Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. No EEB Thursday Seminar today (November 23, 2017 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46948 46948-10703022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2017 4:10pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:46:27 -0500 2017-11-23T16:10:00-05:00 2017-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Taiji (Tai Chi) Workshop with Master Liang (November 26, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45556 45556-10228918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 26, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Drop-in is welcome anytime!

The CIUM Taiji Workshop (10 classes) will be offered again in the fall 2017 semester! The traditional Yang Style Taijiquan 16 form will be taught this semester. Please note that the fall workshop is open to the U-M affiliates only at this time (U-M students, faculty, and staff). For inquiries, please contact us at confucius@umich.edu.

Cost: Free
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave.

Fall 2017 workshop schedule:
Sunday, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. | October 8 – December 17, 2017 (subject to change)
*No class on November 26

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:49:25 -0400 2017-11-26T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Workshop / Seminar Taiji
HEP-Astro Seminar | Data-Driven Models 
of the Milky Way 
in the Gaia Era (November 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46938 46938-10703012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Gaia satellite will soon deliver magnitudes, parallaxes, and proper motions of billions of stars, offering an unprecedented detailed view of the structure and dynamics of our Galaxy. Correctly exploiting Gaia is challenging due to the colossal amount of data, the complicated selection effects and noise, and the inaccuracy of current stellar and 3D Galactic models with respect to the precision of the data. I will demonstrate how those issues can be addressed with modern statistical methods, specifically hierarchical data-driven probabilistic models, which allow us to bridge the gap between the statistical power of the data and the physics of interest. I will showcase results obtained from the first Gaia data release, including precise models of the color-magnitude diagram, red-clump stars, and unresolved double and triple systems, and discuss upcoming data releases and the prospects of constructing detailed three-dimensional models the Galaxy.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:16:06 -0500 2017-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Modernist Dialogue: Translations, Migrations, & Measurements (November 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46996 46996-10722268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This event is our first "Modernist Dialogue" event of the year. Held every couple of months, each Dialogue stages an interdisciplinary conversation about a theme or method in modernist studies. Brief presentations by a panel of graduate students and faculty will start things off. We'll then talk together about those particular presentations as well as the larger questions they collectively raise.

These Dialogues are ultimately about sharing ideas, so regardless of whether or not you call yourself a modernist, please join us! We can promise exciting research projects, lively conversation, and tasty food. Hope to see you there!

* To RSVP, please contact Aaron Stone (stoneaa@umich.edu) or Amanda Greene (akgreene@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:18:40 -0500 2017-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Public Finance (November 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43346 43346-9751077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:56:08 -0400 2017-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Networking and Elevator Pitch Workshop (November 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46900 46900-10670082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? If so, this integrative workshop will help you to develop a strong pitch that can be used in the networking opportunities. This workshop will give you the tools to identify and connect with contacts that you never thought about before my learning about the networking process. Sponsored by the University Career Center.

Pre-registration is required at https://umich.joinhandshake.com/login.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:38:09 -0500 2017-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: On the top of world: human adaptation to high altitude (November 28, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42887 42887-9675063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:08:23 -0500 2017-11-28T12:10:00-05:00 2017-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar llama
Positive Leadership: It’s in Every One of Us (November 28, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44420 44420-9911844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

The practice of positive organizational psychology suggests that regardless of our role we each have the capacity to be a leader who positively influences our own vitality and productivity and also that of our colleagues and organizations. With an understanding of some research based principles, and experience with two positive leadership practices; you can claim your identity as a positive leader and lead yourself and your organization to greater good, whatever your position or role.

You will learn to:
- Describe the benefits of practicing positive organizational psychology
- Differentiate between “positive psychology” and “being positive”
- Recognize, embrace and develop your identity as a positive leader
- Demonstrate how even small contributions can positively impact energy and productivity
- Apply the Fundamental State of Leadership process to gain a new understanding of and perspective on a presented problem
- Use preferred futuring methods to focus your creativity and energy to proactively create your future

You will benefit by:
- Maximizing your ability to use positive organizational practices in your work
- Claiming your identity as a positive leader to benefit your own vitality and that of others
- Understanding and affirming the positive contributions of people at all levels
- Accessing and sharing the new possibilities for energy and productivity that positive organizational psychology offers

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:52:14 -0400 2017-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
CM-AMO Seminar | Optical Studies of Current-Induced Magnetization and Photonic Quantum States (November 28, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42193 42193-9584881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The ever-decreasing size of electronic components is leading to a fundamental change in the way computers operate, as at the few-nanometer scale, resistive heating and quantum mechanics prohibit efficient and stable operation. One of the most promising next-generation computing paradigms is Spintronics, which uses the spin of the electron to manipulate and store information in the form of magnetic thin films. I will present our optical studies of the fundamental mechanisms by which we can efficiently manipulate magnetization using electrical current. Although electron spin is a quantum-mechanical property, Spintronics relies on macroscopic magnetization and thus does not take advantage of quantum mechanics in the algorithms used to encode and transmit information. For the second part of my talk, I will present our work under the umbrella of new computing and communication technologies based on the quantum mechanical properties of photons. Quantum technologies often require the carriers of information, or qubits, to have specific properties. Photonic quantum states are good information carriers because they travel fast and are robust to environmental fluctuations, but characterizing and controlling photonic sources so the photons have just the right properties is still a challenge. I will describe our work towards enabling quantum-physics-based communication and computation using photons.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:16:09 -0500 2017-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Get Ready for Your Internship Search (November 28, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46386 46386-10475467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS)

Amanda from our Engineering Career Resource Center will walk you through all the steps to prepare for the Winter Career Fair in January. Dinner will be served! https://mets.engin.umich.edu/events/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:23:51 -0400 2017-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T18:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS) Workshop / Seminar Herbert H. Dow Building
How To Get Motivated When You're Depressed (November 28, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45027 45027-10069974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can affect people with depression and learn strategies on how to get motivated when you're depressed. The first half of the wellness group will be educational and the second half will be a support group format. All groups are led by a licensed social worker affiliated with the UM Depression Center.

Each group is free to attend and no pre-registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:50:38 -0400 2017-11-28T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Eisenberg Family Depression Center Workshop / Seminar CMW
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) (November 29, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43940 43940-9855182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:21:43 -0400 2017-11-29T08:30:00-05:00 2017-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Cultural Competency: Communicating Across Cultures (November 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45223 45223-10116109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

College of Engineering Graduate Students are invited to register for this workshop, which is designed to increase the awareness of different communication styles and explore strategies for effective communication.

Lunch provided!

Register by 11/21 at https://goo.gl/forms/HlpcyWmeH6ICYw7A3.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:02:54 -0400 2017-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T13:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
HET Brown Bag | Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars (November 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47036 47036-10776986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I present a largely model-independent probe of dark matter-nucleon interactions. Accelerated by gravity to relativistic speeds, local dark matter scattering against old neutron stars deposits kinetic energy at a rate that heats them to infrared blackbody temperatures. The resulting radiation is detectable by next generation telescopes such as James Webb and the Thirty Meter Telescope. While underground direct detection searches are not (or poorly) sensitive to dark matter with sub-GeV masses, higher-than-weak-scale masses, scattering with strong cross-sections, scattering below neutrino floors, spin-dependent per-nucleon scattering below per-nuclear cross-sections, velocity-dependent scattering, and inelastic scattering for inter-state transitions exceeding O(100 keV), the (non-)observation of dark kinetic heating of neutron stars should advance these frontiers by orders of magnitude. Popular dark matter candidates previously suspected elusive, such as the thermal Higgsino, may be discovered.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:14:02 -0500 2017-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Graduate Student Workshop: Connoisseurship in Researching Japanese Early-modern Painting (November 29, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46053 46053-10356058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This workshop requires an advanced reading level of Japanese. Please register to participate. Due to the venue, only ten participants can be accommodated so registration is on a first come, first serve basis.

Using works from UMMA's collection, Professor Paul Berry (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan) will conduct a hands-on workshop on the connoisseurship of early-modern Japanese paintings. Focusing especially on close viewing and reference materials, the workshop incorporates Japanese sources and text on the objects.

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.

The workshop is funded in part by the Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:21:37 -0400 2017-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar umma
Career Identity Beyond the Ivory Tower (November 29, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43222 43222-9739771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Making the decision to switch from a possible tenure-track path to pursue other career options may raise a variety of career and personal considerations. This program will offer you an opportunity to explore the often emotional move away from a tenure-track career and provide resources for taking a next step. Connect with other graduate students on issues of importance to you with an emphasis on how to create a new identity, perhaps one different from what others may imagine for you. Please join us for this thought-provoking conversation to help you develop confidence as you embark on a meaningful post-academic career.

Doreen Murasky, LMSW, ACSW is the Student Program Manager at CEW, overseeing the scholarship and social work internship programs, and the development of services to build community for nontraditional students at UM. She also enjoys developing and presenting dynamic programs with a focus on holistic life planning through the lifespan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:47:44 -0400 2017-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T16:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW Logo
Department Colloquium | The Universe at One Second after the Big Bang (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42554 42554-9611967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Universe is dynamical and has expanded by a factor of over one billion between the present-day and the early thermal epoch known as the neutrino decoupling. The production of relic neutrinos is within seconds of the inflation and heating processes that imprinted the seeds of future structure formation in the Universe. These early universe relics have cooled under the expansion of the Universe and are sensed indirectly through the action of their diminishing thermal velocities on large-scale structure formation. Experimental advances have opened up new opportunities to directly detect the CNB, an achievement which would profoundly confront and extend the sensitivity of precision cosmology data. PTOLEMY is a novel method of 2D target surfaces, fabricated from Graphene, that has unique directional detection capabilities for MeV dark matter and forms a basis for a future large-scale relic neutrino detector. The discussion of PTOLEMY focusses on experimental challenges, recent developments and the path forward to discovery sensitivity.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:16:16 -0500 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
International Economics, Macroeconomics (November 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43311 43311-9751042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:46:22 -0400 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
“Microfabricated Medical Devices for Diagnostics and Advanced Biological and Cellular Manipulations” (November 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46860 46860-10656094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Jeffrey D. Zahn, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers, The State of University of New Jersey

“Microfabricated Medical Devices for Diagnostics and Advanced Biological and Cellular Manipulations”


ABSTRACT: The focus of research conducted in the Zahn laboratory is the design and fabrication of microfabricated devices for clinical diagnosis, treatment of disease and supportive culture devices. Batch fabricated microfluidic platforms that can mimic or improve upon conventional sample preparation techniques performed in laboratories hold great potential to enable both research and healthcare advances. These miniaturized diagnostic devices have been termed micro total analysis systems (μTAS) or biochips and combine sensing mechanisms (physical, optical, electrical or chemical) with microfluidics.

Dr. Zahn’s research combines analytical and numerical modeling of microscale phenomena with device design, fabrication, and testing of BioMEMS components in an adaptive and iterative process for device optimization. Several projects currently underway in the Zahn laboratory which will be discussed including:

1) the development of a ‘smart’ electroporator with continuous cell impedance monitoring that automatically detects, electroporates, and monitors individual cells for changes in permeability and delivery, dynamically modulating the pulse to prevent damaging over‐exposure that kills cells and useless underexposure that does not permeabilze a cell.

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2) the development of a multicompartment tissue culture platform to recapitulate in vitro neurocircuitry models using human neuronal cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells. This culture system was designed to allow modeling the neuronal circuitry of the mesolimbic reward system by segregating excitatory (GLUT), inhibitory (GABA) and dopaminergic (DA) induced neuron cell bodies while maintaining axonal communication and synapse formation from one chamber into another through communicative microchannels. Several novel features of this system are: an open well design to perform patch clamp electrophysiology within the device, the use of optogenetics for selective cell stimulation, and the integration of human derived induced neurons (iNs).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:00:07 -0500 2017-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Logo
Open Session - Allyhood Development Training (November 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42126 42126-9558369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Spectrum Center

This session is open to the entire community

The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

Registration Link: http://bit.ly/2vq2WNs

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:21:06 -0400 2017-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 West Quadrangle Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar ADT
Greta LaFleur Workshop: "The Craft of the Article" (November 30, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46915 46915-10692051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Workshop of "Precipitous Sensations" (Early American Literature, 2013) and "Why Women's Colleges Need to Embrace Trans Activists-and so Does Feminism" (The New Republic, 2015).

Pre-readings and RSVP required to Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) or Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu)

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:00:14 -0500 2017-11-30T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Economic History (November 30, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43265 43265-9748057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:11:03 -0400 2017-11-30T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Change It Up! Bystander Intervention Skills (November 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45109 45109-10084372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful, and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=457.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:26:26 -0500 2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
The 'Radical Empiricism' of Jonathan Edwards (November 30, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46799 46799-10633980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a Lazarus Belle's dissertation workshop.

This dissertation chapter asks a simple question: to what extent does America's "first philosopher," Jonathan Edwards, demonstrate a strand of philosophical argument that resembles and sets the intellectual conditions for William James's doctrine of radical empiricism? A corollary to the more well-known method of pragmatism, radical empiricism has received less attention, despite being a major concern for James in his later years. Not against but in relation to the obvious reasons why radical empiricism emerges in the history of western philosophy, my gambit is that there are precedents within American religious culture from the antebellum revivals to the postbellum Social Gospel movement that generate the intellectual conditions calling for the radicalization of classical empiricism. This chapter deals specifically with Edwards's place within the so-called first great awakening of the 1730s-40s and his revision of empiricism to explain religious experiences. This examination of the theological underpinnings of American revivalism is the first step in a larger intellectual history about the religious "origins" of pragmatism.

Please Contact Rachel Cawkwell at rcawkwe@umich.edu for a copy of the paper.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:32:01 -0500 2017-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Image of Jonathan Edwards
Selling Low and Buying High: An Arbitrage Puzzle in Kenyan Villages. (November 30, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46367 46367-10466899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Economic Development Seminar

Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to "sell low and buy high" rather than the reverse. In a field experiment in Kenya, we show that credit market imperfections limit farmers' abilities to move grain inter-temporally. Providing timely access to credit allows farmers to purchase at lower prices and sell at higher prices, increasing farm profits and generating a return on investment of 28%. To understand general equilibrium effects of these changes in behavior, we vary the density of loan offers across locations. We document significant effects of the credit intervention on seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets, and show that these GE effects greatly affect our individual level profitability estimates. We also find suggestive evidence that these GE effects generate benefits for program non-recipients, benefits which are unlikely to be recouped by a financial institution and suggest a potential role for public intervention. In contrast to existing experimental work, our results thus indicate a setting in which microcredit can improve firm profitability, and suggest that GE effects can substantially shape estimates of microcredit's effectiveness. Failure to consider these GE effects could lead to substantial misestimation of the social welfare benefits of microcredit interventions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:38:49 -0400 2017-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Economic Development Seminar Workshop / Seminar
IISS Workshop. The Long-Term Impact of Religious Institutions on Development (November 30, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46905 46905-10670087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

How do religious institutions affect development? While religious institutions are frequently depicted and studied as part of history, their long-run role in affecting politics and economy today remains uncharacteristically understudied in the scholarship. Religious institutions around the world have historically commanded political and economic resources. Outside of the limited scholarship on the Church however, religious institutions are little understood for their political and economic impact. I will address this question by researching if and why the Sufi Khanaqah affects long-term development. Development being indicated by contemporary public goods and inequality—the two dependent variables. District is the unit of analysis at which Khanaqahs and development will be analyzed. To identify the mechanism and estimate the effect more comprehensively, I will also examine the effect of covariates measuring Khanaqah patronage and trade routes. The study will constitute districts of India and Pakistan between 1858-2011.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:03:06 -0500 2017-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Workshop on Poverty and Inequality (December 1, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43185 43185-9737083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 09:49:52 -0400 2017-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T10:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Student talking
MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop (December 1, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46901 46901-10670083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 10:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The goal of the Mentoring Plan Workshop is to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During this workshop, students and faculty will have the opportunity to develop a mentoring plan. A mentoring plan is a two-way agreement about goals, needs, and expectations; it is co-written by the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. It is an excellent way to establish and support mentor-mentee relationships.

Because this program is aimed to enhance the mentoring relationship, mentors and students are expected to attend the workshop together. (Please note: If a faculty mentor has previously attended, he/she may opt to only attend the mentor-student team meeting time to develop the mentoring plan.)

Pre-registration is required of both the student and faculty mentor at https://goo.gl/forms/Tl3wUziXy7IexAy82).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:45:44 -0500 2017-12-01T10:30:00-05:00 2017-12-01T12:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
EIHS Workshop: Crossing Boundaries in Environmental History (December 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41565 41565-9364969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How have various historical actors understood their embodied relationship with the environment? Reflecting on the scholarship of Julia Adeney Thomas—and particularly her essay, “Who is the ‘we’ endangered by climate change?”—our panel will consider this question and more from diverse historical perspectives. We will discuss Carolingian descriptions of climate change, Buddhist reincarnation in medieval Japan, as well as twentieth-century American and British literary depictions of polar landscapes. The panel will address some of the ways in which changes in the relationship between human bodies and their environments may alter our ability to establish historical continuity with people of the past.

Precirculated Paper: Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2016). Coda: Who is the 'we' endangered by climate change? In Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias (Eds.), Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture (pp. 241-260). London: Routledge.

To receive a copy of the precirculated paper for this workshop, please email eisenberginstitute@umich.edu or pick up a printed copy at the Eisenberg Institute (1521 Haven Hall).

Panelists include:
Esther Ladkau, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
David Patterson, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Matthew Villeneuve, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
Perrin Selcer, chair, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan
Julia Adeney Thomas, commentator, Associate Professor, History, University of Notre Dame

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

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.

Image: "barbs002" (Robert Kash, CC BY 2.0)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:15:19 -0500 2017-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar barbed wire
Deep Dive: Communicating Your Socially Engaged Design Project to Stakeholders (December 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44756 44756-9971926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Center for Socially Engaged Design
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Design Expo is right around the corner! How will you convey why and how your team practiced socially engaged design this semester? Get some tips from C-SED and start practicing your presentation, especially if you’re registered to be considered for the Socially Engaged Design Awards!

This event will be a peer interview style workshop by the Center for Socially Engaged Design on December 1 from 1-3pm in 3360 GG Brown.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:00:35 -0500 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Center for Socially Engaged Design Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
DEEP DIVE: COMMUNICATING YOUR SOCIALLY ENGAGED DESIGN PROJECT TO STAKEHOLDERS – 12/01, 1-3PM (December 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44152 44152-9889000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Center for Socially Engaged Design

Design Expo is right around the corner! How will you convey why and how your team practiced socially engaged design this semester? Get some tips from C-SED and start practicing your presentation, especially if you’re registered to be considered for the Socially Engaged Design Awards!

This event will be a peer interview style workshop by the Center for Socially Engaged Design on December 1 from 1-3pm in 3360 GG Brown.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:28:35 -0400 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Center for Socially Engaged Design Workshop / Seminar GG Brown Laboratory
Economics at Work (December 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43290 43290-9751010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:09:56 -0400 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Manuscript Workshop - Margo Kolenda (December 1, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45892 45892-10321771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Manuscript Workshop for Margo Kolenda. Open to faculty and graduate students, 2 pm in 3241 Angell Hall.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:36:27 -0400 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Thermal equivariance and its applications (December 1, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46739 46739-10592254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I will describe how techniques from topological field theory and equivariant cohomology find a role in physical problems. I will define the notion of thermal equivariance which will involve gauging thermal diffeomorphisms, and argue that these constructions naturally lead to entropy being interpretable as a Noether current. I will outline an application to constructing dissipative hydrodynamic effective actions, reproducing previously known facts about the admissible constitutive relations.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:32:16 -0500 2017-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Economic Theory: Ideological Bias and Trust in Information Sources (December 1, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42960 42960-9685678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Two key features robustly describe ideological differences in society: (i) individuals persistently disagree about objective facts; (ii) individuals also disagree about which sources can be trusted to provide reliable information about these facts. We develop a model in which these patterns arise endogenously as the result of Bayesian learning with misspecification. In our model, individuals observe signals about multiple unobserved states from many information sources. Individuals learn the accuracies and ideological biases of sources with the assumption that a possibly biased reference source is independent and unbiased. With arbitrarily small bias in the reference source, individuals incorrectly learn that biased sources are more accurate than unbiased sources. Large disagreements between individuals persist, even when individuals observe the same set of information sources. We discuss implications for social network formation and media markets.

Matthew Gentzkow∗, Stanford and NBER
Michael B. Wong, MIT
Allen T. Zhang, Harvard

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:22:47 -0500 2017-12-01T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Detroit Engagement Training Workshop Series (December 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44695 44695-9966112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

In partnership with The Ginsberg Center, U-M Libraries, Office of Metropolitan Impact and Community Engaged Academic Learning, and Masters of Arts in Community Based Education, the University of Michigan Detroit Center is offering three engagement training workshops. This series provides a training program geared towards members of the university community interested in capacity building, volunteering, problem-solving, and project development in the city of Detroit.

With the University’s bicentennial celebration in mind, these workshops will provide participants with insight and understanding of the options, opportunities and challenges as they relate to engaging with the city of Detroit.

Participants will learn about best practices of engagement, volunteering, and the history of the Detroit. Participants will also have an opportunity to tour the city, meet civic and community leaders, and learn how to best engage with the city according to their interests and abilities.

The workshop dates are as follows:
- Saturday, October 14, 2017 | 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- Saturday, November 11, 2017 |– 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Includes a tour of Detroit)
- Saturday, December 2, 2017 | 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Registration is available online, or if you have any questions, please reach out to Feodies Shipp (dini@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:11:37 -0400 2017-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Workshop / Seminar detroit
Saturday Morning Physics | Atomic Sensors: An Emerging Quantum Technology (December 2, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44538 44538-9923129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Advances in our ability to study and exploit the properties of atoms for measurements of physical quantities has ushered in a new age of technological possibilities in quantum sensing and measurement. Seminal developments include atomic clocks, atomic magnetometers, and inertial sensors based on atom interferometry. This lecture will introduce the advent of new quantum technologies for sensing and measurements of electric fields based on using exquisitely sensitive and versatile atoms in highly-excited Rydberg states. Dr. Anderson will describe the new atomic sensor technologies under development at Rydberg Technologies LLC, from basic measurement principles to applications in metrology, RF engineering, and plasma science.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:59:15 -0400 2017-12-02T10:30:00-05:00 2017-12-02T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Taiji (Tai Chi) Workshop with Master Liang (December 3, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45556 45556-10228919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 3, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Drop-in is welcome anytime!

The CIUM Taiji Workshop (10 classes) will be offered again in the fall 2017 semester! The traditional Yang Style Taijiquan 16 form will be taught this semester. Please note that the fall workshop is open to the U-M affiliates only at this time (U-M students, faculty, and staff). For inquiries, please contact us at confucius@umich.edu.

Cost: Free
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave.

Fall 2017 workshop schedule:
Sunday, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. | October 8 – December 17, 2017 (subject to change)
*No class on November 26

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:49:25 -0400 2017-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Workshop / Seminar Taiji
Power and Oppression in Groups (December 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44620 44620-9934443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Deepening consideration of social identity and its influences, participants spend time not only understanding how to mitigate and resolve situations that may be damaging, but also how group dynamics may create preference for some identities over others, as well as engaging in thinking on how to reduce these effects. In collaboration with The Program on Intergroup Relations.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=487.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:21:11 -0400 2017-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE) (December 4, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43416 43416-9759946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 3:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:46:50 -0400 2017-12-04T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
HEP-Astro Seminar | Searches for New Physics Through Third Generation Particles at the ATLAS Detector (December 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42194 42194-9584882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Standard Model (SM) has been central to particle physics for decades, and its success in predicting observational results has culminated in the 2012 discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. However, the theory is considered 'not natural', requiring finely-tuned parameters to allow for the precise cancellation of large radiative corrections to the Higgs boson mass. In pursuit of a more natural theory, extensions to the SM have been proposed that would stabilize the Higgs boson mass and resolve the hierarchy problem (supersymmetry, extended Higgs sectors, models with vector-like quarks). This presentation will focus on several ATLAS searches for new physics involving third generation particles, both targeting extended Higgs sectors and vector-like quarks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:16:11 -0500 2017-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Public Finance (December 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43348 43348-9751078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:58:00 -0400 2017-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (December 5, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43904 43904-9852336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:53:31 -0400 2017-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Medieval Lunch. Expressive Gestures: Affect and Violence in the late 16th century Russian Illustrated Historical Chronicle (December 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43706 43706-9832691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:01:12 -0400 2017-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Russian gesturing
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: P4 - interactions among Africa's top predator, people, parasites and their prey (December 5, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42888 42888-9675064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:33:24 -0500 2017-12-05T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar P4 logo
Tarek Zohdi: Modeling and Simulation of Multistage Multiphysical Processes in Next-Generation Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing with New Multifunctional Materials (December 5, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45084 45084-10081483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Within the last decade, several industrialized countries have stressed the importance of advanced manufacturing to their economies. Many of these plans have highlighted the development of additive manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing, which are still in their infancy. The objective is to develop superior products, produced at lower overall operational costs. For these goals to be realized, a deep understanding of the essential ingredients comprising the materials involved in additive manufacturing is needed. The combination of rigorous material modeling theories, coupled with the dramatic increase of computational power can potentially play a significant role in the analysis, control, and design of many emerging additive manufacturing processes. Specialized materials and the precise design of their properties are key factors in the processes. Specifically, particle-functionalized materials play a central role in this field, in three main ways: (1) to endow filament-based materials by adding particles to a heated binder (2) to “functionalize” inks by adding particles to freely flowing solvents and (3) to directly deposit particles, as dry powders, onto surfaces and then to heat them with a laser, e-beam or other external source, in order to fuse them into place. The goal of these processes is primarily to build surface structures, coatings, etc., which are extremely difficult to construct using classical manufacturing methods. The objective of this presentation is to introduce the audience to basic techniques which can allow them to rapidly develop and analyze particulate-based materials needed in new additive manufacturing processes. This presentation is broken into two main parts: continuum and discrete element approaches. The materials associated with methods (1) and (2) are closely related types of continua (particles embedded in a continuous binder) and are treated using continuum approaches. The materials in method (3), which are of a discrete particulate character, are analyzed using discrete element methods.

Bio: Tarek I. Zohdi received his Ph.D. in 1997 in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and his Habilitation in General Mechanics from the Gottfried Leibniz University of Hannover in 2002. He is currently a Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of the Computational and Data Science and Engineering Program at UC Berkeley and holder of the W. C. Hall Family Endowed Chair in Engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:22:51 -0400 2017-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Zohdi
CM-AMO Seminar | Playing with Photons in Flatland: Controlling Light and Matter in Two-Dimensional Materials (December 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42195 42195-9584883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The discovery of monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors of atomic-scale thickness presents a new two-dimensional landscape in which to play with the interaction between light and matter. These nanomaterials at the extreme limit of surface-to-volume ratio exhibit rich optical phenomenology such as layer dependent bandgaps and degenerate, but distinct, valley-polarized excitonic states. The unique features of atomically-thin materials suggest that these layered systems can be exploited to achieve new regimes of light-matter interactions. In this presentation, I will discuss efforts to control the interaction of monolayer semiconductors with light using both top-down nanopatterning and photonic device integration. In particular, I will describe the emergence of spin-polarized exciton-polariton quasi-particles in monolayer semiconductors embedded in a photonic microcavity. Cavity enhancement of optical interactions results in modified dynamics of these coherent light-matter states. Examples will illustrate how optical and quantum phenomena can be rationally designed in monolayer semiconductors, suggesting exciting potential for novel hybrid quantum systems or opto-electronic applications harnessing the unique properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:16:10 -0500 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Stress (December 5, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45028 45028-10072844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact stress and mindfulness strategies to reduce stress. The first half of the wellness group will be education-focused and the second half will be a support group. Each wellness group is led by a licensed social worker affiliated with the UM Depression Center.

Wellness groups are free to attend and no pre-registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:59:44 -0400 2017-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 2017-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Eisenberg Family Depression Center Workshop / Seminar CMW
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) (December 6, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43942 43942-9855183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:23:55 -0400 2017-12-06T08:30:00-05:00 2017-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
HET Brown Bag Seminar | From higher spins to generalized SYK models (December 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46737 46737-10592252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The spectrum of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model consists of an infinite tower of operators, which resembles the spectra of various vector models that are holographically dual to higher spin gravity theories. In this talk, I will discuss a direct connection between SYK-like tensor models and the Gross-Neveu vector model. This is achieved by studying a toy model where a tensor field is coupled with some vector fields. By integrating out the tensor field, the toy model reduces to the Gross-Neveu model in 1 dimension. At a different corner of the moduli space of this toy model, a perturbation can be turned on and the toy model flows to an SYK-like model at low energy. In addition, a chaotic-nonchaotic phase transition is observed as the sign of the perturbation is altered. If time permitted, I will briefly discuss some aspects of supersymmetric SYK-like models.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:35:51 -0500 2017-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
LinkedIn for Graduate Students (December 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46902 46902-10670084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding, networking, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows Ph.D. students to learn to effectively use LinkedIn to accomplish their career development goals. Sponsored by the University Career Center.

Pre-registration is required at https://umich.joinhandshake.com/login.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:48:52 -0500 2017-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
The influence of gender stereotypes on behavior and identification among students in engineering group project teams. (December 6, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46842 46842-10647803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Abstract: In this talk I will present research examining how gender stereotypes of men as engineering experts and women as supporters/organizers influence outcomes for male and female students on engineering group project teams. Using various methods (e.g., analysis of archival video footage, laboratory experiments, and coding of observed behaviors), these studies show that men engage in more technical aspects of engineering projects than women and speak longer than women during group project presentations, consistent with gender stereotypes favoring men in engineering. We also show that women who are targeted by gender stereotyping on their teams (as assessed by independent observers) report weaker identification with engineering than women who are not targeted. These studies indicate that gender stereotypes prevalent in our society can have significant influence on outcomes that may predict retention in engineering.

Bio: Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. Her research program in experimental social psychology focuses on stereotyping, implicit bias, and the experiences of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering. Her research program has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Sekaquaptewa served as associate editor for the APA journals Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award (2015), and the Sarah Goddard Power Award (2012), from the University of Michigan for her work on diversity-related issues.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:04:04 -0500 2017-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Department Colloquium | Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes … or how to make atomic-level movies of molecules and materials (December 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43295 43295-9751017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In this talk I will describe how combining ultrafast lasers and electron microscopes in novel ways makes it possible to directly 'watch' the time-evolving structure of condensed matter on the fastest timescales open to atomic motion. By combining such measurements with complementary (and more conventional) spectroscopic probes one can develop structure-property relationships for materials under even very far from equilibrium conditions.

I will give several examples of the remarkable new kinds of information that can be gleaned from such studies and describe how these opportunities emerge from the unique capabilities of the current generation of ultrafast electron microscopy instruments. For example, in diffraction mode it is possible to identify and separate lattice structural changes from valence charge density redistribution in materials on the ultrafast timescale and to identify novel photoinduced phases that have no equilibrium analogs. It is also possible to directly probe the strength of the coupling between electrons and phonons in materials across the entire Brillouin zone and to probe nonequilibrium phonon dynamics (or relaxation) in exquisite detail. In imaging mode, real space pictures of nano- to microstructural evolution in materials at unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution can be obtained.

I will assume no familiarity with ultrafast lasers or electron microscopes.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:16:30 -0500 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (December 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44212 44212-9897591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:11:26 -0400 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
International Economics (December 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43312 43312-9751043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:48:39 -0400 2017-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Transforming Mental Health Care with Social Media Munmun De Choudhury - School of Interactive Computing - Georgia Tech (December 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46986 46986-10714060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ABSTRACT: Social media platforms continue to deeply intertwine with our lives. In this talk I will present a body of work demonstrating how social media can serve two purposes supporting our mental wellbeing. First, employing social media as a passive “sensor” of behaviors, emotion, socialization, and linguistic expression, I will highlight a series of projects that enable fine-grained and proactive assessment of risk to conditions as diverse as depression, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress and anxiety. Second, I will talk about how several social media sites are purposefully and inadvertently providing an interventional platform, ranging from meeting support needs of vulnerable individuals, to enhancing therapeutic outcomes. Cross-cutting across this research agenda, I will discuss the broader implications for computing as well as mental health research and practice, and the ethical and privacy challenges we have encountered, what we have done about them, and what questions still remain. In conclusion, I will highlight three ongoing multi-institutional initiatives that define the next phase of this research program – one around addressing the mental health challenges of college students, a second around building a psychologically healthy and thriving workplace, and a third around improving how we clinically treat, intervene, and care for mental illness.

Bio: Munmun De Choudhury is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech where she directs the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab. She is also affiliated with the GVU Center. Munmun’s research interests are in computational social science, with a focus on assessing, understanding, and improving personal and societal mental health from online social interactions. Her work has been the recipient of ten best paper and honorable mention awards at premier conferences, has been supported by awards like the James Edenfield Faculty Fellowship and the Yahoo Faculty Engagement Award, and has also been extensively covered by popular press venues like the New York Times and the NPR. Earlier, Munmun was a faculty associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, a postdoc at Microsoft Research, and obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:51:51 -0500 2017-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Munmun De Choudhury photo
Creating & Curating Online Teaching Portfolios (December 7, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47364 47364-10880013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dr. Arola will discuss how her own teaching portfolio has evolved since she put her first syllabus online in Spring of 2000. Through sharing her own successes and missteps, and asking participants to explore a sampling of teaching portfolios, this workshop/lecture will engage participants with best practices for cultivating an online teaching identity.

Bio:
Kristin Arola is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University and an affiliate faculty in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Arola’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between American Indian rhetoric, multimodal pedagogy, and digital rhetoric. Along with numerous essays and book chapters, she is the co-author of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects, and the co-editor of CrossTalk in Comp Theory and Composing(Media) = Composing(Embodiment).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:31:29 -0500 2017-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Photo of Dr. Kristin Arola
Econometrics (December 7, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43245 43245-9748034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:59:58 -0400 2017-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
ASP Workshop | Literature and Liminality: Exploring the Armenian in-Between (December 8, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42103 42103-9550247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Michael Pifer, University of Michigan
"Armenian Adaptations: An Approach to Medieval Literary History"
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
"'To Be Undone By Another': Notes on Armenian Liminality"
Maral Aktokmakyan, University of Michigan
"The Villager and Its Bare Life: Hagop Mntzouri's 'Passages in the Places I Have Been'"

Discussant: Catherine Brown, University of Michigan

For questions or to access pre-circulated papers please contact Michael Pifer (mpifer@umich.edu) or Maral Aktokmakyan (maktokma@umich.edu).

It is a common trope to refer to Armenia as historically divided between other lands, empires, and peoples. But what does it mean to be in-between? This workshop will examine the liminality—both as a theme and as a quality—in and of Armenian literature.

Rather than locating Armenia as a distinct interstice between otherwise ontologically stable powers, places, and ways of being, this workshop seeks to grapple with how liminality in Armenian literature might unsettle binary divisions of many kinds--between self and other, center and periphery, urban and rural, modern and premodern, native and foreign, and even Armenian and “Odar.” How has liminality—geographic, literary, linguistic, temporal—shaped Armenian cultural production? How might we read it? And how might it shape the ways in which we approach Armenian literature as our object of study?

Photo caption: Church of the Holy Redeemer- Ani/Kars | Photo credit: Gokhan Toka, Nov. 2011

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:13:49 -0500 2017-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Literature and Liminality
POSTPONED to Jan. 26, 2018 : Time and Motivation (December 8, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46562 46562-10547332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Our seminar speaker has been invited to the Nobel ceremony so we are postponing this seminar. New date: January 26, 2018
Host: Orie Shafer

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:26:32 -0500 2017-12-08T12:15:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Economics at Work (December 8, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43285 43285-9751006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:04:28 -0400 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Labor Economics (December 8, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43323 43323-9751052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:30:24 -0400 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
HET Seminar | Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection (December 8, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47257 47257-10855068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I will discuss the nonperturbative matching of the effective field theory describing dark matter interactions with quarks and gluons to the effective theory of nonrelativistic dark matter interacting with nonrelativistic nucleons. In general, a single partonic operator already matches onto several nonrelativistic operators at leading order in chiral counting. Thus, keeping only one operator at the time in the nonrelativistic effective theory does not properly describe the scattering in direct detection. Moreover, the matching of the axial--axial partonic level operator, as well as the matching of the operators coupling DM to the QCD anomaly term, naively include momentum suppressed terms. However, these are still of leading chiral order due to pion poles and can be numerically important. I will illustrate the impact of these effects with several examples. Finally, I will comment about the importance of renormalization group running in direct dark matter detection.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:40:24 -0500 2017-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Economic Theory: Optimal Monitoring Design (December 8, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42961 42961-9685679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

This paper considers a Principal-Agent model with hidden action in which the Principal (i) can monitor the Agent by acquiring costly information about his effort and (ii) aims to implement a target level of effort at minimal cost. In particular, the Principal can access independent signals about the Agent's effort at a constant marginal cost. The main result of the paper is that the optimal information acquisition strategy is a two-threshold policy and, consequently, the equilibrium contract specifies two possible wages for the Agent. This result provides a rationale for the frequently observed single-bonus wage-contracts.

Joint with Balazs Szentes

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:13:56 -0500 2017-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Business Etiquette Dinner Workshop (December 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46850 46850-10656086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

How should I introduce myself at a formal dinner? What direction should I pass the bread in? How should I use my fork? Where do I place my napkin? When and how should I raise a toast? What conversation topics are unacceptable?

Have you ever wondered about some of these questions?

Whether at a corporate conference, a gala, or a professional meeting, how we conduct business and dine at the same time can be a tricky act. Learn how to entertain guests, how to conduct business formally while still enjoying your meal with hands-on training in this workshop by Mr. Keith Soster, Director of Student Engagement for Michigan Dining. With the exam period upon us, we all have been working hard and deserve a delicious 3-course meal on this Friday evening to help lift our spirits. Come join Graduate Rackham INternational (GRIN) at this savory event. $10 per person (3 course meal).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:57:02 -0500 2017-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Michigan Union
Taiji (Tai Chi) Workshop with Master Liang (December 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45556 45556-10228920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Drop-in is welcome anytime!

The CIUM Taiji Workshop (10 classes) will be offered again in the fall 2017 semester! The traditional Yang Style Taijiquan 16 form will be taught this semester. Please note that the fall workshop is open to the U-M affiliates only at this time (U-M students, faculty, and staff). For inquiries, please contact us at confucius@umich.edu.

Cost: Free
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave.

Fall 2017 workshop schedule:
Sunday, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. | October 8 – December 17, 2017 (subject to change)
*No class on November 26

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:49:25 -0400 2017-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Workshop / Seminar Taiji
The Premodern Colloquium. The Agreed Upon Counterfeit: Forgery Culture and Documentary Authenticity in Medieval Japanese Society (December 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43879 43879-9852278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:07:04 -0400 2017-12-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Complex Systems Agent-Based Modeling Show-Off (December 11, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47161 47161-10802662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

In collaboration with CSAAW (Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop) the Agent-Based Modeling Show-Off will feature flash presentations and poster discussions. All are welcome to come see these student projects in agent-based modeling and networks (and to eat pizza!)

Poster Titles:

#MeToo/TrueColors
Extreme trait evolution
Modelling communication strategies in groups
Integrated polarization
Natural inequality
Resources, trade and societal advancement
Inequity in transportation
Start-ups and disruption of established corporations

This is a valuable experience for these undergraduate students who will gain confidence presenting ideas and answering questions about their work. You are guaranteed to learn something interesting too!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:29:54 -0500 2017-12-11T10:30:00-05:00 2017-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Event flyer with graphic images
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE) (December 11, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43417 43417-9759947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:49:21 -0400 2017-12-11T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
HEP-Astro Seminar | Surveying the Landscape of DUNE (December 11, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47067 47067-10782623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

DUNE is an ambitious international program aiming for discovery in neutrino oscillation physics as well as in searches for nucleon decay and studies of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae. The central elements of the experimental platform that will enable this program include a new, high-intensity neutrino beam line that will be constructed at Fermilab and a suite of massive liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC's) to be deployed deep underground in the former Homestake gold mine, now home to the Sanford Underground Research Facility, in Lead, South Dakota. I will describe the scientific context in which DUNE sits, talk about several aspects of technology development for DUNE including work toward efficient detection of scintillation photons in large-volume LArTPC's, and summarize the status and outlook for DUNE.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:16:12 -0500 2017-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (December 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43905 43905-9852337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:55:27 -0400 2017-12-12T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: 3-D digital morphology: bringing plant (paleo)biology into the light (December 12, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42890 42890-9675066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:06:39 -0500 2017-12-12T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar plant 3-D digital morphology
Economic History, Macroeconomics (December 12, 2017 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43268 43268-9748061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:58:27 -0400 2017-12-12T14:30:00-05:00 2017-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): College Costs Across Fields and Over Time (December 13, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43943 43943-9855184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:25:52 -0400 2017-12-13T08:30:00-05:00 2017-12-13T10:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
DEEP DIVE: SOCIALLY ENGAGED DESIGN ON YOUR RESUME – 12/13, 1-3PM (December 13, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44153 44153-9889001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Center for Socially Engaged Design

Socially engaged design requires students to build and apply skills not traditionally taught in engineering design courses. Make your socially engaged design experiences shine on your resume. Bring your draft bullet points and get feedback and tips with experts from the Engineering Career Resource Center and the C-SED team.

This event is a drop-in consultation style workshop by the Center for Socially Engaged Design on December 13 from 1-3pm in 3360 GG Brown.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:30:40 -0400 2017-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Center for Socially Engaged Design Workshop / Seminar GG Brown Laboratory
Google Drive/Docs Workshop (December 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44488 44488-9920281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Window’s based

Participants will learn:
- Get started with Google Drive, including storing files, organizing and finding your files, sharing
- Changing your sharing settings
- Learn how to save, edit, and share Microsoft Office files.
- Uploading and downloading files, viewing and opening files.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:03:53 -0400 2017-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Workshop on Poverty and Inequality (December 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43185 43185-9737084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 09:49:52 -0400 2017-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T10:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Student talking
Labor Seminar, Public Finance (December 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43325 43325-9751054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:58:45 -0400 2017-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar social
Taiji (Tai Chi) Workshop with Master Liang (December 17, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45556 45556-10228921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Drop-in is welcome anytime!

The CIUM Taiji Workshop (10 classes) will be offered again in the fall 2017 semester! The traditional Yang Style Taijiquan 16 form will be taught this semester. Please note that the fall workshop is open to the U-M affiliates only at this time (U-M students, faculty, and staff). For inquiries, please contact us at confucius@umich.edu.

Cost: Free
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave.

Fall 2017 workshop schedule:
Sunday, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. | October 8 – December 17, 2017 (subject to change)
*No class on November 26

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:49:25 -0400 2017-12-17T15:00:00-05:00 2017-12-17T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Workshop / Seminar Taiji
No EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar (December 19, 2017 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42891 42891-9675067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you in January.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:54:31 -0400 2017-12-19T12:10:00-05:00 2017-12-19T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Ruthven Museums Building
GSI Teaching Orientation (January 2, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46508 46508-10512727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 8:30am
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has designed the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Orientation (GSITO) to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It has also proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.

The event will be held on Tuesday, January 2, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided.

For more information about the event, including the agenda for the day, and to register visit: http://crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsio

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:44:28 -0400 2018-01-02T08:30:00-05:00 2018-01-02T17:30:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Workshop / Seminar GSITO participants
No EEB Thursday Seminar today (January 4, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47958 47958-11157188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

See you next week

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:41:11 -0500 2018-01-04T16:10:00-05:00 2018-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jason Xu, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA (January 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47951 47951-11157183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract

The likelihood function is central to many statistical procedures, but poses challenges in many classical and modern data settings. Motivated by emergent cell lineage tracking experiments to study blood cell production, we present recent methodology newly enabling likelihood-based inference for partially observed data arising from continuous-time stochastic processes with countable state spaces. These computational advances allow principled inferential procedures such as maximum likelihood estimation, posterior inference, and expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. We then discuss limitations and alternatives when data are very large or generated from a hidden process, and address some of the remaining challenges using optimization. We highlight majorization-minimization (MM) methods that generalize EM, showcasing their merits and breadth on related problems including likelihood-based approaches for sparse and low-rank estimation.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 10:29:18 -0500 2018-01-05T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-05T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Xu,Jason
Statement of Purpose Grant Writing Workshop (January 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47050 47050-10777006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

This presentation will focus on how to write competitive and successful fellowship and grant applications, and will provide information that applicants can use to assist them in applying for international funding opportunities related to research and internships.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:51:39 -0500 2018-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar slider
Teaching a Great Lab Class (January 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47424 47424-10901455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Maintaining a well-organized laboratory or computer section both saves an IA’s time and helps students learn. Presenters at this workshop will share strategies they wished they had known prior to teaching and will focus on ways to better prepare for leading a lab section and efficiently manage student questions. Participants will take away instructional that can be used immediately.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:09:17 -0500 2018-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T23:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory and the Mathematical Description of Enzyme Kinetics (January 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48107 48107-11180649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Due to the prevelance of fast and slow timescales in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, geometric singular perturbation theory (GSPT) plays a pivotal role in the mathematical illustration of enzyme kinetics. I’ll begin the talk by reviewing some of the earlier work that characterizes single-enzyme/single-substrate (SE/SS) reactions. At the same time, I’ll introduce some of the principal theorems of GSPT and demonstrate their applicability to SE/SS reactions. Finally, I’ll conclude with a description of my current work on coupled reactions. Coupled reactions generally consist of multiple fast timescales and multiple slow timescales; thus, they serve as a novel platform from which to study the applicability of GSPT in higher dimensional dynamical systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:16:06 -0500 2018-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Introduction to Engineering Careers, by Symplicity (January 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47609 47609-10963384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Engineering Careers, by Symplicity (formerly ENGenius.Jobs), is the career portal for Michigan Engineering. This is the same great system as before, just with a new name! Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, helps connect students and alumni with organizations looking to recruit Michigan Engineers. Students can use the system to research careers, apply to jobs, schedule interviews, conduct mock interviews, and schedule career advising appointments with the ECRC.

This session will be valuable to those who are completely new to Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, and wish to learn more about it. Through this interactive workshop, you will learn how to activate your account, conduct a job search, apply for positions of interest, and schedule interviews. Since employers posting positions on Engineering Careers, by Symplicity, are looking specifically for University of Michigan students, this can be a very effective tool for your job search.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:16:26 -0500 2018-01-08T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Dissertation Defense: Ribonuclease H function in Bacillus subtilis (January 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48121 48121-11180664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Mentor: Lyle Simmons

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:02:17 -0500 2018-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment (January 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48014 48014-11170143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The magnetic moment anomaly of the muon, g-2, can be measured with sub ppm precision and can challenge the Standard Model prediction. In fact the most recent measurement, Brookhaven E821, reveals a 3-4 sigma discrepancy with the SM prediction. A new effort at Fermilab using the Brookhaven storage ring magnet will provide 20 times more muons over two years, which, combined with a number of technical advances, is expected to provide a factor of 4 improvement of the combined statistical and systematic error. Production data collection will commence in January, 2018, and E821-level statistics should be acquired in a few months. In this talk, I will set the stage and describe the eclectic experimental effort that brings together expertise in accelerator physics, particle physics, nuclear physics, atomic physics and precision measurement.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:16:06 -0500 2018-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
#Adulting: Get Your Money Right! (January 8, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47761 47761-11007320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

 Did you attend any of our free #Adulting events last semester? Interested again this semester? Join us for our first program, #Adulting Get Your Money Right! on Tues., Jan. 9 from 6pm-7:30pm in the League's Kalamazoo Room to learn how to manage your finances, credit and taxes! 

Register here: http://ow.ly/2iQe30hcG0a

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:00:29 -0500 2018-01-08T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T19:30:00-05:00 Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Optimal sensors in random environments (January 9, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47739 47739-11004725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

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Abstract: The efficient coding hypothesis has revolutionized theoretical neuroscience. I would argue that its next-generation instantiation is best understood using rate-distortion theory. I use rate-distortion theory to inspire a simple model of sensory adaptation. In randomly drawn, fluctuating environments, this model explains the absence of sensory neurogenesis and predicts that biological sensors are poised to just barely confuse ``minimal confounds'' in the environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:47:10 -0500 2018-01-09T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Sarah Merzen headshot
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Coordinated stochastic expressions of neighboring genes drive the evolution of chromosomal clustering of GAL genes in yeast (January 9, 2018 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47261 47261-10855071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:44:48 -0500 2018-01-09T12:10:00-05:00 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar yeast
Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management and Technology Strategies for Busy Professionals (January 9, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44490 44490-9920283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Everyone wishes they had extra time in their day. Explore the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain) affecting many busy professionals today. Come and learn useful strategies for finding at least one extra hour of productivity every day!

You will learn to:
- Identify key projects and integrate planning tools to better prioritize your work
- Determine when to say “No” to unnecessary tasks
- Apply techniques to clear the clutter in your mind for better focus and attention
- Choose different strategies for making your time in meetings more productive and efficient
- Employ the concept of “padding” to better manage incoming information

You will benefit by:
- Learning how to be honest with yourself about responsibilities, capabilities, and capacity
- Developing strategies which allow you to identify important responsibilities and how to best allocate time to them
- Knowing how to take advantage of expected and unexpected “downtime”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:08:37 -0400 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
CM-AMO Seminar | Control of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals (January 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42196 42196-9584884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Among the many physical systems that form topological defects, liquid crystals are special because their characteristic topological defects are easy to visualize and manipulate. Many strategies can be employed to manipulate topological defects in these fluids with long-range order, either by external fields, or by choosing an appropriate topography of the confining surfaces, or dispersing colloidal particles in liquid crystals. Through combinations of these strategies, it is possible to generate defect arrays which then can be used for optics or to promote self-assembly of colloidal particles. I will discuss the behavior of a colloidal particle in liquid crystals next to an undulated surface, and the case of focal conic defects in smectic liquid crystals that can be assembled on curved interfaces to form an array of micro-lenses. I will also discuss defect arrays in nematic liquid crystals driven by electrical fields, which can form large, regular and reconfigurable structures.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:16:09 -0500 2018-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Zhou Fan, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (January 9, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47999 47999-11167555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:10pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Random effects models are commonly used to measure genetic variance-covariance matrices of quantitative phenotypic traits in a population. The eigenvalues of these matrices describe the evolutionary response of the population to selection. However, they may be difficult to estimate from limited samples when the number of traits is large. I will discuss several phenomena concerning the eigenvalues of classical MANOVA estimators in such high-dimensional settings, including dispersion of the bulk eigenvalue distribution, bias and aliasing of large "spike" eigenvalues, and Tracy-Widom limits at the spectral edges. I will then describe a new statistical procedure that uses these results to consistently estimate the large population eigenvalues in a high-dimensional regime. The proofs develop and extend techniques in random matrix theory and free probability, which I will also briefly describe.

This is joint work with Iain M. Johnstone, Yi Sun, Mark W. Blows, and Emma Hine

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:23:37 -0500 2018-01-09T16:10:00-05:00 2018-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Fan,Zhou
The U.S. Job Search: A Guide for International Students (January 9, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47611 47611-10963385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

International students have a lot to offer employers, including cross-cultural skills, diversity, a global perspective, and language skills. However, conducting a job search in the U.S. can be quite challenging. This workshop is designed to give international students the knowledge and resources they need to conduct an effective job search. At this workshop, you will learn the possible differences between your home country and the U.S. with respect to resumes and interviews. You will also hear tips on how to find companies who are open to sponsoring visas. Finally, a representative from the International Center will discuss the various work visas available to international students, as well as give guidance on how to answer the work authorization questions on Engineering Careers, by Symplicity.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:19:20 -0500 2018-01-09T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-09T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Winter Blues and Depression (January 9, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47855 47855-11033297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Lots of people get depressed in winter, or suffer from "the winter blues". The medical name for this winter depression is seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

In this wellness group, college and graduate students will receive a presentation about winter blues and depression. Q&A and a facilitated group session will follow to discuss challenges faces when coping with depression, share successful strategies for managing depression, and connect with other students who may have similar experiences.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:21:10 -0500 2018-01-09T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-09T19:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Eisenberg Family Depression Center Workshop / Seminar CMW
#Adulting: Get Your Money Right! (January 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47746 47746-11004731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Did you attend any of our free #Adulting events last semester? Interested again this semester? Join us for our first program, #Adulting Get Your Money Right! on Tues., Jan. 9 from 6pm-7:30pm in the League's Kalamazoo Room to learn how to manage your finances, credit and taxes!

Register here: http://ow.ly/2iQe30hcG0a

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:20:42 -0500 2018-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Adulting 4
Personal Statement Workshop (January 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48143 48143-11180773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:33:57 -0500 2018-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Simplified Limits on Resonances at the LHC (January 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48219 48219-11191402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

When an excess appears in LHC data, we should compare the results with broad classes of models, to get an immediate sense of which kinds of BSM theories could conceivably be relevant. Often, the new physics is likely to be an s-channel resonance. In this case, a simplified model of the resonance can translate an estimated signal cross section into bounds on the product of the dominant production and decay branching ratios. This quickly reveals whether a given class of models could possibly produce a signal of the required size at the LHC. This talk will outline a general framework and show how it operates for resonances of varying widths and with different numbers of production and decay modes. It will also discuss applications to cases of experimental interest, including resonances decaying to di-bosons, di-leptons, or di-jets. If the LHC experiments start reporting searches for BSM resonances in terms of the simplified limits variable ζ defined here, the community will home in more quickly on the models most likely to explain any observed excess.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:22:25 -0500 2018-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Department Colloquium | Promoting Gender Equity in STEM: Theory and Applications (January 10, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47573 47573-10953044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

This presentation will begin by briefly reviewing data on the current status of women in STEM disciplines: degrees earned, careers pursued, obstacles encountered. Next, it will draw on social science research to illuminate a variety of underlying causes for gender disparities in STEM. These, in turn, will be shown to suggest an array of concrete actions that individual scientists, group leaders, and institutions can take to improve gender diversity; a few that the speaker has found especially effective in her academic leadership roles will be noted. While the primary focus of the talk will be on women in physics, some of the broader issues encountered by sexual and gender minorities in STEM will also be discussed. In the remainder of the presentation, two particular interventions in which the speaker has been involved for the past several years will be covered in more detail: one aimed at building career skills of women physicists in developing nations and the other aimed at improving the climate for LGBT physicists here in the United States. These illustrate the wide array of opportunities open to all of us for making STEM fields more inclusive.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:16:15 -0500 2018-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
First Year Seminar: Making the Most of Your Summer (January 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47642 47642-10971131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

First year students: Are you still deciding how to spend your summer? Finding the perfect experience can be overwhelming, considering the vast number of opportunities available. However, this session will break down a few awesome programs, helping you have the best summer yet!

Join us and learn about various summer opportunities from four different offices: International Programs in Engineering, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, the Engineering Advising Center and the Engineering Career Resource Center. Following brief presentations from each office, our peer advisors will engage in a panel discussion to share their individual experiences. The evening will conclude with an open house, which will give you a chance to speak with office reps and participating students individually to get answers to your unique questions.

We'll also provide tips for making the most of your experience, whatever you decide to pursue! Learn to fully engage in your experience and practice career readiness skills (communication, teamwork, problem solving, etc.) that employers value most when evaluating candidates. By applying intention to your actions and seeking opportunities to contribute and stretch outside your comfort zone, you'll also be preparing yourself for future opportunities.

Snacks and beverages will be provided, please register through the Events section of Engineering Careers if planning to attend. This is a College of Engineering event that will be hosted by the ECRC and the EAC/ECRC Peer Advisors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:27:24 -0500 2018-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T18:30:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
A2WO Seed Cleaning and Exchange (January 10, 2018 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46608 46608-10566958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:45pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A workshop where you can help support Matthaei-Nichols’ eco-restoration efforts by sharing your surplus native seeds with the Arb and Gardens and the group. You’ll also learn techniques for cleaning seeds.
(Note: Include excel file of seed needs on the web calendar item.)
Presenter: Ann Arbor Wild Ones

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:49:38 -0500 2018-01-10T18:45:00-05:00 2018-01-10T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Workshop / Seminar
Google Forms/Sheets Workshop (January 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44491 44491-9920284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Window’s based

Participants will learn:
- Introduction to Google forms
- Creating, accessing, editing, and printing forms
- Embedding a google form link in an MS Word document
- Printing google forms in a fillable format
- Adding images to google forms
- Publishing the file as a web page
- Convert text to columns and add comments

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:11:21 -0400 2018-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
ASEH & CCS Paper Workshop w/ Ben Mangrum (January 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47411 47411-10891060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the ASEH and CCS groups for a workshop of Ben Mangrum's paper, "Postwar Ecology and the Ends of Human Rights.” RSVP to Katie Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) or Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) for pre-reading.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:11:53 -0500 2018-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Technical Communication Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 11, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47613 47613-10963387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Technical Communication faculty will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Thursday, January 11, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our faculty hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:22:08 -0500 2018-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Learning from nature: biomimetic mechanisms for new materials (January 11, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47824 47824-11015165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Biological structures exhibit a level of complexity, functionality, and hierarchy that, if fully understood at a mechanistic level, could usher in the next generation of complex designer materials. For example, biological hydrogels act as selective permeability barriers by filtering nano-scale particles based on size as well as biochemical and biophysical interactions. However, for a class of situations that includes the Nuclear Pore Complex, the mechanism of this filtering has proven challenging to untangle because large non-binding particles are caged by the surrounding polymer network while binding particles exhibit increased, not decreased, mobility. We present an equilibrium mechanism for this counter-intuitive filtering strategy that does not require energy consumption. We show that selective mobility can be achieved and controlled in a simple crosslinked polymer gel by coupling binding to crosslink dynamics. Our results lead to specific design rules for manufacturing complex selective gels and could help explain how the Nuclear Pore Complex attains selectivity.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:50:44 -0500 2018-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Carl Goodrich Headshot
Writing a Diversity Statement (January 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46904 46904-10670086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

With the increased visibility of issues of DEI, employers are beginning to consider how their employees contribute to the diversity of the institution. Many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=496.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:04:07 -0500 2018-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Logo
Speaking American English (January 11, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 47453-10901464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:30pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:53:30 -0500 2018-01-11T15:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T16:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
“Bioelectronics for tissue and organ interfaces: from tissue-like electronics to genetically-targeted biosynthetic electrodes” (January 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48079 48079-11178036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Jia Liu, Ph.D.
BME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker
Stanford University

Abstract:
Rapid progress in materials science and electronics has blurred the distinction between man-made electronic devices and biological systems. Seamless integration of electronic devices with living systems could contribute substantially to basic biology as well as to clinical diagnostics and therapeutics through tissue-electronics interfaces. In this presentation, I will first introduce a syringe-injectable tissue-like mesh electronics for merging nanoelectronic arrays and circuits with the brain in three-dimension (3D). The injectable mesh electronics has micrometer feature size and effective bending stiffness values similar to neural tissues. These unprecedented features lead to the gliosis-free and 3D interpenetrated electronics-neuron network, enabling the chronically stable neuron activity recording at single-neuron resolution in behaving animals. Second, I will describe a fully stretchable electronic sensor array through the development of multiple chemically-orthogonal and intrinsically stretchable polymeric electronic materials. The fully stretchable sensor array has modulus similar to biological tissues, allowing an intimate mechanical coupling with heart for a stable and anatomically precise electrophysiological recording. Its application for high-throughput and high-density mapping of 3D cardiac arrhythmogenic activities on the porcine model with a chronic atrial fibrillation will be discussed. Third, I will present a fundamentally new approach for a direct formation of electrical connections with genetically-targeted cells. This approach is accomplished through the convergence of genome engineering, in situ enzymatic reaction and polymer chemistry. These genetically-targeted electrodes are inherently assembled to the subcellular-specific region of neurons throughout the intact functional neural tissue and in stem cell-derived human brain organoids. Importantly, this system also enables the cellular-resolution tuning of local neuronal activity and bridging of brain regions to external devices for the targeted recording. Finally, I will briefly discuss the prospects for future advances in bioelectronics to overcome challenges in neuroscience and cardiology through the development of “cyborg animals” with single-cell resolution and cell-type specificity.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:14:23 -0500 2018-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Logo
Strategies for Resume and Cover Letter Writing Success (January 11, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47615 47615-10963389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Wondering how to begin creating a resume? Struggling with how to best showcase your skills and experiences? Not sure what to include in a cover letter? Then this workshop is for you! This workshop is designed to aid engineering and computer science students in writing clear, concise, and targeted resumes and cover letters. Learn how to write clear objective statements, create reader-friendly formats, detail your experience and skills, utilize transferable skills, and maintain professionalism in your communication to employers. This workshop should serve as a good introduction to resumes and cover letters for the beginning professional.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:27:40 -0500 2018-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory | General Interest Meeting (January 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48341 48341-11222710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory warmly welcomes all to attend a general interest meeting this upcoming Thursday, January 11 in 2024 Tisch Hall at 6pm.

This semester we will be exploring the concepts of tragedy and melancholia in both literature and contemporary critical theory. During Thursday's meeting we will overview the theme, readings, and schedule for the upcoming Winter 2018 term in greater depth as well as take suggestions from the group regarding further texts to be read and invited speakers.

Please feel free to circulate this notice to any and all who may be interested. And let either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu) know if you've any questions in the interim. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:42:38 -0500 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Funding Basics Workshop (January 11, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47772 47772-11012504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Is your student org looking for ways to increase their funding? Look no longer, just attend CCI's free Funding Basics workshop! Join us on January 11, 6:30pm-8:00pm in the Union's Pendleton Room, to learn more about the steps your org can take to increase your funding!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:28:21 -0500 2018-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Funding Basic
Fundings Basics Workshop (January 11, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47802 47802-11015143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union, Pendelton Room
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Is your student org looking for ways to increase their funding? Look no longer, just attend CCI's free Funding Basics workshop! Join us on January 11, 6:30pm-8:00pm in the Union's Pendleton Room, to learn more about the steps your org can take to increase your funding!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:00:32 -0500 2018-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union, Pendelton Room Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Workshop on Poverty and Inequality (January 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43185 43185-10703027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 09:49:52 -0400 2018-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T10:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Student talking
BASF Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47616 47616-10963391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Representatives from BASF will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Friday, January 12, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:52:17 -0500 2018-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
From Archive to Article (January 12, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48070 48070-11177988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

A discussion with Alix Beeston on the entire publication process and graduate student professionalization.
Email stoneaa@umich.edu or akgreene@umich.edu for suggested precirculated article.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:20:39 -0500 2018-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Shizhe Chen, Department of Statistics and Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, Columbia University (January 12, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48318 48318-11220075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

New techniques in neuroscience have opened the door to rich new data sets of neural activities. These data sets shed light on the computational foundation of the brain, i.e., neurons and synapses. However, these data also present unprecedented challenges: novel statistical theory and methods are required to model neural activities, and well-designed experiments are needed to collect informative data. In this talk, we take on the task of learning connectivity among large sets of neurons. In particular, we discuss i) how to learn functional connectivity from spike train data using the Hawkes process, and ii) how to optimally design experiments to collect data that allow us, for the first time, to learn physiological connectivity in vivo.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:10:49 -0500 2018-01-12T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Chen, Shizhe
Cell Cycle Regulation of Cell Invasive Behavior (January 12, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47193 47193-10813710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Hosts: Laura Buttitta and Gyorgyi Csankovszki

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:14:31 -0500 2018-01-12T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-12T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscopic image
HET Semiars | SIMPs and ELDERs: New Ideas for Dark Matter (January 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48218 48218-11191401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark Matter could reside in a hidden sector with gauge structure similar to the Standard Model. In particular, the hidden sector may include a non-Abelian gauge interaction with confinement scale around 100 MeV, similar to our QCD. Dark mesons, counterparts of the usual pions, kaons etc., can then play the role of dark matter. Such particles may experience strong number-changing self-interactions, similar to the 2K<->3pi scattering familiar in QCD. Intriguingly, such self-interactions can naturally produce a thermal relic abundance of dark mesons consistent with observations. In this talk we will explore two variations of this basic scenario, “Strongly-Interacting Massive Particle” (SIMP) and “Elastically-Decoupling Relic” (ELDER). We will discuss the basic features of each scenario, explicit models in which they may be realized, and their experimental signatures.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:20:09 -0500 2018-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Family Art Studio: The Line Comes Alive (January 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47983 47983-11162385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free. Registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email. Indicate if you would like to register for the 11:00 a.m. session or the 2:00 p.m. session and how many adults and children are in your group.

Create your own project inspired by the drawings of Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly. UMMA docents will lead a tour of the exhibition followed by a hands-on workshop led by local artist Nora Venturelli. Designed for families with children ages six and up to experience art together. Parents must accompany children.

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.

Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:47:10 -0500 2018-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Family Art Studio
Family Art Studio: The Line Comes Alive (January 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47983 47983-11162386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free. Registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email. Indicate if you would like to register for the 11:00 a.m. session or the 2:00 p.m. session and how many adults and children are in your group.

Create your own project inspired by the drawings of Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly. UMMA docents will lead a tour of the exhibition followed by a hands-on workshop led by local artist Nora Venturelli. Designed for families with children ages six and up to experience art together. Parents must accompany children.

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.

Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:47:10 -0500 2018-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Family Art Studio
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Aaditya Ramdas, Department of Statistics and EECS University of California, Berkeley (January 15, 2018 4:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48320 48320-11251670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 4:10am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Data science is at a crossroads. Each year, thousands of new data scientists are entering science and technology, after a broad training in a variety of fields. Modern data science is often exploratory in nature, with datasets being collected and dissected in an interactive manner. Classical guarantees that accompany many statistical methods are often invalidated by their non-standard interactive use, resulting in an underestimated risk of falsely discovering correlations or patterns. It is a pressing challenge to upgrade existing tools, or create new ones, that are robust to involving a human-in-the-loop.

In this talk, I will describe two new advances that enable some amount of interactivity while testing multiple hypotheses, and control the resulting selection bias. I will first introduce a new framework, STAR, that uses partial masking to divide the available information into two parts, one for selecting a set of potential discoveries, and the other for inference on the selected set. I will then show that it is possible to flip the traditional roles of the algorithm and the scientist, allowing the scientist to make post-hoc decisions after seeing the realization of an algorithm on the data. The theoretical basis for both advances is founded in the theory of martingales : in the first, the user defines the martingale and associated filtration interactively, and in the second, we move from optional stopping to optional spotting by proving uniform concentration bounds on relevant martingales.

This talk will feature joint work with (alphabetically) Rina Barber, Jianbo Chen, Will Fithian, Kevin Jamieson, Michael Jordan, Eugene Katsevich, Lihua Lei, Max Rabinovich, Martin Wainwright, Fanny Yang and Tijana Zrnic.

Bio : Aaditya Ramdas is a postdoctoral researcher in Statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley, advised by Michael Jordan and Martin Wainwright. He finished his PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning at CMU, advised by Larry Wasserman and Aarti Singh, winning the Best Thesis Award in Statistics. A lot of his research focuses on modern aspects of reproducibility in science and technology —
involving statistical testing and false discovery rate control in static and dynamic settings.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:41:17 -0500 2018-01-15T04:10:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Ramdas,Aaditya
Intersection of Identities and Our Role in Creating a More Inclusive Campus (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48380 48380-11230541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

The purpose of this event is to participate in an open dialogue and series of “lightning talks” focusing on individual experiences and the intersection of race and other social identities. We also plan to discuss the current campus climate and our role in improving it through small group discussion. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to share projects they are involved in that promote DEI initiatives.There will also be guests from the University and greater Ann Arbor community who will be sharing their experiences and facilitating these conversations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:02:48 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Herbert H. Dow Building
IT4U Webinar: Creating Reports in BusinessObjects (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48729 48729-11297745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

IT4U80: Creating Reports in BusinessObjects. Tuesday, 1/30, 9-9:45 am. Learn how to create and format your own reports in BusinessObjects. Data: Student Records, HR, Financials (applicable to all). With Jeanne Mackey (ITS). Level: Introductory. Free webinar; register in My LINC: https://goo.gl/ma1wA4

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 at http://its.umich.edu/training/it4u

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:06:20 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar BusObj logo
LSA-ISS Resource Expo: Assignment Creation To Execution (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47473 47473-10929753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Instructional Support Services

Looking for ideas about how to incorporate media assignments and projects into your course? LSA Instructional Support Services (ISS) invites you to our Resource Expo, where we introduce you to the resources and equipment we have to help you develop your media projects (including podcasts, videos, multi-modal essays, and flipped classes) from idea to finished product.

Drop in on Monday, January 15th any time from 2-4PM to: Meet the instructional consultants who can help you design media assignments that meet course goals. Watch demonstrations of the media equipment and learn about the media kits you can reserve for class projects—lighting, video cameras, audio recorders and microphones, laptops, and more! Learn about the software programs we support and the training available to students and faculty. Meet the staff who provide equipment and software training.

We want you to imagine the possibilities! Drop in, enjoy some sweet and savory snacks, visit as many demonstrations as you want, mingle, ask questions, and leave with some inspiration. Afterwards, we invite you to make an appointment for a private consultation to create an impactful media assignment.

Location: Media Center, 2001 Modern Languages Building, 812 E. Washington, Central Campus

Registration is not required, but helps us to estimate food and printing needs. Thank you!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:34:30 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Instructional Support Services Workshop / Seminar LSA-ISS Resource Expo
Rockwell Automation Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47617 47617-10963392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Rockwell Automation representatives will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Tuesday, January 16, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:35:32 -0500 2018-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
UROP Proposal Writing Workshop (January 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48660 48660-11265187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Don't let an unpolished proposal hold you back from a research experience! This 60-minute workshop will teach you the basics of writing a successful proposal. To register, please use the link below. Walk-ins to the workshops are always welcome.

Link to register:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/

*Note: you must search 'UROP' in the search tab. Additional info sessions will be released on our web page.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:24:17 -0500 2018-01-16T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar
Thermodynamic limits far from equilibrium. (January 16, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47967 47967-11159791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Thermodynamics is a remarkably successful theoretical framework, with wide ranging applications across the natural sciences. Unfortunately, thermodynamics is limited to equilibrium or near-equilibrium situations, whereas most of the natural world, especially life, operates very far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Without a robust nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we cannot address a whole host of pressing research questions regarding the energetic requirements to operate outside of equilibrium, like the energetic cost to form a pattern, replicate an organism, or sense an environment, to name a few. Cutting-edge research in nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics is beginning to shed light on these questions. In this talk, I will present two such recent predictions. The first is a novel linear-response-like bound that quantifies how dissipation shapes fluctuations far from equilibrium. Besides its intrinsic allure as a universal relation, I will discuss how it can be used to probe the energetic efficiency of molecular motors, offer energetic constraints on chemical clocks, and bound the dissipation in complex materials, both biological and synthetic, allowing us to gain insight into the fundamental energetic requirements to operate out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The second is an extended second law of thermodynamics with information that quantifies the precise energetic costs to process information, which I will apply to the energetic requirements of sensory adaptation in E. coli.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:47:25 -0500 2018-01-16T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Jordan Horowitz
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Patterns and processes in tropical tree diversification: using genomics to understand the history of neotropical forests (January 16, 2018 12:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47264 47264-10855074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 12:10pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:35:05 -0500 2018-01-16T12:10:00-05:00 2018-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Tropical trees
Strategies for Resume and Cover Letter Writing Success (January 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47615 47615-10963390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Wondering how to begin creating a resume? Struggling with how to best showcase your skills and experiences? Not sure what to include in a cover letter? Then this workshop is for you! This workshop is designed to aid engineering and computer science students in writing clear, concise, and targeted resumes and cover letters. Learn how to write clear objective statements, create reader-friendly formats, detail your experience and skills, utilize transferable skills, and maintain professionalism in your communication to employers. This workshop should serve as a good introduction to resumes and cover letters for the beginning professional.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:27:40 -0500 2018-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Introduction to Copyright (January 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48353 48353-11222733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Have you ever wondered how things enter the public domain? What rights you have to control use of your work? What rights you have to use someone else’s work? Learn more about copyright law at this workshop by Ana Enriquez of the U-M Library Copyright Office.

Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Ana at anaenriq@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:46:42 -0500 2018-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Copyright
CM-AMO Seminar | Transistors without Semiconductors by Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanotubes (January 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48613 48613-11256986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Miniaturization of silicon field effect transistors (FETs) is encounter with various fundamental limitations, including i) high power consumption due to leakage in the semiconducting channels; ii) short channel effects as the conduction length approaches the scale of the depletion layer width, and iii) high contact resistance at the semiconducting channels. The development of nano FETs by various nanowires (NWs), and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are still hindered by surface defects and difficulty in controlled synthesis of semiconducting CNTs, respectively.

Apparently, beyond the box approaches should be explored to overcome the above mentioned limitations. Here we discuss about creation of transistors and electronic switches without semiconductors. Furthermore, these devices are based on quantum tunneling, potentially bypass most if not all the above mentioned limitation. Specifically, we will discuss about room temperature tunneling FETs by metallic quantum dots functionalized boron nitride nanotubes (QDs-BNNTs) [1]. These QDs-BNNTs can also be designed for use in flexible electronics [2]. Finally, graphene-BNNTs heterojunctions are also created to convert metallic graphene into digital switches [3]. All these results are made possible after the success in controlled synthesis of high-quality BNNTs by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) [4-6].

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DOE-BES Grants DEFG0206ER46294, and DESC0012762). Part of this work was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (Projects CNMS-2009213 and CNMS-2012083), which is sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by the DOEBES Scientific User Facilities Division, and by ORNL’s Shared Research Equipment (ShaRE) User Program.

References:
[1] C. H. Lee et al, Adv Mat 25, 2544 (2013).
[2] B. Hao et al, Sci Rep 6, 20293 (2016).
[3] V. Parashar et al, Sci Rep 5, 12238 (2015).
[4] (Review) J. Wang et al, Nanoscale 2, 2028 (2010)
[5] (Review) B. Hao et al, Chapter 20 in Nanotubes and Nanosheets: Functionalization and Applications of Boron Nitride and Other Nanomaterials, (CRC Press) pp 551-572 (2015).
[6] (Review) S. Bhandari et al, Chapter 1 in Boron Nitride Nanotubes in Nanomedicine, (Elsevier) pp 116 (2016).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:16:16 -0500 2018-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Theresa Windus: The Challenges of Exascale from the View of a Molecular Chemist (January 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47787 47787-11012554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Theresa Windus is a professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. She earned her Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1993 and did post-doctoral research at Northwestern University. Theresa was also the Director of Computational Chemistry/Training at Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Computational Chemistry lead at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Major Shared Resource Center. Most recently, she was the manager of the Molecular Science Software Group and the Visualization and User Services group in the Molecular Science Computing Facility in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

This talk will focus on the challenges that computational chemistry faces in taking the equations that model the very small (molecules and the reactions they undergo) to efficient and scalable implementations on the very large computers of today and tomorrow.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:48:47 -0500 2018-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Windus
Engineering IA Teaching Orientation (January 16, 2018 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47426 47426-10901422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:15pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

New engineering undergraduate instructional aides (IAs) are REQUIRED to attend a teaching orientation. Orientation includes interactive sessions on teaching followed by a practice teaching session later in the week.

Any new IAs who do not complete the teaching orientation program will not be allowed to serve as a CoE IA in future terms. Please contact Krista Quinn (kristaqu@umich.edu) with questions regarding requirements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:09:37 -0500 2018-01-16T16:15:00-05:00 2018-01-16T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar
LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop: Resume Basics (January 16, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48397 48397-11230608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

How do you best fit who you are and what you're capable of into one page? The LSA Opportunity Hub helps you figure it out. This is one in a series of January workshops that explore how to develop your professional identity, and how to leverage what you know into the right summer opportunity for you.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:46:50 -0500 2018-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-16T18:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Resume Basics
ELI Winter Workshop Series: Skype Interviewing in English (January 16, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48471 48471-11241110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

If you have ever been on a job interview, you may have experienced how we can sometimes freeze up in high-pressure situations. When interviewing in one’s second language, our typical fluency can abandon us, and dealing with the technology can add to an already stressful situation. In this workshop, we will practice mock interviews, explore interviewing strategies, and identify ways to prepare for fluent communication in the Skype interview setting. Bring a job posting or employer profile with you, and your CV or resume.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:58:50 -0500 2018-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Come learn more about interviewing techniques over Skype!
Work It! Strategies for Career Fair Success (January 16, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47619 47619-10963394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Long lines, freebies, and lots of students suited up-it can only be one thing, a Career Fair! Career fairs can feel intimidating, particularly because of the crowds, but are powerful networking and job search tools. This workshop will address all aspects of attending a Career Fair including appropriate dress, questions to ask employers, managing time, and how to prepare in order to make the BEST impression with employers.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:40:27 -0500 2018-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) (January 17, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48669 48669-11265199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:36:15 -0500 2018-01-17T08:30:00-05:00 2018-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Consumers Energy Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 17, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47620 47620-10963396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Consumers Energy representatives will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Wednesday, January 17, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:45:33 -0500 2018-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Copyright DIY Session (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48506 48506-11243796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Bring your burning copyright question and find the answer to it at this workshop facilitated by Ana Enriquez of the U-M Library Copyright Office. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Ana at anaenriq@umich.edu.

Ana will demonstrate the library’s research guide on copyright, Copyright Basics, and then be on hand to assist you as you research your question. You are welcome to stay for the full 90 minutes or to leave when you are ready.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:47:06 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Copyright
HET Brown Bag Seminars | The strong CP problem and UV instantons (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48221 48221-11191405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The absence of sizeable CP violation in the strong sector is a long standing puzzle. A class of solutions to this problem rely on a global U(1) symmetry that is anomalous with QCD. These solutions lead to robust low-energy predictions, for example a massless up quark or a light axion. I will present simple extensions to such solutions which can dramatically change these low-energy predictions. In our models, contributions from small instantons play a significant role in affecting the low-energy physics while preserving the solution to the strong CP problem.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:24:20 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Ace the Interview! Interview Preparation Workshop (January 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47623 47623-10963399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

In career services, there is a saying: the resume gets you the interview, and the interview gets you the job. Developing excellent interview skills is essential to conducting a successful job search. This workshop will provide an overview of several different types of interviews and how to best prepare for each, including behavioral, technical, case, and phone/Skype interviews. We will review strategies for answering interview questions, such as the STAR format, and discuss what to emphasize when answering interview questions. Preparing for common interview questions is only one part of the process - learn what to wear and bring to an interview and how to follow up with an employer after the interview. Come learn how to ace the interview!

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:11:43 -0500 2018-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Department Colloquium | Implications and Challenges for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Physics and in Society (January 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48332 48332-11222703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The increased availability of large data sets and advancements in AI algorithms have revolutionized the role of data in both commercial industries and academic research. Today, AI permeates multiple industries, from self-driving vehicles and entertainment choices to cancer-detection and criminal justice. Moreover, in the last few years, it has had substantial impacts in molecular chemistry, particle physics, and more recently astronomy. AI, and it’s sub-fields, like machine learning, are more than likely here to stay. But, what are these algorithms really doing, and are they ethically implemented?

We'll discuss these topics, as well as the theory of deep learning, and its application to modern astronomical surveys, which are providing data sets that are unprecedented in size, precision, and complexity. Recent work with convolutional neural networks and strong gravitational lensing intimate the long-term potential for deep learning and its application to larger challenges in cosmology. However, AI is not without its own shortcomings. We'll discuss the barriers to deep learning having its highest impact on science.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:16:20 -0500 2018-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
UROP Proposal Writing Workshop (January 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48662 48662-11265188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Don't let an unpolished proposal hold you back from a research experience! This 60-minute workshop will teach you the basics of writing a successful proposal. To register, please use the link below. Walk-ins to the workshops are always welcome.

Link to register:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/

*Note: you must search 'UROP' in the search tab. Additional info sessions will be released on our web page.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:25:39 -0500 2018-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar
WISE-sponsored Software Carpentry Workshop (January 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48501 48501-11320038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

WISE Office, 3236 USB
Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19 9am-4pm

**Please register ONLY if you can attend BOTH days.

Registration and Full Information: https://umswc.github.io/2018-01-18-UMWISE/

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

This workshop is aimed at UM graduate and post doctoral women in science and engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:21:50 -0500 2018-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
ZF Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 18, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47628 47628-10963407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

ZF representatives will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Thursday, January 18, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:14:33 -0500 2018-01-18T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Work It! Strategies for Career Fair Success (January 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47619 47619-10963395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Long lines, freebies, and lots of students suited up-it can only be one thing, a Career Fair! Career fairs can feel intimidating, particularly because of the crowds, but are powerful networking and job search tools. This workshop will address all aspects of attending a Career Fair including appropriate dress, questions to ask employers, managing time, and how to prepare in order to make the BEST impression with employers.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:40:27 -0500 2018-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Speaking American English (January 18, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 47453-10901465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:30pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:53:30 -0500 2018-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 2018-01-18T16:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Negotiating Publishing Contracts (January 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48513 48513-11243801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Which terms of your publishing agreement might you want to negotiate? How? When you’re working on behalf of a publisher, what terms do you seek? Explore these and other questions about publishing contracts in a workshop hosted by Ana Enriquez of the U-M Library Copyright Office. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Ana at anaenriq@umich.edu.

After a brief overview of negotiation techniques and the law in this area, participants will negotiate mock publishing contracts. Participants will be able to choose between a mock contract for a journal article and one for a scholarly monograph. The group will then reconvene to debrief those negotiations.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:25:15 -0500 2018-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Copyright
LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop: Building Your LinkedIn Profile (January 18, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48398 48398-11230609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

What should your professional identity look like online? Learn the do's and don'ts at this workshop. This is one of several workshops in the month of January aimed at preparing for success.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:39:42 -0500 2018-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Opportunity Hub
WISE-sponsored Software Carpentry Workshop (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48501 48501-11320040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

WISE Office, 3236 USB
Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19 9am-4pm

**Please register ONLY if you can attend BOTH days.

Registration and Full Information: https://umswc.github.io/2018-01-18-UMWISE/

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

This workshop is aimed at UM graduate and post doctoral women in science and engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:21:50 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
Intel Corporation Resume Critiquing, hosted by ECRC (January 19, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47631 47631-10963410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Intel Corporation representatives will provide resume critiques on a drop-in basis in the Duderstadt Connector on Friday, January 19, from 10 AM-4 PM.

Please note that every effort will be made to assist as many students as possible during the resume critique session. To facilitate this, we will limit critiques to approximately 10 minutes per student. Given the time parameters and student interest on any given day, the line will be monitored and closed at an appropriate time to ensure a prompt ending at 4:00 PM. This is necessary as a courtesy to our employer hosts who have volunteered their time to support our students! Please plan your time accordingly.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:21:37 -0500 2018-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Workshop / Seminar Duderstadt Center
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Xinran Li, Department of Statistics, Harvard University. (January 19, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48561 48561-11251662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Many previous causal inference studies require no interference among units, that is, the potential outcomes of a unit do not depend on the treatments of other units. This no-interference assumption, however, becomes unreasonable when units are partitioned into groups and they interact with other units within groups. In a motivating application from Peking University, students are admitted through either the college entrance exam (also known as Gaokao) or recommendation (often based on Olympiads in various subjects). Right after entering college, students are randomly assigned to different dorms, each of which hosts four students. Because students within the same dorm live together and interact with each other extensively, it is very likely that peer effects exist and the no interference assumption is violated. More importantly, understanding peer effects among students gives useful guidance for future roommate assignment to improve the overall performance of students. Methodologically, we define peer effects in terms of potential outcomes, and propose a randomization-based inference framework to study peer effects in general settings with arbitrary numbers of peers and arbitrary numbers of peer types. Our inferential procedure does not require any parametric modeling assumptions on the outcome distributions. Additionally, our analysis of the data set from Peking University gives useful practical guidance for policy makers.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:46:40 -0500 2018-01-19T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Li,Xinran
Submitting a Strong CEW Scholarship Application (January 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48386 48386-11230547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Doreen Murasky, CEW Student Program Manager, will review the elements of the CEW Scholarship Application and offer tips to craft a strong application. The CEW Scholarship Application goes live on Thursday, February 1 with a deadline of Tuesday, March 6. Information is currently available at the CEW website to help you start working on your essays now. Bring your lunch and questions to join in this lively conversation.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:43:04 -0500 2018-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW Logo
Nutrient Regulation of Signaling and Transcription by O-GlcNAcylation (January 19, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47194 47194-10813711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Yanzhuang Wang

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:15:57 -0500 2018-01-19T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-19T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar diagram of signaling pathway
Economics at Work (January 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48200 48200-11188591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Kenneth A. Buckfire is the President and co-Founder of Miller Buckfire & Co. During his 30 year career in restructuring he has advised clients in a broad range of industries including oil & gas, oilfield services, homebuilding and real estate, merchant power, electric utilities, media, governments and government agencies.

Mr. Buckfire has been the primary financial advisor in the restructurings of the City of Detroit, General Growth Properties, Calpine Corporation, among many others. He has been an advisor to the FDIC and to the National Bank of Ukraine.He has received numerous industry awards.

Prior to founding Miller Buckfire in 2002, Mr. Buckfire was a Managing Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Co-Head of the firm’s financial restructuring group specializing in the restructuring and refinancing of highly leveraged companies. Before joining Wasserstein Perella & Co., he was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers Inc.

Mr. Buckfire is on the Board of Advisors of the ZellLurie Institute at the Ross Business School. He is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia Business School.

Mr. Buckfire received his BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1980 and his MBA from Columbia University in 1987.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:32:20 -0500 2018-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
CCS Dissertation Workshop w/Crystal Lie (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47407 47407-10891056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us to workshop a dissertation chapter by English PhD candidate Crystal Lie entitled, "Dementia, Temporality, and Forms of the (Auto)Biographical in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Susan Schultz’s Dementia Blog.” The paper will be shared one week before the workshop.

Sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:40:48 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
HET Seminars | Marble Statues in the Forest Beyond Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime (January 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48023 48023-11170152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:16:44 -0500 2018-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Statement of Purpose Grant Writing Workshop (January 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46964 46964-10711246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Getting a second set of eyes on your statements can only increase your chance of rising to the top. This hands-on writing workshop is designed to help students write compelling and competitive fellowship applications for internships or research abroad. All attendees should come to the workshop with a laptop or paper copies of their statements, and prepared to write and share their work with peers. The session will be facilitated by fellowships advisors at the International Institute.

*Registration is required by January 12. Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjfGau3rDldslLB0-CdeJn2VgPDDdZmY-3gJpUdR-fX0roqw/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:28:48 -0500 2018-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar logo
Nontraditional Path: Becoming a Rocket Scientist and Thriving in Male-Dominated Spaces (January 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48387 48387-11230548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Line van Nieuwstadt, CEW Scholar Alumna and Associate Professor of Engineering Practice, College of Engineering and Computer Science, UM-D, will talk about her experience as the lead engineer on the NASA Mars Pathfinder MicroRover project in the 1990s and strategies she uses to thrive in male-dominated work spaces. As an electrical engineer, Line enjoys the process of solving complex problems that have big impact. Line values that having an advance degree has allowed her flexibility to work part-time so that she can balance having a family and working.

Following her talk, she will teach attendees how to solder. Come ready to work with on your own soldering project while learning ways to integrate a mindful approach as a valuable coping tool in challenging situations.

Lunch will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:50:13 -0500 2018-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T14:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW Logo
WISE Peer Mentoring Round Robin Event (January 21, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50059 50059-11630746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Aimed at freshman, sophomore and transfer students in STEM. Meet with your upper level peers: women from science, math and engineering majors with a wealth of experience. Bring questions pertaining to majors, time management, classes, research, internships, student organizations and/or campus jobs. During the event you will receive bios of our peer mentors and then you will have the opportunity to speak in a small group with 3-4 different peer mentors of your choosing. Each mentor will be seated at a table and you will move tables every 15 minutes so that you can meet different mentors and get different perspectives on your questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:36:16 -0500 2018-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
CSAAW MEETING WITH PATRICK GRIM (January 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48996 48996-11342283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The goal of CSAAW is to support graduate students interested in complex systems research. Through our regular meetings, students discuss their own work and receive feedback from other students, faculty, and researchers. For some meetings, students present "tutorials" on various complex systems related topics or methodology. Other meetings consist of talks by and discussions with invited speakers who are active in complex systems research.

Professor Patrick Grim has taught for Complex Systems for several years, and organizes many research groups with students - a great mentor to our Complex Systems flock. Professor Grim is a retired Emeritus Philosophy Professor from SUNY at Stoneybrook.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:22:05 -0500 2018-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Patrick Grim headshot
HEP - Astro Seminar | Cutting-Edge Instrumentation for the Advanced ACT Polarimeter (January 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49102 49102-11375486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

In this talk I will present an overview of the upgrade to the polarization-sensitive camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope known as Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT). This upgrade targets ambitious science goals using advanced technologies including dense arrays of cryogenic bolometers with superconducting sensors and continuously-rotating silicon-metamaterial half-wave plates for modulation of incoming polarization. I will discuss work on the detector arrays, advances in our understanding of our bolometers, and the data processing pipeline under development to handle polarization-modulated data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:31:34 -0500 2018-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Graduate Programs in Computational Science (January 22, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48767 48767-11306106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Students interested in computational science are invited to learn about graduate programs that will prepare them for success in computationally intensive fields. Pizza and pop will be provided.

The sessions will address:
The Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, which is open to all Ph.D. students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods, or algorithms for advanced computer architectures in their studies. It is a joint degree program, with students earning a Ph.D. from their current departments, “… and Scientific Computing” — for example, “Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing.”

The Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering, which trains graduate students in computationally intensive research so they can excel in interdisciplinary HPC-focused research and product development environments. The certificate is open to all students currently pursuing Master’s or Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan. The practicum option for Master’s students through the Multidisciplinary Design Program will be explained.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:08:31 -0500 2018-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar info session
Verbfest (January 22, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46676 46676-10581031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Residents of Max Kade will offer verb stations to teach students of a variety of German classes about German verb tenses with fun, educational activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:14:03 -0500 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar verbfest 1/22 5-6pm north quad space 2435
UROP Proposal Writing Workshop (January 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48663 48663-11265189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Don't let an unpolished proposal hold you back from a research experience! This 60-minute workshop will teach you the basics of writing a successful proposal. To register, please use the link below. Walk-ins to the workshops are always welcome.

Link to register:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/

*Note: you must search 'UROP' in the search tab. Additional info sessions will be released on our web page.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:26:58 -0500 2018-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar
Optimizing self-assembly kinetics for biomolecules and complex nanostructures. (January 23, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47712 47712-11002092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract:
In a heterogeneous system, such as a large biomolecule or complex nanostructure, there is no guarantee that the lowest-free-energy state will form via self-assembly. Defects and mis-interactions among subunits often arise during a self-assembly reaction, particularly when these systems comprise many distinct components. As a result, if we wish to assemble complex nanostructures reliably, we need to design robust kinetic pathways to the target structures. I shall describe a theoretical approach for predicting self-assembly pathways in both engineered nanostructures and natural biomolecules. First, I shall discuss design principles that can be used to tune the nucleation and growth rates of colloidal nanostructures, with implications for achieving low-defect self-assembly and designing time-dependent experimental protocols. Then, turning to biological examples of kinetic optimization, I shall discuss how analogous principles have shaped the evolution of variable ribosome translation rates in order to optimize the folding of nascent proteins.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:51:43 -0500 2018-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar headshot
CM-AMO Seminar | Exact Results in NMR (January 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42198 42198-9584886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

After a short introduction to NMR technique, a brief, three-part survey of recent NMR studies on solid-state materials will be presented. These studies are each underpinned by an exact theoretical result that leads to a possibly approximate, but reliable basis for interpretation of experimental data. The first example is the behavior of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in two of the high-Tc materials vis-a-vis inelastic neutron scattering (INS) studies that evaluate the dynamic susceptibility chi”(q,omega)*. Such a comparison shows that a substantial amount of intensity for chi” is simply missing from currently available INS data. The other two examples feature NMR studies of the stoichiometric QCP compound YbRh2Si2. In the first of these, NMR shows that high-quality crystals of this system enter into a macroscopic two-state admixture of non-Fermi-liquid and Fermi-liquid phases**. Such a result is not accessible with bulk measurements. In the second example, quantitative measurements of indirect spin-spin couplings exhibit a temperature dependence revealing modifications of the Fermi Surface with temperature***. To our knowledge, none of the results described has any precedent in the NMR literature.

* R. E. Walstedt, T. E. Mason, G. Aeppli, S. M. Hayden, H. A. Mook, Phys. Rev. B84, 024530 (2011).
** S. Kambe, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, G. Lapertot, T. D. Matsuda, G. Knebel, J. Flouquet, R. E. Walstedt, Nat. Phys. 10, 840 (2014).
*** S. Kambe, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, T. Hattori, G. Lapertot, T. D. Matsuda, G. Knebel, J. Flouquet, R. E. Walstedt, Phys. Rev. B95, 195121 (2017).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:16:32 -0500 2018-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yuting Wei, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley (January 23, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48566 48566-11254297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:10pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

As the title indicates, the talk consists of two vignettes: on hypothesis testing and early stopping for
boosting algorithms.

The first part focuses on a certain class of composite testing problems with null and alternative specified by cones; such geometric testing problems arise in various applications (e.g., treatment effects, radar detection, and shape-constrained testing). Despite the widespread use of the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT), its properties have yet to be fully understood. When is it optimal, and when can it be improved upon? How does its performance depend on the cones? I provide some answers to these and other questions, all based on a tight characterization of the GLRT's performance.

In the second part, I will discuss how to understand the behavior of early stopping with boosting for non -parametric regression. While non-parametric models offer great flexibility, they can lead to overfitting and thus poor generalization performance. For this reason, procedures for fitting these models must involve some form of regularization. Although early-stopping of iterative algorithms is a widely-used form of regularization in statistics and optimization, it is less well-understood than its analogue based on penalized regularization. In this talk, I will establish some precise connections between these two, and give an explicit and optimal stopping criteria for boosting algorithms run in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.

This talk is based on joint works with Adityanand Guntuboyina, Martin Wainwright and Fanny Yang.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:19:56 -0500 2018-01-23T16:10:00-05:00 2018-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Wei,Yuting
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (January 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49166 49166-11386606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Light snacks will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:33:22 -0500 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Launching Your Internship Search (January 23, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48416 48416-11233223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

How do you find the right summer opportunity for you? Master the search process.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:21:56 -0500 2018-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Internship Search
Winter Blues and Depression (January 23, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47855 47855-11170150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

Lots of people get depressed in winter, or suffer from "the winter blues". The medical name for this winter depression is seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

In this wellness group, college and graduate students will receive a presentation about winter blues and depression. Q&A and a facilitated group session will follow to discuss challenges faces when coping with depression, share successful strategies for managing depression, and connect with other students who may have similar experiences.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:21:10 -0500 2018-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Eisenberg Family Depression Center Workshop / Seminar CMW
Marketing Basics Workshop (January 23, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48307 48307-11204526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Anderson D Room, Michigan Union
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Finding it hard to market your student org across campus? Trying to extend your reach?

Come to our free marketing workshop for advice from various on-campus organizations on how to catch the eye of potential members and event attendees! 

Date: Tuesday, January 23 
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: Anderson D Room, Michigan Union

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:00:31 -0500 2018-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Anderson D Room, Michigan Union Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Marketing Basics Workshop (January 23, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48297 48297-11201926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Finding it hard to market your student org across campus? Trying to extend your reach?

Come to our free marketing workshop for advice from various on-campus organizations on how to catch the eye of potential members and event attendees!

Date: Tuesday, January 23
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: Anderson D Room, Michigan Union

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:04:15 -0500 2018-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar Marketing Basics
One Librarian, One Reference: Annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (January 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48930 48930-11331174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Help make Wikipedia more reliable. We invite librarians and lovers of libraries to come and learn how simple it is to add citations to Wikipedia — even if you've never edited Wikipedia before! Please register a Wikipedia account prior to attending and bring your own device.

Join us on Tuesday, January 23 and/or Tuesday, January 30, 7:00pm-8:30pm, in the PIE Space of the Shapiro Design Lab (first floor Shapiro Library).

Sponsored by the ALA student chapter at the U-M School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:31:00 -0500 2018-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T20:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Wikipedia owl
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): Debate and Academic Achievement in Urban Public School Settings (January 24, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49407 49407-11453749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

Urban Debate Leagues (UDLs) provide students in over 20 cities around the US the opportunity to participate in competitive policy debate, an extracurricular activity that is hypothesized to improve academic engagement and performance through its emphasis on critical engagement with non-fiction texts. This talk will (1) review prior empirical research on debate and achievement; (2) describe an ongoing pilot study aimed at examining the relationship between debate performance and non-cognitive skills in the Chicago UDL, and (3) discuss a project that will go into the field this spring that is aimed at evaluating the impact of three UDLs (Boston, Chicago, and Houston) on academic achievement over a 5-year period using administrative records.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:22:34 -0500 2018-01-24T08:30:00-05:00 2018-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Info Session for Study/Research (January 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49214 49214-11395006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your application.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:48:57 -0500 2018-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar logo
UROP Proposal Writing Workshop (January 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48665 48665-11265190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Don't let an unpolished proposal hold you back from a research experience! This 60-minute workshop will teach you the basics of writing a successful proposal. To register, please use the link below. Walk-ins to the workshops are always welcome.

Link to register:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/

*Note: you must search 'UROP' in the search tab. Additional info sessions will be released on our web page.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:27:49 -0500 2018-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar
5 Ways to Ace Your Interview (January 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48047 48047-11170225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Have you interviewed for a job, internship, or other opportunity and wondered what you could have done differently? Do you have, or hope to have, an upcoming interview? Then you should attend Business by LSA's 5 Ways to Ace Your Interview event on January 24 at 3 p.m. Register now to make sure you learn the five key things you need to do to be successful in your upcoming interviews! Space is limited, so RSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/6525

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:58:05 -0500 2018-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Business by LSA logo
Jesse Capecelatro: Towards Accurate and Tractable Methods of Disperse Multiphase Flows in Extreme Environments (January 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48509 48509-11243799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Professor Capecelatro is interested in developing large-scale simulation capabilities for prediction and design of the complex multi-physics and multiphase flows relevant to energy and the environment. To achieve this, his group develops robust and scalable numerical methods to leverage world-class supercomputing resources. His current research projects are focused on adjoint-based methods applied to turbulent combustion, modeling strongly-coupled particle-laden flows, and understanding interactions between electrostatics and turbulence in atmospheric clouds.

Prior to joining the mechanical engineering department at the University of Michigan in 2016, Dr. Capecelatro was a research scientist at the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-coupled Combustion (XPACC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from SUNY Binghamton in 2009, and two years later completed a M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he performed research in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on numerical modeling of fluidized bed reactors. In 2014 he received a Ph.D. from Cornell University under the guidance of Prof Olivier Desjardins, where his thesis focused on high performance computing of turbulent multiphase flows. He spent the summer following his Ph.D. as a visiting postdoc at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse and École Centrale Paris focusing on fundamental and numerical studies of particle-induced turbulence.

The complex and multiscale behavior associated with turbulent flows is further complicated by the presence of a disperse phase (i.e., solid particles, liquid drops, or gaseous bubbles). Strong coupling between the disperse phase and underlying turbulence plays important roles across engineering and science.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:00:35 -0500 2018-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar JC
Department Colloquium | Weighing Neutrinos (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47838 47838-11025470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The mass of the neutrino has been an elusive quantity physicists have tried to measure since the very inception of the particle. The most sensitive direct method to establish the absolute neutrino mass is observation of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. A lower bound of iis set by observations of neutrino oscillations, while the KATRIN Experiment -- the current-generation tritium beta-decay experiment that is based on Magnetic Adiabatic Collimation with an Electrostatic (MAC-E) filter -- will achieve a sensitivity of better than 250 meV. Project 8 is a new experiment that uses Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) to probe much of the unexplored neutrino mass range with greater resolution. In this talk, I will review the current status of these two experiments (KATRIN and Project 8) as they seek to finally measure the mass of the neutrino.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:16:29 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Growth, Grit, & Stick (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48758 48758-11383825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Every student knows how to study, right? Wrong! This session will cover learning strategies every student should know. This session will help you learn which of your study strategies you should abandon and expose you to some the top strategies backed by years of empirical research. The session will also help you understand how your mindset can affect your performance before you even step foot in a classroom and the importance of grit in your academic and life success. This is the most popular workshop ever offered by the SLC.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:56:55 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Lunch & Learn: Tools for Making Life Easier (January 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48388 48388-11230549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Grab your brown bag lunch and come to CEW for our informal lunch hour learning series! Stay tuned on our website as more dates and topics are announced.

Back by popular demand, Kelley Emerson, CEW Scholar Alumna and U-M Program Manager extraordinaire, will share her expertise in electronic tools that make your personal and professional life easier to manage. This session will focus on Trello, and will also include tools for everything from taming your inbox to efficiently managing personal or professional projects by yourself or with a team.

This session is open to all U-M students and CEW Scholars. Light refreshments will be provided. No registration is necessary.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:53:35 -0500 2018-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar CEW Logo
Making Teamwork Work (January 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47429 47429-10901426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Effective use of groups in the classroom can increase student learning and enhance students' problem solving abilities, if instructors ensure that all students are engaged and included. In this session, participants will explore research-based frameworks to enhance teamwork skills, engage students, increase cooperative learning, and support dysfunctional teams.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:08:26 -0500 2018-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Speaking American English (January 25, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 47453-10901466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:30pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:53:30 -0500 2018-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 2018-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Graphic
Graduate Programs in Computational Science (January 25, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48776 48776-11306107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Students interested in computational science are invited to learn about graduate programs that will prepare them for success in computationally intensive fields. Pizza and pop will be provided.

The sessions will address:
The Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, which is open to all Ph.D. students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods, or algorithms for advanced computer architectures in their studies. It is a joint degree program, with students earning a Ph.D. from their current departments, “… and Scientific Computing” — for example, “Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing.”

The Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering, which trains graduate students in computationally intensive research so they can excel in interdisciplinary HPC-focused research and product development environments. The certificate is open to all students currently pursuing Master’s or Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan. The practicum option for Master’s students through the Multidisciplinary Design Program will be explained.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:10:38 -0500 2018-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 2018-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 LSA Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar info session
Workshop on Poverty and Inequality (January 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43185 43185-10703028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 May 2018 09:49:52 -0400 2018-01-26T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T10:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar Student talking
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Ziwei Zhu, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University (January 26, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48567 48567-11251667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 11:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Modern data sets are often decentralized; they are generated and stored in multiple sources across which the communication is constrained by bandwidth or privacy. This talk focuses on distributed estimation of principal eigenspaces of covariance matrices with decentralized data. We introduce and analyze a distributed algorithm that aggregates multiple principal eigenspaces through averaging the corresponding projection matrices. When the data distribution has sign-symmetric innovation, the distributed PCA is proved to be “unbiased” such that its statistical error will converge to zero as the number of data splits grows to infinity. For general distributions, when the number of data splits is not large, this algorithm is shown to achieve the same statistical efficiency as the full sample oracle. We applied our algorithm to implement distributed partition of traffic network of Manhattan; the distributed procedure delivered similar partition results as the centralized procedure provided that the number of data splits is not large.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:20:51 -0500 2018-01-26T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Zhu,Ziwei
DQSN Workshop: Lauren Benjamin & Richard Reinhardt (January 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48701 48701-11294859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Doing Queer Studies Now

Please join Doing Queer Studies Now for a joint workshop of shorter pieces by Lauren Benjamin (Comp Lit & English) on "Feral Reading and Djuna Barnes"
and Richard Reinhardt (History & Anthropology) on "Francis of Assisi's Perfect Jouissance: Material and Affective Fragments from Early Franciscan Sources."

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:31:25 -0500 2018-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Doing Queer Studies Now Workshop / Seminar
Life After Graduate School Seminar | From grad school to Goldman Sachs: What PhDs are doing in Finance (and how to get there) (January 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49012 49012-11345061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

It is no secret that banks and financial institutions hire PhDs from quantitative fields to fill their ‘quant’ positions. However pretty much everything else about the job can be a mystery. What do quants do? Why do they need PhDs? What is life like working as a quant? Will I like the role? How do I apply and get the position?

All of the above (and more) were a mystery to me a year ago. I will try to shed some light by drawing from my own experience transitioning from Physics grad student into modeling/data-science role at Goldman Sachs. I will give a short introduction to the Market Risk Modeling team and why we are looking for PhDs (yes, we are hiring*). Following that is a free Q&A sessions where you can ask me anything about working in Finance.

* Candidates interested to apply for intern/full-time are encouraged to bring their resume or find us at the Engineering Career Fair on Wed, Jan 24.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:16:41 -0500 2018-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Time and Motivation (January 26, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47195 47195-10813712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Orie Shafer

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:30:31 -0500 2018-01-26T12:15:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:15:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar sleeping woman, domenico fetti
The Premodern Colloquium. Winged Horses, Celestial Asses, and Beauty through the Eyes (January 28, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48757 48757-11306087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

I discuss the reception of Plato’s Phaedrus in the late Italian Renaissance, and in particular the Phaedrean sequencing of three of Giordano Bruno’s Italian dialogues, The Exile of the Triumphant Beast, The Cabala of Pegasus, and The Heroic Frenzies. I am specifically concerned with how Bruno investigates the topic of rebirth as a reply to his immediate source, Ficino, who made much of Plotinus’ refusal to allow of human transmigration into animal forms. The movement of these three texts, beginning with the exile of the astrological beasts from their heavenly stations, and ending with the exaltation of the ass and its installation in the celestial world as a winged Pegasus, follows the trajectory of the myth in Plato’s text but also wanders in and out of the labyrinths of memory, of selfhood, of heavenly circuitry, and into a final and horrific silencing. Already, in the press toward the vernacular and the translation into what is regional, as well as in Bruno’s very sojourn in England—in these ways the writing of the dialogues resembles the transmigration of the human soul and its rebirth in ever new forms.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:12:09 -0500 2018-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2018-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar The chariot
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Phyllis Wan, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (January 30, 2018 4:10am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48568 48568-11251668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:10am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Preferential attachment is an appealing mechanism for modeling power-law behavior of degree distributions in social networks.  In this talk, we consider fitting a directed linear preferential attachment model to network data under three data scenarios: 1) When the full history of the network growth is given, MLE of the parameter vector and its asymptotic properties are derived.  2) When only a single-time snapshot of the network is available, an estimation method combining method of moments with an approximation to the likelihood is proposed.  3) When the data are believed to have come from a misspecified model or have been corrupted, a semi-parametric approach to model heavy-tailed features of the degree distributions is presented, using ideas from extreme value theory.  We illustrate these estimation procedures and explore the usage of this model through simulated and real data examples.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:23:06 -0500 2018-01-30T04:10:00-05:00 2018-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Wan,Phyllis
IT4U Webinar: Creating Reports in BusinessObjects (January 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48729 48729-11297744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

IT4U80: Creating Reports in BusinessObjects. Tuesday, 1/30, 9-9:45 am. Learn how to create and format your own reports in BusinessObjects. Data: Student Records, HR, Financials (applicable to all). With Jeanne Mackey (ITS). Level: Introductory. Free webinar; register in My LINC: https://goo.gl/ma1wA4

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 at http://its.umich.edu/training/it4u

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:06:20 -0500 2018-01-30T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T09:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar BusObj logo
Pre-Law 101 Information Session (January 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48146 48146-11180775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students beginning to explore the possibility of attending law school and those committed to applying in the future are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:47:01 -0500 2018-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law-newnan-logo
Null models for cultural and social evolution (January 30, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49243 49243-11397819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date back to Darwin, yet the analogies have remained loose. Neutral evolution, known to be important in biology, has been proposed as a null model for cultural change, but has not been developed into tests for selection on cultural features. Using inference in time series of alternative word forms and grammatical constructions, I demonstrate a cultural analog of natural selection on a background of neutral evolution. Social evolution, on the other hand, implies selection in a social environment and therefore cannot be described with a neutral model. I propose a model of pure frequency-dependent selection as a generic null model for social evolution, and use inference under the model to illustrate diverse effects of social selection. I show complex forms of frequency dependent selection---including positive and negative frequency-dependent selection at different frequencies---in the copying of baby names, the fashions of dog breeds, and the use of rare languages.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:23:19 -0500 2018-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Mitchell Newberry CSCS talk flyer
Community Engagement Case Study Workshop: Navigating Team Dynamics (January 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47713 47713-11002086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: South Hall
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Social impact and community engagement work is tough: there are so many opportunities to blunder your project or relationship with your community without even realizing you are making a mistake. Join one or all of these interactive, interdisciplinary workshops facilitated by the UM Ginsberg Center, to learn the nuances of professionalization, communication, power differences, intercultural awareness, and developing cultural humility to enhance your skill set and
help you better engage in your current or client-based projects.

Lunch will be provided.

These workshops are co-sponsored by the School of Information, Transactional Lab & Clinic at the Law School, and Michigan Engaging Community through the Classroom (MECC) Program.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:46:33 -0500 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 South Hall Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Community Engagement Case Study Workshops
Economic Sociology Workshop (January 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49066 49066-11372694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

"¿Suburbios o Barrios? Using Data Science to Study Off-Campus Recruiting by Public Research Universities."

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:36:23 -0500 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Medieval Lunch. Notions of Race in Medieval Europe. (January 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48781 48781-11306111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Hussein Fancy, U-M History
"The Race of History and the History of Race in Spanish Medievalism"

Annika Pattenaude, U-M English Language & Literature
"'I don't think that I was even born then': A Case for 'Race' in the Fables of Marie de France"

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:14:20 -0500 2018-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, ca. 1275-1300, MS 3142 fol. 256. Source: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55003999w/f523.item