Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Dividing Lines: The Impact Of District Boundaries On School Segregation In The 21st Century (March 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80206 80206-20596108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

Nationwide, nearly 13,000 school districts manage the delivery of public education to their local communities. Commute distance calculations reveal, however, that “local community” is an imprecise construct. Eight percent of all elementary school-aged are unable to attend the school closest to their home because it is located outside of their locally zoned residential school district. The spatial discontinuities produced by school district boundaries not only increase school commute times, but in some cases exacerbate school segregation. This occurs most often in areas where small, suburban school districts encircle large, citywide school districts. Decades of household sorting have created stark economic and social differences between some bordering school districts—generating a patchwork of territorial school district "fiefdoms." This talk presents preliminary findings from a counterfactual analysis. The estimates measure how much the enforcement of district boundaries over the present-day residential distribution of children contributes to public school segregation by race and poverty. The findings build from a novel method estimating access to public schools that incorporates the local school choice context for virtually every block in the U.S. The hidden costs of school district boundaries are revealed as a trade-off against the perceived benefits of local community control of schools and situated more broadly in a sociological perspective of state power over residential and school choice markets.


BIO:
Peter Rich is an Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology at Cornell University. His research investigates the connection between segregation, inequality, individual choice, and public policy in the United States, asking how sorting processes reflect and reinforce racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational attainment, wealth accumulation, and economic opportunity.


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

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:23:26 -0500 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar flyer
Grad School and Beyond Workshop (March 1, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82431 82431-21098211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Panelists include: Sidney Harris, Jen Triplett, Shauna Dyer, and Jamie Budnick
IDiscussion about how the defense works, the process of continuing to work on the paper and sending it out for publication, and different ways it can relate to dissertation research

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:01:43 -0500 2021-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | Extracting the Most From Collider Data With Deep Learning (March 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82057 82057-21014661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Precise scientific analysis in collider-based particle physics is possible because of complex simulations that connect fundamental theories to observable quantities. These simulations have been paired with multivariate methods for many years in search of the smallest distance scales in nature. Deep learning tools hold great promise to qualitatively change this paradigm by allowing for holistic analysis of data in its natural hyperdimensionality with thousands or millions of features instead of up to tens of features. These tools are not yet broadly used for all areas of data analysis because of the traditional dependence on simulations. In this talk, I will discuss how we can change this paradigm in order to exploit the new features of deep learning to explore nature at sub-nuclear distance scales. In particular, I will show how neural networks can be used to (1) overcome the challenge of intractable hypvervariate probability density modeling and (2) learn directly from (unlabeled) data to perform hypothesis tests that go beyond any existing analysis methods. The example for (1) will be full phase space unfolding and the example for (2) will be anomaly detection. The talk will include a discussion of uncertainties associated with deep learning-based analyses.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:15:37 -0500 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Major/Minor Expo Workshops: Choosing a Major (March 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81871 81871-20982973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SAA

No idea how to begin choosing a major or minor? Not sure which major or minor is the best fit for you? Getting pressure from family and friends to declare a major?

Choosing a major can seem like a challenging process. But you have time and you don’t have to do it alone. LSA advisors are here to help you focus your efforts to find the right academic path.

Attend an upcoming Choosing a Major workshop to learn more about how to navigate this process. Workshops will include group discussions and reflective questions to help you identify your interests, strengths, values, and goals, as well as an overview of campus resources to help you create an action plan.

Then attend the 2021 Major/Minor Expo on March 1 and 5 to explore the 70+ majors and 100+ minors LSA and other UM programs have to offer by talking with advisors, faculty, and current students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:29:23 -0500 2021-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location SAA Workshop / Seminar Student in library
CSCS Seminar: New data, models, and methods to guide SARS-CoV-2 vaccine design and vaccination programs that counter escape mutations (March 2, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82119 82119-21036721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Join Link: myumi.ch/v2ZYv

ABSTRACT:
Before the emergence of escape mutants that now threaten pandemic control, we constructed and analyzed the first model integrating immune waning and escape mutations. In the model, escape mutants were not problematic until a year into the pandemic. After they emerged, vaccination could worsen the pandemic. We examined four patterns by which existing escape mutants could stimulate further escape mutations. These provide insights in how to pursue epitope (the part of an antigen recognized by the immune system) specific model analyses. The time is ripe for this advance. The pandemic has unveiled new high-throughput methods to characterize immunity at an epitope specific and B and T cell specific levels. We will present our model and discuss how it could integrate systems immunology and systems epidemiology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:08:33 -0500 2021-03-02T11:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar James Koopman and Carl Simon
Microscopic Characterization of Cellular Membrane as an Active Platform for Biological Function- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80652 80652-20769622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will present a virtual seminar on Tuesday March 2nd, 2021 at 12:00pm

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:27:59 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Emad
TBP MLK Luncheon (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82085 82085-21028796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Luncheon series is an annual series sponsored by the College of Engineering and Tau Beta Pi. The series seeks to promote a culture of inclusion, while helping encourage attendees to continue their development as a "whole person" rather than simply as an "engineer". Past topics have covered a wide range of issues, including social and cultural conflict, social change, globalization, technological growth and change, and urbanization. Our main goal with the luncheon series is to look at topics that go beyond the purely technical side of engineering. This semester, in order to ensure attendee safety, we are holding these events virtually over Zoom.

Speaker: Prof. Nicole Ellison, Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information, School of Information

Title: Why We Don’t Click: Interrogating the Relationship Between Viewing and Clicking in Social Media Contexts by Exploring the “Non-Click”

Abstract: Motivated by work that characterizes view-based social media practices as “passive use,” contrasting it with more desirable, interactive “active use,” this study explores how social media users understand their viewing and clicking practices and the empirical relationship between them. Employing a combination of eye tracking, survey, and interview methods, our study (N = 42) investigates what we call the non-click —instances where people intentionally and thoughtfully do not click on content they spend time viewing. Counterintuitively, we find no difference in how long our participants viewed content they clicked on compared to content they did not click. Our interview data reveal three audience-related concerns that contribute to deliberate non-clicking and illustrate how non-clicked content contributes to social connectedness when imported into other channels. I’ll share some thoughts on what this study might suggest for communities and individuals. For instance, what are some of the consequences of social media ecosystems that assume we click on worthy content? For maintaining a friendship, is it better to pick up the phone after reading a post, or to click “Like”?

To register for the event, please fill out the form linked here (https://forms.gle/ntmjzqK9vwEV1gzb8) by midnight on Sunday, Feb. 28. All attendees will receive a GrubHub coupon for use during the luncheon event. We hope to see you there!

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:11:35 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar
Economic History: Understanding Persistence (March 2, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81490 81490-20901736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:31:26 -0500 2021-03-02T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Microbiome Seminar: Assessing the role of microbial metabolites in enhancing iron-mediated cell toxicity in colon cancer (March 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82453 82453-21100207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Microbiome Project

Yatrik Shah lab, Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Host: Matthew Ostrowski, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:26:13 -0500 2021-03-03T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Microbiome Project Workshop / Seminar MMP
Feuilleton Workshop - 1930s Feuilletons: Salonica and Berlin (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82203 82203-21052538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Tamir Karkason, Ben Gurion University, “Being Jewish Salonicans: Ladino Satirical Feuilletons in the 1930s”
Kerry Wallach, Gettysburg College, “Rahel Szalit’s Purim and Passover Stories in the Jüdische Rundschau“

You are invited to attend the second in a series of online workshops that explores the relationship between the feuilleton and modern Jewish cultures. These workshops, taking place in fall 2020 and spring 2021, hope to shed light on the interaction between translation and multilingual feuilleton texts as they arise in certain national and linguistic contexts and travel, often through translation, to others often worlds apart. For those unfamiliar with the project: these workshops are part of the larger, ongoing project to chart the historical, cultural, geographical, and textual development of Jewish feuilletons and feuilletonists across the globe.

Format: Speakers will provide contextual information on their text and offer a brief interpretation of the text. Question and answer as well as open discussion will follow the talks with the goal of building connections to other contexts and texts within the study of modern Jewish cultures. Text materials, both in original and in partial translation, will be available a week prior to the event.

Zoom RSVP: To ensure a collegial workshop atmosphere, we ask kindly that you RSVP via the UM Zoom Registration Page with your name and email address. You will receive a Zoom link and copies of texts and translations for the workshop: https://myumi.ch/QA4dg

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:40:27 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Workshop / Seminar JR 1930 Nr29 Rahel Szalit - Pessach - pg 1
Major/Minor Expo Workshops: Choosing a Major (March 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81871 81871-20982974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SAA

No idea how to begin choosing a major or minor? Not sure which major or minor is the best fit for you? Getting pressure from family and friends to declare a major?

Choosing a major can seem like a challenging process. But you have time and you don’t have to do it alone. LSA advisors are here to help you focus your efforts to find the right academic path.

Attend an upcoming Choosing a Major workshop to learn more about how to navigate this process. Workshops will include group discussions and reflective questions to help you identify your interests, strengths, values, and goals, as well as an overview of campus resources to help you create an action plan.

Then attend the 2021 Major/Minor Expo on March 1 and 5 to explore the 70+ majors and 100+ minors LSA and other UM programs have to offer by talking with advisors, faculty, and current students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:29:23 -0500 2021-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location SAA Workshop / Seminar Student in library
Labor Economics: Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors (March 3, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82519 82519-21114094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Individuals in low-income settings are often overly pessimistic about survival risk. This paper provides evidence from a randomized experiment that provided mature adults aged 45+ in Malawi with information about population mortality risks. We find a positive treatment effect on expectations about population survival and about HIV transmission risk associated with having multiple sex partners. The latter is driven by the expectations of HIV+ people living longer, making the pool of potential partners riskier. Consistent with the change in perceived HIV transmission risk, treated individuals are less likely to engage in risky sexual practices one year after the intervention.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:49:30 -0500 2021-03-03T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-03T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Department Colloquium | Population Properties of Compact Objects From the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82525 82525-21116076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

When two black holes merge, the resulting gravitational waveform encodes information about the black hole masses and spins. By studying how binary black holes are distributed in mass, spin, and distance, it is possible to probe the fate of massive stars while gaining insights into how compact binaries are assembled. In this talk, I report on the population properties of 47 compact binaries included in the recently published LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog two (GWTC-2). I highlight two key results. First, we find evidence for a feature (a bump or a kink) in the primary black hole mass spectrum at around 35 solar masses. This feature may be related to pair instability supernovae. Second, we find that 12-44% of binary black hole mergers contain black holes with spin vectors tilted by more than 90° away from the orbital angular momentum. This may indicate that at least some binary black holes are assembled dynamically in dense stellar environments. I discuss the implications of these results and highlight emerging questions in gravitational-wave astronomy.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:15:49 -0500 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81275 81275-20879913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:46:14 -0500 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 4, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-04T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82581 82581-21124028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Microbiology & Immunology

"The Role of Transporters in Nutrient Uptake and Pathogenesis"

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:48:54 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Microbiology & Immunology Workshop / Seminar
Karthik Ganesan (Psychology) and Ryan Sandberg (Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics) (March 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82549 82549-21116099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

KARTHIK GANESAN: Karthik is a 4th year PhD candidate in Psychology and Scientific Computing. He has a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Masters in Psychology. He works in the multisensory perception lab with Dr. David Brang and studies how multisensory integration occurs in the human brain and their mechanisms.

"EFFECTS OF VISUAL SPEECH ON AUDITORY SPEECH PERCEPTION": For quite some time now, the notion of different regions in the brain being highly interconnected instead of being segregated into modules has been widely discussed. There are numerous studies that provide evidence for such an effect where distinct regions in the brain responsible for different functionalities work together to create a unified sense of reality. A case in point would be audio-visual integration, where a person’s auditory stimuli/input is modulated by visual stimuli. One such example is the McGurk effect where the auditory component of one sound, paired with the visual component of another sound leads to the perception of a third sound. How does this effect happen and what are the ways in which the brain handles integration of these different senses? My research explores questions such as whether the brain integrates information from two different senses in a third, unrelated region of the brain or whether the sense of integration is just an illusion created by the modulatory effect of one sense on another. In this talk, I would provide evidence indicating a modulatory effect of visual stimuli on auditory speech perception. Results from complimentary data obtained using two different imaging modalities including intracranial electrocortocographic recordings and functional magnetic resonance imaging would be discussed.

RYAN SANDBERG: Ryan works with Robert Krasny in math and Alec Thomas in NERS on numerical methods in plasma physics, incorporating tree codes and particle methods in plasma simulation. I also study plasma-based electron and photon acceleration.

"FARRSIGHT: A FORWARD ADAPTIVELY REFINED AND REGULARIZED SEMI-LAGRANGIAN INTEGRAL GPU- AND HEIRARCHICAL TREECODE-ACCELERATED METHOD FOR THE VLASOV-POISSON SYSTEM": We present a new forward semi-Lagrangian particle method for the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. Recently developed methods for the VP system include deformable particles and high-order or discontinuous-Galerkin Eulerian methods. In contrast to these, we do not use any operator splitting and obtain the electric field by summing regularized pairwise particle interactions using a GPU-accelerated tree-code. We remesh and use adaptive mesh refinement to maintain an efficient representation of phase space. We benchmark on several standard test cases including Landau damping and the two-stream instability. We also compare the multi-threaded and single-GPU performance of the method.

Register to receive Zoom login information: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqf--rpj0pGNzq5SacnPN-m00mECA8w215

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:56:25 -0500 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Karthik Ganesan and Ryan Sandberg
Money Talk$ (March 4, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81673 81673-20943449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Register here - https://tinyurl.com/mesamoney

As part of Black History Month, please join the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), Trotter Multicultural Center’s Flourish Series, and the Men of Color Leading In the Classroom (M-CLIC) program under the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) as we host a five week Financial Wellness Series to support you at each step of your financial journey!

This workshop series will provide important guidance on money management matters. Each workshop consists of teachings about building wealth and providing students with the resources (knowledge, tools, and people) to help manage their personal finances. All workshops are online and available for ALL staff and students!

Facilitated by Dr. Damon P. Williams, Professor and Pastor passionate about Financial Health

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:52:06 -0500 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Workshop / Seminar Horizontal flyer with white background. At the top is black text with green text and then black text underneath. Under the third row of black text are three logos. To the right of the three logos is a circular image of the guest speaker. Underneath the logos and guest speaker image are the titles, dates, and times of each session in black text on top of a green bar. There is a black bar underneath the green bar.
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Life After Graduation” — Shelbie Prater, Morgan Hawthorne (March 4, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82570 82570-21124018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
Impress Yourself: helping the overwhelmed over-achiever learn to balance ambition and mental health

Bio:
Shelbie Prater, a Detroit native, is a holistic health and social equity advocate currently working in KPMG’s Advisory function. In 2018, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, then moved to Chicago to begin her consulting career. As a Sr. Associate in KPMG’s Transformation Delivery practice, she helped global C-suite executives construct and launch a firm-wide culture and values refresh while managing a 3,000-employee Culture Champions Network. Shelbie’s day job involves creating customized experiences for clients as they prepare to work in new ways, but she’s also widely known for her work as co-lead of an internal Race & Social Equity Taskforce. In 2020, she helped build a non-profit organization called Movement for the Movement, which engages community members in conversations about systemic racism and encourages allies to take more active roles in dismantling the educational, psychological, and professional barriers faced by many Black Americans today.


Presentation/Seminar Title:
From Blue Books to a Blue Badge: How to start your career in Tech

Bio:
Morgan Hawthorne is a Senior Financial Analyst within Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations based in Redmond, WA. Her team directly manages price discovery, demand allocation and change management for all cloud servers purchased by Microsoft, accounting for over $8 billion in annual spend. In addition to her day to day functions, Morgan volunteers on MCIO’s D&I Board and tutors for Treehouse, a Seattle based nonprofit that supports youth in foster care. Morgan earned her BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering (’19) from the University of Michigan where she was affiliated with NSBE and M-STEM. In her spare time, Morgan enjoys playing soccer, hiking, biking or grabbing a drink with friends.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:38:40 -0500 2021-03-04T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Shelbie Prater & Morgan Hawthorne
A Taste of Frontier Medicine: The Kumys Cure in Sergei Aksakov’s Eastern Frontier Trilogy (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81936 81936-20990916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

"A Taste of Frontier Medicine” considers Sergei Aksakov’s extensive, mid-nineteenth-century memoirs through the lens of a “frontier family narrative,” a genre perhaps more familiar in the American literary setting. While Aksakov’s work has received critical attention for its memoiristic content and attention to nature, the geohistorical specificity of the trilogy’s setting has been overlooked. This is surprising given the recent interest in understanding Russian colonial and imperial experience. A Family Chronicle (1856) and Childhood Years (1856) are not books in which the action could take place anywhere or in some generic pastoral or provincial space. Rather, they are about a specific place – Orenburgskii krai (Bashkiria) – that was a borderland, frontier, and contact zone from the time of its inclusion within Russian imperial space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into Aksakov’s lifetime. In “A Taste of Frontier Medicine,” I explore some of the ways in which the eastern Russian border with “Asia” broadly understood frames Aksakov’s work, as well as how these texts make claims about Russian identity as something defined by and in the “hybrid,” Eurasian sphere of the border zone. Discussion will center on two episodes that articulate a critical aspect of Aksakov’s frontier imaginary: the narrator’s mother’s taking of a “kumys cure.” The “kumys cure” serves as a revitalizing moment that establishes “nomadic,” “Asiatic” elements of the frontier as a crucial antidote to both a perceived excess of civilization and, counter-intuitively, to the potential dangers of the frontier zone itself.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:06 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar A Taste of Frontier Medicine
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81742 81742-20949398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP) and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany's retail gasoline market, where software became widely available in 2017. Because adoption dates are unknown, we identify adopting stations by testing for structural breaks in AP markers, finding most breaks to be around the time of widespread AP introduction. Because station adoption is endogenous, we instrument using headquarter adoption. Adoption increases margins, but only for non-monopoly stations. In duopoly markets, margins increase only if both stations adopt, suggesting that AP has a significant effect on competition.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:44:53 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Eun Yi Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80566 80566-20740179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Classical two-sample permutation tests for equality of distributions have exact size in finite samples, but they fail to control size for testing equality of parameters that summarize each distribution. This paper proposes permutation tests for equality of parameters that are estimated at root-n or slower rates. Our general framework applies to both parametric and nonparametric models, with two samples or one sample split into two subsamples. Our tests have correct size asymptotically while preserving exact size in finite samples when distributions are equal. They have no loss in local-asymptotic power compared to tests that use asymptotic critical values. We propose confidence sets with correct coverage in large samples that also have exact coverage in finite samples if distributions are equal up to a transformation.

We apply our theory to four commonly-used hypothesis tests of non-parametric functions evaluated at a point. Lastly, simulations show good finite sample properties of our tests.

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


https://economics.illinois.edu/profile/eunyi

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:36:34 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Eun Yi Chung
LUNCH & LEARN: "How Safe is Safe Enough? Lessons Learned About Risk Analysis in Space and Healthcare" — Jim Bagian (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82567 82567-21122035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
How Safe is Safe Enough? Lessons Learned About Risk Analysis in Space and Healthcare

Abstract:
IOE Professor, Astronaut and Medical Doctor Jim Bagian will use real-world examples based on aerospace and healthcare activities to illustrate the vital role that engineers can play in increasing the likelihood of sustainable success.

Bio:
Jim Bagian is a professor of practice with appointments in the Departments of Industrial and Operations and Aerospace Engineering and was the founding director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering as well as a research professor in the anesthesiology department of the Medical School at the University of Michigan. He was formerly the founding director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety and first Chief Patient Safety Officer for the Veterans Health Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs Health. He was also a NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle flights, investigated both Space Shuttle mishaps and was a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel from 2006 to 2016. He was elected as a member to both the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:52:31 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Jim Bagian
Viral hijacking of host molecular motors to promote nuclear entry (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82373 82373-21084381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

During entry, most DNA viruses must navigate the crowded cellular environment to reach the nucleus where transcription and replication of the viral genome occur. How polyomavirus (PyV), a small, DNA tumor virus, accomplishes this essential step in infection is unclear. In mammalian cells, intracellular transport is facilitated largely by two host motors, kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein, which move cargo along microtubules towards the periphery and center of the cell, respectively. We reported that dynein motor activity is required for PyV disassembly and nuclear arrival, but the exact mechanisms by which it promotes this process were unknown. Processive dynein activity requires a three-protein complex composed of the dynein motor, dynactin activator and an adaptor that confers cargo specificity. Unexpectedly, our most recent data revealed that the BICD2 adaptor is sufficient to disassemble the virus independent of the other components within the complex revealing cargo remodeling as a novel function of dynein adaptors. As BICD2 associates with both dynein and kinesin and is involved in cargo transport to the nuclear membrane, we are now investigating the role of these factors in the subsequent nuclear arrival and import of PyV.

Host: Matt Chapman

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:28:01 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Chelsey Spriggs
Economics at Work (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80974 80974-20824904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/QGLeJBnhvd4UPui38

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:46:57 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics@Work
Economic Theory: Reputation Building under Obervational Learning (March 5, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82699 82699-21161633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
I study a social learning model where a sequence of myopic players observe their predecessors’ actions as well as some private signals, and then forecast the behavior of a strategic long-run player. A sequence of buyers interact with a patient seller, who is either a strategic type or a commitment type that plays the optimal commitment action in every period. When each buyer observes all previous buyers’ actions and a bounded subset of the seller’s past actions, there exist equilibria in which the patient seller receives his minmax payoff since the speed of learning goes to zero as the seller becomes patient. When each buyer observes all previous buyers’ actions and an unboundedly informative private signal about the seller’s current-period action, the speed of learning is bounded away from zero and a patient seller receives at least his optimal commitment payoff in all equilibria.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:53:36 -0500 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (March 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
PHD DEFENSE: "Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making" — Hideaki Nakao (March 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81782 81782-20959276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/6352518961?pwd=WGYzdlN6aTVwR2pEWEdFR1VxazJlUT09
Meeting ID: 635 251 8961

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making

CHAIR:
Siqian Shen

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:25:42 -0500 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Hideaki Nakao
HEP-Astro Seminar | The Asymmetry of Antimatter in the Proton (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82639 82639-21149734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Even after more than 100 years of studies, the proton is puzzling. Questions such as what is the exact size of the proton, how does the spin and the mass of the proton arise, and what is the exact composition of the proton still captivate our field. In the simplest picture, the proton is made of two up and one down quark, in a more comprehensive picture, however, the proton is a strongly-coupled, relativistic, infinite-body system, where quarks and antiquarks come in and out of existence for very short times. Their fleeting existence makes the antiquarks within protons difficult to study, but it is discernible in reactions in which a matter–antimatter quark pair annihilates. In this presentation, I will discuss a recent result published by the SpinQuest collaboration that shows that nature prefers anti-down quarks to anti-up quarks in the proton. This is in contrast to predictions from perturbative QCD where no such antiquark imbalance is expected in the proton.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:15:53 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA/Ross Dual Degree Info Sessions (March 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80478 80478-20728296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SAA

If you are interested in applying for the Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP) between LSA and the Ross School of Business you must attend an MDDP information session.

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom at 4 pm on the following days:

January 11,12
February 8,9
March 8,9
April 12,23

The Zoom URL is https://umich.zoom.us/j/93289886804

Presenter-Jeff Harrold, Coordinator for Academic Standards and Special Populations, LSA Student Academic Affairs, jharrold@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:06:50 -0500 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location SAA Workshop / Seminar Computer
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Complex Systems Seminar "Where models meet morality: What role should complexity science play in addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the COVID-19 crisis?" (March 9, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82461 82461-21106111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic and racial inequalities in infection and mortality have been key features of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. While identifying these disparities is critical, it has also become clear that we lack the theoretical and methodological tools to integrate the mechanisms generating these inequities into models of infectious disease transmission. This is a huge gap, as such models have become key tools in developing policy and evaluating the impact of interventions ranging from social distancing to vaccination. In this talk, I will outline some of the work done by my research group that is focused on understanding the mechanistic drivers of spatial and socioeconomic variation in infection and death from SARS-CoV-2 in Michigan (see e.g. covidmapping.org) and conduct a walk-through of an interactive example of a model that attempts to integrate a key driver of infection inequality - residential segregation - into a model of infectious disease transmission. For more information, please visit our lab group site at epibayes.io.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:35:40 -0500 2021-03-09T11:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Jon Zelner, SPH
Employer Connections: Resume Review with Bath and Body Works, Northwestern Mutual, BP, and PIRGIM (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82713 82713-21163651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

You’ve probably already had your résumé looked at by a peer, Hub coach, professor, mentor etc. Now is your chance to connect with a recruiter to gain feedback from the professionals whose job it is to review résumés. Join the LSA Opportunity Hub and recruiters from Bath and Body Works, Northwestern Mutual, BP, and PIRGIM as they offer their expertise on creating an effective resume. Chat one on one with a talent acquisition team member of your choosing and receive the feedback on how to craft your résumé and build your experience to be competitive applicants.

You should attend this Employer Connection if you are:
- An LSA undergraduate student seeking feedback on professional application materials
- Eager to develop an understanding of how you may fit within an industry

What you’ll gain by attending:
- First hand recruiter knowledge on how to cater your professional materials
- Connections with professionals who lead the recruiting process for leading organizations

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

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the LSA Opportunity Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:28:57 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Two people reviewing a resume
Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA Poly(A) Tail Machinery- G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80653 80653-20769631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will present our annual G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship in Biological Chemistry. This will be a virtual seminar held at 12:00pm on Tuesday March 9th, 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:31:56 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar passmore
Economic Theory (March 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81712 81712-20943465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:05:34 -0500 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Taubman Institute Healthy You Conversation Webinar (March 9, 2021 1:01pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82477 82477-21108093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:01pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD, the Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Skin Molecular Immunology, an Associate Professor, Dermatology and the Taubman Institute’s Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar, will discuss his work on basic immunological and genetic research on psoriasis, with projects directed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of psoriasis.

Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Send questions to glenwalk@med.umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:02:39 -0500 2021-03-09T13:01:00-05:00 2021-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Workshop / Seminar Taubman Healthy You Conversations
Economic History: Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South (March 9, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81494 81494-20901737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:32:30 -0500 2021-03-09T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Anti-Racist Community Engagement (For Students): March (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79676 79676-20446300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This interactive virtual workshop will interrogate the role white supremacy often plays in university community engagement experiences and will explore anti-racist approaches to our work in and with communities. The workshop is designed for students with prior knowledge or experience with community engagement who are interested in learning more about how to practice anti-racism in their engaged course, service, project, or research.

Workshop content will build on basic concepts of race, racism, social identity, power, and privilege. If you're newer to those concepts and how they connect to community engagement, we encourage you to complete modules 1 and 2 of the Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change MOOC and/or attend our Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities workshop (see upcoming sessions on our homepage) before signing up for this offering. You may also want to read Tania Mitchell's (2008) “Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning” before attending. All these links as well as the registration link are available below under "Related Links."

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:17:47 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycle (March 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81276 81276-20879915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper studies the transmission of the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) to domestic credit market conditions in a large emerging market, Turkey, over 2003-13. We use administrative data covering the universe of corporate credit transactions matched to bank balance sheets
to document four facts: (1) an easing in global financial conditions leads to lower borrowing costs and an increase in local lending; (2) domestic banks more exposed to international capital markets transmit the GFC locally; (3) the fall in local currency borrowing costs is larger than foreign currency borrowing costs due to the comovement of the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) premium with the GFC over time; (4) data on posted collateral for new loan issuances show that collateral constraints do not relax during the boom phase of the GFC.
*To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:37:31 -0500 2021-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Workshop: Managing Your Online Researcher Identity (March 11, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81044 81044-20838695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

There is a lot to consider when crafting an online identity as a researcher. In this session, we’ll talk about the different types of online scholarly engagement and review best practices. We will go over some of the specific platforms that scholars use, such as ORCID, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Scopus Author ID, Research Gate/Academia.edu, and Twitter.

This online session will be held via Zoom. Zoom information will be sent out to registrants the day prior to the workshop. Register at https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/managing-your-online-researcher-identity-3/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:01:45 -0500 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar
Consulting Career Opportunity (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82889 82889-21211372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comprehensive Studies Program

Introduction to the Consulting Industry and the opportunities for a Career. All majors welcome especially non business.

CSP is excited to be hosting Deloitte Consulting for our first Power Hour session! During this session, students will be able to learn about Deloitte, the day in the life as a consultant, and hear about the different career opportunities the firm offers to undergraduate students. Please tune in for this session and come ready with any questions you have for these Wolverines who’ve transitioned into Consulting! All are welcome!

RSVP Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/3560

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:15:01 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comprehensive Studies Program Workshop / Seminar Careers Intern Info All Majors
Listening Circles (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81411 81411-20893775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Listening Circles are new and free for U-M undergraduates and graduate students!

In this time of COVID-19, many students feel isolated and yearn for deeper connections.

Listening Circles can help create space for students to share experiences and feelings, create connections, and look to the future.

The goal of a listening circle is to create space for shared emotional connection about the impact of pressing issues, such as racism and the pandemic. We aim to support individuals and communities to explore these collective experiences together. Listening circles provide a space for students to connect, share their experiences and look to the future.

Consider joining an upcoming Listening Circle on Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:15 PM on:
February 11, 2021: Well-being and Race
February 25: Loneliness and Connection
March 11: Overwhelm and Stressors of a Remote Year

Please sign-up on Sessions!
https://myumi.ch/kxyOb

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:45:41 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Basset Hound
SEMINAR: "Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice" — Eunshin Byon (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82612 82612-21145764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice

Abstract:
Importance sampling has been widely used to improve the efficiency of deterministic computer simulations where the simulation output is uniquely determined, given a fixed input. To represent complex system behavior more realistically, however, stochastic computer models are gaining popularity. Unlike deterministic computer simulations, stochastic simulations produce different outputs even at the same input. This extra degree of stochasticity presents a challenge in analyzing engineering system performance. Our study tackles this challenge by addressing two problems. First, we derive the optimal importance sampling density and allocation procedure that minimize the variance of an estimator. Second, we present a non-parametric approach to approximate the optimal importance sampling density with a multivariate input vector when each factor’s contribution is different. The application of our method to a computationally intensive, aeroelastic wind turbine simulator demonstrates the benefits of the proposed approaches.

Bio:
Eunshin Byon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She received her Ph.D. degree in the Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Texas A&M University, College Station, USA in 2010. Dr. Byon’s research interests include data analytics, quality and reliability engineering, system informatics and uncertainty quantification. She has received several Best Paper Awards including the Best Applications Paper Award from IISE Transactions on Quality& Reliability Engineering. Dr. Byon has served the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) subdivision of INFORMS as a chair-elect and chair in 2019-2020. She is a member of IIE, INFORMS and IEEE.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:53:05 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Eunshin Byon
Anna Redgrave (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and Agnit Mukhopadhyay (Climate & Space Sciences & Engineering) (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82557 82557-21116106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

ANNA REDGRAVE: Anna Redgrave began her science career as an undergrad, master’s student, and lab technician studying developmental biology in zebrafish. She became fascinated by how complicated developmental systems are, and joined the Wittkopp lab at U-M for her PhD to investigate one mechanism of complicating developmental systems: gene duplication.

"REGULATORY DIVERGENCE OF DUPLICATED GENES": Gene duplication has long been studied as a mechanism of evolution at the genetic level. Duplicated genes introduce redundant protein-coding sequence, allowing duplicates to acquire novel functions while preserving existing functions. Gene duplication, however, also provides a substrate for non-protein coding, regulatory sequence evolution. Genes are duplicated with varying levels of their native regulatory sequence intact. This prompts the question: how does the degree to which duplication preserves native regulatory sequence affect future evolutionary paths? Here, I investigate this question by comparing the expression profiles of duplicate genes across many environments in two diverging species of yeast.

AGNIT MUKHOPADHYAY: Agnit is a NASA Earth & Space Sciences Fellow at the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, with a background in Aerospace Engineering. He is co-advised by Drs. Michael Liemohn and Daniel Welling to quantify the nonlinear coupling between the Earth’s atmosphere and it’s near-plasma environment. He loves working with numerical models to assess and predict the impact of extreme natural events on life and technology.

"QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF THE AURORA ON SPACE WEATHER": Conjuring a captivating vista of a colourful nightsky, the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) and australis (Southern Lights) are a byproduct of upper atmospheric ionization by charged particles (plasma) of solar origin. The near-constant drizzling of auroral plasma particles from outer space are excellent drivers of space weather activity caused by solar disruptions like flares and coronal mass ejections that can adversely affect man-made technology like GPS satellites, electrical power grids and oil pipelines. Using a combination of physics-based models, data regression tools, in-situ satellite and ground-based telemetry, we figure out what forms and drives the aurora, how these drivers modify the aurora’s electro-chemical atmospheric modification, and how this system could be predicted during extreme natural events.

Register to receive the Zoom information for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlceutrDIuEtLOgDS3ETaDjFmeDUT9hNU6

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:53:09 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Anna Redgrave and Agnit Mukhopadhyay
Economic Development Seminar (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81974 81974-20998843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at fspp-ipc-questions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:55:00 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
International Economics and Macroeconomics (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82403 82403-21092286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:20:28 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Labor Economics: Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap (joint with Patricia Cortes and Nicolas Guida-Johnson) (March 12, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81201 81201-20872027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: Occupational segregation by gender, although still sizable, has decreased significantly over the last few decades. Women have also made marked gains in education relative to men, with the gender gap in college education reversing in favor of women since the early 1990s. In this paper, we examine the contribution of automation to both these phenomena. Specifically, we analyze the effects of automation on the occupational structure of men and women and overall occupational segregation as well as gender differences in skill investments. We start by documenting two facts: (1) in 1980, women were much more likely than men to be in occupations with a high risk of automation, and (2) the cross-occupational relationship between risk of automation in 1980 and the change in worker share between 1980 and 2017, though negative for both genders, is much steeper for women. Taken together, these two facts suggest that women were more likely to be displaced by automation.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:44:32 -0500 2021-03-12T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Seminar coordinator: Marlon James Sales (U-M Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies)

Although Filipino migration has historically converged in other places across the US, it is in the Midwest, particularly at the University of Michigan, where some of the most extensive archival sources on this Southeast Asian nation can be found. These sources are generally used to examine US imperialism in Asia-Pacific, often glossing over the fact that the American period in the Philippines also led to the flourishing of Filipino literature in Spanish as a nationalist response. In this second installment of our Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminars, we shall analyze the archive as a site of translation and historical memory as a multilingual construct, focusing specifically on Hispanofilipino texts in the libraries of the University of Michigan and the broader Midwest. Translation here means two things. Since Spanish has never been spoken widely in the Philippines despite three centuries of colonial rule, translation may refer to the rendering of texts in another language supposedly understood by a majority of local readers. But given the limitations in how archival data is stored in the Philippines, translation may also refer to the movement of the archival sources themselves, whether physically or digitally, thus reclaiming them as objects of cultural memory. How has translation contributed to a monolingualized commemoration of multilingual pasts? What are the stakes of reconstructing a nation’s history through texts written in colonial languages? In which ways can translation help in recuperating a peripheral literary tradition in Spanish?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry – Evidence from the Notary Profession (by Frank Verboven and Biliana Yontcheva) (March 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81743 81743-20949399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

ABSTRACT:

This paper studies entry and price restrictions in a private monopoly: the Latin notary system. Under this widespread system, the State appoints notaries and grants them exclusive rights to certify important economic transactions, including real estate, business registrations, and marriage and inheritance contracts. We develop an empirical framework to uncover the current policy goals behind the entry and price restrictions. We estimate a spatial demand model to infer the extent of market expansion versus business stealing from entry; a multi-output production model to infer the size of scale economies and markups; and an entry model to infer the State’s objective function (conditional on the regulated prices). We subsequently perform policy counterfactuals with welfare-maximizing and free entry. We show how policy reform would generate considerable efficiency increases, and decrease the cost of the services to consumers.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:03:19 -0500 2021-03-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jonathan Terhorst, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan (March 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80567 80567-20740180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: In this talk, I will outline some current research challenges in statistical genetics, and describe recent progress my group has made towards solving them. First, I will introduce the sequentially Markov coalescent (SMC), which is an important class of methods for approximating the likelihood of DNA sequence data under realistic models of evolution. Examples of the types of questions we can address using SMC include: When did humans migrate out of Africa? How did polar bears fare during the last global warming event? Why did Neanderthals disappear? We derive new Bayesian and frequentist inference procedures for SMC that are faster and have less bias than existing methods. The key new insight is to establish connections between SMC and certain well-studied models in changepoint detection. In the second portion of the talk, I will discuss a new, model-based procedure we have developed for detecting signatures of natural selection in genetic data. Our estimator is adept at discovering instances of directional and balancing selection in the human genome, and has a concrete interpretation in terms of gene tree imbalance. Finally, time permitting, I will share some early results on using these and other methods to study SARS-CoV-2 biology and the ongoing global pandemic.

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

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jonth/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:18:23 -0500 2021-03-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Jonathan Terhorst
LUNCH & LEARN: "Healthcare Engineering & COVID-19: Tales from the Trenches" — Amy Cohn (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82182 82182-21050549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Healthcare Engineering & COVID-19: Tales from the Trenches

Abstract:
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our healthcare system had to adjust to new circumstances quickly. The virus disrupted nearly every area of the health system and meant industrial engineers had the opportunity to use their unique skillset to address the many obstacles the pandemic introduced. In this talk, I will share several real-world instances of University of Michigan engineers working directly with Michigan Medicine to have an immediate impact during this difficult time. These efforts included N-95 mask reprocessing, virus aerosolization concerns, the search for personal protective equipment (PPE), addressing postponed and backlogged elective surgeries, campus COVID testing, and vaccine distribution. In addition to projects we could begin to address immediately, I’ll discuss the opportunities for industrial engineering research to help us be more prepared for future disruptions in the healthcare system.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:10:33 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Amy Cohn
The ins and outs of bacterial organelles (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82374 82374-21084382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Abstract: Open any biology textbook and you are likely to learn that, in contrast to eukaryotes, bacteria do not contain organelles to compartmentalize and facilitate cellular functions. However, numerous protein- and lipid-bounded organelles are known to exist within a diverse array of bacterial species. In my group, we aim to understand the process of compartmentalization at a molecular level in order to understand the origins and functions of bacterial organelles and exploit them for future applications. I will discuss our work on the biogenesis and subcellular organization of the magnetic magnetosome organelles of magnetotactic bacteria and our recent discovery of ferrosomes, iron-accumulating compartments that define a novel class of bacterial organelles

Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:43:04 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Magnetosome chains
Economic Theory (March 12, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81733 81733-20949387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:01:10 -0500 2021-03-12T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L50hQhumR_GoQ45jVwQPtA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82097 82097-21034705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Immediately after the book talk, join us for the launch of the virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish. This virtual exhibit, curated by Professor Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology) coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:33 -0500 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
Helping Newborns Survive and Thrive in Low Resource Settings (March 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80207 80207-20596109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

During this presentation Dr. Kavita Singh will discuss her work focused on evaluating quality improvement maternal and newborn child projects in Ghana and Ethiopia. These projects employed a quality improvement approach whereby health workers and staff at the local level formed quality improvement teams. Using quality improvement methods, these teams first identified barriers to providing high quality maternal and newborn care and then proposed simple, low-cost solutions to address these barriers. Dr. Singh’s external evaluation team employed a mixed methods approach to understand whether and how this intervention improved maternal and child health outcomes. The evaluation methods included quantitative impact analyses, team assessments, quality assessments and cost-effectiveness analyses.


BIO:
Kavita Singh (Ongechi), PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at UNC and also a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She served as the Senior Technical Advisor for Maternal and Child Health for the MEASURE Evaluation project, and now serves in that role for the Data for Impact Project (D4I). Dr. Singh has been the lead PI for the evaluation of several quality improvement projects focused on maternal and child health in Ghana and Ethiopia. She was also an evaluator for the Safe Motherhood Initiative in Malawi and has been researching the effect of postnatal care and essential newborn care on neonatal survival. Much of Dr. Singh’s current work is focused on methodologies to obtain data on hard to measure outcomes such as maternal mortality and techniques to improve the quality and use of health facility data. She used indirect estimation techniques to understand the effect of forced migration on refugee and host populations in Northern Uganda and South Sudan. She has also used venue-based methodologies to understand localities most in need of HIV prevention messages and services. Dr. Singh is keenly interested in translating pilot phase evaluation findings to inform the implementation of scale-up phases and adapting methodologies to get better data on maternal, child and newborn health outcomes.

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


NOTE: The last 15 minutes of this session are reserved for a professional development conversation between the presenter and PSC trainees.


Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:09:00 -0500 2021-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop (Monthly) (March 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78354 78354-20783444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) is now offering a free, virtual Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop. Participants will receive a link to access the virtual workshop after registration. It is scheduled for 12 p.m. (noon, EST), the third Monday of each month.

*The program is an approved alternative to the SMILE Program by the Washtenaw County Friend of the Court.*

Parenting Through Separation and Divorce virtual workshops offer practical, actionable advice for couples going through a temporary or permanent split. UCCF staff create a caring and collaborative environment for attendees in order to help parents understand their children’s needs during what can be a tumultuous time of change and uncertainty.

This workshop offers suggestions for creating the most beneficial post-divorce parenting relationships. While it is free, workshop participants must register via the link.

*Workshop Details*
**When:** 12 - 1 p.m. (NOON) Monday, Feb. 15, March 15, April 19, or May 17, 2021
**Where:** Online via Zoom (register for the link).
**Cost:** Free, but registration is required.
**How to Register:** Click the "Ticket" link to go to the Eventbrite registration. Or see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parenting-through-separation-and-divorce-virtual-workshop-spring-2021-registration-126094689611

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:43:55 -0500 2021-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Parenting Through Separation and Divorce Workshop
HEP-Astro Seminar | The milliQan Experiment: Search for Millicharged Particles at the LHC (March 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82793 82793-21179561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Arising in hidden sector models of dark matter, millicharged particles may be produced copiously at the LHC. However, due to their very small energy depositions, general purpose detectors are blind to such particles. In order to provide sensitivity, the milliQan experiment consists of several layers of long scintillator bars pointing towards the CMS interaction point, paired with high-gain, low-noise photomultiplier tubes capable of measuring a single scintillation photon. In 2017, a 1% scale "demonstrator" was installed at the planned site in order to study the feasibility and develop understanding of the experiment. The demonstrator ran very successfully, allowing a search to be undertaken that set competitive constraints and providing critical insights for future detectors. In this talk I will discuss the general concept of the experiment, the results from the demonstrator, and the plan for future detectors at the LHC and beyond.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:15:36 -0400 2021-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Beyond the Ferritin Superfamily: New Chemistry and New Scaffolds for Dimetal Oxygenases-Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (March 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80654 80654-20769632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Amie Boal, Penn State University, will present a virtual seminar on Tuesday March 16th, 2021 at 12:00pm

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:11:28 -0500 2021-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Boal
Sociogenomics & Polygenic Scores (March 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82258 82258-21060576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

PDHP begins our 2021 workshop series on March 16th, with a workshop entitled Sociogenomics & Polygenic Scores, co-presented by Ben Domingue of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and Erin Ware of the University of Michigan Population Neurodevelopment & Genetics Group. This half-day workshop is geared toward data analysts interested in combining social science and genetic analysis, and will provide information on the recent history of sociogenomics and a novel approach for examining gene-by-environment interactions, as well as hands-on practice with state-of-art techniques in the field (including creating polygenic scores from simulated plink data using a high-performance computing environment).

Topics include:

• Recent history of sociogenomics
• A novel approach for examining gene-by-environment interactions
• Hands-on introduction to high-performance computing and genetic data types
• Computation of polygenic scores using PRSice2 software

Registration Required

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:27:58 -0500 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Poster for Sociogenomics & Polygenic Scores
Art+Feminism 2021: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82552 82552-21116101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn how to edit Wikipedia! When cis and trans women, non-binary people, people of color, and Indigenous communities are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth-most-visited site in the world, information about people like us gets skewed and misrepresented. Join us to improve representation on Wikipedia for women and non-binary people of color in arts and activism, with a particular emphasis on artists and activists from Detroit and Michigan. No experience required! Please register: https://myumi.ch/mnV2G

Art+Feminism is an international community that strives to close the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. This year at U-M, we’re delighted to host Asmaa Walton, founder of the Black Art Library, a community resource dedicated to preserving the history of Black visual aesthetics. Please join us for other events in this series, a Lecture by Asmaa Walton and a Closing Celebration.

Art+Feminism 2021 is a collaboration between U-M Library and the Stamps Gallery.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:10:10 -0500 2021-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Asmaa Walton
Embracing Our Artistic Selves: Navigating Times of Crisis and Addressing Inequity (March 16, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80488 80488-20728307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here to receive the Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/embracing-our-artistic-selves-navigating-times-of-crisis-and-addressing-inequity


As a scholar focused on addressing equity within arts education, Dr. Fitzpatrick draws upon her formative experiences as a white teacher of students of color to examine systemic injustice within educational spaces. Within this workshop, she will encourage attendees to first connect with their own artistic selves, considering the ways that the arts are woven within their own life’s story. Following a journey to reconsider their positionality with regard to the arts, attendees will examine the ways that human beings use the arts to address injustice, particularly at moments of crisis such as those we are experiencing today. Equity in arts education will be examined from this broader perspective, with each participant reflecting on their own journey within educational spaces as it relates to identity and marginalization.

An integral part of the Inspire initiative is pairing advocacy, social change, and activism with skills that enhance a sense of wellbeing and focus. A short guided Mindfulness Meditation practice will be incorporated into the program.

Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish, PhD is Associate Professor of Music Education for the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan. Before coming to U-M in the fall of 2008, Fitzpatrick served as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Louisville. Fitzpatrick is an active and prolific researcher, focusing on the experiences of those who have been historically marginalized in music education. Her research has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Contributions to Music Education, Southwestern Musician, the Music Educators Journal, and the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, in addition to numerous book chapters. Her book, Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers, was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. Fitzpatrick has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and is a member of the Music Education Advisory Board for the Save the Music Foundation. She is the past national elected chair of the Social Sciences Special Research Interest Group for the National Association of Music Education, and also serves as a frequent clinician and guest conductor with bands across the United States. An avid supporter of public school music programs, she is the former director of instrumental music at Northland High School in Columbus, Ohio, where she directed the district’s largest band and orchestra program and was awarded the Brass Band of Columbus’ 2003 God and Country Award, recognizing her “outstanding, sensitive leadership of young people.”

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:34:36 -0500 2021-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits (March 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80594 80594-20759752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

In this workshop, we'll build on the lessons of growth mindset and put failure into practice, with activities that allow us to focus on the learning that goes along with mistakes. This way, we can create environments that allow for innovation, personal, and professional growth.

Register at: myumi.ch/1pBpO

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:37:45 -0500 2021-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar you can('t) do it
Healthcare Administration with Children’s Hospital of Michigan Chief Strategy Officer, Jacqlyn Smith, MPH (March 16, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83005 83005-21235295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join the LSA Opportunity Hub and Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s Chief Strategy Officer, Jacqlyn Smith, in an exploration of her journey from a liberal arts student to a leadership role at one of Michigan’s top hospitals. During this session, you will have an opportunity to explore a variety of healthcare roles that do not require whitecoats, consider different pathways that one can take to pursue them, and learn from an industry leader.


You should attend this session if you are:

- Interested in pursuing a career in hospital administration, public health, or healthcare in general

By attending this session, you will:

- Learn more about hospital administration from an industry leader
- Develop a few ideas on how you may gain the experience needed to assess your fit within the industry

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:23:59 -0500 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar This was captured well waiting for the doctor who was busy at the time
Game of Microbes: Natural Products as Weapons for Microbial Regulation in the Oral Cavity (March 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82901 82901-21211384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Microbiome Project

Abstract: Co-existence and intraspecies interactions in human microbiomes have been well studied over the past decade. In the human oral microbiome alone, you can find over 700 different microbial species at a given time. These microbial species can shape the microenvironment throughout the human body, by their microbial interactions mediated by secretion of chemical mediators (i.e. secondary metabolites). These interactions are paramount to maintaining oral health and systematic health. Several epidemiological studies have linked dysbiosis of oral microbes with cardiovascular disease, poor glycemic control in diabetics, low b rheumatoid arthritis and a number of other conditions. Through recent advances in technology, including next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatic tools, have helped to unravel the complexities of the oral microbiome. It is still not understood how microbial interactions are mediated within the oral cavity and how they affect oral and systemic health. Using a prospective, split mouth, experimental gingivitis model on 20 healthy non-smoking participants, we were able to observe metabolite profile changes in oral cavity during gingivitis progression and identify several small molecules that have regulatory properties in pathogenic oral microbial growth. With this research, we may be able to develop novel enhancers and pharmaceuticals for oral health and characterize molecules that can serve as biomarkers for oral and systemic diseases.

Hosts: Matthew Ostrowski, Thomas Schmidt

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:13:03 -0500 2021-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Microbiome Project Workshop / Seminar Michigan Microbiome Project
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks (March 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82207 82207-21052542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study the consumption response to typical labor income shocks and investigate how these vary by wealth and race. First, we estimate the elasticity of consumption with respect to income using an instrument based on firm-wide changes in monthly pay. While much of the consumption-smoothing literature uses variation in unusual windfall income, this instrument captures the temporary income variation that households typically experience. In addition, because it can be constructed for every worker in every month, it allows for more
precision than most previous estimates. We implement this approach in administrative bank account data and find an average elasticity of 0.23, with a standard error of 0.01. This increased precision also allows us
to address an open question about the extent of heterogeneity by wealth in the elasticity. We find a much lower consumption response for high-liquidity households, which may help discipline structural consumption
models.
Second, we use this instrument to study how wealth shapes racial inequality. An extensive body of work documents a substantial racial and ethnic wealth gap. However, less is known about how this gap translates
into differences in welfare on a month-to-month basis. We combine our instrument for typical income volatility with a new dataset linking bank account data with race and Hispanicity. We find that black (Hispanic) households cut their consumption 50 (20) percent more than white households when faced with a similarly-sized income shock. Nearly all of this differential pass-through of income to consumption is explained in a statistical sense by differences in liquid wealth. Combining our empirical estimates with a model, we show that temporary income volatility has a substantial welfare cost for all groups. Because of racial disparities in consumption smoothing, the cost is at least 50 percent higher for black households and 20 percent higher for Hispanic households than it is for white households.

For information on how to watch this lecture and sign up for the SBEE mailing list to receive notice of upcoming events, please visit the SBEE website:
https://umbee.github.io/SBEE_Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:31:10 -0500 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Department Colloquium | Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter (March 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82569 82569-21124010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

As the gravitational evidence accumulates inexorably that dark matter comprises the vast majority of the mass of the universe, the particle nature of dark matter remains a mystery. New laboratory experiments are being commissioned to probe dark matter lighter than the proton mass, but the signatures in these detectors rely crucially on the condensed matter properties of the detector material. I will survey the progress made in understanding existing detectors and designing future ones which operate in this unusual low-energy regime, driven by an incredibly fruitful and rich collaboration between condensed matter physicists and particle physicists, both theorists and experimentalists. I will describe a new approach which helps to identify novel condensed matter systems with optimal material properties for dark matter detection, bridging high- and low-energy physics and ensuring that no stone is left unturned in the hunt for dark matter in the laboratory.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:15:31 -0400 2021-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
How to Stay Motivated with Remote Learning (March 17, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79932 79932-20515564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Are you struggling to keep up with your work when it is completely self-directed and remote? Most of us have trouble staying motivated to keep up with school work after many tough months.

Join the Women in Science and Engineering Program for an interactive workshop on finding your will to succeed.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/QArAW

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:03:50 -0500 2021-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar Motivation
International Economics (March 18, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82404 82404-21092287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:24:34 -0500 2021-03-18T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series Heritage Lecture (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82584 82584-21124025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Microbiology & Immunology

"The War Within: Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Cytosol"

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:40:15 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Microbiology & Immunology Workshop / Seminar
The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82727 82727-21169586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents

Christian Alch, MD, House Officer, Department of Internal Medicine, "Barriers to Addressing the Spiritual and Religious Needs of Patients and Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Critical Care Physicians"

Abbass Berjaoui, Third Year Medical Student, Ruth Bishop, Third Year Medical Student, Elie Ellenberg, Fourth Year Medical Student, "Assessing the Spiritual Needs of Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation" (Ruth Bishop to present)

Nabeel Salka, Fourth Year Medical Student, "Exploring Physician Identity from an Islamic and Contemporary Western Perspective"

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:14:06 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
What Should Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Be Known For? (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82425 82425-21098206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us for our next Virtual Talking Circle on March 18 at 12:00 pm, where we will discuss how to construct a more cohesive direction for education innovation at our institution. What problems should we be focusing on? Where should we as an “innovation system” invest?

RISE will be working across our entire community to construct such a vision, a process suggested by previous Virtual Talking Circles, the RISE Advisory Council, and education leaders in the biomedical sciences, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. A specific proposal will be presented for reflection and feedback by attendees, and we invite all of you to attend and provide input into this conversation.

Please also invite your colleagues who may be interested. See you then!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:25:35 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
SEMINAR: "Optimizing the First Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-based Markov Decision Process Model for Personalizing Acute Care for Deteriorating Patients" — Julie Simmons Ivy (March 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82909 82909-21217313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Optimizing the First Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-based Markov Decision Process Model for Personalizing Acute Care for Deteriorating Patients

Abstract:
Sepsis is considered a medical emergency where delays in initial treatment are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis affects more than 1.7 million Americans each year, causing approximately 270,000 deaths annually. One in three hospitalized patient deaths are associated with sepsis. In 2019, the total cost of sepsis care for inpatient admission and skilled nursing facility admission was estimated at more than $62 billion. Sepsis is a significant healthcare challenge, where the lack of a gold standard for diagnosis causes inconsistencies in categorizing sepsis phenotypes and accurately capturing patients’ trajectories, which evolve stochastically over time. This makes treatment decision making and early intervention difficult. We integrate electronic health record (EHR) data with clinical expertise to develop a continuous-time Markov decision process model of the natural history of sepsis. We use this model to better understand the stochastic nature of patients’ health trajectories and determine the optimal treatment policy to minimize mortality and morbidity. Specifically, the optimal health states for first anti-infective and first fluid are identified. We formulate this as a stopping problem in which the patient leaves the system when he or she receives the first treatment (intervention) and receives a lump sum reward. Our objective is to find the optimal first intervention for health states to minimize expected mortality and morbidity. We explore the effect of the complex trade-offs associated with the intervention costs and patient disposition costs which are subjective and difficult to estimate. Our model captures the natural progression along sepsis trajectory using a clinically defined treatment delayed population. The model translates observations of patient health as defined by vitals and laboratory results recorded during hospitalization in the EHR to capture the complex evolution of sepsis within a patient population. This framework provides key insights into sepsis patients’ stochastic trajectories and informs clinical decision making associated with caring for these patients as their health dynamically evolves.

Bio:
Julie Simmons Ivy is a Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering. She previously spent several years on the faculty of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also received her M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a focus on Operations Research at Georgia Tech. She is a President of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance (HSEA) Board of Directors. She is an active member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Dr. Ivy served as the 2007 Chair (President) of the INFORMS Health Applications Society and the 2012 – 13 President for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. Her research interests are mathematical modeling of stochastic dynamic systems with emphasis on statistics and decision analysis as applied to health care, public health, and humanitarian logistics. This research has made an impact on how researchers and practitioners address complex societal issues, such as health disparities, public health preparedness, hunger relief, student performance, and personalized medical decision-making and has been funded by AHRQ, CDC, NSF, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the UNC Cancer Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:58:09 -0500 2021-03-18T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Julie Simmons Ivy
Vishwas Goel (Materials Science & Engineering) and Benjamin Yang (Biomedical Engineering) (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83007 83007-21237270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

VISHWAS GOEL: Vishwas is a third year Ph.D. student in the Thornton group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research involves the simulations of the continuum level or microstructure level electrochemical dynamics of energy conversion/storage devices such as batteries, fuel cells, etc.

"SIMULATION OF EIS IN SOFC CATHODES USING SMOOTHED BOUNDARY METHOD": Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is the most commonly used technique for the in-situ characterization of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). In this presentation, I will discuss about a method for simulating the impedance behavior of a mixed conducting SOFC cathode with an experimentally determined microstructure. I will also share the key insights that we generated through our work.

BENJAMIN YANG: Ben is a 4th year PhD student in Dr. Carlos Aguilar’s Lab. His research explores the molecular mechanisms that regulate cellular fate plasticity using microfluidics, cell-cell fusion, and single-cell sequencing techniques.

"DECONSTRUCTING METASTATIC REGULATORS USING INTERSPECIES HETEROKARYONS": Tumor metastasis, the spread of cancer cells to sites beyond the primary tumor, is the primary contributor to morbidity in cancer patients. While each step of the metastatic cascade is well characterized, the molecular mechanisms responsible for initiating the cascade remain unclear, inhibiting the efficacy of therapeutic modalities. We revisit a century-old hypothesis that changes in metastatic potential are conferred to tumor cells through fusion with neighboring stromal cells by fusing human breast cancer cells with brain-resident mouse microglia and astrocytes. Our main objectives are to assess how aberrant fusion between malignant cells and stromal cells overrides transcriptional safeguards against metastatic progression and to explore how fusion modifies the mechanical phenotype of tumor hybrids. Achieving these goals will advance our understanding of the biological significance of fusion events in metastasis and delineate markers that can serve as therapeutic targets.

Register to receive Zoom information: https://myumi.ch/dOA75

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:28:30 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Vishwas Goel and Benjamin Yang
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (March 18, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Registration link: http://go.unc.edu/teachMENA

January 28: *Islam Through Art*
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
This webinar introduces participants to key issues and themes in Islamic art, including architectural interactions and the importance of ornament and Arabic-script calligraphy. This session also aims to dispel contemporary discourses about figural imagery, especially depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, we will discuss readings, pedagogical strategies, and online resources which can help teach Islam in a manner that aims to circumvent simplistic presuppositions and “otherizing” binaries.

February 25: *Teaching Middle East History in World History*
Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Relevant to high school curricula, we will explore ideas and strategies for using decisive moments in Middle East History to explore larger themes of World History including charisma, religious encounters, commerce, and geographical diversity.

March 18: *Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses*
Barbara Petzen, education consultant on the Middle East and Islam
This webinar will explore and demonstrate a wide variety of sensory approaches to learning about the Middle East. We’ll look at new ways to understand the diversity of the historical and contemporary Middle East through images and film, sound, taste and smell, and tactile experiences.

April 22: *Teaching about the Middle East through Underreported Stories*
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This session with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will explore reporting on the MENA region and curricular resources that can be used to connect underreported news stories to the classroom. We will outline ways to engage students in global issues through journalism, develop media literacy, encourage critical thinking about the MENA region, and connect with a journalist for a conversation about their experience reporting from the Middle East.

May 20: *Hip Hop and Women's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa*
Angela Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Through the work of rap artists from the MENA region, we will learn about the varied lived experiences of girls and women in this region. Their music and online expressions depict the challenges and pressures they face, as well as spaces for hope and a better future for women and girls.


This series offers five interactive sessions between January and May 2021, featuring resources and strategies for teaching about the Middle East relevant to both in-person and virtual teaching for Grades 6-12 and community colleges. Educators may register for any or all of the sessions. SCECHs from the Michigan Department of Education are available.

The program is a collaboration with the National Resource Center dedicated to Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series: Yizao Wang, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences Department, University of Cincinnati (March 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80568 80568-20740181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: In this talk I will go over a few recent examples of stationary sequences, of which the extremes form long-range clustering. The phenomena of clustering of extremes have been extensively investigated in the literature since 1980s. However, for most examples the extremal clustering occurs only locally. That is, the locations of extremes within each cluster are bounded and shrink to a single point at the macroscopic level after normalization. For long-range clustering, on the other hand, the locations of extremes within each cluster are unbounded, and they can be further characterized by a random closed set in the scaling limit.

There are two classes of models that recently have been shown to exhibit the phenomena of long-range clustering of extremes. One is the Karlin model, which this talk will focus on. The other is the so-called stable-regenerative model, of which if time permits I will highlight briefly some key features.

Based on joint works with Olivier Durieu (Université de Tours, France) and Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University, USA).

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:22:35 -0400 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Yizao Wang
“Molecular logic of immune cell movement and activation” (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79993 79993-20539156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: Our lab seeks to define the molecular logic of complex cell behaviors—how cells go from sets of interacting molecules to the emergent properties of living systems. In this talk I will focus on two recent discoveries from our group: (1) how immune cells integrate substrate topology with cell movement based on some surprising biophysical properties of an actin regulator, and (2) how T cells use ligand binding kinetics to discriminate self from non-self, as we reveal with a light-regulatable T-cell receptor.
Neutrophils are workhorses of your innate immune system and are programmed to migrate to sites of injury and infection. This requires them to integrate both chemical cues (such as soluble guidance cues) as well as mechanical cues (such as finding pores in dense collagen meshworks). How these cells coordinate their shape and movement with their external environment is not well understood. We recently discovered that a key actin regulator integrates substrate topology with cell movement by acting as a link between cell polarity and substrate-induced curvature of the plasma membrane. I will cover some of the surprising biophysical features of this actin regulator that enable this integration to occur.
To detect rare antigenic peptides in a sea of self-peptide, T cells are thought to convert small changes in ligand binding half-life to large changes in cell activation. Such a kinetic proofreading model has been difficult to test directly, as we have lacked tools to specifically manipulate ligand binding half-life. We developed an optogenetic approach to specifically tune the binding half-life of a light-responsive ligand to a T cell receptor without changing other binding parameters. Our results provide direct evidence of kinetic proofreading in ligand discrimination in T cells and reveal where in the signaling cascade this computation is executed This approach could be used to dissect other signaling cascades where binding kinetics play a central role in signal transmission.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:18:47 -0400 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Professor Orion Weiner, PhD
E. coli meets world: how the environment shapes a bacterial cell (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82376 82376-21084383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Abstract: Like other single celled organisms, bacteria are uniquely sensitive to changes in their physical and chemical environment. With only the minimal protection offered by their cell envelope, fluctuations in nutrient availability, pH, osmolarity, and temperature have an immediate impact on diverse aspects of cell physiology as bacteria struggle to adapt to the new condition. On a more extended time scale, nutrient availability is one of the major determinants of bacterial cell morphology. *Escherichia coli* cells are three times larger when cultured at steady state in nutrient rich conditions than in nutrient poor ones, due to the actions of nutrient-dependent division inhibitors, accelerated lipid synthesis and a concomitant increase in plasma membrane capacity, and other yet to be identified factors. Little is known, however, about the effect of other environmental conditions on bacterial cell morphology. Focusing on one environmental variable, I will discuss how modest changes in pH—too small to affect growth rate—alter the activity of the essential proteins that construct *E. coli*’s peptidoglycan cell wall, increase resistance to clinically relevant antibiotics, and reduce cell length by as much as 20%. Together this work identifies pH as a significant environmental determinant of bacterial physiology and morphogenesis whose impact is mediated primarily through changes in the cell envelope.

Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:56:49 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Petra Levin
Measuring Liberal Education: A Report from the College and Beyond II Study at the University of Michigan (Seminar 5 on Measuring the Liberal Arts) (March 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79996 79996-20539169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Join us this winter term for the continuation of our public colloquium series exploring the values, dimensions, and outcomes of liberal arts education, and how they might be measured. In virtual panel discussions and seminars focused on measuring the liberal arts, academic leaders, researchers, faculty members, and national experts will gather to consider issues long central to liberal arts education, as well as its status now and in the future.

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

Zoom – Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4P6Xe5xXSr-0u52c7l-evA

College and Beyond II: Outcomes of a Liberal Arts Education is a data collection and research initiative developing a set of measures and methods for representing liberal arts education and assessing its value. The project considers how administrative data regularly collected by institutions can be used to better characterize the liberal arts qualities of each student’s educational experience, and aims to quantify the connections between these qualities and important life outcomes. The research team will present the project’s goals and design, as well as data explorations highlighting new measures of the richness of the liberal arts experience and outcomes derived from writing samples of graduates.

Seminar 5 on Measuring the Liberal Arts Speakers:

Paul Courant, Edward M. Gramlich Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus, University of Michigan

Allyson Flaster, Assistant Research Scientist, Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan

Ben Koester, Research Scientist, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Nick Paulson, Doctoral Student, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan

Anne Ruggles Gere, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of Education, University of Michigan

Members of the Gere Research Team, University of Michigan: Jason Godfrey, Mike Ion, Naitnaphit Limlamai, Andrew Moos, Kathryn Van Zanen

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:40:14 -0500 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Workshop / Seminar
Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM) Seminar | Probing the Cores of Massive Stars through their Surface (March 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82849 82849-21201322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Stars are opaque, which makes it difficult to study their interiors. Recent space-based telescopes have led to the new field of asteroseismology: by measuring global oscillation modes of a star, you can infer its interior properties. Massive stars have convection in their cores which can generate waves, which might be detectable at the surface. In the first part of this talk, I will describe a heuristic way of estimating wave generation by convection, and compare it to high-resolution numerical simulations in Cartesian geometry. To make quantitative predictions to compare with observations, one must run simulations in spherical geometry. In the second part of my talk, I will present a new spectral algorithm for solving nearly arbitrary, tensorial PDEs in spherical coordinates. The challenge is to devise bases which respect regularity conditions at r=0, which depend on the rank of the tensor. The algorithm can be easily applied to the problem of wave generation by convection in stars, as well as a wide range of other problems in stellar astrophysics, core geophysics, and planetary sciences.

Please contact Charlie Doering (doering@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:52:03 -0500 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (March 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
HEP-Astro Seminar | Understanding the Limitations and Evolution of Black Hole Feedback in Massive Galaxies (March 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82494 82494-21110100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Energetic feedback from supermassive black holes is thought to be responsible for preventing star formation in massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. The most massive galaxies in the Universe, which live at the centers of galaxy clusters, provide a unique, "high-contrast" opportunity to study the details of this feedback. I will present a summary of work from our group studying the limitations and details of black hole feedback in massive galaxies, the evolution of the cooling/feedback balance over ~10 Gyr, and what we have learned about lower-mass galaxies by studying these most-massive systems. I will finish with a summary of other cluster research, and a look ahead to the future of research in this field.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:15:29 -0400 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Economic History: Great Migration Book (March 23, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81496 81496-20901739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:33:36 -0500 2021-03-23T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Digital Scholarship 101: Managing Your Data (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82023 82023-21006760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Data, what is it, how and why is it managed, and why do granting agencies care? In this workshop we will talk about what counts as “data” from various definitions, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participants will go over the ethical concerns and considerations covered and answered by a data management plan, as well as the practical skills needed in developing and writing a data management plan. This workshop will cover topics such as collection and storage, consent agreements, and contingencies for sensitive information and data. At the end of the workshop, participants will understand how data management plans can help protect and archive their research, help with the IRB process, and contribute significantly to the sustainability of their project.



TTC sponsors: UM Library, LSA Technology Services

Zoom Meeting Information will be sent to you upon registration.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:47:33 -0500 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Book-covered walls
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Bias Intolerance: Predicting Condemnation of Apologetic Perpetrators of Prejudice (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82208 82208-21052543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
When public figures are accused of perpetrating prejudice, they often apologize. Whereas an apology may indicate to some that the perpetrator has changed and deserves forgiveness, other onlookers may continue to condemn them. What predicts condemnation, even when a perpetrator apologizes? In the present paper, we explore two factors that may jointly lead to this bias intolerance: Strong motivation to address bias coupled with beliefs that bias cannot change. Across five studies, we examined White and straight participants’ (N = 1,617) evaluations and condemnation of an apologetic ingroup perpetrator of anti-Black and anti-gay prejudice, respectively, as a function of beliefs that bias can change and motivations to address bias. Whether measured or manipulated, greater belief that bias cannot change predicted evaluating the perpetrator as currently more biased and believing they would be more biased in the future, compared to belief that bias can change. This relationship was not moderated by motivation to respond without prejudice. Believing bias cannot change did not straightforwardly predict greater condemnation. Among participants who believe bias cannot change, those who were internally motivated to respond without prejudice were particularly likely to be “bias intolerant.” We also considered additional factors that might shape evaluations and condemnation of past prejudice and found that participants’ collective guilt was related to both greater prejudice evaluations and greater condemnation. By signaling anti-prejudice norms, bias intolerance has the potential to reduce the expression of prejudice.

For information on how to watch this lecture and sign up for the SBEE mailing list to receive notice of upcoming events, please visit the SBEE website:
https://umbee.github.io/SBEE_Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:35:01 -0500 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Labor Economics: Changes in Assortative Matching: Theory and Evidence for the US (March 24, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81203 81203-20872028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
The extent to which like-with like marry is particularly important for inequality as well as for the outcomes of children that result from the union. In this paper we discuss approaches to the measurement of changes in assortative mating. We derive two key conditions that a well-defined measure should satisfy. We argue that changes in assortativeness should be interpreted through a structural model of the marriage market; in particular, a crucial issue is how they relate to variations in the economic surplus generated by marriage. We propose a very general criterion of increase in assortativeness, and show that almost all indices used in the literature are implied by our criterion with one notable exception, that moreover violates one of our conditions. Finally, we use our approach to evaluate the evolution of assortative matching in the US over the last decades, and conclude that assortative matching has increased, particularly at the top of the education distribution.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:55:49 -0500 2021-03-24T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Pathways to Publishing (Part II) (March 24, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83043 83043-21259014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Back by popular demand, DSI Postdoc Elisabetta Ferrari will present a reprised discussion of how to bring your Digital Studies work to publication. The conversation will include an overarching glimpse into the peer-reviewed journal publishing process and related topics, including article preparation and revision, journal research, working with editors, editorial timelines and guidelines, and more. Participants are encouraged to prepare questions in advance.

Elisabetta Ferrari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan's Digital Studies Institute whose research addresses the social and political implications of digital technologies, with an emphasis on activism and social movements. Ferrari has published her research in academic journals such as New Media & Society, Media, Culture & Society and Communication, Culture & Critique.

Open to all in the university community. Please RSVP for the Zoom link and share with interested graduate students.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTG1ZBZLo4RswSDDyV0C64ykex3CbY-KZi9e1K17AODnFuWQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:26:44 -0400 2021-03-24T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar
Department Colloquium CRLT Workshop: Teaching for Equity & Inclusion (March 24, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82671 82671-21155685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department Colloquia

This workshop will be interactive and will focus on teaching for equity and inclusion.

How can instructors deliberately cultivate learning environments where all students feel valued, respected, and supported in their learning? This interactive synchronous session will provide structured opportunities for instructors to reflect on their goals and practices related to inclusion and equity, consider how to apply key research-based inclusive teaching principles to their f2f and remote teaching, and exchange ideas with colleagues to support the deliberate cultivation of inclusive learning environments.

We highly encourage anyone who is in or plans to be in a teaching role to participate in the workshop. Alongside faculty members, this includes postdocs and graduate students.

A Zoom link for the workshop will be added closer to the event date.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:43:48 -0500 2021-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management (March 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81279 81279-20879919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study the role of consumer default policy in macroeconomic stabilization. Our economy features nominal rigidities, incomplete financial markets, and heterogeneous households with access to unsecured defaultable debt. In addition to its traditional role of balancing the ex-ante cost of credit against the ex-post benefit to defaulters, the optimal bankruptcy code features an aggregate demand management objective. Consumer bankruptcy acts as an automatic stabilizer whenever the average consumption effect of default, or “ACED” (the causal effect of default on consumption, normalized by the level of debt), is larger than the marginal propensity to consume of savers. When entering a recession, the optimal policy is lenient on past debts, but promises to be harsh on future debts to encourage credit supply. We study quantitatively the extent of business cycle amplification under consumer different bankruptcy codes, and the effectiveness of bankruptcy rules that systematically respond to the business cycle.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:02:32 -0400 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Designing for Impact in Global Health (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82821 82821-21179589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar for the UM Center for Global Health Equity: Designing for Impact in Global Health.

Panelists include:
Kathleen Sienko, College of Engineering
Paul Clyde, William Davidson Institute
Rocky Oteng, School of Medicine
Kentaro Toyama, School of Information
Grace Burleson, College of Engineering
David Green, Social Entrepreneur
Jesse Austin-Breneman, College of Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:12:00 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Panelists
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Navigating Tech as an Underrepresented Minority” — Natasha Nesiba (March 24, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83110 83110-21272913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
Navigating Tech as an Underrepresented Minority

Bio:
Natasha (Tasha) Nesiba is a Software Engineer at Google on the Google Workspace team. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Science (2013) and Master's of Science (2015) in Computer Science from New Mexico State University (NMSU). While Nesiba enjoys working in tech, her passion and mission is to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Computing, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (C-STEM) fields. Throughout her time at NMSU, Nesiba served her community in southern New Mexico through the Young Women in Computing (YWiC) program at NMSU: a K-12 outreach program that focuses on generating interest in C-STEM among young female students, particularly of Hispanic or Native American descent. Nesiba was also one of the founding members and president of the Women and Minorities in Computing student organization within the CS department which welcomed and supported traditionally underrepresented groups in C-STEM fields.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:57:06 -0400 2021-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Natasha Nesiba
OrgBasics - Leadership Transitions (March 24, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82985 82985-21233297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Student org election season is upon us and that means leadership transitions are coming up! What should your current leadership position holders know about before passing roles and responsibilities onto the next group? Join us for OrgBasics Wednesday to learn more about leadership transitions for your organization!

Register: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/3465

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:33:25 -0500 2021-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar work flow
International Economics (March 25, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82405 82405-21092288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:26:55 -0500 2021-03-25T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82051 82051-21012687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09

(please note that this session will not be recorded)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:42:45 -0400 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Workshop / Seminar
SEMINAR: "Modeling to Promote an Efficient, Effective and Equitable Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic" — Julie Swann (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83187 83187-21290773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Modeling to Promote an Efficient, Effective and Equitable Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract:
Planning and response to the Covid-19 pandemic is complex but can be informed by analytics and mathematical modeling along with knowledge of public health and supply chain contexts. This talk will summarize disease modeling embedded in a Covid-19 network simulation, highlighting recent results analyzing pharmaceutical and other interventions as well as potential future scenarios. The talk will provide an overview of how the public health system in the US allocates and distributes Covid-19 vaccine along with potential pitfalls and areas for improvement. The talk will discuss several areas where analytics and modeling are impacting efficiency, effectiveness, and equity.

Bio:
Julie Swann is the department head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is an affiliate faculty in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at both NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining NC State, Swann was the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There she co-founded and co-directed the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS), one of the first interdisciplinary research centers on the Georgia Tech campus. Starting with her work with CHHS, Swann has conducted research, outreach and education to improve how health and humanitarian systems operate worldwide.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:49:51 -0400 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Julie Swann
Chanese Forte (Environmental Health Sciences) and Hyeon Joo (Health Infrastructure and Learning Systems) (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83008 83008-21237275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

CHANESE FORTE: Chanese is a Dual PhD student pursuing a degree in the Environmental Health Sciences and Scientific Computing. Chanese’s research interests lie in chemical exposure in agriculture workers and cellular alteration.

"ASCERTAINING PESTICIDE EXPOSURE AND BIOACTIVITY USING OPEN SOURCE DATA: Pesticides are known to be harmful chemicals to human health, however they are still heavily used in agriculture. Using 3 large publicly available datasets, this study aims to 1) quantify pesticide exposure levels of the US general population in comparison to farmworkers, and 2) assess biological activity of these pesticides using ToxCast high throughput screening toxicity data. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a cross-sectional study representative of the US population with oversampling weights for minoritized populations. NHANES was used to quantify pesticide exposure among US farmworkers and the general population who responded to NHANES between 1999 and 2016. Overall, there are 65,893 farmworkers in the NHANES dataset with at least one pesticide biomarker present in the laboratory, and a total of 92,140 people total in NHANES. Biomarker measurements were available for 28 different pesticides, which also have been assessed for dose-dependent toxicity using high throughput assays in ToxCast. Of the 28 pesticides, Mirex had the lowest average exposure concentration at 1.19×10-​ 11​mol/L among US farmworkers, whereas p,p’-DDE had the highest average exposure level at 5.4×10-​ 7​mol/L. In ToxCast, the AC50 represents the concentration at 50% of the maximum biological activity. The average AC50 for p,p’-DDE is 1.3mol/L suggesting that activation levels are considerably higher than that of the average farmworkers’ exposure levels. It compares and analyzes through regression, the US pesticide exposure levels to the bioactivity of these same pesticides within the human body. By comparing population level data with toxicological assay data, we hope to create a more overarching idea of how pesticides may be affecting the body and a human population level.

HYEON JOO: Hyeon Joo is a second year PhD student in Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems. He completed his MS in Computer Science and Engineering, and Master of Health Informatics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on developing and implementing computational data-driven algorithms, systems or tools to help users identify gaps and make informed decisions. He loves working in the field of health care as a data scientist and a software engineer.

"EARLY PREDICTION OF HEART FAILURE USING ATTENTION MODELS USING EHR DATA": Heart Failure (HF) is a severe and progressive chronic condition affecting over 5.8 million patients with a 5-year mortality rate of 45-60% in the United States. Despite significant efforts and advanced HF management, diagnosing HF in the early stages remains challenging due to its syndromic nature and non-specific disease presentation. In this seminar, I will present a single attention recurrent network and a hierarchical attention convolutional neural networks to detect the early stage of HF at a tertiary hospital. I will also describe various methods of feature selection to reduce the computation time and improve the performance of the models. Lastly, I will present the challenges of adopting models in clinical practice which leads to my next research steps.

Register to receive Zoom login information: https://myumi.ch/BobQB

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:36:00 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Chanese Forte and Hyeon Joo
Economic Development Seminar (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81994 81994-21004759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at fspp-ipc-questions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:59:49 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Leadership Crisis Challenge (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82400 82400-21092283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

March 25, 2021: 5-­10 PM
Virtual

March 26, 2021: 3-5 PM; 50-minute appointment between 9 AM-12 PM
Virtual

Leadership Crisis Challenge is a premier action-based learning experience powered by the Sanger Leadership Center at Michigan Ross that will immerse you in a simulated business and media crisis. You and your team play the part of senior executives tasked with responding to the crisis as it unfolds: you’ll receive emails, social media updates, phone calls, and more throughout Thursday night.

Then, on Friday, you’ll present your strategy to your board of directors, journalists, and the public.

Prize:
One winning team will be awarded a $3,000 scholarship for presenting the best strategy and two runners-up will win $1,000.

Participant Requirements:
- U-M undergraduate student (any school or college) or Global MBA student
- Interest in leadership development
- Ability to participate both days

Open to any University of Michigan graduate student at no cost. We ask that you register in advance on our website: http://sanger.umich.edu

Questions? Contact us at rossleaders@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:42:05 -0500 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sanger Leadership Center Workshop / Seminar Crisis Challenge (precovid)
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: "How to Lead an Anti-Racist Life: Working and Living Equity Values" — Nichole Burnside, Joana Dos Santos (March 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82578 82578-21124019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
How to Lead and Anti-Racist Life: Working and Living Equity Values

Bios:
Nichole Burnside is responsible for leading the University of Michigan School of Public Health diversity, equity, and inclusion implementation. She partners with faculty, staff, students, and post-doctoral fellows to integrate DEI into their current responsibilities. With over 15 years of progressive experience, Nichole has worked in higher education capacities, including diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition and retention, and the overall student experience. She is a well-integrated, proactive; professional with attention to detail. She creates an environment of patience and consideration by using active listening skills and a holistic approach to develop measurable outcomes for the DEI strategy.

Joana Dos Santos has dedicated her career to creating equitable organizations and communities for the past 15 years. Currently, she serves as the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she is responsible for organizational cultural change as well as its DEI strategic plan development and implementation. In addition to policy change, Joana focuses on helping people deepen their understanding of the role their multiple identities play in creating an equitable society. Through training and facilitated discussions, Joana helps students, faculty, and staff understand how to use their positions of privilege and influence to advance DEI and racial equity values. Previously, Joana served as Executive Director of a Latinx community center in Massachusetts. She institutionalized racial equity values in the organization’s mission and vision and restructured programming and evaluations to align with these values. As a coalition builder, Joana chaired multi-sectoral committees and developed partnerships with city officials to make the region more inclusive through cultural programming, increasing access to public transportation, and changing city policies to be welcoming to marginalized communities.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:41:26 -0500 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nichole Burnside & Joana Dos Santos
Economic Theory: A Theory of Simplicity in Games and Mechanism Design (March 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81734 81734-20949388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: We introduce a general class of simplicity standards that vary the foresight abilities required of agents in extensive-form games. Rather than planning for the entire future of a game, agents are presumed to be able to plan only for those histories they view as simple from their current perspective. Agents may update their so-called strategic plan as the game progresses, and, at any point, for the called-for action to be simply dominant, it must lead to unambiguously better outcomes, no matter what occurs at non-simple histories. We use our approach to simplicity to provide characterizations of simple mechanisms in general social choice environments both with and without trans- fers, including canonical mechanisms such as ascending auctions, posted prices, and serial dictatorship-style mechanisms. As a final application, we explain the widespread popularity of the well-known Random Priority mechanism by characterizing it as the unique mechanism that is efficient, fair, and simple to play.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:18:28 -0400 2021-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T10:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Who Benefits from Surge Pricing? (March 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81744 81744-20949400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
In the last decade, new technologies have led to a boom in real-time pricing. I analyze the most salient example, surge pricing in ride hailing. Using data from Uber, I develop an empirical model of spatial equilibrium to measure the welfare effects of surge pricing. The model is composed of demand, supply, and a matching technology. It allows for temporal and spatial heterogeneity as well as randomness in supply and demand. I find that, relative to a counterfactual with uniform pricing, surge pricing increases total welfare by 1.59% of gross revenue. Welfare effects differ substantially across sides of the market: rider surplus increases by 5.25% of gross revenue, whereas driver surplus and plat- form profits decrease by 1.81% and 1.77% of gross revenue, respectively. Riders at all income levels benefit, while disparities in driver surplus are magnified.
* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:41:02 -0500 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Zachary Lipton, Assistant Professor, Departments of Machine Learning and Tepper school of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (March 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80569 80569-20740182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss distribution shift, both as an obstacle to be overcome to achieve generalization to a target distribution and as a device for establishing a guarantee that we have in fact generalized to a distribution of interest. In the first part, I will discuss the problem of label shift, where the proportion among the labels can shift but the class conditional distributions do not change, including connections to some practical problems and some theoretical results. Then I will discuss a new work in which we alter the distribution of training data in order to establish a generalization guarantee.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:21:53 -0400 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Zachary Lipton
Molecular Genetics in the Orchard (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82378 82378-21086350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Fruit trees in commercial orchards are increasingly planted in high densities to maximize quality, enable mechanization, conserve resources, and increase profitability. A hundred years ago a traditional apple orchard may have had one to two hundred free standing trees per acre, while now planting over a thousand tree per acre trained to elaborate trellis systems is common practice. To maintain such high-density plantings, a significant amount of labor is needed along with growth regulator treatments and, in some cases, specialized dwarfing rootstocks. Still, not all fruit trees are easily amenable to growing in these systems. One of the focuses of my research program is to determine what controls fruit tree shoot architecture at the molecular and genetic level. The ultimate goal of this project is to identify methods that will reduce the labor required to manage high-density 2-dimensional plantings. In the process, we are generating fundamental knowledge about how plants grow the way they do, particularly in connection to the regulation of branch, or lateral shoot, angle. The main genes we are studying are TILLAR ANGLE CONTROL 1 (TAC1), LAZY1, and WEEP, which are present in vascular plants. TAC1 promotes the formation of wide branch angles, while the related gene LAZY1 promotes narrow branch angles. WEEP on the other hand regulates branch tip orientations. Peach trees with a non-functional WEEP allele exhibit a weeping branch phenotype. Genetic studies have linked the roles of these three genes together, and molecular and physiological studies suggest they have roles in regulating shoot growth in response to light and gravity. For this talk, I will present current and developing knowledge about their molecular mechanisms in connection to the regulation of lateral shoot orientations in plants.

Host: Cora MacAlister

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:59:50 -0400 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Courtney Hollender portrait with background photo of apple blossoms
NSF CAREER Proposals Workshop - Sponsored by U-M LSA Advance (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79842 79842-20507645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Please see the U-M Advance Program website for more details and registration: https://advance.umich.edu/event/nsf-career-proposals-workshop-3/.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:36:16 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Entrepreneurship (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82917 82917-21219294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: Noon- 1:15 p.m. EDT

OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Over the past five years, less than 3% of venture capital funding went to Black and Latinx founders. What are the barriers to entrepreneurship for minorities and how can venture capital become more inclusive to entrepreneurs? What steps should be taken by operators and financiers to ensure that sufficient funding is accessible to businesses in these communities? Join moderator Rashmi Menon, entrepreneurship lecturer at Michigan Ross, for a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about how they are working to expand equity in this space.

MODERATOR // RASHMI MENON // MICHIGAN ROSS
Entrepreneurship Lecturer

VASCO BRIDGES // NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL
Chief of Staff, Distribution

LATRESHA (LC) HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder

MARC HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder & CEO

HARLYN PACHECO // MICROSOFT VIVA
BD & Strategy

MARLO RENCHER // TECHTOWN DETROIT
Director, Technology-Based Programs

Business and Society web page:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:28:12 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
Economics at Work (March 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82675 82675-21155689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:21:21 -0400 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics@Work
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (March 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
The Premodern Colloquium. Gothic Art, Realism and Genre: Thoughts on Eric Auerbach (March 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81841 81841-20980958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This Zoom session of the Premodern Colloquium will run at 2:00PM to accommodate time differences.

This paper poses questions about the hierarchies and genres implicit or explicit in present day writing about Gothic art and architecture. A useful starting point is Eric Auerbach's work on mimesis and realism. Auerbach's brilliant literary insights into sermo humilis and the Judeo-Christian rejection of the ancient orders and hierarchies of rhetoric raise important objections. The first is that complex works of literature and art can seldom be pinned down just to one rhetorical mode or level of style. Rhetoric was not a single philosophy or body of knowledge to be adopted or repudiated, but a set of practices that varied ad usum, according to need and occasion.

Here I propose that the medieval Christian dispensation adhered to all the genera dicendi and rhetorical modes, and this opinion is tested with particular regard to epideictic or 'display' rhetoric and its relationship to 'realism'. It was Roland Barthes who noted that the 'reality effect' stemmed in part from epideisis or 'beautiful description'. This seems to offer an alternative route to realism (in so far as we can think causally about this matter) to the frank low speech often identified as sermo humilis. Praise and great speech are also discussed here with a view to understanding the ways that, morally and metaphysically, the canonical monuments of realism in Gothic Europe aimed not to diminish their subjects through naked displays of power, but to involve them in a rhetorical discourse of magnification whose aims were fundamentally political and social.

Finally, how can we recapture the great speech of medieval art without taking recourse to post-medieval notions of the Sublime? And to what extent can such great speech be theorized historically?

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:54:32 -0500 2021-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Detail of the sanctuary pavement in Westminster Abbey, London, dated 1268.
Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (March 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80205 80205-20596107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

The Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage project (DCDL) will digitize and link individual records across the 1960-1990 censuses and create tools to improve the dissemination of these data. When combined with already-available linkages between the censuses of 1940, 2000, 2010, and soon-to-be 2020, DCDL will complete a massive longitudinal data infrastructure covering almost the entire U.S. population since 1940. The resulting data resource will provide transformational opportunities for research, education, and evidence-building across the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. I'll describe the project's innovative methods of data rescue, record linkage, and restricted data access.

BIO:
J. Trent Alexander is the Associate Director and a Research Professor at ICPSR in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Alexander's research focuses on historical demography and large-scale data infrastructures. Prior to coming to ICPSR in 2017, Alexander initiated the Census Longitudinal Infrastructure Project at the Census Bureau and managed the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) at the University of Minnesota.

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

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:57:06 -0400 2021-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
HEP-Astro Seminar | Modeling Binary Black Holes With Numerical Relativity in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Observations (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82106 82106-21036679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

The era of gravitational-wave astronomy began in 2015 with LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes in 2015. Since then, LIGO and Virgo have observed dozens of gravitational waves merging black holes and neutron stars; accurate models of these waves are crucial for learning as much as possible about the waves’ astronomical sources. Models of binary black holes require numerical relativity, because all analytic approximations fail near the time of merger. While these models are sufficiently accurate for today’s observatories, avoiding bias in interpreting the waves observed by next-generation observatories on Earth and in space will require next-generation numerical relativity models. In this talk, I will present some recent results in modeling observations of binary black holes withnumerical relativity, and I will discuss progress toward simulating merging black holes with SpECTRE, a next-generation numerical relativity code under development by the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes collaboration.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:15:25 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Anne Plant, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82212 82212-21054518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

While reproducibility can be an important hallmark of good science, it is not often the most important indicator. The discipline of metrology, or measurement science, describes a measurement result as a value and the uncertainty around that value. We propose a systematic process for considering the sources of uncertainty in a scientific study that can be applied to virtually all

disciplines of scientific research. We suggest that a research study can be characterized by how sources of uncertainty in the study are reported and mitigated. This approach provides a path for sharing experimental data on complex systems such as biological network processes. A serious challenge for such studies involves collecting experimental metadata and protocol details.

Bio:

Dr. Plant is currently a NIST Fellow, focusing on cell imaging and theoretical frameworks for understanding complex biological response in cells. She is an ex officio member of the NIBIB National Advisory Council, a Fellow of the AIMBE, and an AAAS Fellow. She previously served as Chief of the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division at NIST, and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:02:58 -0500 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Anne Plant
Community Creative Arts Workshop (March 29, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Introduction to Causal Inference and Treatment Effects (March 30, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82859 82859-21203303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

This talk introduces the basic concepts of causal inference including counterfactuals and potential outcomes. Chuck Huber of STATA Corp. will demonstrate how to use Stata's -teffects- suite of commands to fit causal models using propensity score matching, inverse-probability weighting, regression adjustment, "doubly-robust" estimators that use a combination of inverse-probability weighting with regression adjustment, and nearest-neighbor matching.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:27:31 -0500 2021-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-30T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Workshop / Seminar DMH Events
Emerging Experimental Probes for Dynamical Networks that Control the Thermal Activation of Enzyme-Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80655 80655-20769633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Judith Klinman, UC Berkeley, will present a virtual seminar on Tuesday March 30th 2021 at 12:00pm

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:36:34 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Klinman
Financial Fitness for Graduating College Students (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82426 82426-21098207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This workshop is perfect for those graduating college students, who are just starting out in their financial journey. We will cover the essentials of money management and establishing credit, and you’ll leave with an action plan of steps to take to start building your financial future. Core topics:

 How and why to use a monthly spending plan, including tips for maintaining a
balanced budget
 The importance of credit, credit scores, and how to avoid predatory loans
 Evaluating repayment options for your student loans
 Strategies for establishing a savings plan, both long and short-term
 Tools and technology that can help with personal finances

Register by 3/28 at https://forms.gle/UPw4cDExV6YskHLN6

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:45:44 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar
MEMS Graduate Student Showcase 2 (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82866 82866-21203454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Humans and Monsters in Early Medieval Literature

Monsters function as social markers of the feasible and plausible. In dissonance to mainstream social constructs, they make people uncomfortable and help them project their fears and anxieties. My work seeks to understand the permanence and fluidity of monstrosity in its physical and psychological perceptions and representations in early medieval literature, taking as samples Beowulf, the Wonders of the East, and the Aberdeen Bestiary.

I argue that while monstrosity is inherent to the monstrous individual, it might have been perceived as permanent but also as changing. For instance, dragons, whose monstrosity is embedded in their physicality and inextricable from it, bear their monstrosity permanently; however, Beowulf, the hero, bears a fluid monstrosity since he displays chivalrous traits when not in combat while assuming a monstrous nature when acquiring colossal – non-human – strength to overpower Grendel. Through this fluctuation, I try to understand the relationship between humans and monsters, and also the capacity of humans to harbor monstrosity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:27:18 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Aberdeen Bestiary f68v_2
RAIDE SEMINAR: "Managing Risk In the Real World: Perspectives From Aerospace" — Joseph W. Dyer and John C. Frost (March 30, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83339 83339-21344242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The seminar series is open to all. Any interested in risk analysis, risk management, and the way decisions are made in the real-world are encouraged to attend.

All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Meeting ID:
915 4223 3753

Passcode:
309867

Title:
Managing Risk In the Real World: Perspectives From Aerospace

Abstract:
In the aerospace field identifying existing and potential hazards, risks, and their associated outcomes and proactively managing them is a critical and essential part of any program. The potential negative outcomes are often large and can be associated with loss of life as well as significant adverse financial and reputational impact. This seminar will illustrate, using real world examples, how and why proactively managing risk is critically important in achieving short and long term success.

Bios:
Joe Dyer is a consultant in the tech, aerospace and defense markets and the Chief Strategy Officer for the National Spectrum Consortium. He operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and risk. He chaired NASA’s Aerospace Safety and Advisory Panel for almost 13 years. He is often quoted in the WSJ, NYT, and AW&ST. He received the James H. Doolittle award in recognition of outstanding engineering achievement in aerospace.

He was Business Unit President, COO, and Chief Strategy Officer at iRobot Corp. He came to iRobot from a career in the U.S. Navy where his last assignment was as the three-star Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command. He was the Navy’s senior, uniformed acquisition/procurement official. His naval career also included positions as naval aviation’s chief engineer, Commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, and F/A-18 program manager. Earlier in his career, he served as the Navy’s chief test pilot and as an operational naval aviator flying from the decks of aircraft carriers around the world.

Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in finance from the Naval PostGraduate School in Monterey, California. He is an elected fellow in the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots and the National Academy of Public Administration.


Mr. Frost has extensive experience in systems safety engineering in the aerospace field. The breadth of his experience spans several decades with the U.S. Army where he served in numerous positions including as the Chief of System Safety Engineering of the Army’s Electronics Command, Chief of the Army’s Missile Command’s Safety Office responsible for safety engineering support for Army missiles and Missile Command’s Operations, and he was the first Chief of the Safety Office for the Army Aviation and Missile Command and responsible for the safety of Army missiles and aircraft worldwide. In January of 2006, he was appointed to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) which is tasked with advising the NASA Administrator and Congress on the effectiveness of NASA safety programs. Mr. Frost is a Senior member of the International System Safety Society and a Professional Member of the American Society Of Safety Engineers and remains active in various System Safety organizations and initiatives. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Virginia where he was a DuPont Scholar. He then joined the Army’s Safety Engineering Intern Program through which he earned a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M, specializing in Safety Engineering. He has previously been registered in Massachusetts as a Professional Engineer in the specialty of Safety Engineering and as a Certified Safety Professional.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:43:16 -0400 2021-03-30T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Seminar" text and IOE logo
Economic History: Do You Believe in Magic? The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War (March 30, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81497 81497-20901740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:34:44 -0500 2021-03-30T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
CM-AMO Seminar | Non-Equilibrium Control of Quantum Materials: Engineering Crystal Structures With Light (March 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83078 83078-21266960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

Quantum materials exhibit unique macroscopic phenomena with enormous technological potential, ranging from high-temperature superconductivity to topologically protected transport. Hence, at the forefront of condensed matter research is the goal of understanding and controlling their emergent behavior at the smallest length and time scales possible. Due to the strongly intertwined nature of electrons and the crystal lattice in these materials, manipulating the atomic structure allows one to tune interactions and create novel electronic and magnetic phases.

In this talk, I will describe how light can be used to engineer structural distortions in quantum materials on ultrafast time scales, providing a powerful pathway to realize non-equilibrium states of matter, often with functionalities not accessible statically. First, I will illustrate the application of this approach, based on the resonant excitation of optical phonons and terahertz frequencies, to the antiferromagnet CoF2. By exploiting lattice anharmonicities, a transition to a ferrimagnetic phase could be driven with light, whose magnetization is 100-fold larger than the equilibrium limit. Second, I will demonstrate that the coupling of optically driven phonons to long-wavelength strain leads to a metastable ferroelectricity in the quantum paraelectric SrTiO3, with the symmetry-broken state remaining for up to hours after excitation. These experiments provide a basis for the rational design of non-equilibrium functionalities; integrated with targeted materials synthesis, such control promises to unlock new physical phenomena and enable next-generation quantum and ultrafast technologies.


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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:15:29 -0400 2021-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83034 83034-21257031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
It’s clear that the pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color. In this study, we investigate mental health distress among essential workers during the Coronavirus pandemic across race and ethnicity. We evaluate individual responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire and General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire using unique, nationally representative, data set. Our findings suggest that Black essential healthcare workers disproportionately report symptoms of anxiety; while, Latino essential health-care workers disproportionately report symptoms of depression. Additionally, we find that being a Black or Latino essential non-health care worker is associated with higher levels of distress related to anxiety and depression. These findings highlight the additional dimensions to which Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionately being affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, it calls into question how essential worker classifications, compounded by US unemployment policies, is potentially amplifying the mental health trauma experienced by workers.

For information on how to watch this lecture and sign up for the SBEE mailing list to receive notice of upcoming events, please visit the SBEE website:
https://umbee.github.io/SBEE_Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:34:12 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Labor Economics: Marriage and cohabitation. A search and matching equilibrium model. (March 31, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81204 81204-20872030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Whereas marriage is still the dominant framework to raise a family, competitive partnerships emerge. Facing the increasing proportion of couples likely to cohabit rather than marry, some provincial governments of Canada have enhanced the commitment related to cohabitation to protect women and children in case of separation. To understand the effects of such a policy on couple formation, assortative matching and within-household allocation of resources, we need an equilibrium model of marriage. In this paper, I propose a search and matching model of marriage with two types of contracts where men and women draw utility from private consumption and leisure, and may invest in a match specific good. The model is estimated on Canadian data. I then use this model to show how enhancing commitment of cohabiting couples might change the entry and exit rate into cohabitation and marriage, impact assortative matching and the within-household allocation of the total resources.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:57:19 -0400 2021-03-31T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Webinar: Understanding the Role Coastal Marshes Play in Protecting Communities from Storm Surge and Flooding (March 31, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83387 83387-21369771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As coastal communities strive to safeguard themselves from increasing storm risks, they are looking for ways to maximize the protective powers of their natural features such as coastal wetlands. This project closely examined one marsh complex that lies adjacent to Piermont Village along the Hudson River Estuary in New York. Village residents wanted to better understand how Piermont Marsh would buffer their village from storm-induced flooding and waves, and whether a proposed plan to restore native cattails within a small area of the Phragmites-dominated marsh would lessen its buffering capacity.

In this webinar, two members of the project team will explain how the team used state of the art modeling methods to simulate marsh vegetation and storm impacts produced by a series of past and future storm scenarios. By looking back at Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and projecting how much worse the damage could have been without the marsh, the research team was able to put a dollar value on Piermont Marsh’s buffering services. They will share key takeaways from the research and explain how the findings are informing planning for the marsh and shoreline infrastructure.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:24:38 -0400 2021-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents (joint with Adrien Auclert, Matt Rognlie, and Martin Souchier) (March 31, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81281 81281-20879920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Introducing heterogeneous households to a New-Keynesian small open economy model resurrects the real income channel of exchange rates: the rise in import prices from a depreciation lowers households’ real incomes, and leads them to cut back on spending. This channel counteracts the standard expenditure-switching channel of exchange rates, and can result in contractionary devaluations. We study the implications of the real income channel for monetary policy.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:04:49 -0400 2021-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Name Change Clinic (March 31, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83211 83211-21314501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

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

We're so excited for this year's Name Change Clinic, brought to you in partnership with the OUTreach program at the Jim Toy Community Center and OutLaws student group. This workshop will cover the basics of legal name changes, gender marker corrections, and current legal issues regarding transgender rights.

PLEASE NOTE:
This workshop will center on the process in Michigan. Every state's process to change your name and legal gender marker is different, and can vary within a state by county. Our presenters will be doing their best to answer any questions regarding the process broadly, but please keep this in mind as you attend.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:35:38 -0400 2021-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar The Name Change Clinic will be held on Wednesday, March 31st starting at 5:30 PM EST. Image shows the Spectrum Center, Jim Toy Community Center, and OutLaws logos.
International Economics (April 1, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82406 82406-21092289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:29:27 -0500 2021-04-01T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
LSI Seminar Series: Ginger Hunter, Ph.D., Clarkson University (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82695 82695-21161629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
The ability of Notch signaling to drive a broad range of contact-mediated cell fate determination events relies, in part, on dynamic cell shape changes and cell contractility. Both of these behaviors require the activity of the cytoskeleton. Dynamic cell shape changes, like the formation of filopodia, allow distant cells to target and engage in signaling with each other. One example of this is the patterning of sensory bristles on the thorax of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In this tissue, cellular protrusions are thin, dynamic, actin-based, filopodia-like structures which extend from the basal surface of the patterning epithelia. In this talk, Ginger Hunter, Ph.D., will present data supporting a role for these basal signaling filopodia in establishing the length scale of the bristle pattern. Cell contractility is an essential feature of epithelial tissue integrity. Hunter shows that contractility, mediated by actin and non-muscle myosin II, is critical for the efficiency of Notch signaling. Together, these results support a role for cell shape and actomyosin contractility in Notch signaling during bristle patterning.

Speaker:
Ginger Hunter is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. She earned her B.S. from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from Duke University, where she studied mechanosensing in developing tissues in the fly embryo. She continued her studies into the mechanisms of emergent features of developing tissues during her postdoctoral training at the MRC-LMCB at University College London and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Hunter opened her laboratory at Clarkson in 2018. One goal of her lab is to understand the regulation of cell morphology, such as the activity of signaling filopodia, that contribute to the robust formation of tissue wide patterns.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:27:24 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar LSI Seminar Series logo
Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82585 82585-21124026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Microbiology & Immunology

"From the Micro to the Macro: My Path to the PhD and Beyond"

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:45:40 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Microbiology & Immunology Workshop / Seminar
Highbrow Punk, Simple & Not As Simple Bindings for Zines, Chapbooks, or Whatever (April 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82556 82556-21116104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Conservation technician Kyle Clark teaches you to produce simple one and two signature book structures appropriate for making editioned books with minimal tools. You'll be introduced to methods of designing and editioning books, zines, and artists books from scratch with the use of home and office art supplies combined with digital scanning and printing technologies. You'll produce three bookbinding models (two softcover and one hardcover), a book design prototype, and will have the opportunity to contribute to an exquisite corpse zine.

Letterpress printing and fine binding are beautiful expressions of the book but often involve expensive and bulky equipment which can be a barrier to book production. Clark wants to empower you to be able to print, bind, and edition books with readily available materials and equipment.

This is a single workshop offered in two sessions, so plan to attend both April 1 and April 8, 2–5 p.m.

Registration for U-M students, faculty and staff: https://myumi.ch/QAK9E

Registration for all other attendees: https://myumi.ch/r8g38

The workshop itself is free, but there is a required $20 materials kit that can be purchased from Hollander’s for shipping or store pick up (more info upon registration). If this presents a barrier, please contact jlausch@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:38:14 -0500 2021-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar University of Michigan Library
SEMINAR: "Informing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts with Operations Research Models" — Kayse Maass (April 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82843 82843-21201314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Informing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts with Operations Research Models

Abstract:
Human trafficking is a prevalent and malicious global human rights issue, with an estimated 24 million victims currently being exploited worldwide. A major challenge to its disruption is the fact that human trafficking is a complex system interwoven with other illegal and legal networks, both cyber and physical. Efforts to disrupt human trafficking must understand these complexities and the ways in which a disruption to one portion of the network affects other network components. As such, operations research models are uniquely positioned to address the challenges facing anti-human trafficking efforts. This presentation will discuss ongoing interdisciplinary anti-human trafficking efforts focusing on prevention, network disruption, and survivor empowerment. Specifically, we will discuss 1) the adaptions to current network interdiction models that are necessary for adequately representing human trafficking contexts and 2) a budget-constrained optimization model that maximizes the societal value of locating additional shelters for human trafficking survivors.

Bio:
Dr. Kayse Lee Maass is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and leads the Operations Research and Social Justice Lab at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the application of operations research methodology to social justice, access, and equity issues within human trafficking, mental health, housing, and supply chain contexts. This includes determining how to most effectively allocate limited resources to disrupt human trafficking networks, increase access to services for survivors, and assess the efficacy of coordination among anti-human trafficking stakeholders. Dr. Maass’s research is supported by multiple federal grants, centers interdisciplinary survivor-informed expertise, and has informed local, national, and international policy and operational decisions.
Dr. Maass earned a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) from the University of Michigan and completed her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including: the INFORMS Judith Liebman Award, Industrial Engineering Professor of the Year at Northeastern University, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award, and the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Dissertation Award-Runner Up. She was also named a ‘Rising Star’ among INFORMS’ Powerful, Pragmatic Pioneers. Dr. Maass currently serves on the INFORMS Subdivision Council, as INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Secretary, and is part of the U.N. University Delta 8.7 Markets Working Group.
Bass is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a senior member of the IEEE and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Bass is the incoming Secretary-Treasurer Elect of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a member of the editorial board for three journals: Human Factors, IIE Transaction on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors and the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She was the inaugural editor of the IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. She is a peer reviewer for several international research programs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:18:52 -0500 2021-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Kayse Maass
BME Seminar: Synthetic Genome Engineering for Cell and Tissue Engineering (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80692 80692-20783435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Title: Synthetic Genome Regulation for Cell and Tissue Engineering

Abstract: Molecular heterogeneity is emerging as a critical feature of multicellular life. While single-cell analyses have revealed the existence of cell-to-cell variation in the levels and activities of the molecules responsible for gene regulation, the source of such variation is still poorly understood. The Downing Lab studies how genome replication contributes to epigenetic heterogeneity across stem cell populations. We recently developed a new sequencing method (Repli-Bisulfite Sequencing) that enables analysis of DNA methylation within newly replicated strands of DNA over time. Using this method, we discovered that much of the methylation heterogeneity observed within human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is temporal in nature and associated with DNA replication. Here, we employ bioinformatic analyses to explore how properties of post-replication DNA methylation dynamics relate to well-established features of the genome and the broader chromatin landscape. Our findings reveal that unique patterns of methylome replication associate with distal regulatory regions throughout the genome, enrich for cytosine residues dynamically methylated across cell types, and coincide with the location of stem cell-specific transcription factor binding and chromatin architectures. We also find correlations between sub-cell cycle kinetics in DNA methylation and the divergence of bulk methylation patterns observed during multiple cell generations and natural aging. Taken together, our studies suggest that (epi)genome replication may act as an important source of (temporal) regulatory variation in hESCs while, simultaneously, conferring susceptibility to epigenetic drift throughout the human lifespan. Our lab is also interested in understanding how the chemical and biophysical microenvironment influences adult cell behavior and phenotype through epigenetic gene regulatory mechanisms. We hope to use this information in the design of next-generation biomaterials. The second part of this presentation will describe how focal adhesions and cell-mediated forces contribute to inefficiencies observed during the acquisition of stemness from somatic cell states.



Biography: Tim Downing has been on the faculty at UC Irvine since 2016 and holds a primary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. Tim received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2008 from Northwestern University and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley in 2013 under the mentorship of Dr. Song Li. As a Ford Foundation and UNCF/Merck Fellow, Tim completed his postdoctoral training in stem cell epigenomics with Dr. Alexander Meissner at Harvard University and the Broad Institute (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The Downing Lab focuses on understanding gene regulation during tissue development, regeneration, and disease progression. Building on this information, the lab also aims to develop molecular tools and biomaterials to synthetically regulate the epigenome for better control over cell fate and behavior. Tim is a 2019 NIH (DP2) New Innovator Award recipient and a 2020 recipient of the “Rising Star” Award from the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).

Zoom Registration Link: https://cwru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iY_PMZevQwWRYkMyK7ifzA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:09:17 -0400 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dr. Timothy L. Downing, UC Irvine
Economic Development Seminar (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81995 81995-21004760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at fspp-ipc-questions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:02:18 -0500 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Entering, Engaging, and Exiting Communities Respectfully - April (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79677 79677-20446301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:33:21 -0500 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
EnginTalks: Finding Your Place (April 1, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83169 83169-21282861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

There are misperceptions within the Engineering field that “safe spaces” are an indulgence rather than filling a necessary role – by compensating for engineering cultures that are often alienating for women and our traditionally underrepresented and underserved populations.

Myth 3 of the series "Six Diversity Myths” highlights the need to unpack how safe spaces are more than havens from ignorant assumptions and pressure to assimilate with oppressive dominant social norms—they are places where students and faculty help one another to succeed and create cultures in which they feel at home.

This EnginTalks, which is a part of the DEI Lecture Series, will showcase narratives from students regarding how these affinity group organizations create safe spaces for themselves and their communities.

By attending this event, you will learn how to identify, utilize, and promote resources that provide safe spaces for students in need. The students on the panel represent several groups and will speak to the work they do to promote inclusivity and safety for community members in and out of the classroom.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:08:46 -0400 2021-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-01T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Workshop / Seminar Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: The Evolution of Market Power in the US Automobile Industry (April 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81745 81745-20949401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We evaluate the evolution of measures of industry performance in the U.S. car and light truck market from 1980-2018. We estimate a differentiated products demand model for this market using aggregate data on market shares, prices, and product characteristics and consumer-level data on demographics, purchases, and stated second choices. We estimate marginal costs under the conduct assumption of Nash-Bertrand pricing. We relate trends in price-cost margins to industry trends in market structure and the composition of products, like the rise of import competition, introductions of the minivan and SUV, and changes in automobile characteristics. We find that although prices rose over time, concentration and market power decreased substantially. Consumer welfare increased over time. The fraction of the total surplus accruing to consumers also increased.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:22:44 -0400 2021-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Noah Simon, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington (April 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83253 83253-21322441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Non-parametric modeling of regression functions is an important contemporary topic. Many machine learning (ML) methods can be viewed through the lens of non-parametric estimation. Often we aim to learn a predictive model or decision rule and must select model complexity to balance bias and variance. The optimal model complexity is based on the number of available samples as well as the complexity of the underlying truth. In ML, model complexity is generally selected based on empirical performance (rather than theoretical results), nevertheless theory can help us understand the limits of model performance, and motivate methodologic ideas.

When building ML models with large datasets generally mini-batch based stochastic optimization methods are used: There, a model is iteratively updated based on random small subsamples of our full dataset. This is often framed theoretically by imagining we have a dataset that is continually updated with batches of new samples. This is the so-called “online setting” and may also be an appropriate theoretical framework to use when we imagine that the performance of our method is compute constrained rather than data constrained.

As noted, the optimal complexity of our model (for balancing bias and variance) is dependent on the sample size. Thus, in the online scenario, it is natural to consider a model of growing complexity (as more observations are obtained). This brings up further questions: How do we appropriately increase complexity? Do we need to store and re-use old observations as complexity increases? How computationally efficient can we be without losing predictive performance?

In this talk, I consider these questions in a simplified model. I consider estimating a regression function that is smooth (lives in a Sobolev ellipsoid). I propose an almost painfully simple stochastic gradient descent method (in a linear space of growing dimension) and show that 1) this estimator achieves the minimax L2 estimation error rate; and 2) Under some assumptions, this estimator uses the minimal memory of any estimator that achieves that minimax error rate. I relate this to more classical sieve/projection estimators, and to other stochastic gradient-based methods and ideas. These results also hold for estimating regression functions in an RKHS.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:54:09 -0400 2021-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Noah Simon
Cortical Computations for Learning (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82438 82438-21098219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Sam Kwon

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Apr 2021 11:13:13 -0400 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Yellow initials MCDB and cartoon of a microscope on a blue background
EIHS Workshop: Exploring Topographies: Real and Imaginary (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79659 79659-20438378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The word “topography” denotes both the configuration of natural and human-made features within a physical space, as well as the practice of graphically representing these features in order to show their relative positions. In a figurative sense, moreover, topography suggests the mapping of relations between ideas, emotions, genres, or other non-material entities. This interdisciplinary graduate student roundtable will explore the historical, artistic, and methodological valences of topography in both of these registers, manifest across a variety of media and geo-temporal settings: long nineteenth-century English novels, representations of Franco-Persian relations in the French Third Republic, interwar surrealist art, and middle-Republican Roman sanctuaries.

Panelists:
● Sarah Van Cleve, PhD Candidate, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
● Keanu Heydari, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
● Tanya Silverman, PhD Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
● William Soergel, PhD Candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan
● Valerie Kivelson (chair), Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Registration information forthcoming.

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: The Dutch islands of St. Eustatia, Saba, and St. Martins; the French island of St. Bartholomew; the English islands of St. Christophers, Nevis, and Anguilla; with the smaller islands and keys adjoining, 1871; crop; Clements Historical Library.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:25:55 -0400 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar 1781 Map (Clements Historical Library)
LUNCH & LEARN: "Discovering the Keys to Engineering a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy" — Katie Horvath (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82096 82096-21034706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Discovering the Keys to Engineering a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy

Abstract:
According to leading industry experts, 70% of digital transformation projects fail. Yet, companies successful with data-driven initiatives are realizing a 20-30% increase in customer satisfaction along with profit margins between 20-50%. So, what’s the secret to success? In this session we will discover the keys to successful digital transformation and how to harness the power of your data to increase customer satisfaction and shareholder value.

Bio:
Katie Horvath is CEO of Naveego, a leading provider of cloud-first, distributed data accuracy solutions located in Traverse City, Michigan. She is recognized as the first and only female leader in the field of big data in North America. Building on her passion for engineering and law she kicked off a prestigious career in Silicon Valley representing numerous start-ups and bluechip companies before moving to Microsoft to manage IP for the company. Katie is a serial entrepreneur launching her own law firm along with four successful healthcare businesses for some of the largest health care providers. She has been recognized at U.S. Congress with a leadership award for her innovative business models in the health care industry. Katie earned her engineering degree at the University of Michigan (IOE) and a J.D. law degree from the University of Notre Dame.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:57:12 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Katie Horvath
Economics at Work (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82850 82850-21201318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

To join the seminar, please register from the following link.
https://forms.gle/iifARCbaNxGz26ww7

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:05:28 -0400 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics@Work
IISS Book Workshop Series. *The City as Anthology Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82740 82740-21171581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

IISS is pleased to announce a book workshop with Prof. Kathryn Babayan (History and Middle East Studies) on her new groundbreaking monograph *The City as Anthology Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (Stanford University Press, 2021).

The Abstract:

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves.

Babayan highlights eight residents—from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who anthologized their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan. Through them, we see the gestures, manners, and sensibilities of a shared culture that configured their relations and negotiated the lines between friendship and eroticism. These entangled acts of seeing and reading, desiring and writing converge to fashion the refined urban self through the sensual and the sexual—and give us a new and enticing view of the city of Isfahan.

Zoom registration: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtf-2vpzwjHdzMifsfP-NwwJ_OCbwZIeUu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:33:49 -0500 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar The City as Anthology Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan image
Economic Theory (April 2, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81736 81736-20949389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:07:12 -0500 2021-04-02T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (April 2, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
How the Measurement and Meaning of Family Structure Shape Research on Young Adult Racial Inequality (April 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80124 80124-21397361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

POSTPONED.
This event will be rescheduled for a future date.
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At the population level, Black and White youth in the United States enter adulthood after a lifetime of divergent family structure experiences. A substantial social science literature has investigated whether this variation in childhood family structure contributes to racial disparities in the timing, sequence, and context of events in the transition into adulthood. This discussion adopts a critical perspective on mainstream research on this topic. The panelists highlight opportunities in family demography, social stratification, human development, and race and ethnic studies to advance theory, measurement, and empirical modeling in order to more accurately reflect Black family organization and to situate Black and White families in the a broader context of racialized social, economic, and political inequality.

Paula Fomby is a research associate professor in the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in social demography from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research considers how family composition and family process contribute to variation in child and young adult well-being, particularly in the context of social inequality. Fomby is the associate director of the UM Population Studies Center, a co-investigator on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the associate director of the PSID Child Development Supplement.

Christina Cross is a postdoctoral fellow and incoming assistant professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at University of Michigan. Her research examines how family structure, change, and dynamics influence individual wellbeing across the life course, particularly among minority and/or low-income populations. Much of her work has focused on childhood as a key stage in the life course for the emergence and accumulation of social advantages or disadvantages.

Bethany Letiecq is an associate professor in the Human Development and Family Science program at George Mason University. - She received her PhD in health education/family studies and her MS in family and community development from the University of Maryland, College Park.Dr. Letiecq employs community-based participatory and action research approaches to conduct research in partnership with families systematically marginalized by society to promote family health and justice. She is keenly interested in how social policies and practices facilitate or hinder family functioning and health across all families.

**Presented in partnership with the DEI Educational Programs Working Group: Inclusive Teaching Series and the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology.**

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

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96714721560

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:10:10 -0400 2021-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Poster
HEP-Astro Seminar | AION: Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network (April 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83426 83426-21377656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

In this seminar I will outline the experimental concept and key scientific capabilities of AION (Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network), a proposed experimental programme using cold strontium atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, to explore gravitational waves in the mid-frequency range between the peak sensitivities of the LISA and LIGO/Virgo/ KAGRA/INDIGO/Einstein Telescope/Cosmic Explorer experiments, and to probe other frontiers in fundamental physics.

The first stage of the project was recently funded with about £10M and involves leading UK institutions: University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London (lead institution), Kings College London, University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory The project is also in partnership with UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing, Birmingham, UK, the MAGIS Collaboration, US and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US.

AION would complement other planned searches for dark matter, as well as probe mergers involving intermediate-mass black holes and explore early-universe cosmology. AION would share many technical features with the MAGIS experimental programme, and synergies would flow from operating AION in a network with this experiment, as well as with other atom interferometer experiments such as MIGA, ZAIGA and ELGAR. Operating AION in a network with other gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo and LISA would also offer many synergies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:15:22 -0400 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Community Creative Arts Workshop (April 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Exploring Healthcare Management Consulting with crankfrog's Tiara Jones (April 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83310 83310-21338288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

crankfrog, llc is a boutique healthcare strategy firm and product development consulting firm that helps clients—such as health care providers and technology companies—solve complex business problems and enhance their healthcare business models to ultimately make a transformational impact on the healthcare system. Join crankfrog consultant and LSA grad Tiara Jones (Political Science ‘17) in an exploration of healthcare management consulting and learn how to prepare for a case interview.

You should attend this session if you are:
- An LSA undergraduate student interested in pursuing a career in consulting, public health, or healthcare management
- Interested in exploring the role of a healthcare management consultant
- Eager to learn techniques for navigating the case interview

By attending this session, you will:
- Gain a unique understanding of management consulting, with a focus on healthcare and strategy
- Adopt new approaching on tackling the case interview
- Develop a valuable connection with an LSA alum and member of the crankfrog consulting team

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

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact the LSA Opportunity Hub at lsa-opphub@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:36:36 -0400 2021-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Stethoscope and Laptop Computer. Laptop computers and other kinds of mobile devices and communications technologies are of increasing importance in the delivery of health care. Photographer Daniel Sone
Cathartic Submissions ArtBoard (April 6, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83566 83566-21430592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Have a thought you always wanted to get out? Do you want to anonymously write it down, rip it up, and have the leftovers be re-glued into a community art piece? These submissions will be open until April 18th, and the final product will be displayed in the Earl V. Moore Building and shared virtually on SCARBO.DIGITAL.

You can enter your anonymous submission here, or at either one of our in-person locations:

University of Michigan Museum of Art  – Forum Entrance | Café Entrance  525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Earl V. Moore Building (SMTD) – “Bus Stop” Entrance  1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Cathartic Submissions is a part of the Politics & Your Mental Health informational campaign, aiming to provide information and a community dialogue around political polarization and its effects on mental health.   

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:15:18 -0400 2021-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Exploring the Modularity of Large Complexes Involved in Transcription Initiation and Chromatin Modifications-Martha Ludwig Lectureship (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80656 80656-20769634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley, will present the annual Martha L. Ludwig Lectureship in Structural Biology on Tuesday April 6th, 2021 at 12:00pm

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:39:18 -0500 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Nogales
Animal Rights: A WeListen Staff Discussion (April 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82956 82956-21227225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members across the political spectrum.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLApril21

We will discuss the history of animal rights in the U.S., and animals as food sources and the impact on climate change. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

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

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

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:13:59 -0500 2021-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen April 2021
Economic History: 40 Acres and a Mule: Black Americans’ Landholding and Economic Mobility after Emancipation (April 6, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81498 81498-20901741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:35:52 -0500 2021-04-06T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
How to Interview on Zoom (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79933 79933-20515565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Join Women in Science and Engineering to learn how to make a good impression interviewing for jobs and internships on Zoom. We will talk about interviewing tips, making a professional video setup, and what hiring managers are looking for in a virtual interview.
We will be recording it for students who cannot attend to watch later.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/r8w8e

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:05:54 -0500 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar video interview
Wellness Watch: Mental Health Seminar (April 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83505 83505-21393433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Propel Business Club

Propel's Mental Health team is hosting a seminar, "Wellness Watch", on Tuesday, April 6th from 7-8pm over Zoom. Reps from startups Wellnest and Honesti will be covering important topics like peer to peer support, imposter syndrome, overthinking, and mindfulness.

Register here! http://tinyurl.com/3p3p4xcz

Our project team is focused on addressing the strain on students' mental health by connecting the University of Michigan community with wellbeing startups Wellnest and Honesti. Mental health issues have manifested themselves in a variety of ways as a result of the changes caused by COVID-19. To confront this issue, we are aiming to provide additional resources for students to take steps to improve their wellbeing.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:35:14 -0400 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Propel Business Club Workshop / Seminar
Microbiome Seminar: Risk factors for Clostridioides difficile infections: beyond antibiotics (April 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83521 83521-21397362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Microbiome Project

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lab PI, Schloss lab
Microbiology and Immunology, Michigan Medicine

Hosts:Matthew Ostrowski Ph.D. & Thomas Schmidt, Ph.D.

Abstract: Antibiotics are a major risk factor for Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) because of their impact on the intestinal microbiome. However, antibiotics are not the only drugs that alter the microbiome. In human cohorts, we have identified microbiota features that overlap between patients with CDIs or diarrhea, leading to our hypothesis that some patients with diarrhea are susceptible to C. difficile infection but have not been exposed to C. difficile spores. To examine how diarrhea impacts CDI susceptibility, we treated C57Bl/6 mice with 5-day and 1-day doses of 15% polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3350 in the drinking water and then challenged the mice with C. difficile 630 spores. We used clindamycin-treated mice as a control because they consistently clear C. difficile within 10 days post-infection (dpi). We also examined how PEG treatment impacts C. difficile clearance, by administering PEG for 1 day to clindamycin-treated, C. difficile-challenged mice. PEG treatment alone was sufficient to render mice susceptible to CDI and 5-day PEG-treated mice remain colonized for up to 30 dpi. In contrast, 1-day PEG treated mice were transiently colonized, clearing C. difficile within 7 dpi. Although 5-day PEG-treated mice exhibited prolonged C. difficile colonization, we saw no difference in histological inflammation between PEG- and clindamycin-treated mice. Additionally, administering PEG to mice after C. difficile challenge prolonged colonization up to 30 dpi in mice that received PEG immediately after challenge and 15 dpi in mice that received PEG 3 dpi. When we examined microbiota composition across the different treatment groups, we found there were increased Bacteroides and Enterobacteriaceae and decreased Lachnospiraceae and Oscillibacter in most of the PEG-treated mice with prolonged C. difficile colonization. Our findings suggest the osmotic laxative PEG 3350 alters the mouse microbiota and disrupts colonization resistance to C. difficile, as well as clearance in mice with a CDI. Further studies are needed to evaluate if laxatives impact human microbiota colonization resistance.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:56:19 -0400 2021-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Microbiome Project Workshop / Seminar Michigan Microbiome Project
Biointerfaces Institute Distinguished Lectureship Series (April 7, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83431 83431-21377664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biointerfaces Institute

Lecture Title:
Droplet Microfluidics for Ultra-High Throughput Screening and Super Sensitive Detection

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:19:46 -0400 2021-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biointerfaces Institute Workshop / Seminar Seminar Flyer
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Does Black and Blue Matter?: An Experimental Investigation of Race and Perceptions of Police Bias (April 7, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81045 81045-20838697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
High profile acts of violence by police against black civilians has renewed discussion of the racial bias held by police officers and inspired major policy pushes to increase the diversity of police departments. An underlying assumption is that a more racially diverse police department will lead to less racial bias and more public trust in police officers. In an experiment, we examine the potential consequences of such policies. First, we test whether black and white civilians perceive a difference in the probability of punishment when interacting with white versus minority police officers. Subjects are asked to imagine that they are driving through a real but unnamed city in the United States. They are incentivized to reach their destination quickly; however, they have the potential of receiving a speeding ticket, which will reduce their earnings. Subjects are told that the probability that they receive a speeding ticket depends on their characteristics, real speeding tickets issued to people driving through that city, and information about people's general speeding behavior. In one treatment, prior to deciding how fast they wish to drive, subjects receive a description of a city with a predominantly white police department. In the other treatment, subjects are informed that the city has a predominantly non-white police department. By comparing subjects' speed in both treatments, we are able to determine whether subjects perceive they'll be treated equally by both white and minority police officers and whether the race of the subject affects this perception.

For information on how to watch this lecture and sign up for the SBEE mailing list to receive notice of upcoming events, please visit the SBEE website:
https://umbee.github.io/SBEE_Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:09:41 -0500 2021-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Labor Economics: What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital? (April 7, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81205 81205-20872031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper analyzes the sources of the racial difference in the intergenerational transmission of human capital by developing and estimating a dynastic model of parental time and monetary inputs in early childhood with endogenous fertility, home hours, labor supply, marriage, and divorce. It finds that the racial differences in the marriage matching patterns lead to racial differences in labor supply and home hours of couples. Although both the black-white labor market earnings and marriage market gaps are important sources of the black-white achievement gap, the assortative mating and divorce probabilities racial
gaps accounts for a larger fraction of it.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:24:44 -0400 2021-04-07T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-07T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Understanding Key Terms in a Publishing Contract (April 7, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79359 79359-20280667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Read before you sign! — but what should you be looking out for? Do you still have to worry about the publishing contract when you are already assigning your entire copyright? In this workshop, we'll cover the meaning and implications of common terms in a publishing contract, and also briefly touch on related topics, such as Open Access and ways for you to get a better publishing deal. The workshop is led by Yuanxiao Xu of the U-M Library Copyright Office.

While we have provided a Zoom link for the workshop, please register if you plan to attend. Register via TeachTech, https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/understanding-key-terms-in-a-publishing-contract/ , or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu.

U-M Library copyright specialists are offering a series of 50-minute online educational workshops. The library offers a wide range of copyright services, and these workshops cover common topics of interest.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:39:26 -0500 2021-04-07T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Copyright symbol
Physics Grad Council and SPS Special Workshop | International Student Advocacy Workshop (April 7, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83486 83486-21391450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Physics Grad Council and the Society of Women in Physics would like to invite you all to a workshop on International Student Advocacy. We will have graduate students joining us to share their experiences, and have also invited David Cole from the International Center to tell us more about various aspects of navigating the US as an international student.

This workshop is aimed at both international students who want to share their experiences or gain advice from other grad students, as well as the rest of our community, to come and learn more about the issues that international students face and the ways they navigate being a student and a community member. We hope to encourage communication and uncover ways we can be better allies to each other.

Please RSVP to the following link if you're interested in attending our workshop: https://myumi.ch/ovld9.

By registering here, you can sign up to receive reminders before the workshop and can receive copies of the slides and other resources we use. This link also contains our zoom information.

Also: If you are an international student, please consider filling out our survey, so that we can better tailor our material to everyone's needs: https://forms.gle/6QX33aFtFYc7vKYm6

We look forward to seeing you online!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:15:31 -0400 2021-04-07T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions. (joint with Fernando Alvarez and Aleksei Oskolkov) (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81282 81282-20879921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We give a full analytic characterization of a large class of sticky-price models where the firm's price setting behavior is described by a generalized hazard function. Such a function allows for a vast variety of empirical hazards to be tted. This setup is microfounded by random menu costs as in Caballero and Engel (1993) or, alternatively, by information frictions as in Woodford (2009). We establish two main results. First, we show how to identify all the primitives of the model, including the distribution of the fundamental adjustment costs and the implied generalized hazard function, using the distribution of price changes. Second, we derive a sucient statistic for the aggregate eect of a monetary shock: given an arbitrary generalized hazard function, the cumulative impulse response of output to a once-and-for-all monetary shock is proportional to the ratio of the kurtosis of the steady-state distribution of price changes over the frequency of price adjustment. We prove that Calvo's model yields the upper bound and Golosov and Lucas's model the lower bound on this measure within the class of random menu cost models.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:13:28 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
PHD DEFENSE: "Optimization Approaches for Solving Large-Scale Personnel Scheduling Problems" — Junhong Guo (April 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82696 82696-21161630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91586448459

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Optimization Approaches for Solving Large-Scale Personnel Scheduling Problems

CHAIR:
Amy Cohn

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:36:34 -0500 2021-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Junhong Guo
International Economics (April 8, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82407 82407-21092290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please email to dbartelm@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:33:11 -0500 2021-04-08T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
CSAAW Seminar Presents: "Improving causal inference controls using network theory in discrete choice data" (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83617 83617-21438455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93338242486
Passcode: csaaw2021
Phone ID: 933 3824 2486
Phone Passcode: 400052931

Abstract: Many datasets in social sciences are a result of agents making repeated choices over time, with some observable outcome resulting from each choice. Researchers often want to model the causal impact of covariates on the outcome variable using different estimation strategies (e.g. fixed effects regression, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, etc). I propose a way to increase control in these estimation procedures by using network theory models motivated by a discrete choice framework. I suggest a bi-partite network representation of these datasets, with agents being nodes on one side of the network and choices being nodes on the other side of it. Edges in this network represent a choice made by an agent at a certain time, resulting from a discrete choice problem. I argue that the structure of connections in this choice-network allows the researcher to further improve controls when modelling the outcome variable. For instance, I use the choice-network to project agents in a multidimensional latent space that captures each agent's choice-profile and distances between agents in this latent space represent a metric of similarity between them. I propose exploring the high-dimensional choice-profile of agents to improve causal inference exercises in a series of ways.

Bernardo Modenesi is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics, also pursuing a masters degree in Statistics, at the University of Michigan. Bernardo's interests lie in interdisciplinary statistical methods, such as network theory and machine learning, for the improvement of causal inference exercises and economic modelling.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:44:48 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Bernardo Modenesi
Highbrow Punk, Simple & Not As Simple Bindings for Zines, Chapbooks, or Whatever (April 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82556 82556-21116105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Conservation technician Kyle Clark teaches you to produce simple one and two signature book structures appropriate for making editioned books with minimal tools. You'll be introduced to methods of designing and editioning books, zines, and artists books from scratch with the use of home and office art supplies combined with digital scanning and printing technologies. You'll produce three bookbinding models (two softcover and one hardcover), a book design prototype, and will have the opportunity to contribute to an exquisite corpse zine.

Letterpress printing and fine binding are beautiful expressions of the book but often involve expensive and bulky equipment which can be a barrier to book production. Clark wants to empower you to be able to print, bind, and edition books with readily available materials and equipment.

This is a single workshop offered in two sessions, so plan to attend both April 1 and April 8, 2–5 p.m.

Registration for U-M students, faculty and staff: https://myumi.ch/QAK9E

Registration for all other attendees: https://myumi.ch/r8g38

The workshop itself is free, but there is a required $20 materials kit that can be purchased from Hollander’s for shipping or store pick up (more info upon registration). If this presents a barrier, please contact jlausch@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:38:14 -0500 2021-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar University of Michigan Library
EEB Virtual Seminar: Causes and implications of sex difference in immune function (April 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83419 83419-21375691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Both chromosomes and hormones are important modulators of immune function, driving rather different profiles of pathogen defense in males and females. Theoretical models based around trade-offs linked to immune function can bound expectations for what patterns of difference might evolve. Existing data illustrates the nuances emergent from the dynamic nature of immunity, and likely implications for human health.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:29:41 -0400 2021-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Jess Metcalf talk
SEMINAR: "Supporting medication reconciliation and medication self-management: the implication of home health quality reporting requirements on the home care admission visit" — Ellen Bass (April 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82700 82700-21161634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Supporting medication reconciliation and medication self-management: the implication of home health quality reporting requirements on the home care admission visit

Abstract:
In the United States, the landscape for the operations and evaluation of Medicare-certified home health agencies has changed radically in the last five years. In January 2016, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center launched the Home Health Value Based Purchasing Model (HHVBPM) and in November 2018, CMS finalized a case-mix classification model that went into effect January 1, 2020. The timeframe of home health payments changed from a 60-day episode to a 30-day period. To evaluate the agencies, the model uses data from several sources. The inclusion of Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) dataset derived from the patient home care episodes coupled with the shortening of the home care episode period place a burden on the admission visit. Systems engineering research can help to address the associated data collection and documentation burden. Given that home care and other post-acute care settings were omitted from Meaningful Use developments, their progress in supporting smooth information transfer and applications of decision support and data science lag behind acute care. Thus research can identify whether some data could be acquired as part of the referral into home care. Finally research is required to ensure that the quality and outcome measures are differentiating the agencies in ways that improve patient care. This talk will discuss a four-year multidisciplinary collaborative research project addressing standards for health information technology to support the homecare admission process. It will address the characterization of information requirements, decision-making, and workflow for admitting nurses based on focus groups, observations, and document review of 3 agencies (serving rural, suburban, urban populations) using 3 different HIT systems. The analysis will focus on three critical clinical decisions (medication self-management capability, problems to put on the care plan, next visit timing and frequency of future visits).

Bio:
Ellen J. Bass is Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the Department of Information Science in the Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics. She is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Systems and Sciences Research in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. She also holds affiliate status in Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. She is also Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine.

Bass has over 30 years of human-centered systems engineering research and design experience in multiple domains. The focus of her research is to develop theories of human performance, quantitative modeling methodologies, measures, and associated experimental designs that can be used to evaluate human-automation interaction and human-human coordination in the context of total system performance. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed publications. Her research program is currently funded by the FAA, NIH, PCORI, and the VA.

Bass is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a senior member of the IEEE and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Bass is the incoming Secretary-Treasurer Elect of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a member of the editorial board for three journals: Human Factors, IIE Transaction on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors and the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She was the inaugural editor of the IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. She is a peer reviewer for several international research programs.

Bass holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Advanced Technology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, a B.S.Eng. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S.Econ. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:19:26 -0500 2021-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Ellen J Bass
Launching Your Ship (April 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80485 80485-20728303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP online here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/launching-your-ship

In this workshop, Woods will share experiences in creatively tackling problems and experiencing the joys of coalition building. Participants will be encouraged to think about how they approach situations where the ship they are in seems to be stuck in a port and is not going anywhere. Stuck in racism? Stuck in sexism? Stuck in certain social classes? What do you need to make your ship sail? Will a new captain do it? Or, should you be the “Captain of your own fate?” Do you need a new destination? Are you bored with the direction you have been going? Are you going in circles? Do you need new perspectives, new shipmates? Have you outgrown the mundane, xenophobic habits of those in your circle? How can you develop healthy habits to move your life and community forward? Short, interactive activities will assist each participant in using the ship metaphor to move forward in their life.

An integral part of the Inspire initiative is pairing advocacy, social change, and activism with skills that enhance a sense of wellbeing, focus, and interconnectedness. A short guided Mindfulness Meditation practice will be incorporated into the program.

Wendy Ann Woods served the citizens of Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2007 as City Councilwoman. She is a strong advocate for affordable housing, a vibrant downtown, a balanced budget, a living wage ordinance, and corporate social responsibility. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry Management and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Policy and Management at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Woods is the associate director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP), a nationally recognized living-learning program at the U-M that focuses on social justice, community service, diversity, and civic engagement. She also teaches a seminar for the students in MCSP, is a member of the Association of Black Professionals, Faculty, Administrators, and Staff at U-M, and serves on the advisory board for the University Outreach Council.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:27:43 -0500 2021-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
Economic Development Seminar (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81996 81996-21004761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

*To join the seminar, please contact at fspp-ipc-questions@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:05:54 -0500 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure Procurement (April 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81746 81746-20949402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Most U.S. government spending on highways and bridges is done through “scaling” procurement auctions, in which private construction firms submit unit price bids for each piece of material required to complete a project. Using data on bridge maintenance projects undertaken by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), we present evidence that firm bidding behavior in this context is consistent with optimal skewing under risk aversion: firms limit their risk exposure by placing lower unit bids on items with greater uncertainty. We estimate bidders’ risk aversion, the risk in each auction, and the distribution of bidders’ private costs. Simulating equilibrium item-level bids under counterfactual settings, we estimate the fraction of project spending that is due to risk and evaluate auction mechanisms under consideration by policymakers. We find that scaling auctions provide substantial savings relative to lump sum auctions and show how our framework can be used to evaluate alternative auction designs.


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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:53:27 -0400 2021-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Chiara Sabatti, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Statistics, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (April 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80570 80570-20740183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Recent progress in machine learning (ML) provides us with many potentially effective tools to learn from datasets of ever increasing sizes and make useful predictions. How do we know that these tools can be trusted in critical and high-sensitivity systems? If a learning algorithm predicts the GPA of a prospective college applicant, what guarantees do we have concerning the accuracy of this prediction? How do we know that it is not biased against certain groups of applicants? I will introduce examples of diverse domain applications where these questions are important, as well as statistical ideas to ensure that the learned models apply to individuals in an equitable manner. In work with Yaniv Romano, Rina Barber, and Emmanuel Candes, we show how to achieve some fairness objectives we do not need to “open up the black box,” and try understanding its underpinnings. Rather, we discuss broad methodologies — ex. conformal inference — that can be wrapped around any black box to produce results that can be trusted and that are “fair.’’

This seminar will be livestreamed via Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/94350208889.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:34:25 -0400 2021-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Chiara Sabatti
LUNCH & LEARN: "Good to Great - Better Understand Three Key Analytical Skills" — Huizhu Crystal Wang (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83267 83267-21328377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

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

Title:
Good to Great - Better Understand Three Key Analytical Skills

Abstract:
After working in several different analytics areas (Credit Industry, Mobility, Supply Chain), I have consistently observed three critical analytical skills that differentiate good & great data scientists:
— 1) Interpreting Data Insights - Data insights often come from spotting a special pattern or unexpected results. I will share some examples and their Aha moments.
— 2) Design Thinking - What's the central question we are addressing? We often jump into problem-solving directly, and overlook how we frame the problem. There are some cases where the right central question is the game-changer.
— 3) Prototyping/Deployment Skills - A trend shifting from presenting results to an interactive way. It makes a real difference in how users use your excellent optimization models to make data-driven decisions.
There are undoubtedly many other essential skills, optimization, simulation, statistics, machine learning, data structure, programming, communication, story-telling, visualization, data validation, etc. These three skills with examples can help you better understand them and master them.

Bio:
Huizhu Crystal Wang has been an Analytics Supervisor at Ford Motor Company for four years and has worked on several impactful analytical projects (e.g. choice model, Auto loan pricing optimization, vehicle routing problems, and supply chain optimization.) Her team successfully launched a dynamic routing product into the market in 2018. She currently leads one of Ford GDIA Supply Chain Analytics teams. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:37:26 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Huizhu Crystal Wang
Molecular Basis of Inherited Parkinson’s disease (April 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82439 82439-21098220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Note: change in time to 1 PM

Abstract: Today more than 1 million people in the U.S. suffer from Parkinson’s disease, and although most cases are idiopathic,perhaps as many as 20% of cases have a genetic basis. We study the effect of mutations in the LRRK2 kinase that is the most frequent cause of inherited Parkinson’s. Pathogenic LRRK2 phosphorylates a subset of Rab GTPases that are
master regulators of membrane trafficking. We have discovered that Rab10 phosphorylation flips a switch on its function —phosphoRab10 bind an entirely new set of effectors that regulate the formation of primary cilia in cell culture and mouse brain. We are also studying regulation of LRRK2 by the PPM1H phosphatase and how loss of cilia could trigger Parkinson’s disease.

Host: Ming Li

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:02:03 -0400 2021-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Suzanne Pfeffer
Economic Theory (April 9, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81737 81737-20949395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

To join the seminar, please contact at econ.theory-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:41:56 -0500 2021-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Winter 2021 Colloquia Series (April 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80817 80817-20793346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Zoom login info is below. Non-U-M Community members can email brownsu@umich.edu to request access.

Jan 22: Jake DeWitte, Oklo Inc.
Oklo Microreactor Development

Jan 29: Rui Qiu, Tsinghua University
Multi-scale Radiation Dosimetry with Computational Human Phantoms

Feb 5: Kate Turner, MIT Media Lab
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Feb 12: Raluca Scarlat, UC Berkeley
The Relevance of Chemical Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts to Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Feb 19: Tomi Akindele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reactor Antineutrinos for Nuclear Safeguards

Feb 26: Scott Baalrud, U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Is This Even a Plasma? Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Mar 5: Ronnie Shepard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring Energy Transport at Stellar Inner Conditions Utilizing Ultrashort Pulse Lasers

Mar 12: Peter Yarsky, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A Nuclear Engineer’s Approach to Modeling the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 19: Dawn Montgomery, Clemson University
An Integrative Approach to Environmental Radiation Protection: Plant Influence on Radionuclide Transport, Plant Uptake, and Non-Human Biota Dosimetry

Mar 26: Dr. Heather J. Maclean Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory
Challenges and Solutions for Examining Irradiated Fuels and Materials in a Harsh Environment

Apr 2: Lara Pierpoint, Actuate
Electric Utility Innovation

Apr 9: Denia Djokić, Fastest Path to Zero Initiative
Reflections on Risk and Trust: Commemorating Fukushima and Chernobyl During Covid-19

Apr 16: John Jackson, Idaho National Laboratory
DOE Microreactor Program: Technology to Enable Microreactor Development, Deployment and Commercialization

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:38 -0400 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia
HEP-Astro Seminar | Top Quark Production With Heavy Bosons (April 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83468 83468-21385560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the worlds highest energy particle accelerator. With intense proton beams colliding at very high energies and high rates, the LHC is effectively a “top quark factory” that allows for the precise measurement of properties of the top quark. With the large LHC data, now it is also possible to measure rare processes involving top-quarks. Processes like top anti-top pair production along with other particles, for example Higgs boson or the electroweak force carriers W/Z has been observed at the LHC. Precise measurement of these processes have implications on the Standard Model of particle physics and even in cosmology. Recent results from the measurement of these rare top quark processes will be discussed in this talk.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:15:18 -0400 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA/Ross Dual Degree Info Sessions (April 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80478 80478-20728297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SAA

If you are interested in applying for the Multiple Dependent Degree Program (MDDP) between LSA and the Ross School of Business you must attend an MDDP information session.

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom at 4 pm on the following days:

January 11,12
February 8,9
March 8,9
April 12,23

The Zoom URL is https://umich.zoom.us/j/93289886804

Presenter-Jeff Harrold, Coordinator for Academic Standards and Special Populations, LSA Student Academic Affairs, jharrold@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:06:50 -0500 2021-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SAA Workshop / Seminar Computer
Community Creative Arts Workshop (April 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79782 79782-20493906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

December 2020 through May 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:48 -0500 2021-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Photo credit: "Freddy Gray's Neighborhood" (a community in Baltimore) Photos by: Mary Heinen, PCAP Staff
Science Success Series- Wealth Beyond Health (April 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79930 79930-20515562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

There are limitless options for a pre-med student beyond medical school and a traditional career as a doctor. Join us in exploration of other career tracks with alumni and experts. There is a world of options to apply skills in science, critical problem solving, and a desire to help people. Find your option for graduate school as a STEM student.

We will have a panel of current graduate students who talk about how they chose their program, what the application was like, how they got in, and how it is going. Learn the whole process from start to finish with students who have been in your shoes.

Register here:
https://myumi.ch/PlQlP

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:58:23 -0400 2021-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
Plan Your English Self-Study Program For Spring and Summer (April 13, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80024 80024-20547016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

The “Winter” term ends in April. What will you be doing to continue communicating in English over the spring and summer? Come to this workshop to gather new ideas and to share your own about ways to continue practicing and improving your English independently. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.
REGISTER HERE: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/7677

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:07:28 -0500 2021-04-13T08:30:00-04:00 2021-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. Participatory Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: A Simulation and Discussion (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83294 83294-21338270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Registration for this event has closed.

From 2014-2019, the US Agency for International Development implemented a project in the Kyrgyz Republic to strengthen agricultural productivity and address food insecurity, primarily among agricultural farming families. One of the first steps the project took in 2014 was to engage with local stakeholders to decide which agricultural value chains to target, and what type of farm-level assistance would be most effective.

During the workshop, students will each take on the role of a key stakeholder and participate in a community deliberation activity to help the project make these decisions. Students will participate in a variety of participation tools to spur brainstorming and information sharing, generate ideas, resolve conflict, and make group decisions. After the simulation, students will have a discussion about the exercise, reflecting on the experience of being a participant; how participation can unearth previously unidentified problems, solutions, and critical contextual factors; compare the tools and approaches applied to other types of participation tools and approaches; and the role of community power dynamics in participation activities.

Amy Harris, a post-doctoral fellow at the Ford School of Public Policy, will lead this workshop. Amy merges both experience as a former foreign aid implementation professional working on USAID and World Bank projects, and academic expertise in foreign aid contracting and participatory development. Amy holds a PhD in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington.

Participating students must agree to complete select readings prior to the workshop session and to play an active role in the simulation, as an assigned stakeholder. More details will be provided upon registration. Students are also required to attend the workshop session in its entirety. For those without a 1pm scheduling conflict, Dr. Harris will continue her post-simulation debrief until 1:15pm (EDT).

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:52:20 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Workshop / Seminar Amy Harris, post-doctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy, U-M
Reconstructing Biosynthetic Pathways One Step at a Time- Distinguished Graduate Lecture in Biological Chemistry (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80658 80658-20769636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr Vahe Bandarian, University of Utah, will present the Distinguished Graduate Lecture on Tuesday April 13th, 2021 at 12:00pm

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:42:38 -0500 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Bandarian
Digital Scholarship 101: Finding Funding and Resources (April 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83560 83560-21428631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

You’ve got a great plan for your research project. It’s conceptualized, and you know how you’ll manage the labor, materials, and information. But, how do you get the resources and funding you need to make it happen? This workshop covers how to find funding and resources along with wisdom and tips specific to writing proposals for digital scholarship projects. This session will also provide guidance on how to best communicate and highlight the grant deliverables anticipated outcome of your project and its impact, to internal and external stakeholders, such as funding agencies and campus partners.

Cosponsored with UM Library, Connected Scholarship, Research and Creative Projects Committee, and LSA Technology Services.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:13:17 -0400 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar papers on a desk
Economic History: Colonial institutions, marriage markets, and Africa's HIV epidemic: Evidence from Mozambique. (April 13, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81500 81500-20901743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Three institutions organized much of colonial economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa: concessions of territory and population to companies, labor reserves providing nearby employers with male temporary workers, and colonial trade economies coercing peasants to produce agricultural exports. To make some of the first comparisons of these institutions’ short- and long-run impacts, I exploit an arbitrary concession-labor reserve border in Mozambique. The concession was Africa’s longest lasting (1891-1942) and heavily restricted mobility, while the labor reserve (1901-70s) was one of the most important, sending one third of its men annually to work in South Africa ("circular migrants"). Colonial census data show that men in the concession before its abolition were half as likely to be circular migrants and boys were twice as likely to enroll in school, but after it ended both outcomes converged. However, even after the concession’s abolition, marriage rates in the labor reserve were 10 to 25 percent higher and spousal age gaps may have been smaller. The likely explanation is the lasting social effects of nearly a century of circular migration. Consistent with the continuation of these patterns, women’s HIV prevalence today is twice as high in the former concession while levels of economic development are similar.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:34:05 -0400 2021-04-13T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
"So You Didn't Get the E-Board Position..." (April 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83480 83480-21385573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

You're in a student organization, excited to run for a leadership position... The votes come in. You didn't get the position you were hoping for. Now what? Can you still develop as a leader within your student organization if you don't have a formal leadership position? YES, you can!

Join the Center for Campus Involvement in exploring the next steps for students looking to grow their leadership skills after a disappointing election. Spend time in non-judgemental reflection and get tangible ideas for ways to focus on your personal leadership development.

Register: https://myumi.ch/7ZEgB

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:26:29 -0400 2021-04-13T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar So You Didn't Get the Eboard Position
Can Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Benefit from Being More Cohesive? (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83220 83220-21314487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

RISE invites you attend the Virtual Talking Circle (VTC) to contribute your input in co-creating a cohesive pathway for education innovation across health science education at Michigan Medicine.  We invite you to attend and provide your input into this conversation.

Please invite your colleagues who may also be interested. See you then!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:31:47 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
LSI SciComm Speaker Series: Jacqueline Howard (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83506 83506-21393430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard will deliver the Life Sciences Institute SciComm Speaker Series’ lecture "Communicating Science In A Global Pandemic." Howard has been covering the coronavirus pandemic from the start for CNN, appearing in dozens of TV segments and writing more than 100 stories about the novel virus that causes Covid-19, its impacts on public health and the development of vaccines. Howard will discuss the challenges and importance of communicating science amid a global health crisis. For Howard, effective science communication can combat misinformation, and she will share criteria any piece of science communication can include to help inform public dialogue and news coverage.

Jacqueline Howard is a health reporter for CNN, covering the latest news in medicine and healthy living. She appears on CNN’s morning show New Day and the afternoon programs CNN Right Now and CNN Newsroom. She was a 2019 National Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a 2020 Press Fellow at the United Nations Foundation. Previously, Howard served as senior science editor at The Huffington Post and the host/producer of the video series “Talk Nerdy To Me.” She has appeared on The Steve Harvey Show to discuss health trends and served as the on-air talent in a series of educational videos for The Nature Conservancy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Big History Project. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:39:30 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar CNN Health Reporter Jacqueline Howard
IISS Book Workshop Series. "Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam: Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī’s Theory of wilāya and the Reenvisioning of the Sunnī Caliphate": Book Workshop with Professor Aiyub Palmer (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83565 83565-21428642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The IISS is pleased to announce a book workshop with Professor Aiyub Palmer (University of Kentucky) on his fascinating monograph "Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam".

The Abstract:
In his book Aiyub Palmer recasts wilāya ("sainthood") in terms of Islamic authority and traces its development in both political and religious spheres up through the 3rd and 4th Islamic centuries. This book pivots around the ideas of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, the first Muslim theologian and mystic to write on the topic of wilāya.

By looking at its structural roots in Arab and Islamic social organization, Prof. Palmer has reframed the discussion about sainthood in early Islam to show how it relates more broadly to other forms of authority in Islam. This book not only looks anew at the influential ideas of al-Tirmidhī but also challenges current modes of thought around the nature of authority in Islamicate societies.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeugpjkqGdH8DlDmEUC3-FqLIhk6ZRCF

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:46:58 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar event_image
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Interregional Contact and National Identity (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81012 81012-20832806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and the formation of a shared national identity. We combine a natural experiment, therandom assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spain,with tailored survey data. Being randomly assigned to complete military service outside of one’s region of residence fosters contact with conscripts fromother regions, and increases sympathy towards people from the region of service, measured several decades later. We also observe an increase in identification with Spain for individuals originating from regions with peripheral nationalism. Our evidence suggests that intergroup exposure in early adulthood canhave long-lasting effects on individual preferences and identity formation.

For information on how to watch this lecture and sign up for the SBEE mailing list to receive notice of upcoming events, please visit the SBEE website:
https://umbee.github.io/SBEE_Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:29:30 -0500 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Labor Economics: nterdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark (joint with Martin Hackmann, Adam Kapor, Sofia Moroni, Anne Brink Nandrup) (April 14, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81206 81206-20872033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper studies imperfect information and interdependent values in matching markets, with an application to Danish medical school programs. We combine unique data on college applicants’ program preferences, programs’ admission decisions, and student outcomes to provide direct evidence on the value of screening and the winner’s curse in matching markets. To this end, we leverage the two-tiered Danish admission system with predetermined shares of GPA-based and program-specific screening-based admissions. We first use an RD design to document that applicant screening provides extra information over GPA on program completion. We then take advantage of an information experiment where one medical program intensified their screening efforts in a difference-in-difference design. While this program substantially increased completion rates after the reform, their experiment worsened the winner's curse in the rival program, providing direct evidence for common values. In the second part of the analysis, we develop and estimate a structural model that yields these empirical facts as equilibrium outcomes of a two-sided matching market. Our counterfactual analysis aims to analyze potential inefficiencies of the current DA mechanism by allowing for alternative information structures and assessing changes in players’ strategies and welfare outcomes.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:13:58 -0400 2021-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Department Colloquium | The First Measurement of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83247 83247-21322432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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

This colloquium will cover the physics and methods behind Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment, along with the long-awaited results from Run-1. The experiment was undertaken to resolve the tension between the Standard Model and the previous measurement taken at Brookhaven National Labs. The measured value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is $a_\mu(FNAL) = 116592040(54)×10^{−11}$. This result is in good agreement with Brookhaven's previous measurement. The new world average, $a_\mu(Exp) = 116592061(41)×10^{−11}$, shows a difference from the theoretical value, $a_\mu(Exp) = 116591810(43)×10^{−11}$, of 4.2 standard deviations, strongly hinting at physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment requires the simultaneous measurement of the muon precession frequency, the magnetic field, and the muons' distribution in the field. All three of these measurements will be discussed in context, along with the main systematic corrections and uncertainties.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Skewed Business Cycles (joint with Sergio Salgado and Nicholas Bloom) (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83752 83752-21491326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Using firm-level panel data from the US Census Bureau and almost fifty other countries, we show that the skewness of the growth rates of employment, sales, and productivity is procyclical. In particular, these distributions display a large left tail of negative growth rates during recessions and a large right tail of positive growth rates during booms. We find similar results at the industry level: industries with falling growth rates see more left-skewed growth rates of firm sales, employment, and productivity. We then build a heterogeneous-agents model in which entrepreneurs face shocks with time-varying skewness that matches the firm-level distributions we document for the United States. Our quantitative results show that a negative shock to the skewness of firms’ productivity growth (keeping the mean and variance constant) generates a persistent drop in output, investment, hiring, and consumption. This suggests the rising risk of large negative firm-level shocks could be an important factor driving recessions.
* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:19:05 -0400 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Econ Umich
Understanding and Managing ADHD in Middle School Workshop (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79271 79271-20783448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) is offering an Understanding and Managing ADHD in Middle School workshop. The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 or 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2021 via Zoom. Participants will receive a link to access the online event after registration.

If you are a parent or guardian of a middle school-aged child diagnosed or is suspected of having ADHD, this free virtual workshop is designed to help you find resources and learn how to advocate for children with ADHD and learning disabilities.

While it is free, workshop participants must register! Please sign up via the Eventbrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-and-managing-adhd-in-middle-school-registration-132102918385

**Event Details**
Where: Online via Zoom (register for the link).
Who: Parents and guardians of middle school-aged children who have been diagnosed or are suspected of having Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).
Cost: Free, but registration via Eventbrite is required. The link will be provided to you in the registration confirmation.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 May 2022 14:43:47 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar ADHD Workshops 2021 - Middle School
Complex Systems Seminar "The Effects of Task Complexity on Group Synergy" (April 15, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83588 83588-21432581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Join Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868

Abstract: Complexity—defined in terms of the number of components to a problem and the nature the inter-dependencies between them—is clearly a relevant feature of all tasks performed by groups. Yet the role that task complexity plays in determining group performance remains poorly understood, in part because no clear language exists to express it in a way that allows for straightforward comparisons across tasks. Here we avoid this analytical difficulty by identifying a class of tasks for which complexity can be varied systematically while keeping all other elements of the task unchanged. We then test the effects of task complexity in a preregistered, two-phase experiment in which 1,200 individuals were evaluated on a series of tasks of varying complexity (phase 1) and then randomly assigned to solve similar tasks either in interacting groups or as independent individuals (phase 2). We find that groups are faster and more efficient than similar sized collections of independent problem solvers for complex tasks but not for simpler ones. Leveraging our highly granular digital data, we define and precisely measure group process losses and synergistic gains, and show that the balance between the two switches signs for intermediate values of task complexity. Finally, we find that groups generate more solutions more rapidly, and explore the solution space more broadly, than independent problem solvers, finding higher quality solutions than all but the best individuals.

Duncan Watts is the author of three books: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. Norton 2003), Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press 1999), and Everything is Obvious: Once You Know The Answer (Crown Business 2011).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:55:28 -0400 2021-04-15T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Duncan Watts