Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Write-Together (November 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66995 66995-16792098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:54:11 -0400 2019-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: Network Formation and Bargaining in Vertical Markets: The Case of Narrow Networks in Health Insurance (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68280 68280-17037507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

“Network Adequacy Regulations” intend to help consumers by forcing “narrow-network” insurance plans to include more hospitals. But they can also give hospitals excessive bargaining leverage, leading to increased reimbursement rates and premiums. To study this, I develop and estimate a model of network formation and bargaining between hospitals and insurers. Crucially, my bargaining formulation allows insurers to threaten to replace an in-network hospital with an out-of-network one. Applied to a health insurance market in Massachusetts, my model predicts that regulations mandating large minimum network sizes can raise prices substantially. Also, surprisingly, network adequacy regulations can cause “broad-network” plans to downsize.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:31:13 -0500 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T11:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Sebastien Roch, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63890 63890-15977792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Phylogenomics, the estimation of species phylogenies from genome-scale datasets, is a common step in many biological studies. This estimation is complicated by the fact that genes can evolve under processes, including incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), gene duplication and loss (GDL) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT), that make their trees conflict with the species history. I will survey recent progress on some statistical questions that arise in this context. Specifically, the identifiability of standard probabilistic models of phylogenomic data will be discussed, as well as the large-sample properties of computationally efficient methods for species tree estimation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:57:30 -0500 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Roch
MiTSO Tour of Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (November 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69560 69560-17360120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Have you ever wondered how traffic lights respond in real-time and coordinate to relieve congestion? Have you ever seen highway information boards with travel time estimates and wanted to know where they came from? Or maybe you’ve wondered how emergency responders coordinate to respond to traffic accidents on the highway?

This Friday, 11/22, the Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) will be offering a tour of the Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (TOC). The TOC is responsible for monitoring all county intersections in real-time, adjusting traffic lights and coordinating them as necessary to reduce congestion. Additionally, they coordinate with emergency response and law enforcement in order to respond to and clear accidents that block the roads.

The tour will be at 1pm and transportation will be provided. We will be leaving GG Brown at 11:30am and will return by 5pm. More details will be provided closer to the event.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the google form (https://forms.gle/qakMZ8u2DBotAnj56) by noon on Wednesday (11/20) if you are interested so that we can organize transportation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:06:11 -0500 2019-11-22T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Real-time traffic monitoring at the Oakland TOC
Biophysics Talk Title: TBD (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64275 64275-16274485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: TBD

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:39:35 -0400 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Building a Dialogic Community: Skills for Faculty and Staff (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67576 67576-16898623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:37:38 -0400 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T14:00:00-05:00 The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Workshop / Seminar Building a Dialogic Community
Friday 11/22: Oakland Traffic Operations Center Tour (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69562 69562-17362151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Oakland County Traffic Operation Center
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Have you ever wondered how traffic lights respond in real-time and coordinate to relieve congestion? Have you ever seen highway information boards with travel time estimates and wanted to know where they came from? Or maybe you’ve wondered how emergency responders coordinate to respond to traffic accidents on the highway?  Well you’re in luck! This Friday, 11/22, MiTSO will be offering a tour of the Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (TOC). The TOC is responsible for monitoring all county intersections in real-time, adjusting traffic lights and coordinating them as necessary to reduce congestion. Additionally, they coordinate with emergency response and law enforcement in order to respond to and clear accidents that further block the roads. The tour is scheduled for 1pm-4pm. We will be leaving from north campus around 11:30am and will be back to campus before 5pm. Transportation will be provided. Please fill out the google form (https://forms.gle/qakMZ8u2DBotAnj56) by noon on Wednesday (11/20) if you are interested so that we can organize transportation! 

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:00:12 -0500 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Oakland County Traffic Operation Center Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Human Performance Seminar (836): Don Chaffin, PhD, Nadine Sarter, PhD, U-M IOE (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67033 67033-16796461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Back to the Future—The C4E Story

Abstract:
From 1960 to 2000, several major social and economic conditions in the US created the need and opportunity for multiple disciplines to combine in an effort to improve a variety of environments for people of all ages. This seminar will discuss how these conditions led faculty members from IOE, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics, Psychology, Pediatrics, Anthropology, and the Transportation Research Institute to collaborate and then form the Center for Ergonomics in 1980. Early problems addressed by these faculty members and their students led to methods and solutions related to improving: Apollo EVA/IVA tasks, Child Product Safety Requirements, OSHA Fall Protection Requirements, Occupational Weight Lifting Requirements, Aircraft Baggage Handling Limitations, Disney Resort Manual Activity Requirements, Automobile Egress and Ingress Designs, to name a few. More recently, the emphasis in workplace and product design has broadened and shifted from supporting primarily physical task requirements to addressing the perceptual and cognitive demands imposed by increasingly automated and (semi)autonomous technologies. The second part of this talk will highlight recent C4E research and accomplishments, and discuss future opportunities in the areas of human-machine teaming and human-robot interaction.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:02:40 -0500 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T12:50:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Human Performance Seminar" text
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Emily Tucker, U-M IOE (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68548 68548-17096944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE PhD students, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Thursday, November 21, 2019.

Title:
Incentivizing Supply Chain Resiliency to Prevent Drug Shortages

Abstract:
Drug shortages continue to be a public health crisis in the United States. There are hundreds of active shortages each year, and they persist for an average of fourteen months. Shortages are often caused by supply chain disruptions. In this work, I present a multi-stage stochastic program that optimizes a pharmaceutical company’s supply chain design under uncertainty in component availability. Components include suppliers of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs),
manufacturing plants, and lines. It is one of the first models to consider the effects of disruption and recovery over time and for facilities at multiple echelons. I introduce a replenishment rule to enforce the nonanticipativity constraints implicitly and solve a thirteen stage program. I study the effects of policies that have been proposed to reduce shortages on supply chains of example oncology drugs.

Bio:
Emily L. Tucker is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She received her MSE in IOE from Michigan and her BS in Industrial Engineering from NC State. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a Research Health Economist for RTI International. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2017 Bonder Scholarship for Applied OR in Health Services. She has served as President of the Student Leadership Board in IOE and an editor of OR/MS Tomorrow, the INFORMS student magazine. Her research interests include the application of operations research to healthcare policy, operations, and supply chain resiliency.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:58:00 -0500 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Emily Tucker, U-M IOE
MCDB: Probing Golgi Apparatus Organization a Rab at a Time (November 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67362 67362-16839928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Yanzhuang Wang

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:31:00 -0500 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar micrograph of golgi apparatus
ASCE Seminar Series: ROWE Engineering (November 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69203 69203-17267162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:13:12 -0500 2019-11-22T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Labor Economics: Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools (November 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68423 68423-17080056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

We investigate whether individuals who are made aware of their stereotypes change their behavior, studying teacher bias in Italian schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives with the same performance in standardized tests. Differences in grading are bigger for teachers with stronger stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Associa-tion Test (IAT). We reveal teachers their own IAT score, randomizing the timing of disclosure. Teachers informed before grading increase grades assigned to immigrants. This result is driven by teachers who do not report explicit views against immigrants and who receive a more precise signal of their implicit bias.

Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:34:37 -0400 2019-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities in Washtenaw County (November 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64821 64821-16452978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:37:29 -0400 2019-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T16:30:00-05:00 North Quad Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
Hub Studio - Internship Search (November 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66117 66117-16686741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Stop by the Internship Search Studio anytime between 3 and 4:30pm at the Hub to begin your search, continue it, or gain tips on how to improve your process. Hub coaches will be on hand to work with you to identify what opportunities connect with your interests, share places to search for internships, and/or support you as you work on internship application materials (resume, cover letter). If an internship is on your mind for next summer, stop by the Hub to develop next steps to meet that goal! This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:47:04 -0400 2019-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T16:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar search
IEEE GRSS Workshop on Microwave Sensing (November 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69385 69385-17312393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department will host the upcoming IEEE GRSS Workshop on Microwave Sensing on Saturday, November 23, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM in the CSRB Auditorium, room 2246.

SPEAKERS:

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Prof. Kamal Sarabandi - "Polarimetric Radar Calibration"
Prof. Leung Tsang - "Electromagnetic Wave Modeling"
Prof. Chris Ruf - "Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS)"
Dr. Roger De Roo - "Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometry (WiBAR)"
Dr. Darren McKague - "Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)"

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Prof. Joel Johnson Ultra - "Wideband Microwave Radiometry"
Dr. Andrew O'Brien - "Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Receiver"

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Prof. Steve Reising - "Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems-Demonstration (TEMPEST-D)"

PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Prof. James Garrison - "Remote Sensing with Signals of Opportunity"

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Ruzbeh Akbar - "In-Situ Sensor Networks for Satellite Soil Moisture
Cal/Val"

Free registration - OnlineAccess - Open to Public - Please join us!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2JZeQER

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:28:00 -0500 2019-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T18:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Workshop / Seminar generic event image
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals? (November 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66289 66289-16725807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future of scientific publishing may very well rest on our ability to flip the current model that serves the interests of a few for-profit publishers to a model that has incentives to serve the interests of humanity. This talk will introduce a number of strategies that might be employed to create a more just and sustaining scientific publishing system.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:26:46 -0400 2019-11-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar UMich Law Library
Webinar: SEAS Information Session for International Students (November 25, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69472 69472-17327208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

A SEAS Admission Coach will host an International Applicant Information Session. They will provide an overview of how to apply to SEAS and answer questions live.

To attend this webinar, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxteU8pTqY_wcpFI0pp8M3N5uI5HFDSpmABvnHMwH3nAKL1g/viewform

Contact person:
SEAS Admissions: SEAS-admissions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:15:56 -0500 2019-11-25T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-25T09:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Workshop / Seminar
The Transition to Graduate Writing (November 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67399 67399-16848818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing and build an effective approach to graduate writing. We’ll talk about becoming more strategic readers and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines moving from the practice of asking good questions to the importance of topic construction. We will also talk about the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take. The workshop will conclude by examining our writing routines and finding ways to expand our own writing process to succeed in graduate school. Lunch will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:14:49 -0500 2019-11-25T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
Hub Studio - Resume (November 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66207 66207-16719588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Have you wanted to update your resume, but can't find the time? Stop by the Hub Studio anytime between 12pm-2pm for open work time to draft a resume from scratch, strengthen your current resume or tailor your resume for a specific position. Hub coaches will be available to work with you on developing a resume that best represents your accomplishments, skills, and unique strengths. As you apply to opportunities, develop your professional identity, and reflect on your experiences thus far, the Hub can help you develop next steps in your process! This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:30:08 -0400 2019-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T14:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Typewriter
Inclusive Leadership (November 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69130 69130-17252893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

There is a lot of talk about “Inclusive Leadership” but many are left asking: What is it? Why is it important? How can I do it? This workshop will address these questions by presenting research on the specific traits, elements, and styles of inclusive leaders. Participants will be able to reflect on and share their own experiences and times that they have witnessed others modeling inclusive leadership. We will discuss the benefits of inclusive leadership at the individual and organizational level. The presenter will also share resources and best practices on inclusive leadership frameworks. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Deborah S. Willis.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/NxBmK.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:16:22 -0500 2019-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe -- and Possibly Others (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67018 67018-16796445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The fundamental constants of nature must fall within a range of values in order for the universe to develop structure and ultimately support life. This talk considers the current constraints on these quantities and assesses the degree of fine-tuning required for the universe to be viable. The first step is to determine what parameters are allowed to vary. In the realm of particle physics, we must specify the strengths of the fundamental forces and the particle masses. The relevant cosmological parameters include the density of the universe, the cosmological constant, the abundance of ordinary matter, the dark matter contribution, and the amplitude of primordial density fluctuations. These quantities are constrained by the requirements that the universe lives for a sufficiently long time, emerges from its early epochs with an acceptable chemical composition, and can successfully produce galaxies. On smaller scales, stars and planets must be able to form and function. The stars must have sufficiently long lifetimes and hot surface temperatures. The planets must be large enough to maintain atmospheres, small enough to remain non-degenerate, and contain enough particles to support a biosphere. We also consider specific fine-tuning issues in stars, including the triple alpha reaction that produces carbon, the case of unstable deuterium, and the possibility of stable diprotons. For all of these issues, the goal of this enterprise is to delineate the range of parameter space for which universes can remain habitable.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:16:09 -0500 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Public Finance: Optimal Noise in Second Best (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67505 67505-16866611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Noise can be efficiently introduced by a decision-maker into data to protect identity (differential privacy) or to reduce gaming between a decision-maker and an agent who can the manipulate data. We present a new benefit of noise: to efficiently reduce distortions in a second-best setting. We derive a condition---which quickly converges to standard DARA preferences in the number of agents---where the introduction of noise in the private provision of public goods is Pareto improving. Despite producing a risk cost, noise reduces free-riding, which is more valuable under our condition. The effect is large: total Nash giving, while still less than first best, now diverges in the number of donors instead of converges (the standard result). A second application relates to tax.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:30:08 -0500 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (November 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Drop-in Backpacking, Registration, and Degree Audit Checks (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69502 69502-17333391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA advisors will help you select courses and backpack for the winter semester. The advisors can also show you how to run an unofficial audit check to see what you might still be missing towards your degree requirements.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

These sessions will be taking place on the following dates:

Tuesday, November 26 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Wednesday, November 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Monday, December 2 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:35:21 -0500 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2) (November 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68834 68834-17161714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:22:54 -0400 2019-11-26T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-26T12:50:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Pollinators, predators and parasitoids: the amazingly diverse world of Hymenoptera (November 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65009 65009-16501307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) are some of the most numerous and diverse animals on the planet. The group includes pollinators, predators, parasitoids, herbivores and practically everything in-between. They can be found in almost every terrestrial habitat around the world (as well as a few aquatic ones) and many are essential in keeping food on our tables and pest populations under control, while others are pests themselves or are species of medical concern. Despite this insect group’s importance, and how integral it is in shaping the world we see today, there are still many fundamental unanswered questions about the taxa in this amazing group. This seminar will focus on Hymenoptera biodiversity and what the E. M. Tucker lab at the U-M Museum of Zoology is doing to explore unanswered questions about these extraordinary creatures.

Image courtesy of Sam Droege, USGS.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:03:07 -0500 2019-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Colorful images of 9 flies, wasps and ants showing diversity. Image courtesy of Sam Droege, USGS
UROP - Endnote Workshop (November 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68083 68083-17009754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Endnote workshop for UROP and MRADS students requires registration.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:59:34 -0400 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar Endnote QR Code
UROP - SPSS Workshop (November 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67927 67927-16966916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:41:34 -0500 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar SPSS Workshop Registration Code
UROP Finding and Understanding Data Workshop (November 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67831 67831-16958328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Registration required: https://myumi.ch/XeGn0
Workshop for UROP and MRADS students only

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:02:26 -0400 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:30:00-05:00 Mason Hall UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar Finding and Understanding Data Registration QR Code
UROP Intro to GIS Workshop (November 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66514 66514-16744949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of visualising geographic information and creating your own maps in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Open source and proprietary mapping and GIS software and online tool options will be described, and exercises will be done in ArcGIS Pro, a desktop GIS program available through a campus license. Students will leave with a roadmap for learning more beyond this short, basic GIS intro workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:55:24 -0400 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP GIS Workshop Registration QR Code
Take Time Before You Sign (Your Lease) (November 26, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69726 69726-17392894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Know your housing options for next school year? If not, no worries! Whether you want to live on campus or off campus, we can provide helpful information regarding key details regarding your housing options!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:55:06 -0500 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Couzens Hall First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar Take Time Before You Sign
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-27T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-27T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Drop-in Backpacking, Registration, and Degree Audit Checks (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69502 69502-17333392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA advisors will help you select courses and backpack for the winter semester. The advisors can also show you how to run an unofficial audit check to see what you might still be missing towards your degree requirements.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

These sessions will be taking place on the following dates:

Tuesday, November 26 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Wednesday, November 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Monday, December 2 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:35:21 -0500 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Drop-in Backpacking, Registration, and Degree Audit Checks (December 2, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69502 69502-17333393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

LSA advisors will help you select courses and backpack for the winter semester. The advisors can also show you how to run an unofficial audit check to see what you might still be missing towards your degree requirements.

Please bring a laptop, if possible.

These sessions will be taking place on the following dates:

Tuesday, November 26 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Wednesday, November 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH
Monday, December 2 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in G243 AH

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:35:21 -0500 2019-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar
Seeking Justice for Syrian Victims of War Crimes: Possibilities and Limitations of Universal Jurisdiction (December 2, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68598 68598-17105359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This event is open to Ford School students only.

Since 2011, Syrians have witnessed widespread atrocities with an estimated 500,000 killed, tens of thousands disappeared and 12 million displaced from their homes. The International Criminal Court cannot prosecute Syrian war criminals, and international mechanisms created by the UN have no jurisdiction to prosecute. Into this void, European prosecutors in Special War Crimes units have invoked Universal Jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute those suspected of war crimes in Syria. Roger Lu Phillips, Legal Director at the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, will discuss SJAC's work supporting Universal Jurisdiction prosecutions in Europe as well as its work ascertaining the fate of Syrian victims who have been detained or gone missing during the conflict.

Roger Lu Phillips is a human rights lawyer at the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC). He leads SJAC's coordination with special war crimes units in Europe that have undertaken the prosecution of atrocity crimes committed during the Syrian conflict through the exercise of Universal Jurisdiction. Prior to joining SJAC, Mr. Phillips served for ten years as a United Nations lawyer at two international criminal tribunals in Cambodia and for Rwanda.

This event is open to Ford School students only. A light lunch will be provided.
Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/KGRFqZTVTvaXdZ4H9

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:51:54 -0400 2019-12-02T11:30:00-05:00 2019-12-02T12:50:00-05:00 Weiser Diplomacy Center Workshop / Seminar Photo of Roger Lu Phillips
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Primate patience: from foraging to cooperation (December 2, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68616 68616-17105377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 11:45am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Intertemporal choices involving tradeoffs between benefits and time costs are ubiquitous in both human and animal lives. Several proposals argue that nonhumans are stuck in the ‘now’, whereas future-orienting cognition allows humans to think ahead and make adaptive decisions. What is the ultimate function of high levels of patience, and why do such abilities emerge? I will argue that a suite of decision-making capacities including inter-temporal choice and future planning evolved in the context of foraging behaviors, and vary with ecological complexity across species. Then, I will examine how these capacities for self-control can be generalized from foraging contexts to solve new but evolutionarily-important problems, like cooking food. Finally, I will present work testing the hypothesis that low levels of self-control constrain cooperation in primates, and therefore may explain human-unique forms of ultra-sociality.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:00:09 -0400 2019-12-02T11:45:00-05:00 2019-12-02T12:45:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
HEP-Astro Seminar | Dark Matter Searches in LZ and Beyond (December 2, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69733 69733-17392933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 1:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HEP - Astro Seminars

LZ will be the world's most sensitive dark matter direct detection experiment, starting to take data in Spring 2020. The experiment is located 1 mi underground in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. LZ consists of a central time projection chamber (TPC) containing 7 tonnes of liquid xenon as dark matter target surrounded by an outer detector (OD) with 17 tonnes of gadolinium doped liquid scintillator to veto neutrons. I will highlight my group's research contributions to TPC assembly as well as to design and manufacturing of the OD. I will demonstrate how the equipment we built, combined with my analysis and phenomenological experience, will lead to most the sensitive searches including novel signatures. The use of active veto detectors has been adopted by all upcoming direct dark matter experiments and are indispensable to the future of the field. I will present status of my program to develop novel scintillating detectors including the first concepts for future veto detectors for the next generation of dark matter experiments.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:41:07 -0500 2019-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 West Hall HEP - Astro Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Implicit Bias (December 2, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65129 65129-17088486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 1:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the facility or the content of the presentation, please contact Britney Underwood (britneyu@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In this session, participants will learn to:

-Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
-Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
-Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
-Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
-Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

-Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
-Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
-Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
-Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA Staff. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Britney Underwood at britneyu@umich.edu to enroll.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:39:31 -0400 2019-12-02T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
HEP-Astro Seminar | SUSY Searches with ATLAS and Potential Improvements from Track Triggers (December 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66923 66923-16787709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The lack of evidence for SUSY at the LHC motivates new search strategies such as looking for scenarios with small mass differences between SUSY particles. However, this can bring challenges because of lower momentum visible decay products. SUSY searches with two leptons offer the possibility to use unique shapes in the invariant mass spectrum as an additional discriminant. In this talk, I will go through the details of ATLAS SUSY searches with two leptons, and show some highlights of recent SUSY results. Additionally, I will discuss how track triggers can enhance the discovery reach of these searches, focusing on the ATLAS Fast TracKer as an example along with its Phase-II counterpart.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:16:24 -0500 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Public Finance: Anti Insurance: The Perverse Targeting of Health Insurance (December 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67506 67506-16866612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Health insurance typically covers not only the small probability, large loss events emphasized by theory but also routine services like regular checkups. Usage of such services responds to liquidity shocks; people cut back when times are tight, such as during an unemployment spell. As a result, coverage of such services is least valuable in the states of the world in which marginal utility is greatest---an anti-insurance effect. Whether the net effect of health insurance is to improve or worsen risk exposure depends on the insured's relative exposure to health versus non-health risks. I find that for many U.S. households, health insurance worsens risk exposure; on average it targets states of the world in which marginal utility is relatively low. This highlights an important cost of the many policies that subsidize health insurance or health care.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:14:43 -0400 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Heating up for the Press: An Exchange of Research and Writing (December 2, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69841 69841-17472591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Heating up for the Press: An Exchange of Research and Writing

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:58:29 -0500 2019-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-02T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Understanding the potential of wild populations to adapt to climate change: lessons from color molting mammals (December 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65010 65010-16501308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:57:03 -0500 2019-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar A white rabbit amid grasses and plants
Understanding DEI Through the Framework of Global Citizenship (December 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69074 69074-17224171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In a globalized world, each person will interact with cultures beyond their own. As the leaders and best, our students go all over the world and work with people from across the globe, and to better enable them to succeed, cultural competency is a necessity. Someone with one plus cultures can adapt and be receptive of other cultures and identities. Context matters, and critical lenses about other cultures impact how we view them. This workshop will focus on critical thinking with intercultural awareness and communication.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/K4MnE.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:16:44 -0400 2019-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
CM-AMO Seminar | Double Feature - Observation of a Ferro-Rotational Order Coupled with Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Fields & Information Scrambling in Quantum Phases (December 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66974 66974-16789923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Elizabeth Drueke
U-M Physics

Observation of a Ferro-rotational Order Coupled with Second-order Nonlinear Optical Fields

In this talk, I will discuss our recent discovery of ferrorotational order in RbFe(MoO4)2. Classified by an order parameter which is an axial vector invariant under both time-reversal and spatial-inversion operations, this order is closely related to a number of phenomena such as polar vortices, giant magnetoelectric coupling and spin-helicity-driven ferroelectricity, but it has received little attention so far. Here, using high-sensitivity rotational-anisotropy second-harmonic generation, we have exploited the electric quadrupole contribution to the second harmonic generation to directly couple to this centrosymmetric ferro-rotational order in an archetype of type-II multiferroics, RbFe(MoO4)2. We found that two domain states with opposite ferro-rotational vectors emerge with distinct populations at the critical temperature Tc ≈ 195 K and gradually evolve to reach an even ratio at lower temperatures. Moreover, we have identified the ferro-rotational order phase transition as weakly first order and have revealed its coupling field as a unique combination of the induced electric quadrupole second-harmonic generation and the incident fundamental electric fields.


Ceren Dag
U-M Physics

Information Scrambling in Quantum Phases

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) are well-established tools for studying quantum chaos in quantum many-body systems as well as information properties of black holes. They characterize the information scrambling which is a dynamical phenomenon where both spatial and temporal correlations spread across a many-body system. Recently an unexpected relation between symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions and information scrambling has been numerically observed. We introduce a new theoretical tool to understand the reasons and the mechanism of this relation, which makes the dynamical detection of long-range ordered quantum phases via OTOCs intuitive. Based on the studies in literature and our numerical results in the XXZ model, our method renders the relation between information scrambling and quantum phase transitions universal.

Speaker Information: Ceren B. Dag is a graduate student in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She works towards her PhD thesis with Kai Sun and Luming Duan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:38:15 -0500 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Business Etiquette Dinner with GRIN (December 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69510 69510-17335452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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. We are subsidizing a delicious three-course meal at a low student price. Come join GRIN at this savory event!
Cost: $15/person (three-course meal)
Registration is required at myumi.ch/v27bo.
IMPORTANT: Payment of $15 must be received by November 28th (Thursday). We have limited space for 30 people. A spot is secured only when payment is received. You can pay through the Venmo app by sending the $15 to Siyin Zheng @Siyin-Zheng. Please mention that it’s for the business dinner etiquette and your affiliation. Email Maria or Siyin with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
Hub Workshop - Negotiations (December 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66119 66119-16686742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join the Hub to learn how to approach negotiation with confidence! Learn how to prepare for negotiations before they even begin by examining common elements to negotiate for (not just salary), identify ways to determine the monetary worth of your work, and explore components to include in a strong counter offer. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:52:25 -0400 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar negotiate
Webinar: How to Apply to SEAS Graduate Programs (December 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69474 69474-17327209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

A SEAS Admission Coach will host an Application Information Session. They will provide an overview of how to apply to SEAS and answer questions live.

To attend this webinar, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3HukAsr8zuYS9H7QOsy7njMgynV8Xs-KJTzOLfD4gVHGzSA/viewform

Contact person:
SEAS Admissions: SEAS-admissions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:17:52 -0500 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Workshop / Seminar
IISS Book Workshop Series. Book Workshop with Professor Alexander Knysh (December 3, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68386 68386-17071657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

IISS is pleased to announce our first book workshop of the semester with Prof. Alexander Knysh on his most recent book Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism. Prof. Knysh's new monograph explores the history and intellectual vicissitudes of Islamic mystical and philosophical thought in historical perspective. The distinctive aspect of the New History is a comparative element, which is present in almost all of its six chapters: Muslim approaches to Sufism are compared with Orientalist ones, while Sufi discourses are contrasted with Neoplatonic, Jewish and Christian traditions. This groundbreaking monograph is critical not only for understanding the complex phenomenon that is Sufism, but also for gaining insight into the significant methodological issues of modern historiography.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:21:55 -0500 2019-12-03T18:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar event-image
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 4, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-04T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Medieval Lunch. Architectural Representations in Late Medieval Donor Portraits (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68089 68089-17009818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Votive images of donors holding an architectural model appear in a variety of media spanning the entire Middle Ages. Although related to western European examples (examined by E. S. Klinkenberg in Compressed Meanings 2009, among others), the church models in late medieval votive paintings in the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres offer new insights into the multiplicity of meanings and functions of such architectural representations.

This talk focuses on several case studies from regions of the Balkans and the Carpathians that reveal the varied systems of signification of church models as they appear in votive murals, usually located in the naos of churches. These images show facets of the actual structures and the processes of decoration of the edifices. For example, in the Moldavian context, the church model is never shown with the rich exterior mural cycles that cover entirely the exterior of the churches. Instead, the focus is on select architectural features and the symbolic functions of the edifice in its representational form.

In examining the iconographic details of these image types, and in considering the multitude of their meanings and functions in their specific contexts of display, I argue that such architectural representations were carefully calibrated to give visual expression to local concerns related to patronage, salvation, and memory, as well as, on a larger scale, to the formation of new sacred landscapes in Eastern Europe for which Orthodox Christianity with its rich spatial and visual manifestations served as a defining force in the later medieval period.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:52:12 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Donor portait: Moldovita Monestary
Restorative Practices and Graduate Well-Being (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69439 69439-17320657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Our most basic task is helping students get the most out of their experiences. We pride ourselves in being student-centered and in holding a high level of care in working with students. Framing around these values and using the model of wellness, this session aims to engage students in reflection around the eight key dimensions of personal well-being. Using restorative practices and the power of the circle process, students will share stories of well-being to inform the commitment to a culture of well-being in the U-M community.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/88Z2W.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:16:49 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Construction Seminar (December 4, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66417 66417-16734216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Andy Brown is a Project Manager for Kimley-Horn in Houston, Texas.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:26:53 -0400 2019-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Speaking American English (December 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T15:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Department Colloquium | Controlling Dissipation in Superconductors: the Oxymoron that Leads to New Superconducting Phases and Transitions (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65286 65286-16565505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Superconductors are exciting materials for basic physics and applications because they conventionally exhibit zero-resistance and zero-dissipation (i.e., no energy loss). However, unconventional superconductors—including high-temperature superconductors and hybrid superconductor-normal (S-N) systems relevant to quantum computation—combine superconductivity with dissipative normal metal-like states. Yet dissipation has been difficult to control and parametrize. In this talk, I will discuss electrical transport experiments on hybrid superconductor-normal metal systems where the dissipation is controlled, leading to new understanding of superconducting states and transitions. In particular, I will show how superconductivity is established in granular S-N systems, how metallic states appear in arrays of S-N systems as the normal metal fraction is increased, and how magnetic fields can be used to control a variety of dissipative phase transitions. The results are relevant to understanding the role of dissipation in superconducting systems, and in correlated materials in general.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Department Colloquium | Controlling Dissipation in Superconductors: the Oxymoron that Leads to New Superconducting Phases and Transitions (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67181 67181-16805264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

Superconductors are exciting materials for basic physics and applications because they conventionally exhibit zero-resistance and zero-dissipation (i.e., no energy loss). However, unconventional superconductors—including high-temperature superconductors and hybrid superconductor-normal (S-N) systems relevant to quantum computation—combine superconductivity with dissipative normal metal-like states. Yet dissipation has been difficult to control and parametrize. In this talk, I will discuss electrical transport experiments on hybrid superconductor-normal metal systems where the dissipation is controlled, leading to new understanding of superconducting states and transitions. In particular, I will show how superconductivity is established in granular S-N systems, how metallic states appear in arrays of S-N systems as the normal metal fraction is increased, and how magnetic fields can be used to control a variety of dissipative phase transitions. The results are relevant to understanding the role of dissipation in superconducting systems, and in correlated materials in general.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:09:38 -0500 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Macroeconomics (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68261 68261-17037417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:11:51 -0400 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:20:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Complex adaptive systems and human-wildlife coexistence (December 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69716 69716-17390846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Abstract:
In landscapes around the world, humans and wildlife are mutually adapting to each other, creating dynamic feedbacks that, if overlooked, limit the effectiveness of conservation policies. Mechanistic social-ecological systems (SES) modeling has a high potential to overcome this limitation. To illustrate the utility of mechanistic SES modeling to wildlife conservation, I present findings from two interrelated agent-based models of human-wildlife interactions. The first model investigates the effects of human disturbance (prey depletion, road infrastructure) on the globally endangered tiger (Panthera tigris) in an isolated protected area in Nepal. The second model investigates human-wildlife conflict, such as crop raiding and livestock depredation, along a simulated interface of wild and agricultural lands. Unanticipated model outcomes provide crucial insights on ways to improve conservation strategies in shared landscapes. By simulating both ecological processes and human decision making, multi-model approaches foster transferability of gained insights to other contexts and case studies that prevail in the Anthropocene.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:04:46 -0500 2019-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Neil Carter, SEAS
International Economics (December 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68612 68612-17105372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:54:09 -0400 2019-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, cello (December 5, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69584 69584-17368298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is one of the most preeminent cellists of his generation. Early on during his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot, he made his mark at international competitions including the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Prize for Contemporary Music at the Rostropovich Competition. He then went on to win the German Music Competition in Bonn and the International Australian Cello Competition in New Zealand. He is a prize winner of the esteemed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and International Leonard Rose Cello Competition in the U.S. Schmidt has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, Russia, and the U.S. with renowned ensembles such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Radiophilharmonie des NDR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras, and the Philharmonia Prague.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:15:27 -0500 2019-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
Energy Rebound Effect of Connected & Automated Vehicles (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69558 69558-17360118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

How may travel behavior change and induced travel demand to offset the energy-saving benefits from efficiency improvement enabled by vehicle automation?

Ming Xu is an Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the broad fields of sustainable engineering and industrial ecology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 11:49:44 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, cello (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69585 69585-17368299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is one of the most preeminent cellists of his generation. Early on during his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot, he made his mark at international competitions including the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Prize for Contemporary Music at the Rostropovich Competition. He then went on to win the German Music Competition in Bonn and the International Australian Cello Competition in New Zealand. He is a prize winner of the esteemed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and International Leonard Rose Cello Competition in the U.S. Schmidt has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, Russia, and the U.S. with renowned ensembles such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Radiophilharmonie des NDR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras, and the Philharmonia Prague.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:15:24 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Establishing a Positive Relationship with Your Research Advisor (December 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65601 65601-16621795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

The advisor/advisee relationship is critical to graduate student success. Participants in this workshop will reflect on the roles that their advisor plays in their graduate education, as well as the importance of establishing a broader network of support. We will also discuss a process for developing and agreeing upon shared expectations with your advisor so that you set yourself up for a positive working relationship.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:26 -0400 2019-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
EEB Thursday Seminar: Phenotypic plasticity, gene expression, and the biological response to climate change (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68351 68351-17069160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The climate of the earth is becoming hotter and less predictable, and the fitness of organisms is increasingly linked to traits important for performance in a changing climate. Understanding the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation as responses to climate change is crucial, as phenotypic plasticity is more rapid than evolutionary adaptation, and can either facilitate or constrain evolutionary adaptation. Crucially, for certain taxa like tropical forest lizards, previous long-term climate stability of the tropics may have eroded both genetic variation and capacity for phenotypic plasticity necessary for survival under rapid environmental change. We are testing how denizens of tropical forests can respond to climate change by 1) studying physiological and phenotypic plasticity of a thermoconforming forest lizard, and 2) transplanting these lizards onto islands in the Panama Canal. These islands are hotter and more variable than the mainland rainforests of the source populations. On experimental islands, we are measuring selection (viability and fecundity) on thermal physiological traits, measuring plasticity and gene expression in response to thermal change, and identifying genomic regions that are important for thermal adaptation. Ultimately, our research can help parse the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity, genomic adaptation, and their interaction during the biological response to climate change.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/axBZDqu68EM

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:58:25 -0400 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Christian Cox, biological response to climate change
Law and Economics: Tort Liability and Unawareness (December 5, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68326 68326-17046003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:25:13 -0400 2019-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Life of a Doctor (but not that kind!) (December 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64444 64444-16349029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Learn about what types of career paths are available for those with a PhD in Psychology. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:35:55 -0400 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:30:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
Forum on Defense and Diplomacy in Afghanistan (December 6, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69715 69715-17390844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This forum will engage policymakers, military officials, academic experts, diplomats and other thought leaders to examine challenges and opportunities at the intersection of defense and diplomacy during this crucial transitional period in Afghanistan. It will feature three public panels and a pair of keynote sessions, as well as a smaller, closed-door academic workshop in the afternoon. The conversation will be wide- ranging but will focus on a few major themes:

● Recalibrating in defense and diplomacy. How should the roles and responsibilities of U.S. allied military forces and resident diplomats evolve to reflect the changing political conditions in Afghanistan?

● Keeping the peace. What types of diplomatic arrangements will be necessary to help maintain any cease-fire between the Afghan government and the Taliban and help promote a lasting peace? What form of U.S. and/or international military engagement will be appropriate in that context?

● Promoting democracy, development and the rule of law. What priorities should the international community set for domestic developments in Afghanistan looking forward? How might a political transition in Afghanistan challenge democratic governance, inclusive development, human rights and the rule of law? What tools are available to meet these challenges and seize opportunities?

For the event agenda please visit: https://umich.box.com/s/e637svug67s6ewxu4v9eunm3jp8cm3s6

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:46:19 -0500 2019-12-06T08:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Diplomacy Center Workshop / Seminar Event Invitation
Write-Together (December 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66996 66996-16792099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:17:00 -0400 2019-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy (December 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68281 68281-17037508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

In a variety of markets with private options, the optimal level of public provision may require balancing a tradeoff between reducing private options’ market power with the possibility of crowding out potentially high-quality products. These considerations are particularly relevant in many developing countries’ education systems where private schools capture high market shares while public schools are overcrowded. We study the equilibrium effects of public provision in the context of a large expansion of public schools in the Dominican Republic. Over a five-year period, the government aimed to increase the number of public school classrooms by 78%. Using an event study framework, we estimate the effect of a new public school on neighborhood outcomes and competing private schools, where we instrument for how quickly the public school construction project finished with whether the procurement lottery randomly assigned the project to a firm or an unaffiliated individual. We find that a new public increased neighborhood students’ test scores, both in the public and private sectors. As public enrollment increased, a large number of private schools closed while the surviving schools lowered prices and increased investment in school quality. To study how the provision of high quality schools varies with the level of public provision, and to compare the effects to the alternative policy of public financing, we specify an empirical model of demand (students choosing schools) and supply (schools choosing whether to stay open, how much to invest in quality, and what price to charge).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:15:37 -0500 2019-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T11:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yuqi Gu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan (December 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69647 69647-17376499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

In modern psychological and biomedical research with diagnostic purposes, scientists often formulate the key task as inferring the fine-grained latent information under structural constraints. These structural constraints usually come from the domain experts’ prior knowledge or insight. The emerging family of Structured Latent Attribute Models (SLAMs) accommodate these modeling needs and have received substantial attention in psychology, education, and epidemiology. SLAMs bring exciting opportunities and unique challenges. In particular, with high-dimensional discrete latent attributes and structural constraints encoded by a design matrix, one needs to balance the gain in the model’s explanatory power and interpretability, against the difficulty of understanding and handling the complex model structure.

In the first part of this talk, I present identifiability results that advance the theoretical knowledge of how the design matrix influences the estimability of SLAMs. The new identifiability conditions guide real-world practices of designing cognitive diagnostic tests and also lay the foundation for drawing valid statistical conclusions. In the second part, I introduce a statistically consistent penalized likelihood approach to selecting significant latent patterns in the population. I also propose a scalable computational method. These developments explore an exponentially large model space involving many discrete latent variables, and they address the estimation and computation challenges of high-dimensional SLAMs arising in large-scale scientific measurements. The application of the proposed methodology to the data from an international educational assessment reveals meaningful knowledge structures and latent subgroups of the student populations.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:22:35 -0500 2019-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Yuqi Gu
EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Colonized Geographies (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63602 63602-15808600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do history and agency alter geographies and landscapes? Samia Khatun’s research has explored the spaces and scars left behind by colonization, arguing that “histories remain inscribed on the land itself.” This panel explores the concept of colonized geographies and will examine how the borders of colonized spaces are enforced, negotiated, and blurred. Speakers will approach this theme from comparative literature, political science, and history, providing new perspectives on the creation of colonized space, as well as how history operates both within and outside of its boundaries.

Featuring:

Jamie Clegg, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Arighna Gupta, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan
Jaideep Pandey, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
David Suell, Graduate Student, Political Science, University of Michigan
Sarah Wheat, Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan
Samia Khatun (respondent), Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Farida Begum (chair), Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan

Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. 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: Adam Isacson, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:11:11 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Border fence, Nogales, Arizona
Human Performance Seminar (836): Chris Wickens, PhD, Colorado State University (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67034 67034-16796462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
“The Lumberjack Model of Human-Automation Interaction: The Higher the Tree, the Harder It Falls”

Abstract:
The lumberjack model proposes a relation between the degree of automation and 4 human performance measures: Performance when automation works as intended, performance when automation fails, workload, and situation awareness. The degree of automation refers jointly to what stage of human information processing automation supports: selective attention, diagnosis, decision making and action execution, and to the level of automation within a stage. Accordingly, with a higher degree of automation, routine performance is improved and workload reduced, but performance when automation fails is degraded, a degradation that is caused by a progressively greater loss of situation awareness with a higher degree of automation.

Professor Wickens will describe the results of a meta-analysis and two experiments that support, to varying degrees, the 4 trends underlying the lumberjack model. In the first experiment, participants (Wolverines!!) perform a robotics task, that is assisted by either a low or high degree of imperfect automation. In the second experiment, air traffic controllers employ an imperfect automated decision aid. The second experiment also shows how the costs of automation failure can be cushioned by building transparency into automation operations.

Bio:
Chris Wickens received his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974, after serving 3 years in the US Navy. He was a Professor in Psychology at University of Illinois from 1974-2005. From 1984-2005 he was also jointly appointed with the Department of Industrial Engineering, and the Institute of Aviation, where he was Associate Director and Head of the Aviation Human Factors Division.

He has published two textbooks in human factors and engineering psychology, and 6 other professional books, and has co-authored over 250 articles in refereed publications or book chapters. His research interests are in the human factors of transportation systems, the study of human attention and its relevance to display design, and human-automation interaction. He is an avid mountain climber.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:17:29 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T12:50:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Human Performance Seminar" text
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Elnaz Kabir, U-M IOE (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68549 68549-17096945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE PhD students, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Thursday, December 5, 2019.

Title:
Predictive and Risk Analytics for Weather-Induced Power Outage Management

Abstract:
A wide variety of weather conditions, from windstorms to prolonged heat events, can have substantial impacts on power systems, posing many risks and inconveniences due to power outages. Being able to accurately estimate the probability distribution of the number of customers without power by using data about the power utility system, environmental and weather conditions has the potential to help utilities restore power more quickly and efficiently. In this research, we develop two frameworks to address these issues. In the first framework, we propose an adaptive two-stage algorithm based on Bayesian model averaging in order to form an ensemble model predicting daily distributions of customer outages. In this algorithm, weights of the base learners depend on the features and they get updated as new data is observed. In the second framework, we focus on the zero inflation issue of power outage data in resolutions smaller than county level. To overcome the challenges caused by zero-inflation, e.g., bias and inaccuracy, we propose a novel approach integrating mixture models with cost-sensitive learning. For both frameworks, we conduct numerical studies using large, real datasets of power outages. We show that our approaches offer more accurate point and probabilistic predictions than traditional approaches, better supporting utility restoration planning.

Bio:
Elnaz Kabir is a PhD Candidate in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Her research is grounded in predictive analytics, data-driven decision making, and risk analysis. In her research, Elnaz is interested to use statistical learning theories, and optimization techniques to better understand and solve important problems related to power outages caused by weather events. The results of her studies are used by practitioners of the utility companies in order to make better decisions to reduce the risk of weather-events to the power system.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:38:00 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Image of Elnaz kabir
Life After Graduate School Seminar | From Natural Laws to Writing Laws: A Physicist Turned Policymaker (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67593 67593-16900781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The US federal government touches all aspects of our lives through its ~$4.5 trillion annual budget (although less than 4% is for research and development), laws, regulations, rules, and policies. Dr. Anna Quider will discuss her experience as a physicist-turned-policymaker working within the federal government at the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Department of State, and external to the federal government as a higher education and science advocate. Attendees will learn about career paths into federal policymaking and how input from physicists and the public inform the federal policymaking process. Dr. Quider is presently the Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations for Northern Illinois University and the past-president of The Science Coalition, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing US federal funding for fundamental scientific research. She was a 2011 APS Congressional Science Fellow and 2012 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.


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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:16:18 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
MCDB Seminar: In Toto Imaging in Zebrafish Shows How Cells 'Build' Patterns (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67363 67363-16839929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Cunming Duan

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:08:59 -0400 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar digital image fish embryo
Racial Microaggressions (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69194 69194-17263097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often times find ourselves skirting around this subset of microaggressions due to discomfort in openly discussing race, racism, and white supremacy. In this workshop we hope to foster an intellectually humble environment within which to unpack racial microaggressions, address common barriers to intervening when a racial microaggression is inflicted, and provide tools for successfully intervening in the future.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/pdrVW.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:16:27 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 59651-17483058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:20:21 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar TBP Speaker Series
Undergraduate Internship Opportunities at National Laboratories (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69965 69965-17489269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Professor Sara Pozzi with the University of Michigan department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences invites you to participate in a discussion and luncheon to learn how you can benefit from an internship experience at a national labs such as Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nevada National Security Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Savannah River National Laboratory, and Y-12 National Security Complex.

Hear from previous undergraduate and graduate students who participated in internships at the national laboratories.

Contact Dr. Shaun Clarke for more details about these internship opportunities at clarkesd@umich.edu

Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification: MTV.engin.umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:30:48 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Interns at National Labs
ASCE Seminar Series: Silman (December 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66247 66247-16719622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Silman has grown to a staff of more than 160 among its three offices in New York, Washington DC, and Boston, of whom over 50 have professional registrations and more than 20 are LEED Accredited Professionals or Green Associates. To provide the highest quality structural engineering services possible, the principals have fostered an approach centered on constant collaboration among owners, architects, and other consultants. Silman's engineers are trained to be effective listeners, creative problem solvers, and knowledgeable about all facets of the construction process. After participating in more than 21,000 projects, Silman has earned recognition as one of the leading firms in the country for its innovative spirit in the design of new architectural works and the sensitive modification of existing structures.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:11:05 -0500 2019-12-06T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Economics at Work (December 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68600 68600-17105360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:24:40 -0400 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Labor Economics: What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output (December 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68424 68424-17080057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Is a school’s impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several short- and longer-run outcomes. Schools’ impacts on high-stakes tests are weakly related to impacts on low-stakes tests, dropout, crime, teen motherhood, and formal labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school
impacts to parents’ ranked lists of schools. We propose a modified mulitnomial logit model that allows one to infer preferences for school attributes even in some settings where choices are strategic. Parents of higher-achieving students value schools that improve high-stakes test scores conditional on average outcomes, proximity, and even peer quality. Parents also value schools that reduce crime and increase formal labor market participation. Most parents’ preferences for school impacts on labor-market and crime outcomes are, as strong, or stronger than those for test scores. These results provide a potential explanation for recent findings that parent preferences are not strongly related to test-score impacts. They also suggest that evaluations based solely on test scores may be very misleading about the welfare effects of school choice.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:09:43 -0500 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
That's an Interesting Idea: Data Driven Models, Compressed Sensing, and Other Outré Tools for Nuclear Applications (December 6, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69829 69829-17433857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Ryan will cover a variety of research topics being investigated in his group at Notre Dame, including using data-driven models to estimate the time-dependent behavior of fission experiments, the use of compressed sensing to estimate Monte Carlo solutions, and the application of machine learning to improve nuclear data. This talk will highlight how knowledge from statistics, applied mathematics, and computer science can be used to increase the impact of research in nuclear engineering applications. The talk will conclude with future research opportunities in these areas.

Ryan McClarren is a graduate of the University of Michigan NERS program with BSE, MSE, and PhD degrees. Currently he serves as Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. McClarren joined the Notre Dame faculty in August 2017. His research interests include the application of machine learning and compressed sensing to numerical simulation, numerical methods for X-ray radiative transfer and particle transport and uncertainty quantification. He received the 2019 Young Member’s Research Award by the Mathematics and Computations Division (MCD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

He is the author of two textbooks: the recently published Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Computational Science, a textbook focused on senior undergraduate and early-career graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences, and Computational Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science Using Python, a textbook for undergraduate engineering students that uses the Python programming language to present more easily accessible numerical methods for nuclear energy, radiation protection and homeland security applications.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:49:06 -0500 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Ryan McClarren
“Lessons Learned for Developing an “Exposome” for Children’s Cohort Studies: Challenges and Successes in Applying new Methods for Assessment, Integration, and Analytics” (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69734 69734-17392934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Elaine Faustman is a toxicologist and Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She is also Adjunct Professor in the UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. One key aim of her research is to understand molecular pathways that control normal brain cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Faustman’s group is working to understand the biochemical, molecular, and exposure mechanisms that define children’s susceptibility to environmental chemicals. A focus of her research has been on pesticides and to assess pesticide risks to normal childhood development and learning.M-LEEaD Center Winter Seminar Series

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:34:41 -0500 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Faustman Profile
Economic Theory: Stability in Repeated Matching Markets (December 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69031 69031-17220012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

I develop a framework for studying repeated matching markets, where in every period, a new generation of short-lived agents on one side of the market is matched to a fixed set of long-lived institutions on the other. Within this framework, I characterize self-enforcing arrangements for two types of environments. When wages are rigid, as in the matching market for hospitals and medical residents, players can be partitioned into two sets: regardless of patience level, some players can be assigned only according to a static stable matching; when institutions are patient, the other players can be assigned in ways that are unstable in one-shot interactions. I discuss these results’ implications for allocating residents to rural hospitals. When wages can be flexibly adjusted, I show that with flexible wages, repeated interaction resolves well-known non-existence issues: while static stable matchings may fail to exist with complementarities and/or peer effects, self-enforcing matching processes always exist if institutions are sufficiently patient.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:34:45 -0500 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Anna Vainchtein: Strictly supersonic solitary waves in lattices (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69225 69225-17269229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract:We consider a nonlinear mass-spring chain with first and second-neighbor interactions and show that there is a parameter range where solitary waves in this system are strictly supersonic. In these regimes standard quasicontinuum theories, targeting long-wave limits of lattice models, are not adequate since even weak strictly supersonic solitary waves are of envelope type and crucially involve a microscopic scale in addition to the mesoscopic scale of the envelope. To capture this effect in a continuum setting it is necessary to employ unconventional, higher-order quasicontinuum approximations carrying more than one length scale. This talk is based on recent joint work with Lev Truskinovsky (ESPCI).

Bio: Anna Vainchtein is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is generally interested in mathematical modeling and analysis of nonlinear phenomena in materials science, physics and biology.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:06:09 -0500 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar A. Vainchtein
Planet Blue Ambassador (PBA) Community Gathering (December 6, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69505 69505-17333395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Join your fellow Planet Blue Ambassadors for snacks and conversation about Green Teams on Friday, December 6th from 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm at the Hatcher Gallery. Have you been thinking about forming a Green Team for your office or student organization? Are you part of a Green Team, but are wondering about ways it could be more effective? We’ll have representatives from Green Teams around campus present to share their tips, resources, strategies, and advice.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:41:51 -0500 2019-12-06T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Graham Sustainability Institute Workshop / Seminar Green Teams Workshop
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries (December 7, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66291 66291-16725808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first stellar mass black hole in our Galaxy, all the way to the four- million-solar-mass black hole that is hiding at its center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:31:07 -0400 2019-12-07T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Black Hole from Event Horizon Telescope
The Premodern Colloquium. Guillaume Postel's De la Republique des Turcs (1560): An Encounter with the Other (December 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66893 66893-16785534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. 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.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:45:01 -0400 2019-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt (December 9, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68617 68617-17105383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 11:45am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan. Four years after hire, automatic enrollment causes no significant change in credit scores (point estimate 0.001 standard deviations) or debt balances excluding auto loans and first mortgages (point estimate -0.6% of annual salary). We also find no significant increase in auto loan and first mortgage balances in our main regression specification, although the estimated increases in these categories are economically and statistically significant in alternative specifications.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:31:30 -0500 2019-12-09T11:45:00-05:00 2019-12-09T12:45:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
"Getting to Zero: Religious Leaders as Trusted Messengers for Eliminating HIV/AIDS" (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69288 69288-17299771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion present A. Oveta Fuller, PhD., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:48:12 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Quantitative Biology Seminar | Morphogen Dynamics Control Patterning in a Stem Cell Model of the Human Embryo (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68969 68969-17205310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

During embryonic development, diffusible signaling molecules called morphogens are thought to determine cell fates in a concentration-dependent manner, and protocols for directed stem cell differentiation are based on this picture. However, in the mammalian embryo, morphogen concentrations change rapidly compared to the time for making cell fate decisions. It is unknown how changing ligand levels are interpreted, and whether the precise timecourse of ligand exposure plays a role in cell fate decisions. In this talk I will discuss our work to address this question using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), focusing on the dynamics of two morphogens that are crucial for vertebrate gastrulation: Nodal and BMP4. We showed that the response of hESCs to BMP4 signaling is indeed is determined by the ligand concentration, but that unexpectedly, the expression of many mesodermal targets of Nodal depends on the rate of concentration increase. In addition, we showed that a stem cell model for the human embryo generates a wave of Nodal signaling with cells experiencing rapidly increasing Nodal specifically in the region of mesendoderm differentiation. The BMP4 and Nodal pathways share the signal transducer Smad4. Using live imaging of hESCs with GFP integrated at the endogenous SMAD4 locus combined with Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP), we demonstrated that response to rate of Activin change is due to adaptive signaling, which relies on sequestration of SMAD4. We also demonstrated that pulsatile stimulation with Activin induces repeated strong signaling and enhances mesoderm differentiation. Our results break with the paradigm of concentration-dependent differentiation and demonstrate an important role for morphogen dynamics in the cell fate decisions associated with mammalian gastrulation. They suggest a highly dynamic picture of embryonic patterning where some cell fates depend on rapid concentration increase rather than on absolute levels, and point to ligand dynamics as a new dimension to optimize protocols for directed stem cell differentiation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:16:12 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Writing a Diversity Statement (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68714 68714-17140901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job 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.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/1pM43.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:17:12 -0400 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
MiTSO Speaker Series (December 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70044 70044-17499553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

MiTSO will be hosting a speaker from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mr. Michael Townley is MDOT's Research Project Administration Manager and will be giving an overview of the structure of national and local DOT organizations and how their research is conducted, as well as presenting on the award-winning research projects happening currently at MDOT, including:

-Wireless Data Collection Retrievals of Bridge Inspection/Management Information
-Meeting the Transportation Needs of Michigan’s Aging Population
-Development of Secondary Route Bridge Design Plan Guide Drawings
-Effect of Pile-Driving Induced Vibrations on Nearby Structures

Food will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:46:04 -0500 2019-12-09T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
Bo Zhu: Super-Resolution Structural Simulation and Optimization (December 9, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69570 69570-17366249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: Complex physical systems exhibiting mixed-dimensional geometry and multi-scale mechanics are ubiquitous. Examples include biological structures, such as insect wing exoskeletons, fluid phenomena, such as bubbles and jets, and human-made objects, such as microrobots. The beauty and complexity of these systems attract efforts from scientists, engineers, and artists in various fields. However, a computational investigation of these systems on the level of super-resolution –with millions to billions of computational elements — is still challenging, due to the non-manifold geometric structures, non-linear governing physics, and the tight coupling between them.

My work tackles these challenges by rethinking of the computation pipeline—from a perspective that aims to blur the line between discrete geometry and continuous physics. My guiding principle is to study the hidden low-dimensional topological and structural characteristics underpinning these complex systems and to create the most natural geometric analogs in a discrete setting for efficient simulation and optimization. In this talk, I will present two examples to demonstrate this methodology, including a super-resolution topology optimization algorithm based on sparse grids to emerge biomimetic structures and a numerical simulation approach based on simplicial complexes to model codimensional fluids. These computational tools enable the investigation, discovery, and development of a broad range of complex physical systems that are multi-scale and mixed-dimensional, with applications in computer graphics, computational physics, and additive manufacturing.

Bio: Bo Zhu is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2015.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:47:42 -0500 2019-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar B. Zhu
DANG! Meeting (December 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68540 68540-17096936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: Data Analysis Networking Group

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:04:03 -0400 2019-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library Data Analysis Networking Group Workshop / Seminar DANG!
Public Finance: “Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL” (joint with John Eric Humphries, Nick Mader, and Daniel Tannenbaum) (December 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66603 66603-16767943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

Each year, more than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them. Many cities have recently implemented policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, motivated by research showing strong associations between being evicted and subsequent adverse economic outcomes. Yet it is difficult to determine to what extent those associations represent causal relationships, because eviction itself is likely to be a consequence of adverse life events. This paper addresses that challenge and offers new causal evidence on how eviction affects financial distress, residential mobility, and neighborhood quality. We collect the near-universe of Cook County court records over a period of seventeen years, and link these records to credit bureau and payday loans data. Using this data, we characterize the trajectory of financial strain in the run-up and aftermath of eviction court for both evicted and non-evicted households, finding high levels and striking increases in financial strain in the years before an eviction case is filed. Guided by this descriptive evidence, we employ two approaches to draw causal inference on the effect of eviction. The first takes advantage of the panel data through a difference-in-differences design. The second is an instrumental variables strategy, relying on the fact that court cases are randomly assigned to judges of varying leniency. We find that eviction negatively impacts credit access and durable consumption for several years. However, the effects are small relative to the financial strain experienced by both evicted and non-evicted tenants in the run-up to an eviction filing.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:14:28 -0500 2019-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Hub Workshop - Professionalizing Your Semester Success (December 9, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66120 66120-16686743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

You’ve juggled multiple classes, projects, extracurriculars and more this past semester, and your hard work deserves to be acknowledged! Perhaps you led a team, resolved a conflict or piloted a research project. Come to this workshop and learn how you can translate your achievements and successes onto your resume and to talk about your semester professionally. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:51:57 -0500 2019-12-09T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar computer and phone
Medical School Inside Story (December 9, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65982 65982-16678385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 5:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Science Learning Center

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

Please submit your questions via the following link: https://forms.gle/49SpHo8WZLLfuUuR8 by Monday, December 2 and Director Teener will answer as many commonly-asked questions as possible in the allotted hour.

This session will take place in the University of Michigan Hospital's Ford Auditorium.
We recommend that you leave yourself extra time to find the auditorium if you have not been there before!

Registration Link: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/medical-school-inside-story-2/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:41:30 -0400 2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 9, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Sensory evolution in the transition from land to sea: how do sea snakes sense their underwater world? (December 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65011 65011-16501309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Abstract
The senses are our interface with our surrounding world and attuned to specific qualities of prominent signals within the environment. Studying the ways in which senses have changed during evolution can be a marker of how organisms respond to major ecological shifts. Snakes have invaded aquatic habitats multiple times, but, with over 60 fully-aquatic and ecologically diverse species, few groups have been so successful as sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). I will explore the sensory evolution of sea snakes, with emphasis on two senses that are mediated by the skin: mechanoreception (touch) and tail phototaxis (skin photoreception). Tiny mechanoreceptors on the scales of sea snakes have undergone substantial changes during evolution, I will discuss whether these morphological changes are likely to confer a 'hydrodynamic' function (analogous to the lateral line system of fishes) in sea snakes. Light sensitivity of the paddle-tail in sea snakes (tail phototaxis) is a rare trait among vertebrates and convergent with other elongate, aquatic species (hagfish, lamprey, aquatic salamanders). I explore the evolutionary origins, genetic mechanisms and ecological factors underlying this fascinating sense in sea snakes.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:42:20 -0500 2019-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar sea snake swimming underwater
Strategies Transcription Factors Use to Target "Inaccessible" DNA -Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (December 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69812 69812-17431797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Michael Poirier, Professor of Physics at Ohio State University, will present the Department of Biological Chemistry seminar on Tuesday December 10th at 12pm in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Nov 2019 07:29:14 -0500 2019-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Michael Poirier
MiTSO QLine Tour (December 10, 2019 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70046 70046-17499555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:45pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Join MiTSO for a tour of the QLine streetcar in downtown Detroit! Completed in 2017, the QLine is one of Michigan's most recent transit projects and its only light rail line. We will be going for a ride on the streetcar, as well as getting a tour of the operations center. We will also be learning about the planning process and the impact the streetcar is having on city!

Transportation to and from the tour will be provided. We will be leaving from GG Brown around 12:45pm on Tuesday and returning before 5pm. Please sign up by Sunday using the google form if you are interested.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:01:28 -0500 2019-12-10T12:45:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
Economic History (December 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68318 68318-17045994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:51:33 -0400 2019-12-10T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Zheng Gao, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan (December 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69697 69697-17382665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

We shall revisit some phase transitions in high-dimensional multiple testing problems under sparsity assumptions, and then proceed to characterize some new ones that we recently discovered. In particular, I will describe the signal sizes necessary and sufficient for statistical procedures to simultaneously control false discovery (in terms of family-wise error rate or false discovery rate) and missed detection (in terms of family-wise non-discovery rate or false non-discovery rate) in the simple but ubiquitous signal-plus-noise model

x(i) = \mu(i) + \epsilon(i), \quad i=1,2,\ldots,p

Several well-known procedures are shown to attain said boundaries. Remarkably, these phase transition phenomena continue to hold under a much wider class of models, and under extremely weak dependence assumptions. We provide point-wise, rather than minimax, results, wherever we can. Important practical implications, along with an interesting manifestation of the phase transitions in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), will be discussed.

Behind the statistical results is a probabilistic phenomenon known as relative stability. Much like how the law of large numbers describes the concentration of averages, relative stability --- or the "law of large dimensions" --- describes the concentration of maxima. We provide a complete characterization of the relative stability phenomenon for Gaussian triangular arrays in terms of their correlation structure. Its proof uses classic Sudakov-Fernique and Slepian lemma arguments along with a curious application of Ramsey's coloring theorem.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:09:11 -0500 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Zheng Gao
UROP Intro to Spreadsheet Workshop (December 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66508 66508-16744944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

Students must register as space is limited

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:44:27 -0400 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Excel Registration QR Code
UROP Intro to Zotero Workshop (December 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66540 66540-16744992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:27:15 -0400 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Zotero Workshop Registration QR Code
UROP Matlab Workshop (December 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66528 66528-16744975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:35:38 -0400 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Public Health II UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Matlab Registration QR Code
Construction Seminar (December 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69559 69559-17360119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:32:00 -0500 2019-12-11T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-11T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Speaking American English (December 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T15:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Webinar: Resources for Gerontological and Social Science Researchers from NACDA (December 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69706 69706-17384713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR will host a webinar Wednesday, December 11, 2019 from 2:00PM - 3:00PM EST discussing the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) and our resources available to the social science and gerontological research communities.

NACDA, funded by the National Institute on Aging and part of ICPSR, acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use. By preserving and making available the largest library of electronic data on aging in the United States, NACDA offers opportunities for secondary analysis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance. This free webinar provides an overview of the data we have archived within NACDA and will guide users on how to navigate our site, as well as highlight the potential of our longitudinal collections.

As a webinar participant, you will:
- Become familiar with NACDA resources
- Learn how to access the data, deposit data, and about the restricted data application process
- Gain insights into our efforts to enhance access to longitudinal data
- Have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions

This webinar is free and open to the public.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:41:10 -0500 2019-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Workshop / Seminar Webinar announcement for Resources for Gerontological and Social Science Researchers from ICPSR featuring a woman eating ice cream at the beach
Macroeconomics - CANCELLED (December 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68262 68262-17037418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

*Please note that this seminar is cancelled!!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:55:50 -0500 2019-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T17:20:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Air Quality Monitoring Workshop (December 12, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69713 69713-17388800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring: A Workshop

Today, poor air quality is linked to over 3 million deaths per year, mostly in large urban areas. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that by 2050, poor air quality may become the largest cause of premature mortality in the world. This workshop will explore current research and practice in order to identify the gaps and limitations, and to prioritize future activities needed to address this challenge of growing global concern.

The workshop features outstanding individuals from industry; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy; University of Cambridge; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Sponsored by the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing & Systems and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:12:36 -0500 2019-12-12T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T17:15:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
Women in Aerospace Seminar (December 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70216 70216-17549976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Hear from female faculty and engineers about joining the aerospace community.

Food and drinks served at a pre-reception from 5:30 to 6pm.

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/RSVPwia

Presented by Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics (WAA)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:36:02 -0500 2019-12-12T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-12T19:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar flyer
*CANCELED* IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo, U-M IOE (December 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68550 68550-17096946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Title:
Understanding age effects and adaptation of sensory and motor rehabilitation procedures for stroke patients

Abstract:
Physical rehabilitation after stroke is critical to promote recovery, improve patient’s independence, and reduce the cost of outpatient costs. However, traditional and current therapy approaches have ignored intrinsic hemispheric asymmetries and rarely differentiate the specific sensory and/or motor deficits after stroke. their precise identification is necessary to adapt rehabilitation procedures facilitating recovery and return to work. This presentation will describe recent studies to assess the functioning of the sensory and motor components of each upper limb/hemisphere system of stroke patients in order to determine the primary source of impairment.

Bio:
Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo is PhD Candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include physical ergonomics, biomechanics, sensorimotor systems, rehabilitation engineering, musculoskeletal disorders, human-automation interaction, human performance and engineering education. Her current research focuses on quantifying sensory and/or motor differences in the upper extremity following a hemispheric stroke to develop and adapt rehabilitation procedures to facilitate/accelerate recovery.

Yadrianna received her M.S.E. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. She has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:35:54 -0500 2019-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T13:30:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo, U-M IOE
Poetry & Ethnography: Expanding the Narrative (December 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70194 70194-17547062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

December 13, 2019
Writing Workshop 12 - 2 pm
111 West Hall
Public Lecture 4 - 5:30 pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery

Please join us for the second event of the
Anthropology & Poetry Speaker and Workshop Series. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

The generative writing workshop will be held in 111 West Hall from 12 - 2:00 pm. Participants are invited to bring their own materials (field notes, interview transcriptions, photos, etc.) to work with during the writing workshop, although this is not required. No prior experience with poetry is necessary. Lunch will be provided.

The public lecture will be held in the Hatcher Gallery from 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
Refreshments will be provided.

Kenzie Allen is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She is currently a lecturer at York University, and an R1-Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow and PhD Candidate in English & Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the founder and managing editor of the Anthropoid collective.

Thank you to our sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Rackham Graduate School, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of American Culture, Native American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Interest Group, Institute for the Humanities, LSA, Poetry & Poetics Workshop, Latina/o Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:45:59 -0500 2019-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Oneida Big Apple Fest
Poetry & Ethnography: Expanding the Narrative (December 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70194 70194-17547063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

December 13, 2019
Writing Workshop 12 - 2 pm
111 West Hall
Public Lecture 4 - 5:30 pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery

Please join us for the second event of the
Anthropology & Poetry Speaker and Workshop Series. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

The generative writing workshop will be held in 111 West Hall from 12 - 2:00 pm. Participants are invited to bring their own materials (field notes, interview transcriptions, photos, etc.) to work with during the writing workshop, although this is not required. No prior experience with poetry is necessary. Lunch will be provided.

The public lecture will be held in the Hatcher Gallery from 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
Refreshments will be provided.

Kenzie Allen is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She is currently a lecturer at York University, and an R1-Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow and PhD Candidate in English & Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the founder and managing editor of the Anthropoid collective.

Thank you to our sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Rackham Graduate School, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of American Culture, Native American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Interest Group, Institute for the Humanities, LSA, Poetry & Poetics Workshop, Latina/o Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:45:59 -0500 2019-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Oneida Big Apple Fest
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan (December 14, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66293 66293-16725810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in Michigan, although not negligible, are modest compared to much of the country, and thus our state could become a go-to destination for many businesses and people fleeing more severe climate change impacts in other parts of the country. However, if climate change is not curbed, Michigan also runs the risk of becoming a sacrifice zone; thus quick action on climate change could be a win-win for our state.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:38:06 -0400 2019-12-14T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-14T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Flooding in Dearborn Spring 2019
Study and Scribble (December 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69891 69891-17482929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​With the Lloyd Hall Scholars, dig through a pile of magazines, scissors and glue and work  through a step-by-ez-step, fast paced, collaborative collage making process. By the end, you will have made new friends and a new piece of art.  

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:16:28 -0500 2019-12-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Study and Scroll (December 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69893 69893-17482931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Take your mind off exams and relax while you use your hands to make something to take home. Create a simple accordion folded book with pockets and tarot card covers to keep or give as a gift to a friend.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:16:40 -0500 2019-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69913 69913-17483045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:36:13 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (December 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69964 69964-17489272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).



LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:45:54 -0500 2019-12-16T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
Special Colloquium: Small Modular Reactors: What is New? (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70102 70102-17530520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are currently attracting attention because of the many advantages they offer, particularly in providing emission-free power and/or heat. Close to 100 designs have been reported, offering inherent and passive safety features, some of which are quite novel. This seminar will discuss some of these design features and their role in ensuring a level of defence-in-depth that allows SMRs to be in installed in proximity to users. Some suggested research and development topics related to the licensing of these reactors will be presented. An overview of efforts in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan (a non-nuclear but a uranium-rich jurisdiction) in support of the prospect of adopting SMRs, will be summarized.

Biography
Esam Hussein earned degrees in nuclear engineering from Alexandria University (BScE and MScE) and McMaster University (PhD). He is currently the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina, Canada (on research leave to the end of the year) and was an engineering professor at the University of New Brunswick, and a nuclear design engineer with Ontario Hydro. His research has focused on the application of atomic/nuclear radiation in nondestructive testing and imaging, but he has turned his attention lately to the technology of small modular reactors.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:44:53 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar headshot of speaker
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 16, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-16T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
"What is Sleep? Toward a Cellular and Molecular Comprehension of Sleep Neural Dynamics and Functions" (December 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70133 70133-17538849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Joint seminar with Life Sciences Institute

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:55:25 -0500 2019-12-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon drawing of a sleeping cat
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (December 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65012 65012-16501311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tuesday Lunch Seminars resume in the new year, Tuesday, January 14, 2020.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:52:13 -0500 2019-12-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building background, UM EEB logo and text reading EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-18T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-18T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Speaking American English (December 18, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-12-18T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-18T15:30:00-05:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
BME Ph.D. Defense: Amos Cao (December 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70078 70078-17507831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a neuroimaging technique that provides an unparalleled ability to non-invasive study brain activity. Since its inception in the early 1990s, fMRI has become a dominant tool in studying neurological responses to tasks and stimuli and has been critical in our evolving understanding of brain mapping. These achievements in neuroscience would not be possible without critical breakthroughs in MRI theory and hardware advancements, which continue to increase the speed and resolution of fMRI acquisitions. This dissertation explores a highly signal efficient fMRI imaging strategy known as Oscillating Steady-State Imaging (OSSI) and presents specialized artifact compensation strategies for addressing the practical challenges of the OSSI method.

First, we develop analytical models and simulations of OSSI, which describe how the signal magnitude varies as a function of frequency. These simulations are then used to study how respiration-induced frequency changes cause artifactual signal fluctuations to a signal timecourse. Our simulations show that the severity of respiration artifacts changes with initial off-resonance. Furthermore, we show that respiration artifacts are primarily caused by transient signal effects rather than changes to steady-state magnitude. These findings inform the two correction strategies proposed in the remainder of the dissertation.

The second portion of this work describes "OSSCOR," a retrospective method to correct timecourse magnitude changes caused by temporally varying frequency. We show how the OSSI signal exhibits a frequency-time duality that can be used to reshape structured physiological noise into a low-rank matrix. We then use principal component analysis in a data-driven correction strategy to create nuisance regressors for subsequent fMRI analysis. We also describe a variation of our method where free induction decay (FID) signals can be used to create nuisance regressors, referred to as ``F-OSSCOR.'' Both OSSCOR and F-OSSCOR were found to significantly improve the functional sensitivity and signal stability compared to polynomial detrending alone, and OSSCOR was also found to significantly outperform a standard data-driven correction method.

Finally, we present a prospective correction method which utilizes FID measurements to estimate and correct for B0 changes in real-time. Prospective correction has the potential to outperform retrospective correction methods by directly reducing perturbations to steady-state magnetization during acquisition. We first present the results of a feasibility analysis where simulation was used to determine how scan parameters would affect correction performance. We then developed a prospective correction application using the RTHawk platform to perform data analysis and parameter adjustment in real-time. Our initial fMRI proof-of-concept shows that real-time correction can increase the number of activated voxels and improve overall image stability as measured by temporal SNR.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:00:13 -0500 2019-12-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-19T10:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Event
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69970 69970-17489277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).



LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:01:18 -0500 2020-01-02T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69971 69971-17491316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:04:47 -0500 2020-01-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69974 69974-17491317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:10:28 -0500 2020-01-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
Linking Transcriptome with Morphology in Single Cells via Dynamic Developmental Recording (January 6, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70364 70364-17586192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

A joint seminar with the Life Sciences Institute

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:30:55 -0500 2020-01-06T09:30:00-05:00 2020-01-06T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Drosophila brain cell imaging
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69988 69988-17491332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).


LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:19:07 -0500 2020-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-06T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
Webinar: How to Apply to SEAS Graduate Programs (January 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70403 70403-17594450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

A SEAS Admission Coach will host an Application Information Session. They will provide an overview of how to apply to SEAS and answer questions live.

To attend this webinar, please register at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScA9mBvD_OdN8Pd1QLfWZWlPXIE8eWcDn2QRcovIBezPClgDA/viewform

Contact person:
SEAS Admissions: SEAS-admissions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:58:16 -0500 2020-01-06T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-06T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Workshop / Seminar
GSI Teaching Orientation (January 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69523 69523-17337520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

CRLT’s GSI Teaching Orientation is designed to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It also has proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.
Registration is required at https://crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsio.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-01-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T16:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
Winter 2020 GSI Teaching Orientation (January 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69309 69309-17301830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

CRLT's GSI Teaching Orientation is designed to help new GSIs teaching on the Ann Arbor campus to prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It also has proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:28:03 -0500 2020-01-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T16:20:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Workshop / Seminar GSITO
Guest Seminar: Ritu Raman, Ph.D., MIT (January 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70692 70692-17619578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biological materials dynamically sense and adapt their form and function to changing environments, but these capabilities have not been fully replicated in the synthetic materials traditionally used by engineers. My research has shown that integrating biohybrid and biomimetic materials with engineered systems yields devices capable of complex behaviors such as self-assembly, self-maintenance, and self-healing. These responsive behaviors are especially desirable in machines that interface with the dynamic human body, as they enable sensing and responding to individualized patient needs. This talk will cover my fundamental research in the field of biohybrid design, including: 1) Forward engineering of skeletal muscle bioactuators for adaptive biohybrid machines; 2) Design and implementation of smart responsive materials in implantable devices; 3) Micro-invasive tools for understanding cell-cell communication in complex 3D networks. These advances will enable my future lab to develop neuromuscular bioactuators for restoring motility in diseased or damaged bodily systems and actuating implantable devices. This talk will make the case that the next generation of biologically relevant machines must integrate our dynamic natural world with our own adaptive bodies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:41:59 -0500 2020-01-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar U-M BME Event
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69989 69989-17491333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:23:03 -0500 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70254 70254-17556169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored.

What kind of technology can I use at the library?
How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects?
What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:30:51 -0500 2020-01-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T14:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Transfer Transitions (January 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70887 70887-17732905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Looking for the secrets to success at UM? Did you know that you already possess everything you need? Please join us the day before classes begin for Transfer Transitions to learn how you can build on your transferable skills to make a smooth transition in your first semester and discover all the amazing opportunities available for you.

12:30-1:00pm. Check-in at the Transfer Student Center, 1180 LSA Building

1:00 - 1:30 pm Introduction: Next steps for a successful transition

1:30 - 2:15 pm Student Panel with the LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors

2:30 - 4:00 pm Opportunities and Resource Fair
1280 LSA Building

Learn about all the opportunities and support programs you can take advantage of as an LSA student including off-campus programs, on-campus programs, and academic support programs.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:02:21 -0500 2020-01-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T17:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69990 69990-17491334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:25:24 -0500 2020-01-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
EWRE Seminar Series (January 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70023 70023-17497478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Herek Clack is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on reducing the environmental and health impacts of a variety of airborne aerosols.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:44:09 -0500 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70254 70254-17556170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored.

What kind of technology can I use at the library?
How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects?
What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:30:51 -0500 2020-01-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Guest Master Class: Sarah Shafer, soprano (January 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70532 70532-17604925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The SMTD Voice Department and UMS present a master class with a “What’s in a Song” soloist.

Praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer for her, “crystalline sound, perfectly true intonation, glowing warmth, and total presence,” and named “remarkable, artistically mature...a singer to watch,” by Opera News, American soprano Sarah Shafer will work with select SMTD voice students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:15:50 -0500 2020-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Guest Master Class: Dai-Uk Lee, piano (January 9, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69955 69955-17485141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

South Korean pianist Dai-Uk Lee has been hailed as one of the most important pianists and conductors of his generation, with an international career as a performing artist as well as a sought-after teacher. He taught for many years at Michigan State University, and most recently at Hanyang University in Seoul.

Supported in part by the Sally Fleming Masterclass Fund.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:15:27 -0500 2020-01-09T10:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Complex Systems Seminar | The challenges of consensus: zealotry and information gerrymandering on social networks (January 9, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70804 70804-17644329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Social decision making - from voting in a national election to investing in the stock market - is fundamental to human behavior. But the outcome of social decisions are notoriously hard to predict. Even in a simple setting, such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, the result depends on a complex interplay between the assumptions, intentions and understanding of two individuals. When social decisions play out across a whole social network the dynamics can become dauntingly complex. Yet understanding how a social network structures the information environment, and the resulting effects on individual and collective decisions, is an increasingly urgent challenge.

In this talk I will give a brief overview of my research building mathematical and computational models as tools to study collective decisions, inter-group attitudes and prosocial behavior. I will describe my recent work using a combination of game-theoretic modeling, online experiments and analysis of social network data to predict outcomes in a voter game. I will show how such games naturally produce intransigent zealots, and how superficially ``fair’’ social networks can nonetheless lead to heavily biased collective decisions - a phenomenon we call information gerrymandering. Finally I will discuss my plans for future research and collaborations, to study how individual behavioral and population dynamics play out on complex social networks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:15:45 -0500 2020-01-09T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Alexander Stewart head shot
Guest Master Class: Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano (January 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70531 70531-17604924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The SMTD Voice Department and UMS present a master class with a “What’s in a Song” soloist.

British-born Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts brings a uniquely rich and wide-ranging voice to concert and recital repertoire. She will share her experience and knowledge with select SMTD voice students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:15:49 -0500 2020-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
DEI Mentoring and Well-Being Workshop (January 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70193 70193-17547061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all University of Michigan faculty. Space is limited to 20 participants. Light snacks will be served.

Research has shown that graduate students struggle with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression at higher rates than the general population. While some stress and uncertainty is unavoidable in graduate training, research mentors can have a direct impact on the well-being (emotional, physical, and mental health) of members of their research group. By fostering an environment that supports well being, mentors can positively impact mentees’ sense of autonomy, competence, personal growth, and belonging. Developing the skills to have open conversations about these topics is key to this process.

In this interactive workshop, faculty participants will engage in discussions and activities about mentee well-being using the Fostering Well-being curricula. Participants will: (1) learn the definition of mental health and identify signs of well being; (2) develop awareness about how mentoring behaviors can impact mentee well-being; (3) identify steps to creating an environment that fosters well-being in a diverse group of mentees; and (4) learn to initiate conversations with mentees about their well-being and mental health.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:03:29 -0500 2020-01-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "IOE DEI Mentoring and Well-Being Workshop" text
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70254 70254-17556171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored.

What kind of technology can I use at the library?
How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects?
What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:30:51 -0500 2020-01-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Rackham North: Project Management for Graduate Students—Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Staying on Track (January 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70270 70270-17558231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Graduate school is full of projects, whether it is your research, professional development, community engagement, or personal tasks. Project management provides useful methods and practices that can help you organize, manage, and successfully complete projects to better serve you and your partners. In this workshop, you will get an overview of project management and learn techniques and tools for effectively managing your projects from beginning to end. This workshop is open to all students, and may be especially helpful to those with collaborative, community-based public scholarship projects looking for ways to better organize their work.
Participants should come with a project in mind (can be personal, academic, etc.).
Goals:

Gain an introductory understanding of project management as a field.
Learn techniques to keep your projects organized and well-run.
Begin to develop a project charter and plan.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:16:45 -0500 2020-01-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
BME 500: Kent Leach, Ph.D. (January 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70064 70064-17505686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Advances in early detection of disease and increases in lifespan necessitate new strategies to repair or replace damaged organs and tissues. My research is directed toward incorporating cues from the native environment and natural extracellular matrix (ECM) into the design of cell culture platforms and musculoskeletal tissue engineered constructs. By applying fundamental principles in cell and molecular biology, biomaterials, and biotransport phenomena, we are developing materials-based strategies to direct the behavior of transplanted or host cells within bone defects and interrogate the behavior of various cell populations in more physiologically relevant conditions. In this talk, I will present examples of our recent work in designing biomaterials from cells and natural and synthetic polymers to instruct cell fate and enhance tissue formation and function with applications in bone regeneration and repair.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:53:25 -0500 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Event
CM Theory Seminar | Imaging Nematic Quantum Hall States and their Interacting Boundary Modes (January 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70881 70881-17728770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Two-dimensional quantum Hall systems offer a versatile platform to explore the interplay between topology and symmetry breaking facilitated by Coulomb interactions. In this talk, I discuss the novel phenomena that arise from spontaneous valley ordering of bismuth surface states in a large magnetic field. Specifically, we observe the emergence of a nematic phase which breaks the rotational symmetry of the underlying crystal and a ferroelectric phase that carries an in-plane electric dipole moment. We use a scanning tunneling microscope to identify and directly image the wavefunctions of these broken-symmetry quantum Hall phases. Furthermore, we explore the boundary between distinct nematic domains, which host counter-propagating 1D modes. By changing the number of modes, we realize strikingly different regimes where the boundary is either metallic or insulating, constrained by Coulomb interactions between these 1D modes.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:16:31 -0500 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Study Abroad for Transfer Students (January 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70885 70885-17732904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Meet with an Intercultural Programs Advisor from the Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS), to discuss study abroad opportunities for transfer students. This session will highlight short-term study abroad programs that might be easier to fit into your time at Michigan, as well as to answer any questions or concerns you might have about how these credits can work toward your UM degree.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:42:08 -0500 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
Writing Effective Email (January 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70422 70422-17594474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to generate the outcome you seek.

Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze. Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:56:20 -0500 2020-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Interactive Python Workshop (1/10/20 to 1/11/20) (January 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69797 69797-17425666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The U-M INFORMS Student Chapter is partnering with U-M Data Camp to offer an interactive Python workshop on January 10-11, 2020 for U-M students. Sessions will run approximately 9 AM-4 PM each day.

This workshop will be free to U-M students. Participants will be introduced to Python basics and taught intermediate skill applications in Python including data management/analysis and operations research methods (including optimization and dynamic programming).

More event details and registration instructions will be shared in early December. If you have any questions, please reach out to Adam VanDeusen (ajvandeu@umich.edu) or Anna White (agracew@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:12:49 -0500 2020-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Interactive Python Workshop" text
Large-scale Traffic Simulation: Recent Advances Based on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (January 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70036 70036-17499530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation focuses on modelling urban traffic dynamics
with Network Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFD). Recent
developments in MFD simulation propose two general formulations that
can both be applied to multi-reservoir systems. The first is the classical
accumulation-based formulation when traffic dynamics in each reservoir is governed by a conservation equation. The second is the more recently developed trip-based formulation when vehicle trips have individual lengths but share a single time-dependent mean speed in each region. The different model settings in both frameworks (merge, diverge, entry flow functions) are discussed and compared to microscopic simulations. The integration of multiclass extensions (mainly to represent public transport) is also presented with a particular focus on the resulting traffic dynamics at the reservoir boundaries. The question of MFD model calibration is then addressed considering two central questions: (i) the regional triplength estimation and (ii) the scaling of observations to determine the vehicle accumulations and travel productions. Several applications are discussed in the end: validation of the multi-reservoir setting for the city of Lyon, optimization of ride-sharing services, perimeter control for
reducing network-wide emissions.

Ludovic Leclercq is research director at IFSTTAR and professor in traffic flow theory at the University of Lyon, France.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:27:05 -0500 2020-01-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71139 71139-17783437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical engineering provides complete subsurface evaluation for the design and construction of roads, transit, airports, bridges, buildings, pipes, tunnels, and other structures. Somat’s roots are in geotechnical engineering, and we have been investigating and making expert recommendations on foundation conditions and materials for over three decades.

Somat professionals assess the risks posed by site conditions, design earthworks and structure foundations, and make recommendations during the early phases of a project. Somat also monitors site conditions, earthwork, and foundations during construction. Companies have applied our geotechnical expertise to airports, roads, bridges, transit systems, water/wastewater systems, utilities, and built facilities, for both government and private clients.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:57:48 -0500 2020-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
AEM Training for LSA Web Content Managers (January 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69395 69395-17318551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

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

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

Training required to gain website author permission.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:01:41 -0400 2020-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Adobe Experience Manager
Internship Lab (January 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70502 70502-17602783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN), and other tools you can use to build a great job or internship search strategy.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:01:10 -0500 2020-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Hatcher Graduate Library
NERS Colloquium: Computational Imaging for Precision Medicine (January 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70900 70900-17735197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract:
Advances in imaging computation and analytics is revolutionizing how radiographic data is being analyzed. Nowhere is it being felt more than in the field of thoracic radiology. With high resolution and soft tissue-air contrast, clinically available computed tomography scans are being exploited for algorithmic development, which includes AI techniques, leading to improved diagnostics, prognostication and response assessment. Here, I will present my groups’ research in phenotyping of obstructive lung diseases, deep learning feature detection for air trapping quantification and machine learning for improved donor lung screening for transplantation.


Biosketch:
Dr. Craig Galban is an Associate Professor of Radiology who received his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Florida State University. He has received consistent funding from the National Institutes of Health and has nearly 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:35:56 -0500 2020-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Speaker: Craig Galban
Interactive Python Workshop (1/10/20 to 1/11/20) (January 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69797 69797-17425669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The U-M INFORMS Student Chapter is partnering with U-M Data Camp to offer an interactive Python workshop on January 10-11, 2020 for U-M students. Sessions will run approximately 9 AM-4 PM each day.

This workshop will be free to U-M students. Participants will be introduced to Python basics and taught intermediate skill applications in Python including data management/analysis and operations research methods (including optimization and dynamic programming).

More event details and registration instructions will be shared in early December. If you have any questions, please reach out to Adam VanDeusen (ajvandeu@umich.edu) or Anna White (agracew@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:12:49 -0500 2020-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Interactive Python Workshop" text
Poverty Simulation (January 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70415 70415-17594465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

What choices would you make if you had little time and little money to spare?

A poverty simulation presented by Washtenaw County's Friends In Deed and the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice aims to help participants better understand some of the tough choices that people with few resources must make on a daily basis. The three-hour experiential learning workshop is a non-partisan, secular event.

Space is limited, so advance registration is required. You can register online, by calling Friends In Deed's Circles office at 734-340-9042 or by emailing suzanne@friendsindeedmi.org.

Doors open at 8:30 a.m., and the event runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend, and a suggested donation of $35 can be paid at the door to help defray the cost of holding the event.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:05:16 -0500 2020-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Poverty Solutions Workshop / Seminar
Guest Master Class: Jesse Blumberg, baritone (January 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70534 70534-17604927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The SMTD Voice Department and UMS present a master class with a “What’s in a Song” soloist.

“The range, authority, and sheer beauty of Blumberg’s singing were nonpareil,” (Classical Voice North America) SMTD graduate Jesse Blumberg returns to his alma mater to work with select voice students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:15:29 -0500 2020-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Master Class: Daniel McGrew, tenor (January 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70533 70533-17604926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The SMTD Voice Department and UMS present a master class with a “What’s in a Song” soloist.

Praised for his “lovely, nuanced tenor” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), SMTD DMA candidate Daniel McGrew is an active performer of a broad range of repertoire. He has appeared with Tanglewood, the Marlboro Festival, and the New York Festival of Song, and will work with selected SMTD voice students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:15:50 -0500 2020-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Earl V. Moore Building
Copyright and Coffee: Copyright Essentials (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70753 70753-17642223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Have you ever wondered whether you are allowed to use someone else’s work? Or whether you have a copyright in a work that you have created? If you are not entirely sure how copyright operates, this is the workshop for you. Sip some coffee as we discuss the basics of copyright law in the US. This 90-minute workshop from Yuanxiao Xu of the U-M Library Copyright Office will cover copyright concepts from the public domain to fair use.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:34:04 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar Copyright symbol
Applying Principles of Community Engagement for Grad Students (January 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70306 70306-17566422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop is intended for graduate students who have already attended an Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities workshop or those with some familiarity or experience with community engagement. In this intermediate level workshop, participants will apply core principles for thoughtfully engaging with communities into their practice, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways, with an attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/O4rWE.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Special CM Theory Seminar | Photoinduced Transformation of Nanoscale Domains in Ferroelectric Complex Oxides (January 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71126 71126-17779236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Complex oxide materials are an intense and exciting research area of condensed matter physics with their coupling between lattice, charge, and spin. Especially, nanoscale periodic polar configurations in ferroic oxides called ferroelectric domains exhibit novel phenomena leading to an intense flurry of research interests. However, as studies of functional responses to external stimuli have mainly focused on electric and mechanical responses, a new and effective approach to manipulate these polar configurations is on demand. In this presentation, I will discuss our efforts to investigate interaction of light with nanoscale domains and ferroelastic domain walls examined by in-situ and time-resolved x-ray diffraction experiments. By tracking temporal evolution of x-ray domain diffuse scattering, we have found that structural transformation of ferroic domains is optically induced and exhibits nonthermal characteristics. I will also present theoretical considerations to investigate the underlying physics of the photoinduced transformation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:16:32 -0500 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
HEP-Astro Seminar | Next Generation of Dark Matter Direct Detection (January 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70108 70108-17532707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Physics

The development of dark matter direct detection technologies, especially liquid xenon time projection chamber such as that used in the XENON1T experiment, has made rapid progress in the search for WIMP dark matter in the last decade. The upcoming XENONnT and LZ experiments will further improve the search sensitivity. Beyond that, a generation-3 (G3) dark matter detector will eventually reach the detection limits set by neutrinos. On the other hand, there are vast unexplored parameter space for light dark matter with mass below 1 GeV. In this talk, I will review the recent progress in dark matter direct detection experiments and discuss the promising new technologies that will lead the next generation experiments searching for both heavy and light dark matter particles.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:16:31 -0500 2020-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Ross School of Business
Library Tour and Overview of Resources for Transfer Students (January 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70254 70254-17556172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

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

Join a Learning Librarian as the questions below are explored.

What kind of technology can I use at the library?
How can I find scholarly sources for class assignments, papers, and projects?
What are some of the research tools the library owns that may help me with my research?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:30:51 -0500 2020-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T11:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Genetic Privacy and Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Jan. 2020 Precision Health Seminar (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65112 65112-16517527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Precision Health

Summary:
In 2018, law enforcement identified a suspect in the Golden State Killer case by matching the genomic profile of DNA left at crime scenes to those held in genetic genealogy databases and by using inferred ancestral relationships and genealogical mapping to generate promising investigative leads. Since then, hundreds of cold cases have been solved using similar investigative strategies. Critics argue that investigative genetic genealogy violates the privacy of direct-to-consumer genetic testing customers and their genetic relatives, and some scholars worry that this will have a negative impact on data sharing in research and clinical care. During this session, we will explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of law enforcement access to DNA data collected and shared for non-forensic purposes and how best to balance competing interests in promoting public trust and protecting public safety.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:01:31 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Amy McGuire
Heterochromatin Organization and Dynamics- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70990 70990-17766487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Training required to gain website author permission.

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

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

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

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

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

Space is limited.

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

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

CCMB Seminar Series – sponsored by DCMB

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

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

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

Get all the goods you need for your job search! Have a professional head shot taken, sign up to get business cards printed, and/or consult briefly with a U-M career and professional development expert on your LinkedIn profile. Light refreshments will be served. This event is a collaboration between the University Career Center and Rackham Graduate School.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yK7nM.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
MLK Day Department Colloquium | Creating our Future: Attracting and Retaining the Best Students from All Backgrounds (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71015 71015-17768616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

This is an inaugural MLK Day Department Colloquium.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RSVP now to save your spot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you interested in learning how to effectively connect with colleagues and prospective employers? If so, this integrative workshop will help you to develop a strong pitch that can be used in networking opportunities, such as career fairs or conferences. In addition to developing your elevator pitch, we will briefly discuss networking strategies and resources.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/dOdvn.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities in Washtenaw County (January 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64821 64821-16452979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:37:29 -0400 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T18:30:00-05:00 Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community logo
Finding Your Voice: Confidence and Clarity for Public Speaking (January 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70423 70423-17594475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

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

Bring a script or outline with you to explore together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This event is open to all IOE PhD students, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Thursday, January 16, 2020.

Title:
Adaptive Submodular Ranking and Routing

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

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

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

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

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

Brandon Cesul
Technical Fellow & Principal Systems Engineer, Centauri

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

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

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

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

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

RSVP now to save your spot.

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:10:18 -0500 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Ahmed Abdulla