muons, achieved by the CMS Collaboration using the full dataset collected at 13 TeV during Run-2 of the LHC. This milestone was achieved earlier than expected thanks to the excellent performance of the CMS detector, with high-precision tracking and muon reconstruction systems, and also through the development of novel analysis strategies that include intensive use of machine learning techniques. The first set of measurements of the Higgs boson properties through the muon decay channel is also presented, with the observed signal well consistent with the standard model predictions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (November 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75276 75276-19401027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Open to All

The Community Workshop is meeting online!

The PCAP Community Workshop, formerly called the Reentry Workshop, is now meeting on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Currently in its fourth year, members of the community meet with formerly-incarcerated people to share creative arts and have fun!

Interested?
Send an email to Mary: mheinen@umich.edu,
or text 734-474-7799

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:43:44 -0400 2020-11-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Group of workshop participants
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Demand Shocks, Staffing Decisions, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Introduction of a Food Delivery Platform in Colombia (November 3, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78920 78920-20154730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:59:09 -0400 2020-11-03T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-03T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Understanding Metabolic Limitations of Cancer Cell Proliferation- Department of Biological Chemistry Jourdian Lecture (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77976 77976-19947641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Matthew Vander Heiden will present the annual Jourdian Lectureship on Tuesday November 3rd, 2020. This will be a virtual seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:59:19 -0400 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
PHD SEMINAR: "Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases" — Wesley J. Marrero (November 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78023 78023-19955549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases are considered the leading cause of death in the US and worldwide. The management of cardiovascular diseases can be improved by (1) incorporating novel procedures, such as genetic testing, and (2) providing physicians and their patients with flexibility in the implementation of protocols. To understand the clinical and policy implications of genetic testing in cardiovascular diseases, I present a thoroughly validated simulation model to evaluate the impact of genetic information across different populations in the US. Building upon this work, I illustrate a framework that combines dynamic programming with value of information analysis to simultaneously determine optimal cholesterol treatment and genetic testing decisions. To benefit from experts’ opinions and allow for users’ preferences in the implementation of mathematical models, I next introduce a framework that integrates approximate dynamic programming and statistical multiple comparisons to obtain sets of near-optimal treatment choices. By analyzing the structure of the sets, I characterize their behavior with respect to the modeling data and identify when they can be ordered according to the context of the problem. I show how this method can be applied in medical practice by finding hypertension treatment plans for a large population in the US. To conclude my talk, I will discuss future opportunities at the intersection of operations research and statistics to support medical decision-making in practice.

Bio:
Wesley’s research interest lies at the intersection of operations research and statistics, with an emphasis on stochastic simulation and optimization to support decision-making in practice. His current research addresses healthcare applications at a population and patient level. Using population-level data, he focuses on modeling future supply, demand, and allocation of organs for transplantation. Using patient-level data, he develops personalized treatment plans and testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases. Wesley has an ongoing collaboration with the University of Michigan Hospital Medical School, the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wesley is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Throughout his Ph.D. studies, he has also received the Judith Liebman Award and an honorable mention in the Minority Issues forum from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, an American Statistical Association sponsored best poster award at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences, as well as a Rackham Merit Fellowship. In addition to his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, Wesley is partaking in the dual master’s program offered by the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:09:49 -0400 2020-11-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Wesley J. Marrero
Post-Election Debrief (November 4, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78901 78901-20152758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Everyone is talking about the election now, and these conversations will continue after Election Day, November 3. Is it possible to engage in civil conversation around politics in academic and professional contexts? This workshop happens to fall on the date after all voting in the Fall 2020 U.S. election is completed. This workshop is an opportunity to talk about (and to explore how we can talk about) what we’ve seen in the news, in our local communities, on social media, and in conversations with friends and colleagues and to practice language for commiserating and sharing potentially opposing perspectives.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:35:14 -0400 2020-11-04T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Getting Started with ArcGIS Online (November 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77714 77714-19907682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

ArcGIS Online is a simple yet powerful interactive, web-based mapping tool to which everyone at the University of Michigan has access. ArcGIS Online can be used to visualize data, analyze spatial patterns, and present materials in a professional-looking app.

In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to use ArcGIS Online to easily turn a spreadsheet into a map, discover and add data from authoritative sources to the map, customize the map’s appearance, and publish the map for sharing, all on the web. We will also look at some of the options for analyzing and presenting map data, as well as some of the tools and technologies available for collecting geographic datasets.

(This will be a virtual workshop; Zoom connection info will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop.)
Register: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/getting-started-with-arcgis-online-3/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:27:39 -0400 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Map
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (November 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Creating Common Ground for a Kinder, Better Future: Growing the Capacity to Listen and Connect in Politically Charged Times DEIOL2125 (November 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78995 78995-20168554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Holding a civil, productive conversation with individuals who may not agree with you is always a challenge. This year, it seems to be an even bigger challenge, but it is still an important skill to continuously improve. Political or personal values conversations are an important part of civil discourse, especially if each party is willing to listen and connect with mutual respect and a goal to seek common ground. This session will provide a framework for better conversations around very complicated and potentially emotional topics.

Audience:
Any U-M faculty or staff who would like to connect and create common ground with others during difficult conversations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:50:43 -0400 2020-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
CEW+ Lunch and Learn | A Roadmap to Virtual Home Learning Success: Tips for Student Parents (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79111 79111-20209849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/cew-lunch-and-learn-a-roadmap-to-virtual-home-learning-success-tips-for-student-parents

The pandemic has brought many challenges for parents who have children in virtual school-at-home situations while the parents are also still working – either in the office, from home, and/or in school. Join us for a Lunch and Learn session where we will provide tips to keep your students, engaged and on track, along with strategies to combat Zoom fatigue.

This workshop will feature:

Home school design strategies (physical space, monitoring participation, supplies list);
Ways to create COVID-compliant community support groups;
Self-help tips to navigate important conversations with school representatives as you advocate for your student’s needs;
U-M Policies & Resources for managing discussions with your professor/supervisor regarding flex schedules and release time; and
Opportunities to network with other student parents and share successful best practices.

PRESENTERS:
Dana M. Banks, MPH, Regulatory Analyst, IRBMED

With over 15 years of experience planning, creating, and implementing youth programming in an urban school district, Dana brings a wealth of knowledge in youth development best practices. In her various roles with Flint Community Schools, she was responsible for training staff to use evidence-based strategies to create high-quality out-of-school time programs. Dana is currently navigating the challenges of virtual school with three of her daughters who attend Ann Arbor Public Schools in the 6th, 11th, and 12th grades. She is a native of Flint, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan for both her Bachelor of Arts (’95) and Master of Public Health (‘18) degrees.

Dana currently works in the UM Medical School’s Office of Research Institutional Review Board as a Regulatory Analyst. Attending the University of Michigan is a family tradition, as her husband is also a graduate of UM School of Social Work and her oldest daughter is a Junior at UM Ford School of Public Policy. Go Blue!

LaVashia Mundy, M.A., Student Program Coordinator

As the Student Program Coordinator in CEW+ LaVashia supports U-M students through the development and facilitation of programs, workshops, and other interventions as part of the Center’s overall mission to empower women and underserved individuals in the U-M and surrounding community. LaVashia is originally from Detroit, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan and went on to earn a graduate degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Eastern Michigan University. The majority of her professional work has focused on student success by helping them meet their academic, personal, and social goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:39:58 -0500 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Parent and child
Boren Awards Information Session (November 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78728 78728-20113299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join our Boren Award Info Session!

Boren Awards provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to study a wide range of critical languages in world areas underrepresented in study abroad to those committed to public service. Awards up to $30,000 can be offered to spend up to 12 months learning a critical language in selected countries!

Join U-M campus representative Melissa Vert and International Institute of Education Boren Program Advisor Kyle Cox as they discuss opportunities, awards, and the general application process. Please be sure to register at https://forms.gle/69vJkbJaWC182L226!

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Melissa at mjfvert@umich.edu. 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, 03 Dec 2020 09:07:18 -0500 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Workshop / Seminar Boren Awards
SEMINAR: "Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models" — Alper Atamturk (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76453 76453-19717149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models

Abstract:
Sparse statistical estimators are increasingly prevalent due to their ease of interpretability and superior out-of-sample performance. However, sparse estimation problems with an L0 constraint, restricting the support of the estimators, are challenging (typically NP-hard, but not always) non-convex optimization problems. Consequently, academics and practitioners commonly turn to convex L1 proxies, such as Lasso and its variants, as a remedy. Although the L1 models are solved fast, they may lead to biased and/or dense estimators and require substantial cross-validation for calibration.

In this talk, we focus on two estimation problems: i) sparse regression and ii) sparse and smooth signal recovery. The first one is known to be NP-hard; we show that the second one is equivalent to a submodular minimization problem and, hence, is polynomially solvable. For both problems, we derive a sequence of strong convex relaxations. These relaxations are based on the ideal (convex-hull) formulations for rank-one/pairwise quadratic terms with indicator variables. The new relaxations can be formulated as conic quadratic or semidefinite optimization problems in an extended space; they are stronger and more general than the state-of-the-art models with the reverse Huber penalty and the minimax concave penalty functions. Furthermore, the proposed rank-one strengthening can be interpreted as a non-separable, non-convex, unbiased sparsity-inducing regularizer, which dynamically adjusts its penalty according to the shape of the estimation error function without inducing bias for the sparse solutions. Computational experiments with benchmark datasets show that the proposed conic formulations are solved fast and result in near-optimal estimators for non-convex L0-problems. Moreover, the resulting estimators also outperform L1 approaches from a statistical perspective, achieving high prediction accuracy and good interpretability.

This talk is based on the following papers with Andres Gomez & Shaoning Han:

https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/rank-one.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/screening.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/signal-estimation.pdf

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:38:58 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
BME Seminar Series: Lori Setton (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75909 75909-19623827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:14:30 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities Respectfully - November (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75348 75348-19442250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive virtual 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.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:56:47 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Honors Seminar Series: Dr. Reshma Jagsi (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75961 75961-19629762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., is the Newman Family Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. An internationally recognized clinical trialist and health services researcher in the field of breast cancer, Dr. Jagsi has coauthored over 300 publications. She has also devoted a substantial portion of her scholarly effort to investigations regarding bioethics and gender equity in academic medicine. Her investigations of women’s under-representation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity have been funded by multiple large grants from the National Institutes of Health and philanthropic foundations. Frequently invited as a keynote speaker, she has delivered invited talks at over 50 institutions and professional societies, including the AAMC, the NIH, and the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. Active in organized medicine, she has served on the Steering Committee of the AAMC's Group on Women in Medicine in Science, which recently awarded her its Leadership Award. Her work is frequently featured in the popular media, including coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and national network nightly news. A fellow of ASCO, ASTRO, and the Hastings Center, her contributions have also been recognized with her election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. In this interactive lunchtime session, hear her describe her unconventional career, the challenges she has encountered, and advice in an interview with Henry Dyson, followed by the opportunity for open discussion.

To register for this seminar here: https://myumi.ch/0W1Op

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:44:38 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar Photo of Dr. Reshma Jagsi
LAGS Seminar | My Private Sector Journey and Activities after Grad' School (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78856 78856-20133191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, I moved from a traditional academic career path to working in the private sector. There are so many options out there after graduate school, that are worth mentioning. A few projects that I have worked on at my company will be presented. These projects have applications in remote sensing. The pros and cons of working in my company and some of my activities with other organizations will be shared.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:32 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: "Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down" — Nadine Sarter (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77428 77428-19854011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down

Abstract:
Breakdowns in human-machine teaming have resulted in numerous aviation incidents and accidents. In this talk, Dr. Sarter will use examples of recent mishaps as well as research in her laboratory to illustrate how technology-centered design contributes to problems with human-machine collaboration and how resulting accidents and inefficiencies can be avoided by employing a systems engineering approach that applies knowledge and techniques from cognitive ergonomics, interface design and behavioral science throughout system design and development.

Bio:
Nadine Sarter is a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan where she also serves as Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Her primary research interests include (1) human-machine teaming, (2) operator trust in autonomous systems, (3) adaptive function allocation, (4) attention management, (5) multimodal interface design, (6) and the design of decision aids for high-tempo operations. She has conducted her work in a variety of application domains, including aviation and space, medicine, military operations, and the automotive industry. Dr. Sarter is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:28:52 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nadine Sarter
MCDB Virtual: Olfactory Navigation in Drosophila--Algorithms and Circuits (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77405 77405-19848067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Josie Clowney

Abstract: Olfactory navigation provides a tractable model for studying the circuit basis of sensori-motor transformations and goal-directed behavior. Macroscopic organisms typically navigate in odor plumes that provide a noisy and uncertain signal about the location of an odor source. Work in many species has suggested that animals accomplish this task by combining temporal processing of dynamic odor information with an estimate of wind direction.

Our lab has been using adult walking Drosophila to understand both the computational algorithms and the neural circuits that support navigation in a plume of attractive food odor. We developed a high-throughput paradigm to study behavioral responses to temporally-controlled odor and wind stimuli. Using this paradigm we found that flies respond to a food odor (apple cider vinegar) with two behaviors: during the odor they run upwind, while after odor loss they perform a local search. A simple computational model based one these two responses is sufficient to replicate many aspects of fly behavior in a natural turbulent plume.

In on-going work, we are seeking to identify the neural circuits and biophysical mechanisms that perform the computations delineated by our model. Using electrophysiology, we have identified mechanosensory neurons that compute wind direction from movements of the two antennae, and central mechanosensory neurons that encode wind direction are involved in generating a stable downwind orientation. Using optogenetic activation, we have traced olfactory circuits capable of evoking upwind orientation and offset search from the periphery, through the mushroom body and lateral horn, to the central complex. Most recently, connectomic analysis has suggested a plausible model for how wind and odor information might be integrated in the central complex to allow flies to flexibly alter their orientation to wind. Our work illustrates how the tools available in fruit fly can be applied to dissect the mechanisms underlying a complex goal-directed behavior.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:53:06 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Katherine Nagel with lab view behind her
Economics at Work (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78079 78079-19957578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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.

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/QYre9DYYtmq8Wpe89

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:25:52 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Minicolloquium | Exploring and Engineering New Electronic Behavior in Two-Dimensional Materials (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78773 78773-20123133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

The electronic properties of most everyday materials can be well understood in the single-particle picture, that of independent electrons interacting with their environment. When interactions between electrons are important, however, the collective and correlated behavior of electrons can be beautiful, complicated, counter-intuitive, and sometimes even useful. I will outline how we can engineer and search for new correlated electronic states starting from ‘Scotch tape exfoliation’ of atomically thin materials (such as graphene) as a basis for new types of devices. Then, I will discuss how my research group plans to use low-temperature electronic transport and spatially-resolved magnetic measurements to uniquely demonstrate the behavior of correlated electrons in 2D materials, highlighting some of my previous work on the fractional quantum Hall effect and superconductivity as concrete examples.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Economic Theory: Persuading Statisticians (November 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81680 81680-20941464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
A decision maker (DM) contemplates whether to take a costly action. The DM does not know the action's value and relies on data and unbiased statistical inference to estimate it. The data are Bernoulli experiments governed by the action's value. A designer, who wishes the DM to take the action, controls the size of the data, i.e., the sample size, available to the DM. We establish that in many environments the designer's optimal sample size is the largest one satisfying that either a single --- or a simple majority --- of favorable realizations would persuade the DM to take the action.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:53:54 -0500 2020-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Supporting Your Student Organization in the Post Election Season (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79045 79045-20178460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

How will the post-election season impact your student organization? Spend time with Ginsberg Center team to process your own reactions to the election, and develop strategies to lead your student organization in inclusive and supportive ways. This drop-in session will take place twice in the weeks following the November 3rd election.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:50:55 -0500 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar event name with stars on flags
Writing Graduate School Application Statements (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78947 78947-20160622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

What to include/avoid and how to frame your story while writing academic and personal statements for research-based grad programs.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/No9TpCrotxxuPk1B8

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:39:48 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar
NERS Colloquia: Structural Materials Degradation in Molten Salt Reactor Environments (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75535 75535-19519135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
The liquid fueled MSR is among the advanced reactor concepts being considered for development by the U.S. Department of Energy. Key attributes of this reactor concept include: (i) high degree of passive safety, (ii) atmospheric pressure operation, (iii) high thermal efficiency due to high volumetric heat capacity and thermal conductivity of liquid salts, (iv) lower spent fuel per unit of energy, (v) high solubility of most fission products in liquid salts and (vi) absence of fuel assemblies. Materials selection for liquid fueled MSRs is based on ASME Sec III Div 5 and thus present unique challenges because of the high Cr content of current qualified alloys. Consequently, and considering the short-term deployment of MSRs, it is necessary to independently improve corrosion resistance of current code codified alloys by surface treatments. On the other hand, if one considers long-term deployment of MSRs, novel code certified alloys would need to be developed. Indeed, although Hastelloy-N, a low Cr, high Mo alloy developed during the MSRE program, has shown remarkable corrosion resistance in molten fluoride salts, this alloy has limited creep-rupture strength, irradiation damage resistance and has shown corrosion induced embrittlement. Consequently, this study focuses on the down-selection of a series of cladded 316H stainless steels (SS) and novel alloys based on corrosion resistance in molten FLiNaK at 700°C for up to 1000 hours. Finally, specific separate effects experiments are conducted to assess the influence of the experimental conditions on corrosion and mass transport.

Bio
Dr. Adrien Couet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he manages the MAterials Degradation under COrrosion and Radiation (MADCOR) laboratory. Previously, he worked as a nuclear materials research engineer at EDF (Electricité de France) in France, focusing on high-temperature aqueous corrosion and modeling corrosion of nuclear materials. He got hired at EDF after graduating in 2014 with a PhD in Nuclear and Mechnical Engineering from Penn State University. Over the last five years, Dr. Couet has worked on developing his research group around fundamental understanding of materials degradation and alloy design for extreme environments. MADCOR research programs evolves around fuel cladding corrosion in LWRs, developing structural materials and cladding for molten salt reactors and designing novel radiation resistant compositionally complex alloys. Dr. Couet also co-manages the UW Ion Beam Laboratory and is a co-organizer of the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, which aims at training future entrepreneurs in the nuclear field.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:25:49 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78493 78493-20052312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing. We will focus on how to become more strategic readers, and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines, including the practice of asking good questions and the importance of topic construction. We will also focus on the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take, and what these genres entail. The workshop will conclude by offering a variety of good writing habits and processes to develop in your early graduate student years.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:40:38 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar
Peace Corps Application Workshop (November 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77286 77286-19830138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Join us for a Peace Corps application workshop. At this workshop, you will:
- Meet with Peace Corps Recruiters
- Learn more about the application process
- Understand how to make yourself a stronger applicant

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:44:56 -0400 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Center Workshop / Seminar
Creating Common Ground for a Kinder, Better Future: Growing the Capacity to Listen and Connect in Politically Charged Times DEIOL2126 (November 9, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78996 78996-20168555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Holding a civil, productive conversation with individuals who may not agree with you is always a challenge. This year, it seems to be an even bigger challenge, but it is still an important skill to continuously improve. Political or personal values conversations are an important part of civil discourse, especially if each party is willing to listen and connect with mutual respect and a goal to seek common ground. This session will provide a framework for better conversations around very complicated and potentially emotional topics.

Audience:
Any U-M faculty or staff who would like to connect and create common ground with others during difficult conversations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:54:40 -0400 2020-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T10:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Higgs Decay to Two Muons and Other Results From the ATLAS Dilepton Spectra (November 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79147 79147-20217701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Collisions of protons at the LHC that produce pairs of leptons offer a unique window into the dynamics and interactions of fundamental particles. This seminar will present two recent results based on data from such collisions that was recorded by the ATLAS experiment. First, is the search for the Higgs boson decaying to two muons. This Standard Model process is the only available opportunity to study the Higgs coupling to a second generation fermion. Second, is a search for new physics beyond the Standard Model that may produce non-resonant features in the dilepton mass spectra. Such an effect would be present if fermions are composed of smaller component particles. Both studies make use of new experimental and statistical techniques that improve their sensitivity and reliability.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Activism & Wellness Workshop (November 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79007 79007-20170602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This workshop will explore the intersections of health & well-being and activism & social justice for student organizations. You will learn strategies and tools to care for yourself and your organization while working for social change.

*Attendees will be entered into a raffle for Campus Rec Group X passes, gift cards, and marketing through the Student Organization Resource Center.*

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/7017

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:40:30 -0400 2020-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Activism and Wellness
Community Creative Arts Workshop (November 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75276 75276-19401028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Open to All

The Community Workshop is meeting online!

The PCAP Community Workshop, formerly called the Reentry Workshop, is now meeting on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Currently in its fourth year, members of the community meet with formerly-incarcerated people to share creative arts and have fun!

Interested?
Send an email to Mary: mheinen@umich.edu,
or text 734-474-7799

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:43:44 -0400 2020-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Group of workshop participants
Backpacking and Registration Info Session for International Students (November 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79164 79164-20217726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Do you need a refresher on how to use the LSA Course Guide and Wolverine Access to backpack and register for courses? Come to this session where you will learn:

What is "backpacking"? Why do I need to "backpack" my Winter 2021 courses?

How do I use the LSA Course Guide to find and choose classes?

How do I find my registration appointment and register for classes in Wolverine Access?

At the end of the session you will have a chance to ask questions and to practice backpacking with current the ELI student staff.

Open to international undergraduate and graduate students in all U-M, Ann Arbor schools and colleges. Register here: https://myumi.ch/XeoD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:51:08 -0500 2020-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Backpacking Info Session Flyer
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression (November 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79006 79006-20170600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study the use of popular rationales to justify public anti-minority actions. Rationales to oppose minorities change some people's private opinions, leading them to take anti-minority actions even if they are not prejudiced against minorities. When these rationales become widespread, prejudiced people can pool with unprejudiced people who are persuaded, decreasing the stigma associated with anti-minority expression and enabling greater public opposition to minority groups. In a first experiment, subjects learn that a previous respondent authorized a donation to an anti-immigrant organization and then make an inference about the respondent's underlying motivations. Subjects informed that their matched respondent learned about a study claiming that immigrants increase crime rates before authorizing the donation see the respondent as less intolerant and more easily persuadable. In a second experiment, subjects learn about that same study and then choose whether to authorize a publicly observable donation to the anti-immigrant organization. Subjects who are informed that their exposure to the rationale will be publicly observable are substantially more likely to make the donation than subjects who believe that their exposure will remain anonymous. Our findings suggest that prominent public figures can lower the social cost of intolerant expression by popularizing rationales, contributing to waves of anti-minority behavior.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:23:25 -0400 2020-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Legacies of Colonial Rule and the HIV Epidemic in Africa: Evidence from the Mozambique Company Concession (November 10, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78921 78921-20154731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:02:42 -0400 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Chemical Tools That IMPACT Lipid Signaling- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77977 77977-19949604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Jeremy Baskin will present a virtual seminar on Tuesday November 10th, 2020.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:02:31 -0400 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
Agent-Based Modeling and Systemic Racism (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79217 79217-20231458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of systemic bias and how algorithms may continue to promote inequity. Participants will learn about agent based methods, a tool which can be used to examine algorithmic fairness. There will be opportunities to brainstorm ideas for new research projects within the participants’ fields.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:39:43 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Data Science and Natural Language Processing to Find Rare Classes of Entities From Text (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79220 79220-20231459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Natural language processing (NLP) and Data Science methods, including recently popular deep learning-based approaches, can unlock information from narrative text and have received great attention in the medical domain. Many NLP methods have been developed and showed promising results in various information extraction tasks, especially for rare classes of named entities. These methods have also been successfully applied to facilitate clinical research. In this workshop, we will highlight some methods and technologies to identify rare concepts and entities in text in the medical domain as well as other “open” domains.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:46:39 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Intro to Python for Community Members and K-12 Teachers and Students (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79222 79222-20231462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This hands-on workshop is tailored to audiences who do not have prior programming experience. The first half of the workshop covers Python programming basics and the second half covers performing data analysis and visualization in Python with real-world data. The audiences are encouraged to follow along with the examples on their own computer. We will use an online browser-based environment (Google Colab), and no software installations on your computer are required. Attendees will need a Google account and will sign in to their browser in order to use this cloud-based tool during the workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:51:28 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Mini-Workshops at the MIDAS symposium (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78763 78763-20121154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

There will be six workshops to choose from:
- Agent-based modeling and systemic racism
- Introduction to Python for community members and K-12 teachers and students
- Natural Language Processing for free text analysis
- Scrubbing and cleaning of sensitive data
- Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science
- Video coding and its research applications

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:33:12 -0400 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar MIDAS Symposium 2020
Scrubbing and Cleaning of Sensitive Data (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79223 79223-20231463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Before analysis, data must be retrieved, scrubbed of identifiable information, cleaned (e.g., addressed missing data, reshaped appropriately), and delivered. Using biomedical and transportation datasets as examples of how this generalizable process works, this workshop will walk attendees through a real-world pipeline used to process and deliver datasets. Documentation and code will be made available through GitLab to allow for coding along with the demonstration. As a result of this workshop, attendees will leave with a practical template for implementing their own a data science pipeline.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:57:27 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Stitching Together the Fabric of 21st Century Social Science (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79225 79225-20231464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Today’s pressing questions of social science and public policy demand an unprecedented degree of data scope and integration as we recognize the cross-cutting dynamics of economics, political science, sociology, demography, and psychology. This panel features four UM researchers who are pushing the frontier of data construction and linkage in coordination with partners at the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:01:06 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
The State of the Art in Automated and Semi-Automated Video Coding (November 10, 2020 2:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79226 79226-20231465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Video is being acquired at an alarming rate across domains, including social research, healthcare, entertainment, sporting and more. The ability to code this video—attribute certain properties, labels, and other annotations—in support of analytical domain-relevant questions is critical; otherwise, human coding is required. Human coding, however, is laborious, expensive, not repeatable, and, worse, often error prone. Video coding, an area within artificial intelligence and computer vision, seeks automated and semi-automated methods to support more effective and robust video coding. This workshop will review the state of the art in video coding from a capabilities, limitations and tooling perspective and present real-world use-cases.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:04:31 -0500 2020-11-10T14:45:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:16:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Mini-Workshop
Free Speech & Student Organizations (November 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78495 78495-20115263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Join the Center for Campus Involvement to learn about free speech and your student organization. Joined by Kelly Cruz, Associate General Counsel & Jack Bernard, Associate General Counsel, you will learn about the tenants of free speech specifically connected to your student organization as well as resources across campus.

Sign up: https://forms.gle/yGT27Wk9sTdC8fyt9

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:11:38 -0400 2020-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Free Speech & Student Org Flyer
UROP Qualitative Research Workshop (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78567 78567-20066103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Meeting Link
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95523889216

Learn about the basics of qualitative research, including:

- What is qualitative research and why do some researchers use qualitative methods?
- Differences between qualitative and quantitative research
- Typical research design steps in qualitative research projects
- How qualitative data is generated, stored, analyzed, and shared
- A hands-on qualitative coding exercise to reveal themes in the data

By the end of the workshop, you will understand the purposes for using qualitative methods, the typical stages in qualitative projects, and be better prepared to ask questions of your research mentors. We will also share further resources for investigating particular qualitative methods, and qualitative data analysis tools.

Contact urop.info@umich.edu with any questions

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:31:08 -0400 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Workshop
Refining Your Grad School Application Essays (November 11, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78904 78904-20152760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

(For students applying to masters, PhD, and professional programs)

Are you applying to a graduate program for fall 2021? Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? How do a Teaching Philosophy Statement or a Diversity Statement fit in? We will explore organizational strategies for the range of essays you are crafting and how to find the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to. Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or draft essays to work on during the workshop. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:49:02 -0400 2020-11-11T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Introduction to Omeka S Workshop (November 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77637 77637-19893776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

An introductory workshop (no experience required) for anyone curious about Omeka S, the popular open source digital collection and exhibit web platform. Omeka S is commonly used in digital projects for humanities and qualitative social sciences to create online collections of digital objects. In this workshop we’ll cover the basics of getting started, along with finding resources on and off campus. No experience necessary.

A Zoom link for participation will be shared after registration.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:37:26 -0400 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Omeka
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (November 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Department Colloquium | Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest Galaxies (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79309 79309-20272769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Department Colloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/GkgBm

The existence of dark matter, which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the Universe, indicates a critical gap in our understanding of fundamental physics. To date, we have been unable to directly detect or produce this mysterious substance in terrestrial laboratories. However, we have learned an enormous amount about dark matter from astronomical observations. In particular, the smallest, faintest, and most dark-matter-dominated galaxies have proven to be exceptional laboratories for studying the fundamental properties of dark matter. Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by dozens of these ultra-faint "dwarf" galaxies, which have only recently been discovered thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of digital sky surveys. As telescopes grow larger and more powerful, we continue to find fainter, more distant, and more dark-matter-dominated galaxies inhabiting our "cosmic backyard". I will describe recent advances in searches for the faintest galaxies, and how observations of our tiny galactic neighbors can help address one of the foremost open questions in physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Life of a doctor – but not that kind! (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76442 76442-19717139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

What kinds of careers open up to you with research experience in psychology besides being a professor – and what is being a professor really like, anyways? In addition to universities and hospitals, UM Psychology graduates have gone on to a wide variety of successful careers, including business, marketing, law, pharmaceuticals and journalism, and at companies like SpaceX, Facebook, Google, Amazon – even the Ministry of Defense in Singapore! We’ll talk with some recent graduates who have gone down the academic and nonacademic career paths about their journey and how being involved in psychological research contributed to their success.

RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/0W1zZ

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:30:37 -0400 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar VIRTUAL FALL SEMINAR SERIES
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Scalable Expertise (November 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79059 79059-20184343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We document that aggregate or sectoral demand shocks have disproportionately bigger effects on larger firms. Changes in scope, the number of products/locations, plays a significant role in this heterogeneity. Motivated by these facts, we present a theory of firm size, where both scope and expertise (which determines revenues and profits) are chosen endogenously. The extent to which expertise is scalable (applicable to multiple products), as opposed to local (specific to a particular product), is also chosen by the firm. The model predicts rich heterogeneity in responses to a sector-wide demand shock: firms with higher revenue per product (conditional on scope) adjust their scope by less, while those with higher scope (conditional on revenue per peroduct) adjust by more. Using data on multi-product and multi-establishment firms, we provide empirical evidence in support of these predictions. We also construct a proxy for the scalability of the firm’s expertise and show that the predictions of the model with respect to the scalability of firm-level expertise, both in the cross-section and in response to shocks, are also consistent with the patterns observed in the data.

* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:22:03 -0500 2020-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Supporting Your Student Organization in the Post Election Season (November 11, 2020 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79045 79045-20178461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

How will the post-election season impact your student organization? Spend time with Ginsberg Center team to process your own reactions to the election, and develop strategies to lead your student organization in inclusive and supportive ways. This drop-in session will take place twice in the weeks following the November 3rd election.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:50:55 -0500 2020-11-11T17:15:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar event name with stars on flags
OrgBasics - Recruitment & Marketing (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76571 76571-19727083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This OrgBasics workshop will help student organization members learn tips and tricks on how to recruit and retain membership in their organization with a focus on Marketing Best Practices and resources.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:58:59 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Folks jumping in the air
Strategizing for Resiliency Workshop (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78943 78943-20160618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This workshop will help CoE graduate students identify symptoms of burn-out and how to use strategies like self-compassion, self-care, and mindfulness to build resilience and successfully overcome graduate school setbacks and challenges.
Please register by 11/10 at https://forms.gle/Y4RRajbVSHCVRQon9
Sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. Please direct questions to ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:54:48 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar
Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia (November 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78622 78622-20075976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) student chapter invites you to a virtual event on November 12, from 2-3 pm. If you are interested in pursuing an engineering faculty career, please join us! We have invited speakers from a range of institutions (e.g. liberal arts college, community college, teaching-focused university, R1) to share their experience. Each speaker will give a ~10 minute description of their role, how they spend their time, and their favorite and least favorite aspects of their jobs. We will then create breakout rooms, so that attendees can converse with professors more personally and informally. We hope that this event will help students learn about the roles and responsibilities of different faculty careers, and explore what they might be interested in. Speakers include:
Dr. Emma Treadway, Trinity University
Dr. Katie Reichl, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Professor Nagash Clarke, Washtenaw Community College

Please fill out the attached RSVP form to be sent the Zoom link on the day of the event!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEW8h3u3uSSu9pxx2vAOxAd310dlfwhaEsP2cRcMyCljp2KA/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:14:40 -0400 2020-11-12T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar
EEB Virtual Seminar: Algal microbiomes alter competitive interactions between their hosts (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79098 79098-20207879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Phytoplankton communities are responsible for half of Earth’s net primary productivity and their community composition is a regulator of many biogeochemical cycles and food web dynamics. Bacteria associated with phytoplankton have been shown to affect host fitness, either negatively or positively, but how these associated microbiomes influence phytoplankton interspecific interactions and coexistence remains untested. We carried out a series of experiments using both eukaryotic green algae as well as the harmful bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa to test whether microbiomes alter the strength of interactions among their hosts. Specifically, we tested whether microbiomes altered the sensitivity of its host to compete with an established species by performing competition assays between hosts grown either without or with associated bacteria. Among eukaryotic green algae, we found that host microbiomes reduced the sensitivity of phytoplankton to interspecific competition in half of all pairwise comparisons tested. Although microbiomes changed the magnitude of interspecific interactions, bacteria did not fundamentally alter the type of host ecological interaction observed (i.e., competition vs. facilitation). For competition between M. aeruginosa and green algae, we found that host-associated bacteria increased population densities of M. aeruginosa when competing with an established green algal culture. Conversely, when M. aeruginosa was dominant, green algae were only able to grow in the absence of host-associated bacteria. Our results suggest a sizable role of host-associated bacteria in the competitive and facilitative interactions that control phytoplankton biodiversity and community composition, including their importance in the establishment and persistence of freshwater cyanobacterial blooms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:11:18 -0500 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Denef seminar microbiomes
Veterans Week: DEI in the military (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78620 78620-20075974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Sponsored by the University of Michigan, Dearborn - Student Veterans of America chapter!
The diversity, equality, and inclusion lecture/discussion will focus on racial equality in the military and the induction of the first all African American Marine unit, the Montford Point Marines. The Montford Point Marines were established in 1942, their valor and performance at Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Chosen Reservoir, Vietnam, and more paved the way for our present integrated armed forces. The keynote speaker of the lecture will be retired Sergeant Major Eugene Owens form the Montford Point Marines Detachment of the Marine Corps League. We will discuss racial issues in the military of the past and present.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:15:27 -0400 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Workshop / Seminar Montford Point Marine recruits at parade rest - 1943
BME Seminar Series: Eytan Ruppin (November 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75910 75910-19623828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:22:54 -0400 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Tools for Thriving Student Workshop Series (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79246 79246-20272793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Thursday, November 12, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m. ET
Via Zoom (login information will be sent upon registration)
Limited to 150 undergrad/graduate students, U-M students only

The Tools for Thriving Workshop Series, created from the research excellence of Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, will help students build thriving lives, teams, and organizations. Students will engage with Ross thought leaders and with world-renowned tools, created by Ross faculty, to deepen their self-awareness and ability to resource others.

The Landscape of Connection Workshop is an invitation to be inspired by the power of human connections. While we are living in trying times that put stress on our ability to be with one another, these times also highlight that human connections are essential for our well being and effectiveness.

This 90-minute workshop will give you a foundation for new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to build connections with others, even in remote work and online gatherings. You’ll leave with a new appreciation of how to design remote work and online gatherings to tap into wellsprings of capability, strength, and resilience. You’ll take away a customized plan that is designed to support high quality connections in your next remote session, as well as a design guide that will help you navigate the landscape of connections more effectively in these times.

INSTRUCTORS
Your guides on this journey through the landscape of connection are two passionate teachers who are deeply connected to this topic.

Jane Dutton:
Jane is a pioneer of research on high quality connections, teaching and writing about this field for the last 20 years. She is a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Monica Worline:
Monica is a pioneer in the work of bridging academic innovation in Positive Organizational Scholarship with the world of workplace practice, and in addition to teaching at the University of Michigan, she is the CEO of EnlivenWork, an incubator that works to foster new tools grounded in scholarship and designed with beauty to help people and organizations thrive.

Register: https://bit.ly/3k0E5WB

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:00:09 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar A Landscape of Connection
Virtual ​Art & Activism: Printing Totes & Posters for a Cause (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79017 79017-20172568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Thank you for your interest, however, this event is fully subscribed..

​As we all look ahead to the November election, and think about the role artists play in activism, we want to get our creative juices flowing and print our own favorite slogan! 

We will share some background on the work of Botswana born artist Meleko Mokgosi, whose installation Pan African Pulp, is currently on view at UMMA and includes posters from Pan-African movements founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s as well as a few designed by Mokgosi. 

Then Michigan-based artist Shayla Johnson will show you how to create a unique poster (or tote bag) featuring your own personal slogan and design. Shayla Johnson is founder and designer of Scarlet Crane Creations, a dedicated micro-batch textile printing house specializing in hand-printed fabrics for home decor products and lifestyle accessories. Unique surface patterns range from free flowing florals to abstract textures in order to produce stylish and sophisticated collections. Scarlet Crane Creations is housed at POST so you’ll have the opportunity to see Shayla’s work space, printing table, and work in process. Shayla also works for UMMA as a Museum Applications Developer.  

This event is part of a collaboration between UMMA, the African Graduate Student Association, the African Student Association, and the Ross Africa Business Club. All are welcome if there is space, but we will prioritize student participants as supplies are limited. 

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:15:35 -0500 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Michael Woodroofe Lecture Series: Emery Brown, Director of the Harvard–MIT Program of Health Sciences and Technology (November 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76734 76734-19741053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible condition comprised of five behavioral states: unconsciousness, amnesia (loss of memory), antinociception (loss of pain sensation), akinesia (immobility), and hemodynamic stability with control of the stress response. Our work shows that a primary mechanism through which anesthetics create these altered states of arousal is by initiating and maintaining highly structured oscillations. These oscillations impair communication among brain regions. We illustrate this effect by presenting findings from our human studies of general anesthesia using high-density EEG recordings and intracranial recordings. These studies have allowed us to give a detailed characterization of the neurophysiology of loss and recovery of consciousness due to propofol. We show how these dynamics change systematically with different anesthetic classes and with age. We have developed a principled, neuroscience-based paradigm for using the EEG to monitor the brain states of patients receiving general anesthesia. We demonstrate that the state of general anesthesia can be rapidly reversed by activating specific brain circuits. Finally, we demonstrate that the state of general anesthesia can be controlled using closed loop feedback control systems. The success of our research has depended critically on tight coupling of experiments, signal processing research and mathematical modeling.

Biography: Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School; an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT. Brown is an anesthesiologist-statistician whose research is defining the neuroscience of how anesthetics produce general anesthesia. He also develops statistical methods for neuroscience data analysis. Dr. Brown has received the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award and the Dickson Prize in Science and the Swartz Prize for Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

This seminar will be livestreamed via Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/94350208889
There will be a virtual reception to follow.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:47:46 -0500 2020-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Emery Brown
Supporting Yourself and Your Team Through Organizational Uncertainty OL21SYYTTOU03 (November 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78886 78886-20133221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

How do teams navigate with fewer resources, different reporting structures and changes in service delivery models? Join us for the first webinar in the Leading Change and Transition educational series, designed to help you learn about the difference between change and transition, and ways to support those who are impacted by the changes.

Audience:
Anyone in an entry to mid-level leadership role experiencing departmental changes or organizational uncertainty.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:48:15 -0400 2020-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
Sneak Peek: The Future of German Studies: Teaching, Scholarship, Activism (November 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79005 79005-20170601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Our aim is to interest current undergraduates across the country in graduate-level study of German language, culture and politics by offering them a taste of grad school. The event will be held via zoom Friday and Saturday, November 13-14, 2020. To facilitate students’ application process, we’ll also provide ‘nuts and bolts’ training for assembling grad school applications to any humanities program. Students will meet current graduate students, learn the basics of the application process, and attend two faculty-led seminars - one on DEI initiatives and the other on the American presidential election from a German perspective. The events will be as follow:

Friday, November 13, 11am-12:20pm
“Why graduate studies in German?”

Friday, November 13, 1:30-2:50pm
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Toward a More Just German Studies for the 21st Century” (Professor Kristin Dickinson)

Friday, November 13, 3-4:20pm
“Reading the American Election through the German Lens” (Professor Peter McIsaac)

Saturday, November 14, 11am-12:20pm
“Nuts and Bolts: How do I apply to graduate school?”

Please register via the following link: https://forms.gle/Wm1GY6Doia2kpAHB6.

Please note that the event is not solely intended for German majors, but rather all students with an interest in German literature, history, film, philosophy, contemporary culture, museum studies, and politics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:07:34 -0500 2020-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T16:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar
Building Your Vision Muscle; Leaning Into Resilience (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79099 79099-20209834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-leaning-into-resilience

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into tools they already have for living with a resilience that supports a more joyful and celebratory life, no matter their current circumstances. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:33:50 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
EIHS Workshop: Memorializing History: Monuments, Myths, and Symbols (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75589 75589-19542901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What roles do monuments, myths, and symbols play in generating historical memory? How might monuments or symbols be reviewed, recast, reimagined, or transformed? In a series of flash talks covering expansive historical and contemporary terrain, our graduate student panelists explore material memorialization and countermonumental practice, the historical and political legacies of endowed institutions, Ptolemaic coins and political legitimacy, and the myths and realities of eulogized pasts. Please join a moderated roundtable discussion following panelist presentations moderated by Ian Moyer (University of Michigan).

Panelists:
Leila Braun, Graduate Student, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan 
Golriz Farshi, Graduate Student, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan 
Allen Kendall, Graduate Student, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan 
Emily Na, Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan
Julianna Loera Wiggins, Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan  
Ian Moyer (chair), Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcO6urTorHNXGK6xgC0D-goeabuYI81RC

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 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:08:49 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: "Predictive Analytics, Energy Systems, and Storms" — Seth Guikema (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79210 79210-20231451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Predictive Analytics, Energy Systems, and Storms

Abstract:
Electric power systems are critical for daily life, yet they regularly experience widespread impacts from natural hazards like hurricanes and thunderstorms. Having predictions of these impacts prior to the event has the potential to improve the response by utilities, allowing them to restore power more quickly and efficiently. This talk will present an overview of how predictive modeling can help utilities in this setting. This provides an example of the broader type of work that IOE students can do in the area of predictive modeling.

Bio:
Dr. Seth Guikema is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to arriving at U-M in 2015, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an adjunct Professor II in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger in Norway, and a Data Science Research Fellow at One Concern, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up. His academic training includes a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Cornell University), a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Stanford University), a M.E. by thesis in Civil Engineering (University of Canterbury in New Zealand), a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Risk & Decision Analysis (Stanford University), and a postdoctoral research position in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Cornell University).

Dr. Guikema's research is highly interdisciplinary. Much of his group's recent work is focused on the problems of urban and infrastructure resilience and sustainability in a changing climate, grounded in data-driven risk analysis and complex systems simulation. One major topic is developing, testing, and implementing risk analysis methods based in machine learning, stochastica and agent-based simulation, game theory, and decision analysis. Another strong research thrust in the group is using modern simulation methods to more fully understand the role of human behavior in the evaluation of vulnerability and risk in hazard-prone regions.

Seth is currently the Area Editor for Mathematical Modeling in the journal Risk Analysis, was an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems until 2018, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Reliability Engineering and System Safety and Performability Engineering. He previously completed a three-year term on the governing Councils of the International Society for Risk Analysis and the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:18:59 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Seth Guikema
Economics at Work (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78080 78080-19957579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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.

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/eLwgQ3wda3DmtZ6eA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:28:58 -0400 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Followership with the BLI (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79180 79180-20225559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

James M. Kouzes, author of The Leadership Challenge, is credited with stating that “if you think you’re a leader and no one is following, then you’re simply out for a walk.” But what does it actually mean to be a follower in a world enamored with leaders and influencers? Join us as we explore the notion of followership and discuss what it means to be an effective follower. Through a series of interactive activities, guided discussions and reflective practices we will learn how to identify and leverage followership values and traits to engineer change in an increasingly complex world.

Dr. Dorine Lawrence-Hughes currently serves as an Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. In this role, she helps to facilitate curricular and co-curricular initiatives for effective teaching and learning. Her research focuses on communication and leadership and she is instrumental in supporting and developing women for leadership in higher education. Prior to her role at Michigan, Lawrence-Hughes was a Clinical Associate Professor and an administrator at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. Lawrence-Hughes earned a B.A. in politics from Whitman College, an M.A. from California State University, Northridge in communication, a J.D. from USC and an Ed.D. from UCLA.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:46:09 -0500 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar Followership with the BLI
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Minicolloquium | Cosmology in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy With Gravitational Waves (November 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79310 79310-20272770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Motivated by the exciting prospect of a new wealth of information arising from the first observations of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from the same astrophysical phenomena, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has established a search and discovery program for the optical transients associated with LIGO/Virgo events (DESGW). Using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), DESGW has contributed to the discovery of the optical transient associated with the neutron star merger GW170817, and produced the first cosmological measurements using gravitational wave events as standard sirens. After three successful observing campaigns, I present, in this talk, an overview of our results and their implications for the emerging field of multi-messenger cosmology with gravitational waves and optical data.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Honors Seminar Series: Ethan Kross (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76513 76513-19719174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

On October 8, 2013 Malala Yousafzai appeared on the Daily Show to talk about her harrowing experience surviving the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate her. At one point during the interview she described how she reacted when she discovered that the Taliban were planning to kill her. “I used to think that the Tali[ban] would come and he would just kill me,” she told to Stewart. “But then I said, if he comes, what would you do Malala? Then I would reply to myself, Malala just take a shoe and hit him…”

Malala’s interview provides a window into the at times curious ways that we reflect on our lives. Although we all have an inner monologue that we engage in from time to time, an inner voice that guides our moment-to-moment reflections, people often report referring to themselves in strikingly different ways when they introspect. Whereas people typically use 1st person singular pronouns (e.g., I, me, my) to refer to themselves during introspection, they at times also use their own name and other non-1st-person pronouns to refer to themselves as well.

In this talk, Professor Ethan Kross will review findings from a growing body of psychological and neuroscience research, which suggests that far from representing a simple quirk of speech, engaging in such distanced self-talk enhances people’s ability to control their thoughts, feelings and behavior under stress.

You can register here: https://myumi.ch/0W1Op

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:47:52 -0400 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar Professor Ethan Kross
Measuring Liberal Arts: Creating an Index for Higher Education (Seminar 3 on Measuring the Liberal Arts) (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76067 76067-20278672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Join us for a year-long series of virtual panel discussions and seminars exploring the values, dimensions, and outcomes of liberal arts education, and how they might be measured. Academic leaders, researchers, faculty members, and national experts will gather to consider issues long central to liberal arts education, as well as its status in the current climate.

Visit the College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts and Life Colloquium Series website for more information on this and all upcoming events: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/liberalarts

Zoom – Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dssJqnU1Q_-hhuqmvgCEfg

Seminar 3 on Measuring the Liberal Arts Speakers:

Peter Bearman
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE);
Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Chad Borkenhagen
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative
Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University

Siqi Han
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative
Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University

Kevin Stange (Moderator and Discussant)
Associate Professor of Public Policy,
University of Michigan

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:04:40 -0500 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Workshop / Seminar
Economic Theory: Caution and Reference Effects (oint with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger) (November 13, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81681 81681-20941465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We establish a theoretical link between three phenomena at the core of behavioral economics: the Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and violations of Expected Utility as in the Certainty Effect. In our model, all jointly stem from one single force: uncertainty about the utility function to use and caution. Behaviorally, we show that our model is derived from positing a form of the certainty effect, that we show implies both Loss Aversion and the Endowment Effect. We analyze further implications of our model and demonstrate how it can organize existing empirical evidence of the Endowment Effect, and how it is conceptually and behaviorally distinct from other popular approaches, e.g., Cumulative Prospect Theory.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:56:40 -0500 2020-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
First Year, First Vote, Now What? (November 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79046 79046-20178463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you a first year wolverine? Was this election your first time voting? Spend time connecting with fellow first year students to debrief about the election and your voting experience, while identifying pathways for future community and civic engagement.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:57:10 -0400 2020-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar people holding vote signs on the bottom with event details on top
NERS Colloquia (November 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75536 75536-19519136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Details forthcoming.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:15:39 -0400 2020-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Saturday Morning Physics VIRTUAL Event | The Light Fantastic (November 14, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77282 77282-19830135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Professor Alec Thomas will give a pre-recorded lecture with a "live" Q&A after the talk.

Youtube Event Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGJg-eJF61c (Link will be active at 10:30 am on 11/14/20.) See saturdaymorningphysics.org for more details.

Since the invention of Chirped Pulse Amplification (Strickland and Mourou, Physics Nobel 2018), lasers have become increasingly powerful by squeezing energy into inconceivably short pulses. The pulses of intense light produced by these lasers, such as the new ZEUS facility being constructed at U-M, can generate precision beams of high energy particles for new technologies, produce the conditions of extreme astrophysical environments in the laboratory and create matter from (almost) nothing.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:09:15 -0400 2020-11-14T10:30:00-05:00 2020-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Saturday Morning Physics Logo
NEH Awards and More: Strategies for Becoming Involved in NEH-Funded Projects (November 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78548 78548-20060208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

This workshop will give attendees the opportunity to learn from NEH senior program officer, Jennifer Serventi, about the many funding opportunities offered by the Endowment. She will cover the programs offered by the Divisions of Research Programs, Education Programs, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and the Offices of Digital Humanities and Challenge Grants. In her presentation, she will address two related questions: 1) What opportunities are available to faculty and staff, with a particular focus on support for digital projects? and, 2) What kinds of strategies can they employ to take advantage of them?

She also will discuss ways that faculty and staff can participate in NEH projects and special initiatives beyond applying for an award directly from NEH. Examples of these opportunities include serving as a peer review panelist, advising documentary films, evaluating archival collections as an advisory board member, participating in educational seminars and institutes, conducting research with support of a fellowship from an independent research institution, or becoming involved in the work of state humanities councils.

Speaker Bio:
Jennifer Serventi is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities. She coordinates the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program and also works extensively with the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. Prior to joining ODH in 2007, she served in NEH's Divisions of Research and Education Programs. Before coming to the Endowment in 1994, she was a staff member at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She received her BA in history and government from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Her mother is a native Detroiter and her uncle and a cousin attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a fan of Zingerman’s mail order.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9nAenFTEQhqxC5fUjkPYhg?_x_zm_rtaid=iYq30lUeSBmHNZ3RVlXSDg.1602701978496.06354e0c9cd8b6dc6a93a61d225289a4&_x_zm_rhtaid=697

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:06:57 -0400 2020-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Ten key accounting calculator on yellow desk.
NEH Awards and More: Strategies for Becoming Involved in NEH-Funded Projects (November 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78835 78835-20131199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Jennifer Serventi, senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) talks about the many funding opportunities offered by the endowment. She'll cover the programs offered by the Divisions of Research Programs, Education Programs, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and the Offices of Digital Humanities and Challenge Grants. She'll address two related questions: 1) What opportunities are available to faculty and staff, with a particular focus on support for digital projects? and, 2) What kinds of strategies can they employ to take advantage of them?

She'll also discuss ways that faculty and staff can participate in NEH projects and special initiatives beyond applying for an award directly from NEH. Examples of these opportunities include serving as a peer review panelist, advising documentary films, evaluating archival collections as an advisory board member, participating in educational seminars and institutes, conducting research with support of a fellowship from an independent research institution, or becoming involved in the work of state humanities councils.

We welcome all researchers in the southeast Michigan area! Register to receive a Zoom link for the event: http://myumi.ch/BoVEl

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:58:28 -0400 2020-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar NEH logo
The Impact of Access to Clean Water on Cognitive and Physical Development: Evidence from Mexico's Programa de Agua Limpia. (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77316 77316-19838098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

Dr. Brown will discuss The Impact of Access to Clean Water on Cognitive and Physical Development: Evidence from Mexico's Programa de Agua Limpia.


BIO:
Ryan Brown's research interests span multiple fields of applied microeconomics including development economics, labor economics, health economics, economic demography, and political economy.

Ryan's work has primarily focused on applying econometric techniques to population representative data in both developed and developing country settings, to examine how changes in the social, physical, and/or economic environment can have a persistent impact on health, preferences, and human capital accumulation. Recently, I have also begun to explore the relationship between the success of women competing for positions in entry-level positions and its subsequent impact on the gender gap at the top of the career ladder.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:22:41 -0400 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20319909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

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 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
Digital Studies Institute Teaching Workshop Series (November 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75260 75260-19379443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:44:06 -0400 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | Generic Objects of Dark Energy (GEODEs): Implications for Black Hole Evolution and Cosmology (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79229 79229-20233424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Resolution of the averaging ambiguity in Friedmann cosmology has revealed that the interiors of ultrarelativistic objects are tightly coupled to cosmological dynamics. General relativity now predicts that measurable energy shifts, like the well-known photon redshift, occur in all material with equation of state magnitude greater than 0.01. Objects that mimic classical black holes, but contain dark energy interiors (GEODEs), can undergo a pronounced cosmological blueshift. In particular, each member of a GEODE population can gain energy proportional to the physical volume of the universe, while the population itself disperses in volume with the cosmological expansion.The resulting physical dark energy density is constant in time, mimicking a cosmological constant. Assuming that stellar collapse remnants realized by Nature are actually GEODEs, we discuss the implications for quasar masses at high redshift and the black hole mass function as measured by LIGO at low redshift.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:15:23 -0500 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Pre-Law 101 for Transfer Students (November 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78099 78099-19963485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

This session will provide you with the first steps in exploring a career in law. The pre-law advisors from the Newnan Advising Center will review the law school admission process and provide tips on how to submit a strong application. This session is designed to address the unique circumstances of transfer students and will allow for time at the end of the presentation for questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:00:03 -0400 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Student Center
Worthy Bodies: Trans* Body Positivity Workshop (November 16, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79122 79122-20209859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register at bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

In this workshop, we'll be talking about things like makeup, clothes, and accessories and how those can affirm one's identity, while acknowledging the barriers that prevent some in the community from presenting their most authentic self.
If you can, wear an article of clothing, accessory, or outfit that validates your identity and get a chance to tell its story! This will be an affirming and celebratory space for however you present, no matter your identity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:31:22 -0500 2020-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar [ID: There are leaves along the top of the picture in blue, white, and pink, representing the trans flag colors. In the middle, there is the title of the workshop "Worthy Bodies: Trans Body Positivity Workshop" on Nov. 16th, 5:30-7:00 pm (all in yellow font), followed by the registration link in pink font. This event is open to the public and times are in EST. At the bottom, there's the Spectrum Center logo and Transgender Awareness Week 2020. All on a dark blue background.]
Community Creative Arts Workshop (November 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75276 75276-19401029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Open to All

The Community Workshop is meeting online!

The PCAP Community Workshop, formerly called the Reentry Workshop, is now meeting on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Currently in its fourth year, members of the community meet with formerly-incarcerated people to share creative arts and have fun!

Interested?
Send an email to Mary: mheinen@umich.edu,
or text 734-474-7799

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:43:44 -0400 2020-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Group of workshop participants
Global Virtual Exchange Workshop (November 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79255 79255-20241309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Virtual Exchange Initiative

Faculty and staff from all University of Michigan campuses are invited to join the Tri-campus Virtual Exchange Initiative to learn about a high-impact educational practice that provides accessible forms of experiential global learning for diverse student populations.

*Session 1: Making Global Learning Universal*
Tuesday, 11/17, 9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.

Register for Session 1 at https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/dearborn/sessions/making-global-learning-universal/register/

Intended Audience: Anyone interested in learning more about virtual exchange and making global learning more accessible to students

Why should global learning be included in all students’ education?
How does virtual exchange provide a broadly accessible platform for global learning?
What are the examples of virtual exchange across the curriculum?
What resources are available to faculty members who want to learn more?

*Session 2: Assessment Best Practices in Virtual Exchange*
Tuesday, 11/17, 10:00 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

Register for Session 2 at https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/dearborn/sessions/assessment-best-practices-in-virtual-exchange/register/

Intended Audience: Those who are teaching, have taught, or are developing plans for a virtual exchange

What should be assessed in a virtual exchange and what shouldn’t?
How should assessments be conducted?
Are there assessments that allow for comparison of student learning versus other benchmarks?

Workshop Facilitator
Stephanie Doscher, Ed.D.
Director, Office of Global Learning Initiatives, Florida International University

Stephanie Doscher is a frequent national presenter on global learning and virtual exchange. She is co-author of the book Making Global Learning Universal. She hosts the Making Global Learning Universal Podcast and leads FIU’s Collaborative Online International Learning initiative.

Funding for this workshop is made possible by a generous grant from the King-Chávez-Parks Initiative at UM-Dearborn.

Co-Sponsors: UM-Dearborn Office of the Provost, UM-Flint Center for Global Engagement, UM-Ann Arbor LSA Language Resource Center, UM-Ann Arbor LSA Technology Services

Meeting Format: This will be a virtual meeting. Links for the sessions will be sent to registered participants.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:54:30 -0500 2020-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Virtual Exchange Initiative Workshop / Seminar Stephanie Doscher, Ed. D., Florida International University
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Wage Inequality and the Rise in Labor Force Exit: The Case of US Prime-Age Men (November 17, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78922 78922-20154732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:05:47 -0400 2020-11-17T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Identifying and Building your Professional Brand (November 17, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78895 78895-20148842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Identifying and Building your Professional Brand
Tuesday, November 17 | 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Online via Zoom
If someone says “Just Do It”, what comes to mind? Wouldn’t it be great to figure out how branding like this can be applied to you and your work? GradSWE is teaming up with Michigan’s Engineering Communication and Marketing Team to put on an interactive workshop to (1) define the benefits of having a brand, (2) provide tools to help identify and cultivate your brand voice, and (3) connect you with members in academia with strong personal/professional brands. In place of lunch, we will be providing virtual Grubhub gift cards to attendees. RSVP is required.

RSVP is required.
Contact: Charlotte Zhao at zshiqi@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:41:31 -0400 2020-11-17T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar
Azure Data and Machine Learning Training Series (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79287 79287-20264788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Microsoft Azure, in collaboration with MIDAS, is offering the U-M research community a unique opportunity to learn to use Azure for data science research.

Videos of three classes are available to view at your own pace. After viewing the videos, please join Microsoft instructors to ask questions, review specific issues, and walk through additional demos and examples.

Please sign up ahead of time if you plan to join these office hours (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScH6FerytdMijlT6yUK8c4AYkr4cpMuYf5k6E-K-yD_9agutQ/viewform?gxids=7757). Email your questions to Jonathan Gryak, MIDAS Senior Scientist, ryakj@umich.edu.

There are three sessions:
- Azure 101: Getting Started with Azure, Office Hours, November 17, 12:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/azure-101-getting-started-with-azure/)
- Working with Data in Azure, Office Hours, November 18, 2:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/working-with-data-in-azure/)
- Machine Learning on Azure, Office Hours, November 19, 10:00 AM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/machine-learning-on-azure/)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:38:45 -0500 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar
Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience- Department of Biological Chemistry Goldstein Lectureship (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77978 77978-19949605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi will present the annual Irwin Goldstein Lectureship on Tuesday November 17th, 2020.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:05:07 -0400 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
Getting Started with StoryMaps (November 17, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77715 77715-19907683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Do you have a story to tell? Looking for innovative ways to communicate research? Interested in exploring multimedia assignments? Are location or geographic relationship a key component of your message?



Harness the power of maps to tell your story.



ArcGIS Story Maps provide a powerful, engaging, and inspiring alternative for educational activities, instructional delivery, dissemination of research, public outreach, and more! In this hands-on workshop, learn to use StoryMaps’ intuitive interface to combine interactive maps, text, images, and multimedia content into a web-based, visually compelling, responsive narrative.



(This will be a virtual workshop; Zoom connection info will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop.)
Registration: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/getting-started-with-storymaps-4/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:36:16 -0400 2020-11-17T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Story Maps
PHD SEMINAR: "Improving Veteran Access to Chronic Eye Disease Care" — Adam VanDeusen (November 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78026 78026-19955552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Improving Veteran Access to Chronic Eye Disease Care

Abstract:
Access to healthcare is a critical public health issue in the United States, especially for veterans. Veterans are older on average than the general U.S. population and are thus at higher risk for chronic disease. Further, veterans report more delays when seeking healthcare. The Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System continuously works to develop policies and technologies that aim to improve veteran access to care. Industrial engineering methods can be effective in analyzing the impact of such policies, as well as designing or modifying systems to better align veteran patients’ needs with providers and resources.

In the talk, I will focus on veteran access to chronic eye disease screening. Ophthalmologists in the VA have developed a platform in which ophthalmic technicians screen patients for major chronic eye diseases during primary care visits. We use mixed-integer programming-based facility location models to understand how the VA can determine which clinics should offer eye screenings, which provider type(s) should staff those clinics, and how to distribute patients among clinics. The results of this work show how the VA can achieve various objectives including minimizing the cost of treating a given population or maximizing the number of patients receiving care given a fixed budget.

Bio:
Adam VanDeusen is a PhD candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan working under Dr. Amy Cohn. His work applies operations research and systems engineering methods to public health policy and access to healthcare. As part of his graduate training, Adam works with the University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS). Adam completed his undergraduate degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and his Master of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health. Prior to his PhD, Adam worked as the Senior Director of Clinical Programs at the Health Management Academy and as a Health Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:58:53 -0500 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Adam VanDeusen
Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM (November 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79065 79065-20184349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This organized panel will focus on trans-accessible and trans-inclusive healthcare/wellness practices on campus and in the local vicinity. Panelists will join us from UM Michigan Medicine, University Health Services, and UM Spectrum Center. The goal of this panel is to provide valuable information to trans-inclusive healthcare and wellness information that is typically not readily accessible on public outreach platforms.

Panelists
Hadrian Kinnear, he/him
MD-PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School

Diana Parrish, she/her
Clinical Social Worker, University Health Services

Roman Christiaens, they/them
Assistant Director, Spectrum Center

Moderator
Leslie Tetteh, they/them
Graduate Student, School of Social Work & School of Education

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 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:30:58 -0500 2020-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Navigating Trans-Affirming Healthcare/Wellness at UM is going to be held November 17th from 6 to 7 PM. Events are open to the public, times are in EST. This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week 2020.
Employer Connection: Exploring Talent Agency Careers with United Talent Agency (UTA) (November 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79165 79165-20217729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you interested in a career in entertainment or sports? If so, join United Talent Agency’s (UTA) team of Michigan alums to explore how your time as an LSA student can prepare you for a successful career with a talent agency. UTA partners with more than just actors; they also work with influencers, entertainers, athletes, and brands. Emerge from this session with a more informed understanding of this industry, the varied careers within, and how to break into your desired role or job.


You should attend this Employer Connection if you are:

- Interested in a career that allows you to work in entertainment, build brands, and negotiate contracts.
- Curious to learn about the day-to-day and the evolution of an agent’s career
- Looking to find out how to get your start in the industry through UTA’s internship program or its agent trainee program

What you’ll gain by attending:

- Gain insights from Michigan alums at various stages of their career at the agency
- Get an overview of how to navigate recruiting with UTA

RSVP now to reserve your spot; capacity is limited. The zoom link to join the session will be emailed to you after RSVPing.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:54:55 -0500 2020-11-17T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar A talent representative talking with a client
Communicating Effectively in Zoom Rooms (November 18, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78902 78902-20152759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Back by popular demand! Whether learning on campus or from a distance, most of us are spending a lot of time on Zoom and other video conferencing platforms. Being able to participate effectively in online discussions will likely be essential for a long time to come. In this fun, interactive workshop, we will practice a range of features of effective video communication: ways to get a turn to speak, to communicate clearly, and to respond effectively to others. Come ready to practice with one another and to identify strategies for practicing on your own. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:49:48 -0400 2020-11-18T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Principles of Text Analysis (November 18, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78767 78767-20121163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Population Dynamics and Health Program resumes our 2020 workshop series on Nov. 18th, with a workshop entitled Principles of Text Analysis, presented by Patrick van Kessel, senior data scientist at Pew Research Center. This half-day workshop is geared toward data analysts with unstructured text data (e.g. open-ended survey responses or web-curated text), and will provide a tutorial on cleaning, processing, and analyzing data from text-based sources using state-of-the-art text analytics techniques primarily using Python, with some examples also provided in R (experience with either of these languages is recommended but not required).

Topics include:

* Preprocessing and cleaning messy text data
* Feature extraction using TF-IDF vectorization
* Text analytics techniques including topic modelling and unsupervised clustering methods
* Software demonstration featuring the scikitlearn library for Python.


BIO:
Patrick van Kessel is a senior data scientist at Pew Research Center, specializing in computational social science research and methodology. He is the author of studies that have used natural language processing and machine learning to measure negative political discourse and news sharing behavior by members of Congress on social media, and is involved in the ongoing development of best practices for the application of data science methods across the Center. Van Kessel received his master's degree in social science from the University of Chicago, where he focused on open-ended survey research and text analytics. He holds bachelor's degrees in economics and political science from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, he worked at NORC at the University of Chicago as a data scientist and technical advisor on a variety of research projects related to health, criminal justice and education.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:48:55 -0400 2020-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster
Boren Awards Information Session (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78728 78728-20207877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join our Boren Award Info Session!

Boren Awards provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to study a wide range of critical languages in world areas underrepresented in study abroad to those committed to public service. Awards up to $30,000 can be offered to spend up to 12 months learning a critical language in selected countries!

Join U-M campus representative Melissa Vert and International Institute of Education Boren Program Advisor Kyle Cox as they discuss opportunities, awards, and the general application process. Please be sure to register at https://forms.gle/69vJkbJaWC182L226!

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact Melissa at mjfvert@umich.edu. 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, 03 Dec 2020 09:07:18 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Workshop / Seminar Boren Awards
The Michigan Healthy Start Program: Strategies to Engage Fathers in Social Work Practice (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79100 79100-20209848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Dr. Shawna J. Lee will describe working with Healthy Start programs throughout the state to develop, implement, and evaluate a father engagement home visitation program. The goal of the father home visitation program was to increase fathers' participation in Healthy Start home visits and to increase fathers' knowledge of infant health and developmental milestones. The Healthy Start program targets low-income mothers in Detroit, Flint, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and through the Inter-tribal Council of Michigan. The Healthy Start fatherhood program provided father-friendly parent education and home visitation by a fatherhood-focused community health worker.

This intermediate-level webinar is approved for one synchronous interactive continuing education contact hour.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:42:50 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Workshop / Seminar Shawna Lee
Azure Data and Machine Learning Training Series (November 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79288 79288-20264789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Microsoft Azure, in collaboration with MIDAS, is offering the U-M research community a unique opportunity to learn to use Azure for data science research.

Videos of three classes are available to view at your own pace. After viewing the videos, please join Microsoft instructors to ask questions, review specific issues, and walk through additional demos and examples.

Please sign up ahead of time if you plan to join these office hours (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScH6FerytdMijlT6yUK8c4AYkr4cpMuYf5k6E-K-yD_9agutQ/viewform?gxids=7757). Email your questions to Jonathan Gryak, MIDAS Senior Scientist, ryakj@umich.edu.

There are three sessions:
- Azure 101: Getting Started with Azure, Office Hours, November 17, 12:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/azure-101-getting-started-with-azure/)
- Working with Data in Azure, Office Hours, November 18, 2:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/working-with-data-in-azure/)
- Machine Learning on Azure, Office Hours, November 19, 10:00 AM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/machine-learning-on-azure/)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:41:16 -0500 2020-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (November 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Department Colloquium | Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-Flight (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79260 79260-20243268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Department Colloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/GkgBm

Measurements in quantum physics, unlike their classical physics counterparts, can fundamentally yield discrete and random results. Historically, Niels Bohr was the first to hypothesize that quantum jumps occurred between two discrete energy levels of an atom. Experimentally, quantum jumps were directly observed many decades later in an atomic ion driven by a weak deterministic force under strong continuous energy measurement. The times at which the discontinuous jump transitions occur are reputed to be fundamentally unpredictable. Despite the non-deterministic character of quantum physics, is it possible to know if a quantum jump is about to occur? Our work1 provides a positive answer to this question: we experimentally show that the jump from the ground state to an excited state of a superconducting artificial three-level atom can be tracked as it follows a predictable “flight” by monitoring the population of an auxiliary energy level coupled to the ground state. The experimental results demonstrate that the evolution of the jump — once completed — is continuous, coherent, and deterministic. Based on these insights and aided by real-time monitoring and feedback, we then pinpoint and reverse one such quantum jump “mid-flight”, thus deterministically preventing its completion. Our findings, which agree with theoretical predictions essentially without adjustable parameters, lend support to the modern formulation of quantum trajectory theory; most importantly, they may provide new ground for the exploration of real-time intervention techniques in the control of quantum systems, such as the early detection of error syndromes.

1. Z. Minev et al., Nature 570, 200–204 (2019)

Short Bio:

Michel Devoret graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris in 1975 and started graduate work in molecular quantum physics at the University of Orsay. He then joined Professor Anatole Abragam's laboratory in CEA-Saclay to work on NMR in solid hydrogen, and received his PhD from Paris University in 1982. He spent two post-doctoral years working on macroscopic quantum tunneling with John Clarke's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He pursued this research on quantum mechanical electronics upon his return to Saclay, starting his own research group with Daniel Esteve and Cristian Urbina. The main achievements of the "quantronics group" were in this period the measurement of the traversal time of tunneling, the invention of the single electron pump (now the basis of a new standard of capacitance), the first measurement of the effect of atomic valence on the conductance of a single atom, and the first observation of the Ramsey fringes of a superconducting artificial atom (quantronium). He became director of research at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) at Saclay. In 2007, Michel has been appointed to the College de France, where he taught until 2012. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and a member of the French Academy of Sciences (2008). Michel has received the Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Science (together with Daniel Esteve, 1991), the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Academy of Science of the Netherlands (1996) and the Europhysics-Agilent Prize of the European Physical Society (together with Daniel Esteve, Hans Mooij and Yasunobu Nakamura, 2004). He is also a recipient of the John Stewart Bell Prize, which he received jointly with Rob Schoelkopf in 2013. In 2014, he has been awarded, together with John Martinis and Rob Schoelkopf, the Fritz London Memorial Prize. He received the Olli Lounaasma Prize in 2016.

Currently the F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University -- which he joined in 2002 -- he focuses his research on experimental solid state physics with emphasis on quantum mechanical electronics (a.k.a. "quantronics") for quantum information processing. In this new type of electronics, electrical collective degrees of freedom like currents and voltages behave quantum mechanically. Such mesoscopic phenomena are particularly important in quantum circuits based on Josephson junctions, which is his main research goal. He currently focuses on the new phenomena of fault-tolerant quantum operations and remote entanglement.


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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:15:22 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Gigliola Staffilani (MIT) to give MCAIM Colloquium (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79435 79435-20325793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

Abstract: In recent years great progress has been made in the study of dispersive and wave equations. Over the years the toolbox used in order to attack highly nontrivial problems related to these equations has developed to include a variety of techniques from Fourier and harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, math physics, dynamical systems, probability and symplectic geometry. In this talk I will introduce a variety of problems connected with dispersive and wave equations, such as the derivation of a certain nonlinear Schrodinger equation from a quantum many-particles system, periodic Strichartz estimates, the concept of energy transfer, the invariance of a Gibbs measure associated to an infinite dimension Hamiltonian system and non-squeezing theorems for such systems when they also enjoy a symplectic structure.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:56:08 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Workshop / Seminar Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Why does capital flow from equal to unequal countries? (November 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79060 79060-20184344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Capital flows from equal to unequal countries. We document this empirical regularity in a large sample of advanced economies. The capital flows are largely driven by private savings. We propose a theory that can rationalize these findings: more unequal countries endogenously develop deeper financial markets. Households in unequal counties, in turn, borrow more, driving the observed direction of capital flows.

* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:12:16 -0500 2020-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Azure Data and Machine Learning Training Series (November 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79289 79289-20264790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Microsoft Azure, in collaboration with MIDAS, is offering the U-M research community a unique opportunity to learn to use Azure for data science research.

Videos of three classes are available to view at your own pace. After viewing the videos, please join Microsoft instructors to ask questions, review specific issues, and walk through additional demos and examples.

Please sign up ahead of time if you plan to join these office hours (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScH6FerytdMijlT6yUK8c4AYkr4cpMuYf5k6E-K-yD_9agutQ/viewform?gxids=7757). Email your questions to Jonathan Gryak, MIDAS Senior Scientist, ryakj@umich.edu.

There are three sessions:
- Azure 101: Getting Started with Azure, Office Hours, November 17, 12:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/azure-101-getting-started-with-azure/)
- Working with Data in Azure, Office Hours, November 18, 2:00 PM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/working-with-data-in-azure/)
- Machine Learning on Azure, Office Hours, November 19, 10:00 AM (https://midas.umich.edu/event/machine-learning-on-azure/)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:42:31 -0500 2020-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar
SEMINAR: "Coordinated Delivery to Shopping Malls with Limited Docking Capacity" — Lei Zhao (November 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75964 75964-19629764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Coordinated Delivery to Shopping Malls with Limited Docking Capacity

Abstract:
Shopping malls are densely located in densely populated cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Tenants in these shopping malls generate a large number of freight orders to their contracted logistics service providers, who then independently plan their own delivery schedules. These uncoordinated deliveries and the limited docking capacity often jointly cause congestion at the shopping malls. We study a coordination strategy in which a delivery coordination platform centrally schedules vehicle routes for multiple logistics service providers, and simultaneously reserves the dock time slot for each order delivery. Vehicle routing and dock scheduling decisions are made jointly against the backdrop of travel time and service time uncertainty. We model this problem as a two-stage stochastic mixed integer program, develop an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search algorithm that approximates the second stage recourse function using various sample sizes, and examine the associated in-sample and out-of-sample stability. Our numerical study on a testbed of instances based on real data in Singapore demonstrates the value of coordination and the value of stochastic solutions.

Bio:
Dr. Lei Zhao is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on computational stochastic optimization methodologies (stochastic programming, approximate dynamic programming, simulation optimization) and their applications in logistics and transportation management (esp. urban delivery in megacities), supply chain risk management, and medical decision making. Dr. Zhao’s research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) as well as industry collaborators such as Sinoair, Sinopec, China Tobacco, COSCO Shipping Technology/COSCONET, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, General Mills, IBM, etc. He has publications in Annals of Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, OR Spectrum, Transportation Research Part B, C, & E, and Transportation Science, etc.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:05:00 -0500 2020-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lei Zhao
PHD DEFENSE: "Simulating Long-Term and Short-Term Community and Infrastructure Vulnerability and Response to Natural Hazards" — Chengwei Zhai (November 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78576 78576-20066117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97858701837
Meeting ID: 978 5870 1837
Passcode: 455057

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Simulating Long-Term and Short-Term Community and Infrastructure Vulnerability and Response to Natural Hazards

CHAIR:
Seth Guikema

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:04:03 -0500 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Chengwei Zhai
Maximizing Professional Development Opportunities During Transition OL21MPDODT01 (November 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78887 78887-20133222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

In this session, you will learn immediately applicable tools—available at no cost—to support yourself and your team during times of change and transition. We will showcase opportunities available from Organizational Learning, including the Development Journey and LinkedIn Learning, that will help you to connect learning with developmental opportunities for you and your team. This webinar is being provided as part of the Leading in Change and Transition webinar series.

Audience:
Anyone in an entry to mid-level leadership role experiencing departmental changes or organizational uncertainty.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:58:17 -0400 2020-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
BME Seminar Series: Maciek Antoniewicz (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75911 75911-19623829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:25:40 -0400 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Exercise & Sport Science Initiative (ESSI): Use of Wearable Devices For Return-To-Play in Sports and Physical Activity During COVID-19 (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79425 79425-20319911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Office of Research

Due to COVID-19, many organizations, including professional sports teams and the military, have used wearable devices for early detection of COVID-19. As individuals begin returning to sports and physical activity, there are public health concerns about close physical contact and potentially spreading the virus. This panel will examine these issues and discuss the effectiveness of wearables for daily health monitoring.

Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SM-e84yVTX-ld-qrFzr8TA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:17:18 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Office of Research Workshop / Seminar Looking at wearable device
Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity (November 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79254 79254-20241308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar in the Center for Global Health's series: Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity.
Panelists include:
Cheryl Moyer, Medicine
Laura Rozek, School of Public Health
Jodi Lori, Nursing
Elizabeth King, School of Public Health
Bridgette Carr, Law

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:09:26 -0500 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Non-Academic Jobs - Faculty Panel (November 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77058 77058-19790565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In November and December, we will focus on non-academic jobs. We will start in November with a basic presentation of non-academic options for Ph.D. graduates and a faculty panel discussing their experience with Michigan alumni taking non-academic jobs and how the views have shifted over the years about pursuing non-academic careers. In December we will have a panel of several Michigan Ph.D. graduates who now have successful non-academic careers across a wide variety of industries, including consulting, data science, publishing, software, etc.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:21:56 -0400 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Workshop / Seminar Job Market Workshop
Virtual Bystander Intervention Workshop (November 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79328 79328-20272790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC BICE on Nov 19th from 7:00-8:30pm to participate in a virtual workshop on being an active bystander during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Zoom Details: https://tinyurl.com/BICEpublicworkshop

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:30:54 -0500 2020-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar Virtual Bystander Intervention Workshop
Refining Your Grad School Application Essays (November 20, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78906 78906-20152761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

(For students applying to Masters, PhD, and professional programs)

Are you applying to a graduate program for fall 2021? Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? How do a Teaching Philosophy Statement or a Diversity Statement fit in? We will explore organizational strategies for the range of essays you are crafting and how to find the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to. Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or draft essays to work on during the workshop. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/2D9GG

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:15:52 -0400 2020-11-20T08:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Building Your Vision Muscle; Leaning Into Change and Transformation (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79115 79115-20209867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-nov-20

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into tools they already have for living with a resilience that supports a more joyful and celebratory life, no matter their current circumstances. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:28:55 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
LAGS Seminar | Writing Books, Ticking Off Billionaires, and Other Fun Things You Can Do With a PhD in Physics from the University of Michigan (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78857 78857-20133192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Working as a science communicator can be rewarding, frustrating, surreal, and terrifying — not too different from academia. But how do you go from a graduate program in physics to a career in science communication? In this talk, author and journalist Adam Becker will discuss how he made that transition, and share his advice for those interested in becoming professional full-time science communicators. Since completing his PhD in physics at Michigan in 2012, Adam has written for many publications, including the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, and New Scientist. He's written a critically-acclaimed book, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, which the New York Times Book Review called "a thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." Adam has also appeared on numerous podcasts and radio shows, recorded a series of animated videos with BBC Earth, and earned the ire of Sheldon Glashow. He will leave plenty of time at the end of his talk for questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: "Using Industrial and Operations Engineering in Healthcare: Putting Theory into Practice" — Amy Cohn (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77426 77426-19852036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Using Industrial and Operations Engineering in Healthcare: Putting Theory into Practice

Abstract:
At the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, faculty, students, and clinicians from many different disciplines all come together to improve patient access, optimize utilization of scarce resources, and simulate the impacts of uncertainty on complex clinical systems. In this session, I’ll discuss how students play a critical role in this work, and opportunities for interested students to get involved in the future.

Bio:
Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she also holds an appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. Dr. Cohn is the Associate Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). She serves on the leadership teams of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) and the Precision Health Initiative. She holds an A.B. in applied mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and a PhD in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests are in applications of combinatorial optimization, particularly to healthcare and aviation, and to the challenges of optimization problems with multiple objective criteria. She values teaching, mentoring, having a positive impact on society through her work, and helping to foster a vibrant, diverse, nurturing community. She and her husband Jonathan are the proud parents of two sons, Tommy and Peter.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:06:44 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Amy Cohn
MCDB Virtual Seminar: Building Functional Neurons with Motors & Microtubules (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77423 77423-19848085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Morgan DeSantis

Neurons display an amazing diversity of shapes, sizes and activities. Underlying neuron structure and function is the microtubule cytoskeleton. Microtubules can be stable or highly dynamic, undergoing bouts of growth and shrinkage. We have uncovered a novel a-tubulin mutation that regulates microtubule dynamics, potentially through an effect on acetylation on an uncharacterized site in a-tubulin, and differentially affects the morphology of two distinct neuron types.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:00:39 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar drawing of microscope and initials on blue background
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Minicolloquium | Controlling Light-Matter Couplings for New Science & Technology (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79426 79426-20321866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Control and understanding of light and matter coupling are ubiquitous and of fundamental importance in modern science and technology. Recently developments in materials, photonics and condensed matter physics have opened doors to exciting new opportunities to create light-matter coupled systems unavailable before, which on one hand may provide an experimental testground of novel nonlinear, many-body and/or quantum phenomena, and on the other hand may serve as a bridge between such phenomena and better technology for the future. I will discuss a few recent work and some possible future topics under this theme, using unconventional semiconductor exciton-polariton systems and two-dimensional materials.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Economic Theory: Outside Options and Optimal Bargaining Dynamics (November 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81682 81682-20941466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study how to design optimal bargaining strategies in a bargaining model with two players, P and A, when A’s outside option changes over time. We solve for P’s optimal strategy and find a new, but intuitive, set of bargaining dynamics. When A’s outside option increases, A is tempted to cease bargaining, leading P to increase A’s continuation by gradually promising A a larger share of the surplus (decreasing demands) and giving A more time to explore his outside option before being forced to make a decision (decreasing pressure). We explore comparative statics and show that although P ’s value of bargaining is decreasing in A’s outside option, it increases when the expected value of A’s outside option tomorrow rises. We show P’s optimal strategy can be implemented without commitment.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:59:53 -0500 2020-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Community Creative Arts Workshop (November 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75276 75276-19401030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Open to All

The Community Workshop is meeting online!

The PCAP Community Workshop, formerly called the Reentry Workshop, is now meeting on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Currently in its fourth year, members of the community meet with formerly-incarcerated people to share creative arts and have fun!

Interested?
Send an email to Mary: mheinen@umich.edu,
or text 734-474-7799

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:43:44 -0400 2020-11-23T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-23T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Group of workshop participants
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (November 25, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-11-25T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-25T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
The Effects of a Large-Scale Prenatal Care Intervention (November 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77317 77317-19838099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

One out of every 13 births in the United States is to an undocumented immigrant. Despite this large share of births, undocumented immigrants are ineligible for public health insurance coverage of routine prenatal care in the majority of states. In this paper, we examine the effects of a landmark policy in the state of California to expand eligibility for its Medicaid program to pregnant undocumented immigrants. Using state hospital discharge data, we estimate that nearly 20 percent of births to foreign-born women in the state gained Medicaid coverage under this policy change. We evaluate whether this large expansion in public coverage changed health care utilization during pregnancy for the women who benefited, and whether it improved birth outcomes. We use a novel dataset that links California birth records to the decennial Census and American Community Survey. Using these linked data, we are able to identify siblings of foreign-born mothers born before and after the coverage expansions to compare changes in outcomes associated with exposure to the policy. By comparing outcomes for children born to the same mother, we are able to estimate changes in outcomes resulting from the policy change, rather than from large changes in immigration and the composition of immigrants that occurred during the study period. Our analysis uses siblings of foreign-born mothers who are born entirely during the pre-period or during the post-period as additional comparison groups, as well as the children of U.S. born women, allowing us to net out differences in outcomes due to birth order or any secular trends. Using this approach, we document improved prenatal care utilization and an increase in hospital delivery among pregnant immigrant women under the coverage expansion, as well as increased likelihood of delivery by a physician. We also find significant increases in average gestation length and birth weight among the children who benefited from the policy change while in utero.

Bio: Laura Wherry's primary area of research focuses on the changing role of the Medicaid program and its impact on access to health care and health. Recent work examines the early effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions, as well as the longer-term effects of several large expansions in Medicaid targeting low-income pregnant women and children in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior to joining NYU, she was an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan.

Laura received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago's Harris School and her B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

BIO:


Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:52:59 -0500 2020-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | New Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering From COHERENT (November 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77398 77398-19848060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus at low momentum transfer, and for which the observable signature is a low-energy nuclear recoil. It represents a background for direct dark matter detection experiments, as well as a possible signal for astrophysical neutrinos. Furthermore, because the process is cleanly predicted in the Standard Model, a measurement is sensitive to beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, such as non-standard interactions of neutrinos. It was measured for the first time by the COHERENT collaboration using the high-quality source of pion-decay-at-rest neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a CsI[Na] scintillator detector. COHERENT has recently observed CEvNS in argon, a lighter nucleus, also. This talk will describe COHERENT's recent results, the status and plans of COHERENT's suite of detectors at the SNS, and future physics reach.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:15:20 -0500 2020-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Science Success Series | Medical School Inside Story (November 30, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76332 76332-19687524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Do you have questions about medical school admissions? Get your answers straight from the inside! U-M Medical School Admissions Director Carol Teener will demystify medical school applications, expectations, and reviews in her presentation.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/29208

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:14:02 -0400 2020-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE) (December 1, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78715 78715-20107423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
To measure individual-level loss aversion in a representative sample of the U.S. population (N = 2,000), we introduce DOSE—Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation. We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant. This is
counter to earlier findings, which mostly come from lab/student samples, that a strong majority of participants are loss averse. Loss attitudes are correlated with cognitive ability: loss aversion is more prevalent in people with high cognitive ability, and loss tolerance is more common in those with low cognitive ability. We also use DOSE to document facts about risk and time preferences, and demonstrate that DOSE elicitations are more accurate, more stable across time, and faster to administer than standard methods.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:29:10 -0400 2020-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Combating COVID-19: Measuring and Changing Beliefs, Knowledge, and Behaviors - Part 2 (December 1, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78925 78925-20154734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:23:48 -0500 2020-12-01T11:30:00-05:00 2020-12-01T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Epigenetic Regulation of Metabolic Stability- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77979 77979-19949606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Morrison will present the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday December 1, 2020

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:07:04 -0400 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
PHD SEMINAR: "Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare" — Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh (December 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79442 79442-20325825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare

Abstract:
The rapid growth of information and accessibility to big data provide a unique opportunity to shift toward personalized data-driven decision-making analytics. Healthcare presents many decision support opportunities for personalized/precision treatment choices based on patient biomarkers and clinical history. In marketing, these same methods can increase the click-through rate through ads and promotions tailored to the user’s demographics and interests. These real-time personalized decision-making paradigms (i) adaptively learn a model that predicts a user-specific outcome for each available decision as a function of the user's known contextual information (prediction), and (ii) harness this model to make optimize personalized decisions for subsequent users (prescription). In this talk, I introduce critical challenges in the development of today’s real-time personalized decision making paradigms: the need for making "nested" personalized decisions jointly and accounting for limited resource capacities. I then present new personalized data driven predictive and prescriptive analytical methods with provable performance guarantee to deal with these challenges. In addition to provable performance guarantees, the effectiveness of these new methods is illustrated through case studies using real-word medical/healthcare data.

Bio:
Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh is broadly interested in developing personalized data driven analytical methods for a wide range of business analytics applications. To address unmet real-world needs in healthcare and operations engineering, he generates novel state-of-the-art analytics techniques to yield insights and new functionality. For the 2020 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Best Paper Award, he was a finalist (2nd place). He won both the 2020 Katta G. Murty Best Paper Award on Optimization, and 2019 Richard Wilson Best Paper Award on Service Operations. He has received several other awards, including the 2017 IOE Bonder Fellowship in Applied Operations Research and the prestigious 2020 University of Michigan Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. Esmaeil is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations Research at the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at University of Michigan, working under the supervision of Prof. Mark Van Oyen and Prof. Cong Shi. He received his M.Sc. degrees in Statistics from University of Michigan, and in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Iowa State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:34:26 -0500 2020-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh
Plan Your English Self-Study Program for the Winter Break (December 2, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78907 78907-20152762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

All U-M classes will have gone virtual after November 20th. Classes won’t start up again until Tuesday January 19th. What will you be doing to continue communicating in English over this two-month period? Come to this workshop to gather new ideas and to share your own about ways to continue practicing and improving your English during the long break. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:17:58 -0400 2020-12-02T08:30:00-05:00 2020-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
MCAIM Colloquium | Passive Imaging and Communication (December 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79547 79547-20375059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics

In this talk we consider the propagation of waves transmitted by ambient noise sources. We discuss a generalized Helmholtz-Kirchhoff identity that derives from Green's identity and Sommerfeld radiation condition. The inspection of this identity makes it possible to design passive imaging methods, i.e., imaging methods using only passive receiver arrays and ambient noise illumination. More surprisingly, it is also possible to design an original passive communication scheme between two passive arrays that uses only ambient noise illumination. The passive transmitter array does not transmit anything but it is a tunable meta-material surface that can modulate its scattering properties and encode a message in the modulation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:33:14 -0500 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Workshop / Seminar Josselin Garnier, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (December 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics (December 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79061 79061-20184345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Details to come.

* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:19:16 -0500 2020-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Tools for Thriving Student Workshop Series (December 2, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79330 79330-20272792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Wednesday, December 2, 2020
5:00-6:30 p.m. ET
Via Zoom (login information will be sent upon registration)
Limited to 150 undergrad/graduate students, U-M students only

The Tools for Thriving Workshop Series, created from the research excellence of Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, will help students build thriving lives, teams, and organizations. Students will engage with Ross thought leaders and with world-renowned tools, created by Ross faculty, to deepen their self-awareness and ability to resource others.

How do you unleash generosity and get the resources you need in any team or organization? In this workshop, Wayne Baker will provide proven tools that will help you and your teams accelerate the flow of resources and build a culture of generosity.

Drawing on his new book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker will show you how to find what you need, and ask for it in ways that work. The workshop will give you access to real-time tools that support a culture of generosity, including a digital assessment, learning map, and access to a generosity community knowledge and resource sharing platform called Givitas. You will leave with a new appreciation of the power of how to ask for what you need in ways that transform what’s available for your success.

Register: https://bit.ly/3kfXW41

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:55:54 -0500 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar Generosity Accelerator
“Mesenchymal Regulation of Tooth Root Formation and Eruption” (December 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79611 79611-20430435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Wanida Ono, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:32:33 -0500 2020-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Workshop / Seminar Ono
SEMINAR: "Large-scale Inference of Time-varying Markov Random Fields: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical and Computational Efficiencies" — Salar Fattahi (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75965 75965-19629765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

This event will be a joint seminar with the MICDE.

Title:
Large-scale Inference of Time-varying Markov Random Fields: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical and Computational Efficiencies

Abstract:
Contemporary systems are comprised of a massive number of interconnected components that interact according to a hierarchy of complex, dynamic, and unknown topologies. For example, with billions of neurons and hundreds of thousands of voxels, the human brain is considered as one of the most complex physiological networks, whose structure remains as a long-standing mystery. As another example, the emergence of self-driving cars has only accentuated the need for the development of real-time and reliable methods for detecting moving objects, whose temporal locations are captured through a dynamically-evolving 3D network. Nonetheless, the vast amounts of parameters to be estimated, caused both by the large number of components and the time-varying nature of the systems, are currently the major bottlenecks in our ability to successfully solve such inference problems.

The temporal behavior of today's interconnected systems can be captured via time-varying Markov random fields (MRF). A popular approach to achieve this goal is based on the so-called maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE): to find a probabilistic graphical model, based on which the observed data is most probable to occur. The MLE-based methods suffer from several fundamental drawbacks which render them impractical in realistic settings. First, they often suffer from notoriously high computational cost in the massive problems, where the number of variables to be inferred is in the order of millions, or more. Second, they fail to efficiently incorporate prior structural information into their estimation procedure. With the goal of bridging this knowledge gap, the aim of this work is to revisit the standard MLE as the “Holy Grail” of the inference methods for graphical models, and precisely pinpoint and remedy the scenarios where it fails. A recurring theme in our proposed approach is a class of efficiently-solvable mixed-integer optimization problems that is used in lieu of the regularized MLE for the inference of time-varying MRFs. Our proposed optimization problems enjoy strong statistical and computational guarantees, while being amenable to a wide class of graphical models with different side information, such as sparsity, smoothness, etc.

Bio:
Salar Fattahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. He received a M.S. degree from Columbia University, and a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, both in Electrical Engineering. Salar’s research lies at the intersection of optimization, data analytics, and control theory. He was the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award, 2018 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award and 2020 Power & Energy Society General Meeting Best-of-the-Best Paper Award. He was also a finalist for the 2018 American Control Conference Best Paper Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:14:22 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Salar Fattahi
BME Seminar Series: Jae-Won Shin (December 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75912 75912-19623830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Join us for our virtual seminar series on Thursdays from 4-5pm!
These events will take place on BlueJeans at this link: https://bluejeans.com/628109990

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:28:28 -0400 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yinqiu He, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan (December 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79568 79568-20382970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract:
In scientific research that involves large-scale data, researchers often start with questions regarding the global properties of a large set of measurements. For instance, are a group of related genes in the same functional pathway jointly associated with a trait of interest? Such questions can be formulated as hypothesis testing problems that globally examine a large number of parameters in a high-dimensional joint distribution. Examples include hypothesis testing on mean vectors, covariance matrices and regression coefficients. To extract informative scientific knowledge from abundant data, reliability and efficiency are among the major concerns in statistical inference.

In this talk, I will address particular reliability and efficiency issues arising from jointly testing a large number of parameters. First, I will discuss how reliable the popular likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) are in terms of the type I error control for high-dimensional data. I will present statistically principled guidelines on the reliability of the LRTs in a variety of problems, which are based on phase transition results of the foundational Wilk’s theorem. Next, to improve efficiency of the existing testing procedures under high-dimensional settings, I will introduce a new adaptive testing framework that can maintain high statistical power against a wide range of alternative hypotheses. The proposed framework is based on a family of U-statistics that are constructed to capture the information in different directions in high-dimensional spaces. For a broad class of problems, we establish high-dimensional asymptotic theory for the U-statistics and develop adaptive testing procedures that are statistically powerful in a wide variety of scenarios.

This seminar will be livestreamed via Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/94350208889
There will be a virtual reception to follow.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:18:56 -0500 2020-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Yinqiu He
EIHS Workshop: Affect and the Archive: Writing the History of Emotions In Emotional Times (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75590 75590-19542902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In the past year, the day-to-day conduct of historical research and teaching has changed substantially, creating new forms of engagement with archival material, as well as novel "structures of feeling" and mood that shape the narratives historians produce both on the page and in the (now virtual) classroom. These developments have prompted a number of pressing questions about affect and the archive, emotionality and history: How does one historicize affect? What are the emotional consequences of historical work, both for historians and for those affected by their research and teaching? How does one approach a "difficult" or "traumatic" archive, and what makes an archive "difficult" or "traumatic" in the first place? This roundtable will discuss these questions and more from a self-reflexive perspective, exploring affect not only as a subject of historical inquiry and a methodological approach, but also as an integral component of the experience of being a historian in emotional times.

Panelists:
•Colin Garon, PhD Student, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
•Matthew Hershey, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
•Tara Weinberg, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
•Deirdre de la Cruz (chair), Associate Professor; History, Asian Languages and Cultures; University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnV7XugkTKK8krUXt5APqg

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 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:04:12 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
LAGS Seminar | What does an alternative career look like and how does a PhD set you up for success? (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79679 79679-20448275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

Dr. Rohan Hoare traveled from Melbourne, Australia, and Monash University to receive his PhD in atomic physics from Harvard in 1993. With his PhD in hand, he began his career in management consulting with McKinsey and Company for a decade and has since been an executive, president and CEO of seven companies in the health care industry. Most recently he is the cofounder of Brainmatterz, a sleep apnea detection company in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Hoare will talk about his path, what guided his opportunities and choices and what some employers may be looking for by hiring Physics PhDs.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:15:17 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: “Resilience, Teamwork, and Confidence: Life Skills from a Navy SEAL and a Professional Golfer" (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79494 79494-20343466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff, and all U-M ROTC students.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Title:
Resilience, Teamwork, and Confidence: Life Skills from a Navy SEAL and a Professional Golfer

Description:
What do Navy SEALs and professional golfers have in common? They perform at the highest levels under stress and uncertainty. Join us for an IOE Lunch and Learn discussion with Master Chief Terry Houin, a 26-year Navy SEAL veteran, and Paul Stankowski, a 24-year PGA Tour veteran, to hear about their approach to mental preparation and how to develop grit and focus that will help you succeed in school, relationships and your career. Mike O’Connell, IOE alum and Chair of the IOE Advisory Board Committee on Education and Professional Development, will moderate the discussion.

Bios:
Master Chief Terry Houin is a 26-year Navy SEAL Veteran who spent the majority of his career at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group where he conducted over a dozen operational deployments around the world. During his time as a SEAL, he held a variety of positions that provided him a wealth of experience leading cross-functional teams, developing critical problem-solving skills, developing training curricula, and program management. Houin’s final position was the at the Naval Special Warfare Preparatory School in Great Lakes IL. In this capacity, his mission was to mentally and physically prepare all enlisted candidates for the SEAL training pipeline, with a focus on the development of character and leadership among the next generations of SEALs.

Paul Stankowski is in his 24th year on the PGA Tour, has 2 Tour victories and 30 top-ten tournament finishes. Both of his Tour victories were in playoffs. He plays on both the PGA Tour and PGA Champions Tour. He was born in California, attended the University of Texas at El Paso and turned pro in 1991.

Mike O’Connell is the founder and President of The Woodmar Group, a California-based winery. He has served on many non-profit boards including the IOE Advisory Board where he chairs the Committee on Education and Professional Development. At age 42, he completed a one-week training course with future and former Navy SEALs outside San Diego, CA based on the ‘hell week’ portion of BUD/S. He holds a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:08:22 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lunch and Learn
MCDB Virtual Seminar: Receptors, channels and animal behavior (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72767 72767-19848086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Bo Duan

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:45:08 -0400 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials & microscope drawing in yellow on a blue square
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Minicolloquium | DM searches at U-M (December 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79624 79624-20432422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment under construction at the 4850’ level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment utilizes a two-phase time projection chamber (TPC), containing seven active tonnes of liquefied xenon, to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Auxiliary veto detectors, including a liquid scintillator outer detector, improve rejection of unwanted background events in the central region of the detector. LZ has been designed to explore much of the parameter space available for WIMP models, with excellent sensitivity for WIMP masses between a few GeV and a few TeV. With data taking expected to begin in a few months, this talk will report the current status of the LZ experiment, the contributions of U-M to LZ and the connection to other areas of particle physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:15:17 -0500 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
NERS Colloquia (December 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75537 75537-19519137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Details forthcoming.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:15:09 -0400 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
PHD DEFENSE: "Simulation Parameter Calibration Methods and Applications" — Bingjie Liu (December 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79398 79398-20296432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95086027669

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Simulation Parameter Calibration Methods and Applications

CHAIR:
Eunshin Byon

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:15:35 -0500 2020-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Bingjie Liu
HEP-Astro Seminar | Measurements of the Hubble Constant Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasars (December 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79640 79640-20438358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please contact Beth Demkowski, demkowsk@umich.edu for Zoom link.

The current discrepancy between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant (H0) highlights the need for additional independent and precise probes. Gravitationally lensed quasars can provide one such probe. Quasars are galaxies with an active galactic nuclei (AGN), usually a black hole, whose light output varies over time. We can measure the light output over time from each image of the lensed quasar. The different travel time for the light from each image means that the variations show up at different times for each image. Measuring the time delay between pairs of images and combining it with a model of the lens allows one to infer H0.

Over the past decade a number of improvements in both the data quality and modeling techniques have allowed the measurement of H_0 from time-delays to start to fulfill its promise of being competitive with other traditional methods such as the cosmic distance ladder.

I will present the current state of the H0 measurement from gravitationally lensed quasars and discuss future prospects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:15:21 -0500 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (December 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2020-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Collaborative Dishonesty: A Meta-Study (December 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78687 78687-20105422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Whereas dishonesty is often a result of collaborative efforts, it is commonly studied in individual settings. We present the first meta-study on collaborative dishonesty, reviewing 51,640 decisions, made by 3,264 individuals. Results reveal that people are influenced by their partners’ lies: They lie more (i) in collaborative than in individual settings, (ii) when their partners lie, and (iii) in later stages of the interaction.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:04:37 -0400 2020-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Human Capital, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): The Impact of Trade on Development: Evidence from Pastoralist Practices on the Ancient Silk Road/ Effects of Paid Family Leave on Older Adults (December 8, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78923 78923-20154733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

To join the seminar, please visit the following webpage.
https://sites.google.com/view/h2d2/seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:25:09 -0500 2020-12-08T11:30:00-05:00 2020-12-08T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
The Genetic Basis of Aneuploidy Tolerance in Wild Yeast- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (December 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77980 77980-19949607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Audrey Gasch will present the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday December 8th, 2020

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:10:10 -0400 2020-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
PHD DEFENSE: "Data-Driven Decision Making in Healthcare" — Wesley Marrero (December 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79031 79031-20176490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtceivpjgtG9RiGERWFULQN2riQ1SIzajh

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Data-Driven Decision Making in Healthcare

CHAIR:
Mariel Lavieri

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:23:58 -0500 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Wesley J. Marrero
PHD SEMINAR: "Individualized Medical Decision Learning for Chronic Diseases" — Weiyu Li (December 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79441 79441-20325824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Individualized Medical Decision Learning for Chronic Diseases

Abstract:
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death, and leading drivers of national health care costs in the U.S. Healthcare management for chronic diseases involve many medical decisions such as whether and when to conduct different types of biomarker tests and medical treatments. Optimizing such medical decisions can be a challenging engineering problem for several reasons. First, the patients’ health states can progress stochastically over time and are typically not directly observable. Second, the patient heterogeneity in the disease progression and clinical effectiveness are prevalent in many settings. Third, there are often trade-offs between alternative decisions that must be considered to prevent both adverse health outcomes and potential side effects. In this talk, I will present a data-driven optimization framework for individualized medical decision learning. I start from descriptive and predictive analytics by fitting machine learning models to the electronic medical record (EMR) data. Then, I use a model-based reinforcement learning method to find the optimal testing policy for each patient. To address the issue of parameter ambiguity caused by the patient heterogeneity and estimation error, I propose a new multi-model partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) method to find the best solution when model parameters are only known with uncertainty. Although focused on prostate cancer active surveillance, this work can be easily applied to other applications in healthcare, robotics, and marketing analytics.

Bio:
Weiyu Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Tsinghua University, China. His research focus is on the interdisciplinary study of statistical/machine learning methods and stochastic optimization. Specific applications are in data-driven sequential decision-making in healthcare operations, including individualized treatment decisions for cardiovascular disease and active surveillance strategies for prostate cancer. Weiyu has an ongoing collaboration with the Movember Foundation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:27:02 -0500 2020-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Weiyu Li
COVID-19: A WeListen Staff Discussion (December 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79500 79500-20343472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLDecember20

We will discuss COVID-19 as the global pandemic impacts the lives and livelihood of people across the world. Our discussion will focus on policy, both implemented and proposed, at the federal and state level and small-group time will be dedicated to a deep dive into the day-to-day implications of COVID-19.

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, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:34:22 -0500 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen December 2020
Defense: Physiological Relevance of Novel Lysosomal Ion Channels (December 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79495 79495-20341510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentors: Richard Hume and Haoxing Xu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:00:07 -0500 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Yellow initials MCDB and cartoon of a microscope on a blue background
Next Steps with Omeka S Workshop (December 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77638 77638-19893777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

In this intermediate-level workshop we’ll take a look at Omeka S themes and modules, along with a few tips and best practices for Omeka S administration. This workshop is meant for those who may have used Omeka S in the past, but want to get more out of it. This is a good follow-up session for anyone who attended the “Introduction to Omeka S Workshop”

A Zoom link for participation will be shared after registration.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:42:39 -0400 2020-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Omeka
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (December 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76793 76793-19743089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a workshop designed to help you reach personal communication goals. *Speaking American English: A workshop for English Language Learners* offers a supportive environment where you have the opportunity to practice the language skills that are important to you.

Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists use techniques to help non-native English speakers feel more confident in their communications – whether that’s giving a presentation, or taking notes in a class with a native speaker who speaks fast. The goal of the program is not to eliminate a client’s accent, but to build confidence in any communication or setting.

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. The workshop typically runs for 10 weeks, but will depend on when it begins. If the group workshop does work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

What to Expect
* An initial meeting focusing on setting your personal goals and objectives
* Both group and individual activities
* Exercises for improving articulation, rate control, and projection
* Increased confidence in social and professional interactions
* Guidance from a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Contact UCLL at (734) 764-8440 or visit LanguageExperts.org for more details and to register.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:50:31 -0400 2020-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Applying to research opportunities – the nitty-gritty and what NOT to do (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76444 76444-19717141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

The deadlines for many summer research opportunities are coming up soon! While our earlier session more generally covered the process of finding and applying for positions, here we’ll go into more detail on finding summer positions, including those NOT at your home institution, and how to maximize the chances that your application will be a successful one.

RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/0W1zZ

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:29:48 -0400 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar VIRTUAL FALL SEMINAR SERIES
Building Your Vision Muscle; Discovering the Leader In Me (December 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79129 79129-20211823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

PRESENTER: Patricia Berry, Owner and Lead Consultant, Patricia Berry Consulting

Click to RSVP and to receive the Zoom link by email: cew.umich.edu/events/building-your-vision-muscle-dec-9

Tacit Knowledge, a.k.a. your “Vision Muscle”, is the things we know, but don’t yet have words to express. It is the culmination of our lifetime of experiences, along with the experiences and lessons handed down from those who raised us. Other ways to say it is our sixth sense or our gut intuition; knowledge that is inside us and that we access on a regular basis but haven’t yet, or maybe don’t yet know how to, put into words. It is the thing that entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people put to use to know what they should do next, because they can imagine it, and they know it is right because it feels right. It’s hard to quantify, but your own personal visionary knowledge can often be accessed by getting our left brain — what I like to think of as our resume brain — out of the way, just for a while, so that we can let loose our own unique creative knowing that is tacit knowledge. As we begin to recognize and trust our own tacit knowledge, we can begin to learn how to intentionally access it in order to help us make decisions that allow us to successfully navigate a sometimes uncertain future. Come along with me for a series of Vision Muscle workshops focused on aspects of work and life where easy access to our vision muscle might be particularly helpful. All of the workshops will be using Vision Muscle strategies, with unique subjects for you to explore based on your own experience, vision and expertise. This self-directed experience will allow you to access your own unique knowledge and leave you with skills that will allow you to call up your Vision Muscle on a regular basis.

Using visual images and reflective writing, participants will learn how to access their tacit knowledge, or Visioning Muscles, to gain insight into where they are, and where they would like to journey toward in developing their leadership abilities. Join facilitator, entrepreneur and visioning geek Patricia Berry for a hands-on, interactive experience that brings out your natural visioning abilities. The Zoom Doors to this interactive and reflective workshop will close promptly at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early to ensure your participation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:41:50 -0500 2020-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Patricia Berry
Early Career Leaders Community of Practice - Re-Energizing Your Leadership Style: Taking stock of 2020 and Setting the Stage for 2021 OL21ECLCOP03 (December 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79540 79540-20375053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

With the end of 2020 in sight, join us for our year-end event to reflect on this unprecedented year and prepare for your transition to 2021 with energy and a positive twist!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:04:24 -0500 2020-12-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
Non-Academic Jobs - Alumni Panel (December 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77059 77059-19790566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In November and December, we will focus on non-academic jobs. We will start in November with a basic presentation of non-academic options for Ph.D. graduates and a faculty panel discussing their experience with Michigan alumni taking non-academic jobs and how the views have shifted over the years about pursuing non-academic careers. In December we will have a panel of several Michigan Ph.D. graduates who now have successful non-academic careers across a wide variety of industries, including consulting, data science, publishing, software, etc.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:24:12 -0400 2020-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T18:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Workshop / Seminar Job Market Workshop
Getting a PhD in Slavic Studies: What it’s like and how to apply (December 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78955 78955-20162593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a Ph.D. student — with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty!

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

Friday, November 6, 12 PM
What makes the U-M Slavic Department so unique?
Explore our holistic, interdisciplinary Ph.D. curriculum, as well as our Russian Study Abroad Program. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov, and current graduate student, Michael Martin

Friday, November 13, 1 PM
How can I afford graduate studies?
Learn about our competitive funding packages we provide to our graduate students, as well as additional fellowship opportunities and teaching positions available. Hosted by: Professors Benjamin Paloff and Misha Krutikov, and Director of Language Studies, Svitlana Rogovyk

Friday, November 20, 1 PM
What is it like to be a graduate student in today’s world?
Hear from our current graduate students about zoom dynamics, navigating virtual library systems, online meetings, and related topics. Hosted by: Current students Michael Martin, Tanya Silverman, and Aleks Marciniak, and Professor Misha Krutikov.

Friday, December 4, 1 PM
I have a Ph.D., now what?
Our faculty will help you explore various career options in Slavic Studies. Hosted by: Professors Michael Makin, Misha Krutikov, and Benjamin Paloff

Friday, December 11, 1 PM
What tips and tricks can I learn to apply to your program?
Learn from our Director of Graduate Studies and a current graduate student the tricks and tips in making your application robust, and complete. Hosted by: Professors Sofya Khagi and Misha Krutikov and current graduate student, Katie Kasperian

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Register at the link below:
https://bit.ly/3oBRIyQ

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:10:25 -0500 2020-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
Virtual Art Studio: Winter Watercolors (December 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78959 78959-20162587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehd3wexfde06755a.

For families and students looking to take a break from final exams, join UMMA Programs Assistant and U-M Stamps School of Art & Design Student Emily Considine for a virtual art studio about watercolor, painting winter, and seasonal moods. Learn new painting techniques, take a virtual tour of some of the watercolor pieces in the UMMA collection, and create your own winter-themed watercolor works to show off at home.

Materials needed:
2 sheets of watercolor paper (alternatively, construction or another thick-weight paper) Assorted paint brushes (alternatively, sponges, Q-tips, toothpicks, or a toothbrush) A watercolor palette (you can also make your own at home in advance) Water and a container to hold it, like Tupperware, an empty jar, or a paper plate
Optional materials:
Paper towels Scissors or an X-acto knife Scotch or painter’s tape

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 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:15:25 -0500 2020-12-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Community Creative Arts Workshop (December 14, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2020-12-14T18:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff