Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Return to U-M: Pause, Reflect, Redefine and Recover (September 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85764 85764-21628723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

CAPS will host 90-minute virtual workshops weekdays during the first week of the Fall semester with a maximum of 12 attendees per workshop. Open to U-M undergraduate and graduate/professional students.

During this discussion-focused workshop, we will encourage students to:

1) Pause and acknowledge what this past year and a half has been like
2) Take time to reflect on some of these experiences
3) Redefine, identify, and communicate needs and boundaries to others as we move into the fall
4) Identify an action step that each of us can take to move towards some semblance of recovery

RSVP: forms.gle/KjSW8yYRFp5XRHkx7

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:56:42 -0400 2021-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Workshop / Seminar Return to UM Flyer
International Economics: (September 16, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86854 86854-21636927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:40:09 -0400 2021-09-16T11:30:00-04:00 2021-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
SEMINAR: "Unbiased Subdata Selection for Fair Classification: A Unified Framework and Scalable Algorithms" – Weijun Xie (September 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86631 86631-21635241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 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:
Unbiased Subdata Selection for Fair Classification: A Unified Framework and Scalable Algorithms

Abstract:
Fair classification concerns the issues of unintentional biases against the sensitive features (e.g., gender, race) in the conventional classification approaches. Due to the high nonconvexity of fairness measures, existing methods are often unable to model exact fairness, which can cause inferior fair classification outcomes. This paper fills the gap by developing a novel unified framework to jointly optimize accuracy and fairness. The proposed framework is versatile and can incorporate different fairness measures precisely as well as can be applicable to many classifiers, including deep classification models. Many classification models within this framework can be recast as mixed-integer convex programs, which can be solved effectively by off-the-shelf solvers when the instance sizes are moderate. We prove that in the proposed framework, when the classification outcomes are known, the resulting problem, termed “unbiased subdata selection,” is strongly polynomial-solvable and can be used to enhance the classification fairness by selecting more representative data points. This motivates us to develop an iterative refining strategy (IRS) to solve the large-scale instances, where we improve the classification accuracy and conduct the unbiased subdata selection in an alternating fashion. We numerically demonstrate that the proposed framework can consistently yield better fair classification outcomes than existing methods. This is a joint work of my Ph.D. student Qing Ye.

Bio:
Dr. Weijun Xie is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. His research interests are in theory and applications of stochastic, discrete, and convex optimization. Dr. Xie has won multiple awards including NSF Career Award, INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of Optimization under Uncertainty at INFORMS Optimization Society.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:34:50 -0400 2021-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Weijun Xie, Virginia Tech
Economic Development Seminar: Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique (Practice Job Talk) (September 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86734 86734-21635831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper links Africa’s history to its HIV epidemic through colonial institutions’ lasting effects on marriage markets. I exploit the arbitrary border within Mozambique between two regimes common across the continent: one that pushed over 50,000 young men annually into temporary labor migration (1897-1965) and another that conscripted them into forced labor (1891-1942). Historians contend the migrant-sending institution fundamentally altered marriage markets in that region. Using colonial census data, I show that young men there married earlier and were closer in age to their wives, even after the forced labor institution ended and migration rates had converged. Because smaller age disparities reduce HIV risk, I examine seroprevalence today and find it is nearly 50 percent (10 p.p.) lower in the former migrant-sending region. The data suggest that persistently smaller age disparities and reductions in behaviors associated with them are the main channel for this effect.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:44:23 -0400 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
EEB Thursday Seminar: Postponed (September 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85681 85681-21628191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: EEB Thursday Seminars

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Please check back soon for further details (time and location is still subject to change). Thank you for your patience.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:01:51 -0400 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building EEB Thursday Seminars Workshop / Seminar Exterior of Biological Sciences Building
Inexpensive Bookbinding (September 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86068 86068-21631262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger demonstrates how to craft a small pamphlet-bound notebook using recycled materials. She'll discuss some alternatives to traditional bookbinding tools and materials using items you may already have on hand. She'll also show examples of other artist books which were created inexpensively using everyday materials.

U-M affiliates can register via TTC: https://myumi.ch/0WQvO
All others, please register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/xmqnz
Register by September 6.

This workshop is also being offered on September 17; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:21:10 -0400 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Pamphlet-bound notebook made with recycled card stock
Psychology Research: From the lab to real life (September 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84315 84315-21623282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

What is involved in psychology research? Is it all white rats or investigating psychiatric disorders? How do we use it in “real life”? You might be surprised! We will talk about some of the many different topics and research methods used in psychology, as well as how it is applied in the real world to topics ranging from addiction to education to social injustice.

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/NxDK8

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:30:11 -0400 2021-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Psychology Department Virtual Seminar Series
MEGC Seminar Series (September 16, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86901 86901-21637288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

Abstract (by Mohsen Taheri)

Complex applications in modern technology urgently call for advanced structural materials that are high-strength and lightweight, and yet tolerant to damage from extreme temperature, particle radiation, or environmental exposure. To swiftly fulfill these emerging demanding material requirements, we must develop a multi-scale understanding of the relationship between processing, microstructure, and properties of metallic materials. Toward these goals, I present two examples of my recent findings on (i) how functional behavior of shape memory alloys made by additive manufacturing correlates with the manufacturing history and (ii) how the macroscopic strength of magnesium alloys is governed by local microstructure (grain boundary parameters). I will conclude my talk by discussing how such understandings can be captured in multi-scale modeling tools to predict the deformation of the material and accelerate the development of next-generation structural materials.

Please RSVP here for in-person attendance: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePqF9NBGxMdXUXSEag04Vijra_FTXrjaA6P4t4dpXuUd1_eA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:16:07 -0400 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Workshop / Seminar MEGC Seminars for the Engineering Community
Inexpensive Bookbinding (September 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86069 86069-21631263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger demonstrates how to craft a small pamphlet-bound notebook using recycled materials. She'll discuss some alternatives to traditional bookbinding tools and materials using items you may already have on hand. She'll also show examples of other artist books which were created inexpensively using everyday materials.

U-M affiliates can register via TTC: https://myumi.ch/yKyeR
All others, please register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/qgoDW
Register by September 6.

This workshop is also being offered on September 16; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:26:13 -0400 2021-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Pamphlet-bound notebook made with recycled card stock
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Florentina Bunea, Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University (September 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84416 84416-21623914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

The focus of this talk is on the estimation of high-dimensional, discrete, possibly sparse, mixture models in the context topic models. The data consists in p-dimensional multinomial count vectors, corresponding to p words in a given dictionary, across n independent samples, the documents in a corpus. In topic models, the p nexpected word frequency matrix is assumed to be factorized as a p K word-topic matrix A and a Kn topic-document matrix T. Since columns of both matrices represent conditional probability or probability vectors, columns of A are viewed as p-dimensional mixture components that are common to all documents while columns of T, the topic distributions, are viewed as the K-dimensional mixture weights that are document specific and are allowed to be sparse.

The main interest is to provide sharp, finite sample, l1-norm convergence rates for estimators of the possibly sparse mixture weights Twhen Ais either known or unknown. For known A, we suggest MLE estimation of T. Despite the wide-spread applications of these models, and simplicity of the method, the analysis is, surprisingly, still open, owing in part to the fact that T is typically on the boundary of its domain. Our non-standard analysis of the MLE not only establishes its l1 convergence rate, but also reveals a remarkable property: the MLE, with no extra regularization, can be exactly sparse and contain the true zero pattern of T. We further show that the MLE is both minimax optimal and adaptive to the unknown sparsity in a large class of sparse topic distributions. When Ais unknown, we estimate Tby optimizing the likelihood function corresponding to a plug in, generic, estimator A of A. For any estimator A that satisfies carefully detailed conditions for proximity to A, we show that the resulting estimator of T retains the properties established for the MLE. Our theoretical results allow the ambient dimensions K and p to grow with the sample sizes.

Our main application is to the estimation of 1-Wasserstein distances between document generating distributions. We propose, estimate and analyze new 1-Wasserstein distances between alternative probabilistic document representations, at the word and topic level, respectively. We derive finite sample bounds on the estimated proposed 1-Wasserstein distances. For word level document-distances, we provide contrast with existing rates on the 1-Wasserstein distance between standard empirical frequency estimates. The effectiveness of the proposed 1-Wasserstein distances is illustrated by an analysis of an IMDB movie reviews data set.


Florentina Bunea is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University. Her research is broadly centered on statistical machine learning theory and high-dimensional statistical inference.

https://stat.cornell.edu/people/faculty/florentina-bunea

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:28:09 -0400 2021-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Florentina Bunea
U-M Structure Seminar: "Structural basis for redox sensing by the cyanobacterial transcription regulator RexT" (September 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85431 85431-21626418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Bin Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan, Bridwell-Rabb Lab

Hybrid: LSI Library and Zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/97763780708 (Password: structure)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:09:31 -0400 2021-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Workshop / Seminar U-M Structure
Analyzing Anomalous Diffusion in Single-Molecule Tracks with Nonparametric Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86157 86157-21631748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Single-particle tracking (SPT) enables the investigation of biomolecular dynamics at a high temporal and spatial resolution in living cells, and the analysis of these SPT datasets can reveal biochemical interactions and mechanisms. We have developed a new SPT analysis framework, NOBIAS, which applies nonparametric Bayesian statistics and deep learning approaches to thoroughly analyze SPT datasets. We utilize a Hierarchical Dirichlet process Hidden Markov Model (HDP-HMM) to infer the number of diffusive states and the associated dynamics, populations and step labels for each diffusive state, then we apply a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to classify the diffusion type of each diffusive state. We further validate the performance of NOBIAS with simulated tracks and the quantify diffusion of single outer-membrane proteins in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:42:06 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Investigation of RNA 3D structure and small molecule interactions by a multidisciplinary approach (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84766 84766-21624922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Elizabeth D Tidwell1,2; Anna Anders3; Varun Gadkari3; Brandon T Ruotolo3, Aaron T Frank1, and Markos Koutmos1,2,3

1 University of Michigan Department of Biophysics, 2 University of Michigan Chemical Biology Interface Training Program 5T32GM132046-02, 3 University of Michigan Department of Chemistry.

Structured RNAs regulate many key processes in pathogens like bacteria and viruses; yet RNA remains under-explored as a drug target. Visualizing the structures and structural transitions of RNAs are important for RNA therapeutic development; however, there is limited structural data, dynamic information, and incomplete understanding of RNA interactions with small molecules (SM). We are developing a pipeline that combines automated and high-throughput analytical, structural, and synthetic biology tools with molecular modeling and machine learning for rapid and large-scale exploration of RNA structure and RNA:SM interactions. We selected riboswitches to train our method—beginning with the flavin mononucleotide riboswitch (FMN-RS) due to the availability of high-resolution structures with and without its cognate FMN substrate and other previously identified ligands. We performed rigid body docking simulations to identify and rank structurally distinct SM on their potential to recapitulate the ligand interaction between FMN and FMN-RS. Then, we optimized and altered two commonly used in vitro screening methods for protein:SM interactions—ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) and biolayer interferometry (BLI)—for use with RNA. We have successfully optimized RNA sample preparation and data collection for IM-MS using FMN-RS and mitochondrial tRNA leucine. Using collision induced unfolding, we have determined the unfolding states of FMN-RS in the presence and absence of ligand. Additionally, we have successfully used the Octet Red BLI system to measure the FMN-RS interaction with SM. We obtained kinetic binding information with identified ligands of FMN-RS and screened a subset of the predicted SM from our simulations. The results from each in vitro experiment will be used to alter and improve the search criteria for the simulations and illuminate properties of the SM:RNA interactions. Our interdisciplinary methodology will be further optimized to streamline identification of conformationally selective RNA SM binders and potentially improve drug discovery.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:26:35 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Marcial Lapp, American Airlines (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84396 84396-21628578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Marcial Lapp is Managing Director of the Revenue Engineering group at American Airlines. His group is responsible for the systems and business process, including forecast & optimization of yield management, pricing and ancillary services/products that power our Revenue Management and Network Planning groups.

Marcial Lapp began his career in 2010 as an intern, where he developed the optimizer for the overbooking system, which is still in use today (though it’s been significantly enhanced since then). Following his internship, Marcial joined as Chief Scientist RM, where he led the development of an improved network controls model and managed a number of domestic markets. Following a period managing the Mexico, Caribbean & Latin America region, most recently Marcial had been leading the Operations Research and Data Science group, responsible for the technical implementations of systems that drive revenue outcomes.

Marcial earned a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Arlington with his wife, Allysen, and his son, Otto.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:05:05 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Marcial Lapp
MCDB Seminar: Mechanisms Linking Cell Mechanics and Metabolism (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85313 85313-21626216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ann Miller

Note: This seminar is now virtual. Zoom link and password in Weekly Update or email us at: mcdb-web@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:47:45 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar portrait of Kris DeMali (blond woman in red blouse)
Opportunity Kick-Off: Preparing a Competitive NIH S10 Instrumentation Proposal (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85468 85468-21626488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

Hosted by U-M Research Development and the Biosciences Initiative, this webinar will provide an overview of NIH S10 Instrumentation Grants, including U-M success rates, common reviewer critiques, a timeline for developing a strong proposal, and resources to support your efforts.
Recent S10 awardees will join our panel to discuss their experiences, offer tips for success and answer your questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:59:13 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar Closeup of microscope
Economics at Work: (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86851 86851-21636924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:53:32 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics at Work
Return to U-M: Pause, Reflect, Redefine and Recover (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85764 85764-21628724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

CAPS will host 90-minute virtual workshops weekdays during the first week of the Fall semester with a maximum of 12 attendees per workshop. Open to U-M undergraduate and graduate/professional students.

During this discussion-focused workshop, we will encourage students to:

1) Pause and acknowledge what this past year and a half has been like
2) Take time to reflect on some of these experiences
3) Redefine, identify, and communicate needs and boundaries to others as we move into the fall
4) Identify an action step that each of us can take to move towards some semblance of recovery

RSVP: forms.gle/KjSW8yYRFp5XRHkx7

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:56:42 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Workshop / Seminar Return to UM Flyer
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization and Economic Theory: Choice Screen Auctions (September 17, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85650 85650-21627921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Choice screen auctions have been recently deployed in 31 European countries, allowing consumers to choose their preferred search engine on Google’s Android platform instead of being automatically defaulted to Google’s own search engine. I show that a seemingly minor detail in the design of these auctions—whether they are conducted on a “per appearance” or a “per install” basis—plays a major role in the mix and characteristics of auction winners, and, consequently, in their expected overall market share. I also show that “per install” auctions distort the incentives of alternative search engines toward extracting as much revenue as possible from each user who installs them, at the expense of lowering the expected number of such users. The distortion becomes worse as the auction gets more competitive and the number of bidders increases. Empirical evidence from Android choice screen auctions conducted in 2020 is consistent with my theoretical results.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:09:43 -0400 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (September 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (September 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85629 85629-21627808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

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

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

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

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:51:32 -0400 2021-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Fall 2021
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations (September 20, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85461 85461-21626480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Jim Crow segregated African Americans and whites by law and practice. The causes and implications of the associated de jure and de facto residential segregation have received substantial attention from scholars, but there has been little empirical research on racial discrimination in public accommodations during this time period. We digitize the Negro Motorist Green Books, important historical travel guides aimed at helping African Americans navigate segregation in the pre-Civil Rights Act United States. We create a novel panel dataset that contains precise geocoded locations of over 4,000 unique businesses that provided non-discriminatory service to African American patrons between 1938 and 1966. Our analysis reveals several new facts about discrimination in public accommodations that contribute to the broader literature on racial segregation. First, the largest number of Green Book establishments were found in the Northeast, while the lowest number were found in the West. The Midwest had the highest number of Green Book establishments per black resident and the South had the lowest. Second, we combine our Green Book estimates with newly digitized county-level estimates of hotels to generate the share of non-discriminatory formal accommodations. Again, the Northeast had the highest share of non-discriminatory accommodations, with the South following closely behind. Third, for Green Book establishments located in cities for which the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew residential security maps, the vast majority (nearly 70 percent) are located in the lowest-grade, redlined neighborhoods. Finally, Green Book presence tends to correlate positively with measures of material well-being and economic activity.

(To attend this online event, please complete the form to receive email instructions and announcements for this and future SBEE Seminars.)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:02:41 -0400 2021-09-20T11:30:00-04:00 2021-09-20T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar SBEE seminar series
Hub Small Group: Exploring Recruiting and Opportunities in Consulting (September 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85091 85091-21625564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join an Internship Program Coordinator for an advice-laden discussion on securing highly-prized consulting opportunities. Together, we’ll explore strategies for searching for internship opportunities as well as ways to position yourself for success in applications. The small group setting will allow plenty of time for discussion, so bring your questions!

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Looking to learn about consulting opportunities

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn how to effectively search for consulting opportunities
Find out what types of academic, personal, and professional work experiences add value to your applications
Explore alternative ways to gain exposure to careers within consulting

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As.

RSVP now to reserve your spot as this small group will be capped to allow for sharing and discussion. The link to join this small group will be emailed to you 24 hours before the workshop.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:11:52 -0400 2021-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T13:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Exploring Consulting
Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits (September 20, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85314 85314-21626217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 3:30pm
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 on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/O4vGR

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:30:34 -0400 2021-09-20T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar You can do it!
HEP-Astro Seminar | Quest for KL —> pi0 nu nu-bar (September 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86612 86612-21635219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

The KL —> pi0 nu nu-bar decay is one of the sensitive probes to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Because the branching ratio predicted by the Standard Model (3 x 10^{-11}) and its theoretical uncertainty are small, a small deviation from the prediction would signify an existence of new physics. Although the decay mode is theoretically clean, it is difficult to observe experimentally. Not only because the observable particles are limited to two photons from the pi0, backgrounds should be controlled and understood to the level of O(10^-{11}). In this talk, I will briefly review several experimental ideas in the past, explain how the current J-PARC KOTO experiment started and progressed, and show some future plans.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:16:13 -0400 2021-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Public Finance: (September 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86883 86883-21637068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 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 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:03:41 -0400 2021-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Base Editing- Performing Chemistry on the Genome- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (September 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84850 84850-21625190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:37:19 -0400 2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Dr. Alexis Komor
Economic History: Slavery, Plunder, and Power in the Revolutionary South (September 21, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86836 86836-21636910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:53:43 -0400 2021-09-21T14:30:00-04:00 2021-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
CM-AMO Seminar | How to Create and Leverage Many-Body Entanglement For Near-Term Quantum Networks and Simulation (September 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85875 85875-21629503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Quantum information science and related technologies include quantum computers, which will be able to solve important problems beyond the reach of classical computers, as well as the ‘quantum internet’, an inherently secure network for communication and for accessing remote quantum computers. I will discuss these technologies, focusing on the question of how to enable them by creating and leveraging multipartite entangled states using near-term quantum systems. In the case of quantum networks, I will describe our protocols for the generation of logically encoded photonic graph states from quantum emitters. For quantum simulation, I will present our recent work on efficient variational quantum algorithms.

Bio: Sophia Economou is a Professor of Physics and the Hassinger Senior Fellow of Physics at Virginia Tech. She focuses on theoretical research in quantum information science, including quantum computing with solid-state and photonic qubits, quantum communications, and quantum simulation algorithms.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:16:14 -0400 2021-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
MCDB Seminar: Behind the scenes of scientific publishing in not-for-profit, open access PLOS Biology (and beyond) (September 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85315 85315-21626218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Anupam Chakravarty

• Publication process at scientific journals from presubmission
enquiry to publication
• Dos and don’ts of effective authors
• Editing as a career option
• Importance of Open Science for scientific advance
• Mission and vision of PLOS Biology

Nonia will convey insights gained throughout her career at four journals in three different publishers with various publishing models, including EMBO press, the Nature publishing group and now PLOS.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:39:38 -0400 2021-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Portrait of Nonia Partiente Penamaria
Department Colloquium | Light up Quantum Matter (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86207 86207-21632179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Quantum materials are a broad class of materials where collective behaviors of 1023 electrons emerge upon strong interactions and/or reduced dimensionality. Examples include high-Tc superconductivity from strong electron correlations, topological insulators from strong spin orbit coupling, and massless Dirac fermions in two-dimensional (2D) monolayer graphene. Our group works to develop and utilize laser-based spectroscopy and microscopy techniques to reveal, understand, and control quantum states of matter in 3D and 2D quantum materials. In this talk, I will focus on one specific family of phases of matter, multipolar orders, that are widely present in numerous 3D and 2D quantum materials, but at the same time, are extremely hard to study for their little coupling to our familiar vector fields (e.g., electric and magnetic fields). Using the ferro-rotational order, the lowest rank multipolar order, as an example, I will show that we developed static rotation anisotropy (RA) electric quadrupole (EQ) second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy to measure its symmetry properties, built spatially-resolved RA-EQ-SHG microscopy to map its real-space distribution, and designed and constructed time-resolved RA-EQ SHG spectroscopy to resolve its collective excitations and drive it into a new transient state. Our success in developing and using EQ-SHG to study the ferro-rotational order opens new venues for coupling and manipulating these otherwise inaccessible multipolar orders with nonlinear and ultrafast optics.

References

W. Jin*, E. Drueke*, et al Nature Physics 16, 42 (2020)
X. Luo et al Phys. Rev. Letters in press (2021)
X. Guo*, R. Owen*, et al manuscript in preparation (2021)

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:16:19 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Environmental Internship Search Workshop (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86842 86842-21636919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Are you interested in exploring environmental career options and using your classroom knowledge within a practical setting? Apply for an environmental internship! This virtual workshop will lead you through all the steps to search and apply for environmental internships in topics such as water, food, energy, sustainability, justice, and the natural world. You will leave the workshop with a concrete action plan and resources to successfully find an internship.

This event is directed towards PitE students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:10:50 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Workshop / Seminar
Hub Workshop: The Essentials of Networking (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85093 85093-21625565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Why network? Career networking is an important way to learn more about fields you’re interested in, find new opportunities, and advance your career. In fact, LinkedIn reports that 61% of professionals agree that regular online interaction with their professional network can open up possible job opportunities. We’ll cover the essentials of how to introduce yourself, grow authentic connections, and build an active network.

This hour-long workshop will consist of a live virtual discussion led by Hub coaches, ways to approach conversations with others, examples of things to say while networking, individual work time, and an introduction to LSA Connect— the college’s career networking and mentoring platform.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
New to networking or hoping for some additional pointers
Torn between career paths or wanting to explore your career interests
Seeking tips on how to introduce yourself to professionals in industries you’re interested in exploring
Looking to form long-lasting connections with potential mentors

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn about the overarching purpose and goals of networking
Discuss your concerns around networking and strategize on how to address them
Identify what networks you already have access to and who you want to connect with
Brainstorm effective introductory messages to grow your network

Moderate Interaction
Video and audio presence is preferred
The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:13:40 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Wall Street QE vs. Main Street Lending (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86880 86880-21637066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: Monetary and fiscal authorities reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic by purchasing assets (or "Wall Street QE") and lending directly to non-financial firms (or "Main Street Lending"). Our paper develops a new framework to compare and contrast these different policies. For the Great Recession, characterized by impaired balance sheets of financial intermediaries, Main Street lending and Wall Street QE are perfect substitutes and both stimulate aggregate demand. In contrast, for the COVID-19 recession, where non-financial firms faced significant cash flow shortages, Wall Street QE is almost completely ineffective, whereas Main Street lending can be highly stimulative.
* To join the seminar, please contact at econ.events@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:06:05 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
The graduate school application process: Start now! (September 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84316 84316-21623283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Just as being a graduate student is very different from being an undergraduate so are the ways in which you figure out which programs are the best fit for you, and successfully apply for them. This session will be especially relevant to juniors and seniors in the process of researching and applying to graduate school: How to find the right programs, how to structure your personal statement and get strong recommendation letters, do you have to take the GRE – and what if you don’t score as well as you’d like? However, we’ll also talk about what you should be doing to prepare as early as your sophomore or even freshman year. We’ll have both a short presentation and a panel of graduate students, including those who have recently served on admissions committees.

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/NxDK8

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:50:26 -0400 2021-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar STAR Scholar Program Virtual Seminar Series
OrgBasics: Funding (September 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86839 86839-21636916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Is your student organization looking for funding sources? OrgBasics can help! Come join us on September 22nd from 5:00-6:30 P.M. in the Union IdeaHub and over Zoom to learn how to manage and raise funds for your org!

Zoom link coming soon!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:01:13 -0400 2021-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar OrgBasics - Funding
Writing in "Academic Style" (September 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86245 86245-21632219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: English Language Institute

Whether you are writing a research article, class assignment, conference abstract or dissertation, the words, grammatical structures, and organizational patterns you use all signal whether your text sounds “academic.” We will look at features of academic style, and how these differ across a range of writing that undergraduate and graduate students do. In this workshop we will work on how to make effective stylistic choices for the types of writing you are doing and the academic identity you wish to convey to your readers in various writing contexts. Bring a text you are currently working on for analysis. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:52:01 -0400 2021-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
International Economics: (September 23, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86856 86856-21636929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:42:22 -0400 2021-09-23T11:30:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Holocaust and Medicine Education for Resilient Professional Identity Formation: A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter Teaches German Medical Students at Auschwitz (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85430 85430-21626417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Hedy Wald is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program. She is a Gold Humanism Foundation Harvard Macy Scholar, was a Fulbright Specialist Scholar in medical education for Ben Gurion University of Health Sciences, Israel, and has been a Visiting Professor at over 90 healthcare professions schools and healthcare organizations world-wide, presenting lectures and workshops on using interactive (guided) reflective writing to enhance reflective practice and support professional identity formation, promoting resilience and wellbeing, and Holocaust and Medicine in health professions education. Dr. Wald holds an appointment as a Commissioner for the international Lancet Commission on Medicine and the Holocaust.  She publishes and presents on family cancer caregiver survivorship, including for the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Medicine in Washington, DC. Her creative writing, reviews, and poetry have appeared in literary and medical journals and her work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Medical Independent (Ireland), and Jerusalem Post. Dr. Wald has been cited on Twitter as a medical educator to follow, on #WomeninMedicine Day as a “woman who lifts others up,” and “a voice of conscience and compassion.” Follow her on Twitter: @hedy_wald “Mind/Body/Spirit of MedEd”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:47:58 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Alum Connection: Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Stephen Madry (September 23, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86918 86918-21637564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join U-M alum Dr. Stephen Madry for a conversation designed to explore the fast-paced, high-demand world of plastic surgery. Dr. Madry will share his own professional journey, and his advice for students considering a career in health and medicine. Bring your questions about applying to medical school, determining your specialization, and building a successful career around helping people feel their best.

About Dr. Madry:
Stephen Madry, MD is a board-certified plastic surgeon in Barrington, IL just outside of Chicago. For over three decades, patients have traveled to his clinic from around the country because of Dr. Madry’s results and outstanding reputation for helping people feel their best.
Dr. Madry received his MD degree from Michigan State University in June 1989. Prior to that, he earned both his MPH degree in Epidemiology and BS in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan.
His residencies were completed at Wayne State University (General Surgery) and Loyola University (Plastic Surgery). Dr. Madry is an Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery.

You should attend this session if you are:
-A UM undergraduate LSA student interested in pursuing a career in medicine
-Interested in learning more about the medical school experience, and how you might identify your specialization
-Exploring your options for experiential learning related to careers in health and medicine

What you’ll gain by attending:
-Get advice from a U-M alum about life as a plastic surgeon
-Get helpful anecdotes and advice on preparing for and applying to medical school
-Gain access to an experienced professional who can become part of your active network

Interaction: Moderate

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection 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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:04:33 -0400 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Students
SEMINAR: "Spectral Models for Air Transportation Networks" – Max Li (September 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86630 86630-21635240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 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: Spectral Models for Air Transportation Networks


Abstract:
Air transportation networks are canonical examples of highly interconnected and complex systems. Furthermore, these societal-scale infrastructures generate large amounts of data upon which decisions regarding operational safety, efficiency, and reliability must be made. Therefore, understanding the characteristics of performance measures such as air traffic delays is critical for developing ways to mitigate their significant economic and environmental impacts. I will focus on network behavior and performance during disruptions (e.g., thunderstorms, nor’easters, hurricanes), and discuss how airport delays can be viewed as graph-supported signals, amenable to a variety of spectral and graph signal processing-based methods. Through this analysis, I characterize the spatial distribution of delays across a network of airports, highlighting key differences in delay dynamics between different types of disruptions and among different airline networks. I will then touch on some recent work regarding low-dimensional representations of airport network delays and how to use these representations to develop control and traffic flow management strategies. Finally, I will discuss some interdisciplinary research directions of interest to me, such as the integrated modeling of air-surface multi-modal transportation networks and emerging aerospace mobility systems (e.g., UAS/AAM).

Bio:
Max is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022. He is also currently at MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) as a National Airspace System Senior Data Scientist. Max received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021. He earned his MSE in Systems Engineering and BSE in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, both from the University of Pennsylvania, in 2018. Broadly, he is interested in the analysis, control, and optimization of networks and networked processes, signal processing over irregular domains and manifolds, and geometric/topological data analysis, with an eye towards applications in air transportation systems and other societal-scale networks. He is the recipient of the Federal Aviation Administration RAISE Award (2018), a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2018), and the Wellington and Irene Loh Fellowship from MIT (2019), as well as several best paper awards from ICRAT and the ATM R&amp;D Seminar, two joint FAA- Eurocontrol conferences.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:36:44 -0400 2021-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Max Li, University of Michigan
Alum Connection: Global Marketing Executive, Jeff Lack (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86916 86916-21637578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Jeff Lack (U-M History ‘92) is the Vice President, Digital Center of Excellence for Bridgestone Americas. For over 20 years, he has successfully developed and executed high-impact brand strategies across a variety of media types, and is proudly known for building high-performing teams. Join Jeff for a conversation about how a major does not have to equal a career. He will explain how studying an area of interest - in his case, history - still set him up for success and helped him build expertise in marketing and brand development. If you’re also curious about exploring and pursuing careers in the consumer goods industry and in leadership roles, bring your questions!

About Alum (Major & Year):
Jeff Lack joined Bridgestone in 2015 as vice president of marketing and merchandising. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic marketing leadership, including 15 years in global marketing roles at Shell. Shortly after graduating from U-M (History ‘92), Jeff received his MBA at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. His engaging career spans a variety of experiences including brand building and the development of consumer value propositions, and executing successful strategies across a variety of media types including mass, digital, and social. His work goes deep in agency management, media planning, merchandising, public relations, CRM/customer loyalty marketing, customer experience, product/service portfolio management and innovation, and consumer insights.

You should attend this session if you are:
- A UM undergraduate LSA student
- Interested in pursuing a career in marketing, advertising, or brand development
- Exploring career options in the consumer goods industry or in agency work
- Interested in learning more about attending graduate school and/or pursuing an MBA


What you’ll gain by attending:
- Get invaluable advice from an LSA alum about becoming a business leader
- Gain insights on preparing for and applying to business school
- Gain access to an experienced professional and U-M alum that can become part of your active network

Interaction Level: Moderate

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection 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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:07:45 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Students
EEB Thursday Seminar: Postponed (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85672 85672-21628186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Please check back soon for further details (time and location is still subject to change). Thank you for your patience.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:04:02 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Exterior of Biological Sciences Building with words EEB Thursday Seminar Series and UM EEB logo
Hub Small Group: Finding an Internship in Healthcare or Public Health (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85094 85094-21625567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join an Internship Program Coordinator for an advice-laden discussion on finding, applying, and securing an internship in healthcare and varied public health fields. We will explore search strategies so you can uncover great opportunities as well as ways you can stand out from among other applicants. We will also explore alternative career paths to medicine that do not include research or teaching, as well as ideas for entering the healthcare field through certifications. The small group setting will allow plenty of time for discussion—so bring your questions!


You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Exploring alternative career paths to medical school that do not include research or teaching
Seeking an internship in healthcare or public health fields

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn how to effectively search for internship opportunities in healthcare and public health
Find out what types of experiences add value to your undergraduate experience and the dots you are connecting to your career interests
Explore alternative ways to gain exposure to careers in healthcare and public health

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As

Register now, as spots are limited. The link to join the small group will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:16:16 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Internship in Healthcare
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Learning Without Neurons (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86558 86558-21634895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Learning is usually associated with neural networks. But non-neural systems can also accumulate incremental changes over time and thus respond better to future environments. We show how seemingly 'dumb' physical systems like DNA crystals and elastic materials can learn to recognize complex patterns in chemical or mechanical stimuli, much like a neural network. We outline the potential and limits of such 'mechanical intelligence' due to physically realizable learning dynamics.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:16:20 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Workshop: E3 (LinC September) (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84301 84301-21623260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:18:40 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
SAPAC Volunteer Training Fall 2021 (September 23, 2021 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86733 86733-21635830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 11:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

The SAPAC Volunteer Training program is an intensive 21-hour training that provides in-depth information on issues related to sexual violence prevention. Volunteer Training is a requirement if you are interested in volunteering with the Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement Program (BICE); Consent, Outreach, & Relationship Education Program (CORE); Survivor Empowerment and Ally Support Program (SEAS); Michigan Men; or Graduate Research, Outreach, Workshops, and Evaluation (GROWE).

SAPAC Volunteer Training is open to all currently enrolled students at the University of Michigan, including undergraduate and graduate students.

Fall 2021 Volunteer Training will take place throughout the entire month of October! The majority of training will be completed through Canvas and Zoom sessions. Applications are open now!

To learn more and apply please visit: sapac.umich.edu/apply

Deadline to Apply: 11:59m, Thursday, September 23rd

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:57:06 -0400 2021-09-23T23:59:00-04:00 2021-09-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Workshop / Seminar SAPAC Volunteer Training
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Roadblock or Accelerator? The Effect of Electric Vehicle Subsidy Elimination (September 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86846 86846-21636921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: Federal and state governments in many countries subsidize early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) to promote green technology. These programs use different approaches such as quotas and deadlines to end the subsidies, creating complicated incentives for car manufacturers. This paper demonstrates the complex effect of the elimination designs on the EV market penetration, prices, and welfare in the US electric vehicle market. I develop a structural model of the consumer vehicle choice and manufacturer's pricing decisions in the US automobile industry. I estimate the model using industry data from 2011-2017 on new vehicle registrations, prices, characteristics, and subsidies to identify demand elasticities, network effects, and marginal costs. Based on the model primitives, I conduct counterfactual simulations to compare alternative subsidy elimination designs for EV market penetration, prices, and welfare.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:23:36 -0400 2021-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Erick Matsen, Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (September 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84417 84417-21637073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Phylogenetic (evolutionary tree) inference is a key tool for understanding evolutionary systems. This includes viral adaptation and genomic epidemiology, as well as the antibody response to infection and vaccination. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis allows us to assess and integrate out tree uncertainty to obtain more reliable estimates of other model variables of interest (e.g. transmission rates). However, Bayesian posterior distributions on phylogenetic trees remain difficult to sample despite decades of effort. The complex discrete and continuous model structure of trees means that recent inferential methods developed for Euclidean space are not easily applicable to the phylogenetic case. Thus, we are left with random-walk Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) with uninformed tree modification proposals; these traverse tree space slowly because phylogenetic posteriors are concentrated on a small fraction of the very many possible trees.

In this talk, I will describe our work to design new scalable approaches to inferring the Bayesian posterior on phylogenetic trees. This includes establishing a new discrete inferential target, which we call the "subsplit directed acyclic graph," and a new algorithm that will allow us to infer this structure using methods analogous to much faster maximum-likelihood (point-estimate) methods for phylogenetics. I will also describe how, once this structure is in hand, we can perform variational inference via stochastic gradient descent.


Dr. Frederick “Erick” Matsen is an expert in computational biology, which is the science of using biological data to develop computer algorithms, or programs, to understand biological systems and relationships. His research team has developed new methods to analyze data generated by sequencing the DNA of viruses, immune cells and complex environmental samples containing many microorganisms. The team also pursues more abstract questions about the methods used to construct evolutionary trees. Another focus of Dr. Matsen’s work is on improving software used in computational biology, both by developing open source tools and by contributing to work on larger, collaborative projects.

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/faculty-lab-directory/matsen-frederick.html
http://matsen.group/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:52:46 -0400 2021-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Erick Matsen
U-M Structure Seminar: "Structure of a meiosis-specific complex central to BRCA2 localization at recombination sites (September 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85432 85432-21626419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Hybrid: LSI Library and Zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/97763780708 (Password: structure)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:09:51 -0400 2021-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Workshop / Seminar U-M Structure
Pre-Law 101 Webinar (September 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86544 86544-21634793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Students exploring careers in law and those committed to applying in the future are welcome to attend this information session. We will provide an overview of what it means to "prepare" for law school application, and how to situate your experiences to showcase your best self.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/95030603538

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:17:37 -0400 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Gavel on black background with copy space. Concept for legal, lawyer, judge, law, auction and attorney.
Balancing spatial heterogeneity and migration to slow the evolution of resistance in a bacterial pathogen (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86117 86117-21631587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Spatial heterogeneity can dramatically impact evolution in bacterial communities, raising the question of whether spatial profiles of drug concentration can be tuned to slow the emergence of antibiotic resistance. In this work, we combine lab evolution experiments in spatially connected, computer-controlled chemostats with mathematical models to investigate resistance evolution in E. faecalis, an opportunistic bacterial pathogen. We find that both the rate of adaptation to doxycycline, a protein-synthesis inhibiting antibiotic, and the associated cost of resistance in the associated mutants depends strongly on drug concentration in spatially uniform populations. Interestingly, when spatially separated subpopulations are exposed to different concentrations of drug, adaptation can be dramatically slowed by tuning the rate of migration between habitats, leading to selection for phenotypically distinct resistant mutants. Our results highlight the rich evolutionary dynamics of adaptation in spatially connected habitats and indicate that resistance evolution can be slowed by balancing evolutionary trade-offs of migration and heterogeneity.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:40:56 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Investigation of structural switch that regulates pre-miR-92a processing by NMR (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84767 84767-21624923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression in a variety of biological pathways such as development and tumorigenesis. miRNAs are initially expressed as a long primary transcripts (pri-miRNA) which are processed to yield pre-miRNAs and ultimately mature miRNAs. The miR-17-92a cluster, also known as ‘oncomiR-1’ is a polycistronic pri-miRNA that plays a pivotal regulatory role in cellular processes, including the cell cycle, proliferation and apoptosis. OncomiR-1 includes six constitute miRNAs, each processed with different efficiencies as a function of both developmental time and tissue type. However, the structural mechanism that regulate the differential processing still remain unclear.
NMR is a key technique that has significantly advanced our understanding of RNA structure and dynamics. In vitro processing assays indicate that pre-miR-92a processing is inhibited relative to other miRs within oncomiR-1. We are interested in uncovering the structural basis for the differential processing by NMR. NPSL2 has been identified as an inhibitor of pre-miR-92a processing. Therefore, in this work we determined the solution structure of NPSL2. Our data suggest that NPSL2 is dynamic, and we hypothesize that the dynamics are linked to regulation of processing. Our ongoing efforts will investigate the mechanism of the structural switch that promotes premiR-92a processing in the context of the full-length oncomiR-1 RNA.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:32:04 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Anne Shen Smith, Southern California Gas Company (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84393 84393-21623783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Anne Shen Smith retired in 2014 as the chairman and CEO of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. SoCalGas is the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, delivering energy services to over 23 million consumers.

Smith started her career with SoCalGas in 1977 and held leadership positions in marketing, public affairs, strategic planning, environmental policy, regulatory affairs, customer care, support services and operations. Smith received numerous awards for community service and environmental leadership. She was appointed to policy advisory commissions at the local, state, and federal levels. She served as a member of the board of directors for the PG&E Corporation (a Fortune 500 company), the American Gas Association, Coalition for Clean Air, Southern California Leadership Council, UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, Asian American Advancing Justice Los Angeles, and California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She continues to be actively involved in her community, and is a member of The Trusteeship (an affiliate of the International Women’s Forum) and Women Corporate Directors.

Smith immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1964. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:14:21 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Anne Shen Smith
MCDB Seminar: Unraveling the Function of the Sorting Adaptor Complex AP-4 in Health and Disease (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85317 85317-21626220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ming Li

Heterotetrameric adaptor protein (AP) complexes play key roles in protein sorting and transport vesicle formation in the endomembrane system of eukaryotic cells. One of these complexes, AP-4, was identified over 20 years ago but, up until recently, its function remained unclear. AP-4 associates with the trans-Golgi network (TGN) through interaction with small GTPases of the ARF family. Recent studies identified the autophagy protein ATG9A as a specific AP-4 cargo. Defective export of ATG9A from the TGN in AP-4-deficient cells was shown to reduce ATG9A delivery to pre-autophagosomal structures, impairing autophagosome maturation. In addition, mutations in AP-4-subunit genes were found to cause neurological dysfunction in mice and a form of complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia referred to as 'AP-4-deficiency syndrome' in humans. These findings demonstrated that mammalian AP-4 is required for the development and function of the central nervous system, possibly through its role in the sorting of ATG9A for the maintenance of autophagic homeostasis. In my talk, I will review the properties and functions of AP-4, and discuss how they might explain the clinical features of AP-4 deficiency.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:56:54 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar Portrait of Juan Bonifacino
Peace Corps Application Workshop (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86876 86876-21637057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Join your recruiters for this virtual workshop to learn what steps are required to complete your Peace Corps application. You will have an opportunity to ask questions about service, learn steps you can take to improve your resume and personal statement, and gain valuable tips to guide you through the application process.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:18:10 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Center Workshop / Seminar Application Workshop
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (September 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (September 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85629 85629-21627809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

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

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

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

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:51:32 -0400 2021-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Fall 2021
Employer Connections: Résumé Reviews with Disney, Havas Formula, Pandora, Leo Burnett and more. (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87018 87018-21638137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Whether your résumé or portfolio is a blank page or polished final draft, join the LSA Opportunity Hub for a résumé consultation with one of our top employer partners. These 15-minute, one-on-one sessions will be timely informal opportunities to receive direct feedback from seasoned recruiters. They will advise on how to best highlight your experiences before entering the Fall recruiting season. Students can choose which employer representatives they’d like to meet with, including: Disney, Havas Formula, Pandora, Leo Burnett, and more to be confirmed.


You should attend this Employer Connection if you are:

- An LSA student actively applying for opportunities this Fall, whether they be campus research, internships, job shadows, micro-internships, or full-time roles
- Interested in careers that involve Marketing, Public Relations, Communications, or Entertainment.

What you’ll gain by attending:

- Get feedback on your résumé from industry professionals who actively hire LSA students
- Gain insights on how your skills and interests may align with an organization’s existing opportunities
- Make a valuable connection with a professional from a firm of your choosing

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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:04:55 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar 3 People reviewing a documents
Animal Psychology and the Venereal Unconscious: A Graduate Student Workshop (September 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86235 86235-21632206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

LIZ MCNEILL:
Materializing Interspecies Communication: Clever Hans and the Sprachkrise's [Language Crisis'] Animal Psychologists (1904-15)

In the fall of 1904, experimental psychologists in Berlin debunked the “equine savant” Clever Hans, who had become famous that summer for his supposed ability to read, write, and do arithmetic. For most readers of German news media, what eventually became known as “observer-expectancy effect” sated their curiosity. But for many, questions remained, questions which centered on Hans’ perception of human embodied communication acts which humans, themselves, could not perceive. Such a mode of animal communication below articulated human language is the focus of this chapter. For the philosopher of language Fritz Mauthner, dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, and fiction writer Franz Kafka—whose works form the critical heart of this chapter—Hans was more than a horse who could produce German-language sentences through a highly mediated, complexly (im)material and embodied interspecies alphabet system. Hans and the horses who followed in his hoof-steps revealed the limits of scientific materialism, ultimately calling for an approach to studying animal psychology which did not begin and end with measuring head and eye movements. What, they wondered, does Hans have to say? Can we ever know?

BASSAM SIDIKI:
Venerealisms: Inter-Imperial Social Hygiene and the Anti-Marriage Plot

This chapter is a literary and cultural history of the “tropification” of venereal disease in the inter-imperial context of the early twentieth century. It argues that the colonial brothel—a rhetorical space bringing together first-wave liberal feminism, anxieties about alleged international prostitution networks deemed the “white slave trade,” and the transatlantic movement for social hygiene—is a powerful fugitive presence in canonical and popular Anglo-American novels published in the mid-1920s: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924), W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil (1925), and Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith (1925). It argues further that these novels channeled the anxiety about the possible degeneration of white imperial women into sex workers by juxtaposing doomed heterosexual marriage or courtship plots with tropical epidemics like plague and cholera. These texts therefore repress what I call a “venereal unconscious:” their representations of nonvenereal infectious diseases signify the unmentionable venereal ones, and the latter are in turn constructed as especially prevalent among colonized tropical populations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:17:57 -0400 2021-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar "Hans at the typewriter: His gaze forward is unimpeded by the blinders," in Karl Krall, Thinking Animals: Contributions to the Science of the Animal Soul Based on My Own Experiments [Denkende Tiere: Beiträge zur Tierseelenkunde auf Grund eigener Versuche] (Leipzig: F. Engelmann, 1912), 371.
HEP-Astro Seminar | Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and Lensing Ratios for Cosmological Analyses in the Dark Energy Survey (September 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86495 86495-21634734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Galaxy cosmic surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey are a powerful tool to extract cosmological information. In particular, the combination of weak lensing and galaxy clustering measurements, usually known as 3x2pt, provides a potent and robust way to constrain the parameters controlling the structure formation in the late Universe. In this talk I will give an overview of the results and methods of Dark Energy Survey Y3 3x2pt cosmological analysis, focusing specially on the galaxy-galaxy lensing probe, which is the cross-correlation of the shapes of source background galaxies with lens foreground galaxy positions. I will also describe how we can construct suitable ratios of these galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to exploit the otherwise usually disregarded small-scale information and naturally integrate it as part of the 3x2pt analysis. Finally, I will highlight some other galaxy-galaxy lensing applications, including learning about the galaxy-halo connection and low-surface brightness galaxies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:16:45 -0400 2021-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Public Finance: (September 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86884 86884-21637069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 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 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:05:35 -0400 2021-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Encapsulins: Molecular Biology of the Shell-Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87001 87001-21638113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit I
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Giessen will give an in person seminar in 3330 MS I

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:28:43 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit I Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Giessen
Neighborhood Greening for Stormwater Management: What Matters for Residents (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86956 86956-21637625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Panelists: Kenyetta Campbell (Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance), Barb Matney (Warrendale Community Organization), Joan Nassauer (Univ of MI), and Natalie Sampson (Univ of MI Dearborn). Moderated by Amy Schulz (Univ of MI).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:47:14 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar R&R: Residents and Researchers Tuesday Talks at 12 on environment, health, and community
Virtual Presence: Standing Out Online (September 28, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86690 86690-21635590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

9/28/21
12:30-1:30
Johnson Rooms, 3rd floor, Lurie Engineering Center

Lunch provided!

After the last couple of years, developing a professional virtual presence has become more essential than ever. In this presentation, we'll discuss best practices for how you can excel in virtual interviews, cultivate a professional online presence, and establish connections through virtual networking. Our presenter for this workshop will be Colleen McNamee, who works as a Career Services Manager with the Engineering Career Resource Center.

Register by 9/23 at https://forms.gle/fT8Lju6Pn3FyU55S6

If you have any questions, email ajrose@umich.edu. Sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:16:16 -0400 2021-09-28T12:30:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
LSA DEI Workshop: Implicit Bias (September 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85160 85160-21625664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For questions or requests for accommodation, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*

In this session, participants will learn to:

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

You will benefit by:

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

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete this course before enrolling in the Microaggression Session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:10:01 -0400 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Law library at U. Michigan.
M-LEEaD Fall Seminar: Germline Epigenetic Programming and Paternal Contributions to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Questioning the Prevailing Paradigm (September 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86413 86413-21634273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join us on Zoom for a fall seminar questioning the prevailing view that maternal drinking alone contributes to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs). Michael Golding, Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Physiology at Texas A&M University, researches the interface between pregnancy and epigenetics, trying to understand how environmental exposures before conception or early in development cause disease later in life. Currently, he investigates how male drinking, prior to conception, contributes to the development of alcohol-induced birth defects and disease.
LOCATION: This is an online event via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91370513906

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:13:23 -0400 2021-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Image showing event title and depiction of a fetus
Inequality and Social Demography Workshop (September 29, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87438 87438-21642142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

"The Legacy of Advantage: America’s Racial Geography & Multigenerational Home Wealth Transmission" - Catalina Anampa Castro

"The Medicalization of Loneliness? Implications for Policy Responses" - Sofia Hiltner

https://umich.zoom.us/j/98259634240#success

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:58:27 -0400 2021-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:50:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Interpersonal Skills Workshop - Part 1, hosted by GradSWE (September 29, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86808 86808-21636696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you couldn’t understand or control your emotions? Or have you ever looked back on a stressful situation and wondered how you could have reacted differently? These types of questions can be addressed during our two-part Interpersonal Skills Workshop which will allow you to understand your Emotional Intelligence (EQ). During the first workshop, Dr. Eric Fretz, will go over the EQ framework so that you can recognize where you and others are located and how you can use this to understand the people around you. Participants will also receive an EQ rubric to complete for self-assessment. The first workshop is on September 29th 2021, from 12:30-2pm at the LEC Johnson Room with food provided! This event is sponsored by COE.

RSVP is required.
Contact: Jessica Doshi at doshij@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:27:13 -0400 2021-09-29T12:30:00-04:00 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
M-LEEaD Virtual Meet and Greet with Michael Golding, PhD, Texas A&M University (September 29, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86414 86414-21634309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join U of M School of Public Health Research Assistant Professor Bambarendage Pinithi Perera, PhD, as she hosts M-LEEaD’s virtual meet and greet with Michael Golding, PhD, Texas A&M University following his fall seminar. Questions on Dr. Golding’s research, including follow up from his presentation “Germline Epigenetic Programming and Paternal Contributions to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Questioning the Prevailing Paradigm”, are encouraged.
LOCATION: This is an online event. Please join us at https://umich.zoom.us/j/97134159093

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:39:32 -0400 2021-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Image showing Dr. Golding from Texas A&M University
Department Colloquium | Flat Bands, Topology, and Fractionalization - A New Pathway Towards Fractional Topological States (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86208 86208-21632180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

In this talk, I will first provide a review about various flat band systems and the nontrivial physics that emerges from these flat bands and heavy electrons, with main focus on fractional topological states and fractional excitations. In contrast to the conventional approach, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, which requires a strong external magnetic field, here we explore a new pathway towards the same type of exotic fractional particles through spontaneous symmetry breaking with zero external magnetic fields. We show that utilizing realistic material parameters and the method of exact diagonalization, these fractional states can be stabilized in Moiré superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:16:37 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Hub Small Group: Finding an Internship in Business (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85095 85095-21625568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join an Internship Program Coordinator for an advice-laden discussion on securing a highly-prized business internship. Together, we’ll explore strategies for searching for internship opportunities as well as ways to position yourself for success in applications. The small group setting will allow plenty of time for discussion—so bring your questions!

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Seeking a business-oriented internship

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn how to effectively search for business internships
Find out what types of academic, personal, and professional work experiences add value to your applications
Explore alternative ways to gain exposure to careers within business

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As.

Register now, as spots are limited. The link to join the small group will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:26:53 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T16:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Internship in Business
Hub Workshop: Grad School Prep & Process (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85097 85097-21625570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

If you’re thinking about applying to grad school (or already have it in your plans), this virtual workshop will outline what to consider before exploring graduate programs and institutions, help you in understanding the general application timeline, and give you a start on preparing your application materials.

Together with Hub coaches and your peers, you’ll develop a plan towards successful admission to a grad program that fits your learning and career goals. Lastly, we will work together as a group to establish what makes a powerful and effective personal statement.

You should attend this virtual workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Interested in learning more about the possibility (and realities) of grad school
Eager for insights that’ll help you determine if advanced study is a step you want to take
Looking for guiding criteria that will help assess if a particular grad program is aligned with your goals
Searching for available resources to assist you through the process

What you’ll gain by attending:
Bolster your understanding of grad and professional schools, admission requirements, and application deadlines
Develop a strategy for identifying grad schools that meet your criteria and a plan for how to stay on top of your applications
Discover resources available to you throughout your prep and application process
Start to think through an approach to writing your personal statement or identify areas of improvement within your existing personal statement

Moderate Interaction
Video and audio presence is preferred
The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:51:20 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics and Economic History: The Israeli Economy: A Story of Success and Costs (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86837 86837-21636911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 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 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:53:41 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
LSA Transfer Information Session (September 29, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86782 86782-21635967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

To register go to https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMud-2hrzMsE9c3snq5C1G5gr4eQ6edro3j

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:47:26 -0400 2021-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Center
What Are You Laughing At? Understanding and “Getting’ American Humor (September 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86246 86246-21632222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: English Language Institute

Do you find yourself feeling lost when people around you are laughing and you seem to have missed the joke? Humor is an important part of interacting but can be a challenge to understand. Ideas about what is funny can vary greatly from culture to culture. Jokes can include tricky wordplay and idiomatic expressions. Yet ‘getting’ humor can support success in academic, social and professional life. This small interactive workshop includes a presentation of several common types of humor and current examples of popular U.S. humor, followed by analysis and discussion of what makes the content funny. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:54:51 -0400 2021-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
U-M Research Computing Package: Office Hours (September 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85921 85921-21630483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

A new package of no-cost supercomputing resources for researchers on all U-M campuses is now available: the U-M Research Computing Package, provided by Information and Technology Services.

As of Sept. 1, university researchers have access to a base allocation for 80,000 CPU hours of high-performance computing and research storage services (including 10 TB of high-speed and 100 TB of archival storage) at no cost, thanks to an additional investment from ITS. These base allocations will meet the needs of approximately 75 percent of current high-performance computing users and 90 percent of current research storage users.

Customers must sign up to receive the allocation. Learn more on the ARC website, https://arc.umich.edu/UMRCP.

Join ARC director Brock Palen via Zoom to get your questions answered.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:13:13 -0400 2021-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T10:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar The UMRCP is now available - sign up today via the ARC website, https://arc.umich.edu/UMRCP!
International Economics: (September 30, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86858 86858-21636930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:44:10 -0400 2021-09-30T11:30:00-04:00 2021-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
SEMINAR: "Detecting equivalence between iterative algorithms for optimization" – Madeleine Richards Udell (September 30, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86946 86946-21637614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 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: Detecting equivalence between iterative algorithms for optimization

Abstract:
When are two algorithms the same? How can we be sure a recently proposed algorithm is novel, and not a minor twist on an existing method? In this talk, we present a framework for reasoning about equivalence between a broad class of iterative algorithms, with a focus on algorithms designed for convex optimization. We propose several notions of what it means for two algorithms to be equivalent, and provide computationally tractable means to detect equivalence. Our main definition, oracle equivalence, states that two algorithms are equivalent if they result in the same sequence of calls to the function oracles (for suitable initialization). Borrowing from control theory, we use state-space realizations to represent algorithms and characterize algorithm equivalence via transfer functions. Our framework can also identify and characterize some algorithm transformations including permutations of the update equations, repetition of the iteration, and conjugation of some of the function oracles in the algorithm. A software package named Linnaeus implements the framework and makes it easy to find other iterative algorithms that are equivalent to an input algorithm. More broadly, this framework and software advances the goal of making mathematics searchable.
Based on joint work with Shipu Zhao and Laurent Lessard


Bio:
Madeleine Udell is Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Richard and Sybil Smith Sesquicentennial Fellow at Cornell University. She studies optimization and machine learning for large scale data analysis and control, with applications in marketing, demographic modeling, medical informatics, engineering system design, and automated machine learning. She has received several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2021), a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2020), an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2020), a Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award (2020), an INFORMS Optimization Society Best Student Paper Award (as advisor) (2019), and INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR (2018). Her work is supported by grants from the NSF, ONR, DARPA, the Canadian Institutes of Health, and Capital One.
Her research in optimization centers on detecting and exploiting novel structures in optimization problems, with a particular focus on convex and low rank problems. These structures lead the way to automatic proofs of optimality, better complexity guarantees, and faster, more memory-efficient algorithms. She has developed a number of open source libraries for modeling and solving optimization problems, including Convex.jl, one of the top tools in the Julia language for technical computing.
Her research in machine learning centers on methods for imputing missing data in large tabular data sets. Her work on generalized low rank models (GLRMs) extends principal components analysis (PCA) to embed tabular data sets with heterogeneous (numerical, Boolean, categorical, and ordinal) types into a low dimensional space, providing a coherent framework for compressing, denoising, and imputing missing entries. This research enables novel applications in medical informatics, quantitative finance, marketing, causal inference, and automated machine learning, among others.
At Cornell, Madeleine has advised more than 50 students and postdocs. She has developed several new courses in optimization and machine learning, earning the Douglas Whitney ’61 Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 2018.
Madeleine completed her PhD at Stanford University in Computational & Mathematical Engineering in 2015 under the supervision of Stephen Boyd, and a one year postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech in the Center for the Mathematics of Information hosted by Professor Joel Tropp. At Stanford, she was awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship, a Gabilan Graduate Fellowship, and a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, and was selected as the doctoral student member of Stanford's School of Engineering Future Committee to develop a road-map for the future of engineering at Stanford over the next 10–20 years. She received a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics, summa cum laude, with honors in mathematics and in physics, from Yale University.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:34:09 -0400 2021-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Madeleine Richards Udell, Cornell University
Economic Development Seminar: (September 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86885 86885-21637072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:26:19 -0400 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:20:00-04:00 Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
EEB Thursday Seminar: Postponed (September 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85730 85730-21628569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Please check back soon for further details (time and location is still subject to change). Thank you for your patience.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:04:57 -0400 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Exterior of Biological Sciences Building
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Perfect Andreev Reflection Due to the Klein Paradox in a Topological Superconducting State (September 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86559 86559-21634896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

One focus of our research is exploration of new quantum materials and their device applications. In this talk, I will describe our observation of perfect Andreev reflection in point contact spectroscopy – a signature of the Klein paradox in a topological superconducting state [1]. Klein tunneling is a manifestation of relativistic physics: shortly after Dirac proposed a new wave equation to describe relativistic electrons in 1928, Klein solved a simple potential step problem for the Dirac equation and stumbled upon an apparent paradox, where the potential becomes transparent when the height is larger than the electron energy. For massless particles, backscattering is completely forbidden in Klein tunneling, leading to perfect transmission through any potential barrier. Recent advent of condensed matter systems with Dirac-like excitations, such as graphene and topological insulators, has opened the possibility of directly observing the Klein tunneling experimentally. In the surface states of topological insulators, electrons are bound by spin-momentum locking, and are thus immune to backscattering due to time-reversal symmetry. We establish a proximity-induced topological superconducting state using a topological Kondo insulator SmB6 coupled to YB6. Klein tunneling through point contact Andreev reflection results in exact doubling of conductance within the superconducting gap, a very rarely observed phenomenon. I will discuss potential device applications of superconducting Klein tunneling. I will also discuss our methodology for high-throughput exploration of new superconductors. This work is funded by ONR and AFOSR.

[1] Lee et al., Nature 570, 344 (2019).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:16:19 -0400 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar Mason Hall
Transfer Information Session for Michigan Community College Students (September 30, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86827 86827-21636904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Transfer Bridges to Michigan is an opportunity available only to Michigan community college students. Join us to learn how accessible transferring to LSA can be for high achieving community college students. Transfer Bridges offers tailored support and advising as you plan to transfer, the chance to participate in U-M programs like optiMize and UROP before you transfer, and the opportunity to be mentored by a current LSA transfer student.

We will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.

Registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:14:07 -0400 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Student Center
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Xiaotong Shen, John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84418 84418-21642773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Inference of multiple directed relations between primary variables presents challenges in the presence of unspecified interventions. In this presentation, we focus on the problem of inferring multiple directed relations simultaneously while identifying unspecified interventions. First, we derive conditions to yield an identifiable model. Then, we propose constrained regressions for causal discovery to identify the ancestral relations in addition to the instrument interventions for each hypothesis-specific primary variable, eliminating nuisance parameters for hypothesis testing. On this ground, we propose a modified likelihood ratio based on data perturbation to account for the identification effect by perturbing original data to assess the uncertainty associated with identifying ancestors and interventions. For testing the presence and strengths of parent-child relations in a pathway, we show that the proposed tests achieve desired statistical properties. Finally, numerical examples will be given to demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of the proposed procedure.

This work is joint with Chunlin Li and Wei Pan at the University of Minnesota.


Xiaotong T. Shen is the John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. His areas of interest include machine learning and data mining, high-dimensional analysis, graphical models, large margin methods, personalization, recommender systems, natural language processing and text mining, and nonconvex minimization. His current research effort is devoted to the further development of structured learning, collabrative learning, and scalable analysis. The targeted application areas are biomedical sciences, artificial intelligence, and engineering.

https://dsmma.umn.edu/xiaotong-shen

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:45:52 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Xiaotong Shen
U-M Structure Seminar: "Discovery and structural characterization of a diastereoselective intramolecular Diels-Alderase." (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86435 86435-21634312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Sebastian Rivera
Graduate Student
University of Michigan, Sherman Lab

Hybrid: LSI Library and Zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/97763780708 (Password: structure)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:16:37 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Workshop / Seminar U-M Structure
Alum Connection: Beth Michelson, Senior Managing Director, Cartesian Capital (October 1, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86931 86931-21637595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Beth is a seasoned private equity investor who specializes in proprietary investments in global emerging markets and most recently managed a SPAC: a special purpose acquisition company or also known as a “blank check” company. Before that, she worked on Capitol Hill and as a financial journalist in Prague. Find out how she transitioned into finance and how she believes there is a direct connection between her LSA Political Science major to where she is today.

About Beth:
Beth Michelson has 20 years of experience building businesses globally as a Senior Managing Director of Cartesian Capital Group, a New York City-based global private equity firm, since its inception, and previously with AIG Capital Partners and Wasserstein Perella. She has led investments and acquisitions across 20 countries. Ms. Michelson brings deep knowledge of digital infrastructure, Industry 4.0, and renewable energy. Ms. Michelson is also a member of the management team of Cartesian Growth Corporation (NASDAQ: GLBL), a SPAC targeting transnational businesses. Beth currently serves on the board of directors of Thermal Management Solutions (UK), Brilia (Brazil), and BTS Torres (Latin America), as well as the Global Advisory Board of Columbia Business School Chazen Institute for Global Business. Ms. Michelson was selected as a 2019 92Y Women in Power Fellow. She is a member of Women Corporate Directors, 100 Women in Finance, and the Private Equity Women’s Investor Network. She also serves on the board of Replications Inc which focuses on improving outcomes in public schools. Ms. Michelson has an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MIA from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA with distinction from the University of Michigan. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. Beth lives in NYC with her husband and two daughters and their goldendoodle.

You should attend this session if you are:
-A UM undergraduate LSA student
-Interested in working in the finance industry or working for a private equity firm
-Interested in pursuing your MBA

What you’ll gain by attending:
-Hear Beth’s experience as a woman in finance and how she broke into the industry
-Learn more about the day or week in the life of a seasoned impact investor
-Get answers to your questions about private equity firms, pursuing an MBA, and other job functions within the finance industry

Interaction Level: Moderate

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection 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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:08:36 -0400 2021-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Beth Michelson Headshot
EIHS Workshop: Historicizing Health: Wellness, Illness, and Recovery Across Time and Space (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85452 85452-21626473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a hybrid event. Link here for in-person registration (limited): https://myumi.ch/r8Mb9
Link here to stream via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/erl9p

Description: “Health,” as a historical concept, has multiple meanings. It may denote a functional body, accompanied by feelings of comfort and absence of disease. It also has mental, spiritual, and social dimensions to express the overall wellness of physical bodies in the context of everyday life and environment. Moreover, health extends beyond the individual, affecting communities and geopolitical entities. Overall, health is a dynamic process that is often represented via a graduated scale or continuous spectrum ranging from wellness and optimal functioning at one end, to disability and illness culminating in death at the other. This EIHS graduate student workshop explores the historical construction of the concept of health and related notions such as therapy, disability, and recovery. A wide range of geographical and temporal settings are considered, including Sassanian Babylonia, the Roman Empire, medieval and early modern England, and the twentieth-century United States.

Panelists:
• Grace Argo (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Alex Burnett (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Erin Johnson (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Emily Lamond (Graduate Student, Ancient History, University of Michigan)
• Hannah Roussel (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Stephie Yoon (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Melanie S. Tanielian (moderator; Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan)

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

Image: Skeletal Illustration, Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 1543, (Special Collections, University of Michigan).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:43:06 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Skeletal Illustration
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Heidi Smith & Jaspreet Singh, Bounteous (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84445 84445-21624505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bios:
Heidi is the Senior Vice President of Program Delivery at Bounteous. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 25 years of experience in project and program management, utilizing both agile and waterfall methodologies. With a combination of both industry and consulting experience, she has a proven track record of successfully leading solution delivery teams in dynamic and fast-paced environments across a broad spectrum of industry verticals and technologies. Heidi has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is also a board member of a women’s philanthropic organization, Impact100 Metro Detroit.

Jaspreet is the Chief Strategy and Insights Officer at Bounteous. In this role, Jaspreet is constantly striving to build upon our insights-driven reputation and deliver outstanding results when co-innovating with clients. Strategy and data/insights serve as the North Star in guiding Bounteous' work toward long-term success. The combination of these practices enables Bounteous to work nimbly when executing innovative digital transformations. His favorite part about this job is giving our talented people the support, guidance and tools they need to reach their full potential and soar. Jaspreet has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from NYU (Entrepreneurship/ Innovation & Marketing).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:14:52 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Heidi Smith and Jaspreet Singh
MCDB Seminar > Building brains in our sleep: evidence from fruit flies (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85318 85318-21626221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Sleep abnormalities are pervasive across nearly all psychiatric disorders, and disrupted sleep early in life has been linked to mental illness in adulthood. Work in the Kayser Lab stands to connect this fundamental behavior—sleep—to both pathogenesis and novel treatment of neuropsychiatric disease.

Host: Sara Aton

Virtual seminar: Zoom Link/password in weekly announcements or email mcdb.seminar.info@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:02:32 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image of fly brain tissue
Structural origin of the mechanics and fracture properties of articular cartilage (October 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84685 84685-21624425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Articular cartilage (AC) is a soft tissue that provides a smooth cushion and distributes the mechanical load in joints. As a material, AC is remarkable. It is only a few millimeters thick, can bear up to ten times our body weight over 100-200 million loading cycles despite minimal regenerative capacity, and still avoids fracturing. The simultaneous strength, fracture resistance, and longevity of native AC remain unmatched in synthetic materials. Such properties are desperately needed for tissue engineering, tissue repair, and even soft robotics applications. I will discuss the structural origins of and microscopic mechanisms leading to AC’s exceptional mechanical properties using the framework of rigidity percolation theory and compare our predictions with experiments. Our results provide an understanding of the tissue depth-dependent mechanical properties and how tissue mechanics changes in response to changes in tissue composition during diseases such as osteoarthritis. This framework also offers insights into how structure, composition, and constitutive mechanical properties can be tuned to resist and blunt cracks in AC and cartilage-inspired soft materials. The flexibility in resulting material properties and ease of implementation can be harnessed to fabricate artificial tissue constructs with tunable mechanics. I will discuss results that are an important step towards achieving this future.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:33:41 -0400 2021-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Economics at Work (October 1, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87750 87750-21645528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:41:32 -0400 2021-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T14:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics at Work
NERS Fall 2021 Colloquia (October 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84088 84088-21619942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
Colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in the White Auditorium (G906 Cooley Building) unless otherwise noted.

SEPTEMBER 10
Ken Powell, Aerospace Engineering, U-M
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Departments

SEPTEMBER 17
Todd Allen and Kristine Svinicki, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, U-M
Department Welcome

SEPTEMBER 24
Steven Aumeier, Idaho National Laboratory (1:30pm in the GM Room)
Advanced Clean Energy and Production – Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Adaptive Clean Energy and Industrial Capacity

SEPTEMBER 24
Shikha Prasad, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University
Next-Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors Using Semiconductors

OCTOBER 1
Harsh Desai, Zeno Power Systems
Enabling Space Missions with Radioisotope Power Systems

OCTOBER 22
Assel Aitkaliyeva, University of Florida
Constituent Redistribution in U-Pu-Zr Fuels and its Dependence on Zr Content

OCTOBER 29
Leslie Dewan, Criticality Capital
Nuclear Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

NOVEMBER 5
Tom Wellock, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk

NOVEMBER 12
Christine King, Idaho National Laboratory, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Changing the Establishment from Within: How Small Teams and Initiatives Can Be Incredibly Impactful

NOVEMBER 19
Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Laboratory
TBD (topic: integrated energy systems)

DECEMBER 3
Kelsa Palomares, NASA Marshall
Reactor Materials Challenges to Enable Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35:00 -0400 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Colloquia
Social, Behavioral & Experimental Economics (SBEE): Save(d) by Design (October 4, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86907 86907-21637407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We begin by presenting novel administrative evidence from 840 401(k) plans with automatic enrollment (AE) indicating that the risk of retirement insecurity extends to a significant share of actual enrollees. Hypothesizing that this risk is materially affected by the initial decision to enroll at the default rate or to personalize enrollment at a higher rate, we investigate the sensitivity of initial enrollment to non-economic features of digital design that increasingly shape plan engagement. Specifically, we describe three large scale field experiments, administered across 500 AE plans, that vary the psychological design (i.e., color, layout, phrasing, informational salience) of the digital interface from which employees decide to confirm, personalize, or decline enrollment. The field studies, supplemented by hypothetical choice experiments and a survey of hundreds of plan administrators, yield four findings. First, we show that modest changes to the psychological design of the interface result in sizable increases in personalized enrollment, full match take-
up, and average contributions—equivalent to those predicted from a 68 to 74 percent increase in the modal match. Second, we show that marginal personalized enrollees appear to increase their initial contributions substantially and to an extent equivalent to inframarginal counterparts, implying potentially significant welfare gains due to design. Third, lab evidence indicates that design does not affect enrollment through standard economic channels of preferences/beliefs or often-cited behavioral frictions (inattention, confusion, distrust) and suggests instead that enrollment may emerge from a non-deliberative process in which design shifts affective appraisals. Finally, an industry survey shows that most plan administrators underestimate the potency of design and cannot identify optimal design elements. The findings raise new concerns about the retirement preparedness of 401(k) enrollees, highlight the potentially profound, and largely unrecognized, influence of digital design on financial decisions such as savings, and challenge basic economic assumptions underlying prevailing approaches to consumer protection and welfare analyses.

(To attend this online event, please complete the form to receive email instructions and announcements for this and future SBEE Seminars.)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:14:11 -0400 2021-10-04T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-04T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar SBEE
HEP-Astro Seminar | Mu2e: The Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment at Fermilab (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86656 86656-21635380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Mu2e Experiment, based at Fermilab, will search for the coherent, neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. Such a process would exhibit Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). Observation of CLFV would be an unambiguous signal of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Mu2e aims to improve the previous upper limit by four orders of magnitude, and reach an unprecedented single-event-sensitivity of 3 × 10^{−17} on the conversion rate, a 90% CL of 8 ×10^{−17}, and a 5σ discovery reach at 2 ×10^{−16}. Mu2e is sensitive to a wide range of BSM models and will indirectly probe mass scales up to 10^4 TeV/c^2. To achieve its design goal, Mu2e will utilize an integrated system of solenoids to create the most intense muon beam in the world. The background will be well-understood and kept at a sub-event level. Mu2e will be an indispensable piece of the global search for BSM over the next decade. The experiment is approaching a very important and exciting stage in its life-cycle. Construction is well underway. Many components have already been procured, delivered and fully tested. Operations are scheduled to begin in the upcoming years. This talk will explore the physics motivations, design, and current status of the Mu2e Experiment.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:16:20 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
MIDAS Seminar Series & Department of Statistics Co-Present: Jie Chen & Linwei Hu, Wells Fargo (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86887 86887-21637076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Supervised machine learning (SML) techniques, such as neural networks and gradient boosting machines, are being adopted in the banking industry due to their superior predictive performance and ability to do automated feature engineering. However, the black—box nature of these complex models poses challenges in regulated industries such as banking, where one needs to understand and explain the results to various stakeholders. Many interpretability tools have been (and are being) developed to address this challenge. In addition, attempts to build inherently interpretable machine learning model is becoming popular. This talk will start with an overview of the SML algorithms in banking and use some application to compare their performance. We will then describe techniques for machine learning interpretability and discuss some of our own research on post hoc methods, surrogate models, and inherently-interpretable models.

Jie Chen is Managing Director in Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. She is currently managing the Cross-functional Model Validation team. She previously lead the Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning team in the Advanced Technologies for Modeling (AToM) Group for seven years, focusing on development of cutting-edge models, algorithms, and a computing platform to advance the Bank’s practice in the areas of credit, operational, and market risk management. She has over ten year experience on machine learning, artificial intelligence and advanced statistics in the banking industry. Jie holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Linwei Hu is Vice President in the Advanced Technologies for Modeling (AToM) team inside Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo. He joined Wells Fargo in January 2015, shortly after he received his PhD degree in Statistics from University of Georgia. He has been with the bank ever since. His work is primarily on researching the latest statistics and machine learning methodologies, with a focus on interpreting black box machine learning models and developing self-interpretable machine learning models. In addition, he is also one of the contributor and maintainer of an internal python library for model validation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:07:02 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar
What is YOUR role in research? Undergraduate research panel (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84317 84317-21623284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Getting involved in research can seem exciting but a little intimidating, too. But you don’t have to be an expert to start! We’ll talk about what to expect, and what will (and won’t) be expected from you when you first get involved with a lab. We’ll also have several students who have completed the STAR Scholars program and who are now working in labs describe their experiences and answer your questions.

RSVP:https://myumi.ch/NxDK8

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:54:43 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar STAR Scholars Program Virtual Seminar Series
Premed Roundup- LSA Honors Program (October 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85379 85379-21626331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Hello LSA Honors Program students!

Are you considering a career in medicine or in another health care profession and wondering where to get started? If so, then we invite you to participate in an information session brought to you by Stephanie Chervin, Honors premed advisor, to learn about:

• Pre-health resources.
• Medical school course requirements.
• Timing and strategies for the long and short term.
• Choosing a major. Does it have to be in science?
• Explorations in patient and clinical exposure.
• Research opportunities.

This session will be live-virtual and you will have the chance to ask questions of the speaker. Event will be repeated on Oct. 4, 6 and 11, 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:34:41 -0400 2021-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar Doctor with a stethoscope
LSA DEI Workshop: The Microaggression Session (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85161 85161-21625667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For questions or requests for accommodation, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*


Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.

In this session, participants will:

- Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
- Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
- Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
- Validate experiences with microaggressions
- Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:17:33 -0500 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Light in the Law Quad
A Molecular View of Dietary Starch Digestion by Human Gut Bacteria- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (October 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87002 87002-21638114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit I
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Koropatkin will deliver an in person seminar in room 3330 MS I

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:32:25 -0400 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit I Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Koropatkin
Panel and Q&A: Academic/Research job search (October 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87779 87779-21645942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

As part of our Tuesday afternoon series, we are holding a faculty panel to answer some questions from PhD students to help them learn more about applying and interviewing, and be prepared for all aspects of the job search process in academia or research labs and similar settings. The PhD job market is often described as a marathon, and many aspects of it can be mysterious to first-time job seekers. If you are a PhD student currently on the job market, or considering going on the academic job market in the future, we particularly encourage you to attend. (The event is open to all IOE students and faculty.)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:41:14 -0400 2021-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Seminar generic
Science Success Series | Wealth Beyond Health (October 5, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85496 85496-21626704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

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 wealth beyond health.

Register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/mne5z

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:44:31 -0400 2021-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
CM-AMO Seminar | Sub-kHz Excitation Lasers For Quantum Information Processing With Rydberg Atoms (October 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86423 86423-21634282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Georg A Raithel is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Remy Legaie seminar
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Neutral atoms provide an excellent resource for quantum information processing, combining the long atomic coherence times of the hyperfine ground-state with strong dipole-dipole interactions of highly excited Rydberg states for generating deterministic entanglement between qubits separated by < 10 µm [1].

For robust Rydberg excitation of atomic qubits for gate operations, the two-photon excitation must be detuned from the intermediate excited state to avoid losses due to spontaneous emission. High fidelity gates also require narrow linewidth excitation lasers with excellent long term frequency stability. These requirements can be met using lasers stabilized to a high-finesse optical cavity, exploiting techniques developed for lasers on state-of-the-art optical lattice clocks. Recently, details of cavity stabilized lasers systems for Rydberg excitation of K, Rb, and Sr atoms have been presented, achieving typical linewidths around 1-10 kHz.

In this talk, I will present the construction and characterization of three continuous wave (CW) sub-kHz linewidth lasers stabilized simultaneously to an ultra-high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity made of ultra-low expansion (ULE) glass, with tunable offset-lock frequency [2]. Furthermore, high-resolution electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) spectroscopy of cold Cs Rydberg states is used to calibrate the cavity mode frequencies with respect to Rydberg transitions and determine the cavity long term drift of ∼ 1 Hz/s. These measurement are competitive against doubly-stabilized optical clocks and offer an order of magnitude improvement compared to similar cavity stabilized Rydberg laser systems.

[1] M. Saffman, T. Walker, and K. Mølmer, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 2313 (2010).
[2] R. Legaie et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35, 892 (2018).

Remy Legaie obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) in 2019, focusing on quantum information processing with ultra-cold Rydberg atoms. He then held a first postdoctoral position at CNRS (Marseille, France) in optical frequency metrology using laser cooled trapped ions. At the beginning of 2021, he was recruited at ENS Paris-Saclay (Paris, France) for a second postdoctoral position, in charge of developing a new experiment using Rydberg atoms in vapor cell as radio frequency field sensor.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:16:12 -0400 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
THE GROUND BREAKING: Uncovering the Tulsa Massacre (October 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85311 85311-21626213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, a prospering African American community, later known as Black Wall Street, was looted and burned to the ground by a white mob. More than 1000 African American homes and businesses were destroyed, while the death count remains unknown to this very day. Not only did no white person spend a day in prison for the murders, arson, and theft of May 31st/June 1st, 1921, but for more that fifty years the history of the massacre was actively suppressed. Scott Ellsworth will bring to life this American tragedy, and the challenges it poses for all of us today.

Scott Ellsworth has taught in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at UM for fourteen years. An award winning writer and historian, he has researched and written about the Tulsa massacre over the course of more than four and half decades. His latest book on the massacre, THE GROUND BREAKING: An American City and Its Search for Justice, has been praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. "This book should be essential reading," wrote Harvard law professor Kenneth Mack, "for anyone interested in an honest grappling with our racial past and with the task of moving forward."

Please Register for this event on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/88l7G
This is a Hybrid event

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:54:20 -0400 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice
Gender, Social Recognition, and Political Influence (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87817 87817-21647037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Cesi Cruz (UCLA)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91971833625

What determines women’s political influence? While the literature on political engagement focuses on individual traits, attitudes, and participation, we argue that how these factors translate to political influence is fundamentally a social process that requires recognition from the broader community, with important implications for understanding women’s political engagement. Using new data on networks of political influence in Philippine villages, we show that even after controlling for socioeconomic status or political participation, women are still markedly less likely to be recognized as influential. Furthermore, we show that engagement in politics through traditional means–running for office, participating in councils, or joining parties–are only associated with political influence for men. The determinants of influence are more complex for women: embeddedness in the community and participation in community activities are more important than traditional modes of political participation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:17:37 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
CSAAW Seminar | Variance as a predictor of health outcomes (October 6, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87601 87601-21644218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW)

Title:
Variance as a predictor of health outcomes

Secondary Title:
Using subject-level trajectories and residual variability to predict a cross-sectional outcome of interest

VIRTUAL SEMINAR - ZOOM MEETING LINK

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96316969456
Passcode: 984743

Abstract:
Longitudinal biomarker data and cross-sectional outcomes are routinely collected by design in numerous modern epidemiology studies. One scientific goal is to identify prognostic predictors that may inform tailored and early intervention decisions that may improve health outcomes. For example, estradiol (E2) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) are two key hormones that may predict changes in womens’ health as they transition through menopause. Existing methods have mainly focused on constructing predictors by modeling mean hormone trajectories. However, the singular focus on the mean structure limits scientists’ ability to inquire about the role of subject-level biomarker variability in predicting the outcome of interest. Modeling variability as a predictor of health outcomes may also provide critical information about disease risk and health outcomes, and is an understudied area of statistics. In this presentation, I will describe a joint modeling framework that estimates subject-level means and variances of multiple longitudinal predictors in order to predict a cross-sectional health outcome, enabling systematic investigation of the role of multi-marker variability in health outcomes. I will also present a simulation study of the model and show that it has excellent recovery of true model parameters and that it provides less biased and more efficient estimates, relative to alternative approaches that either ignore subject-level differences in the variances, or perform two-stage estimation where estimated biomarker variances are treated as observed. Finally, I will present an application of this model to women's health data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:00:25 -0400 2021-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW) Workshop / Seminar CSAAW
Econometrics: Logical Differencing in Network Formation Models under Non-Transferable Utilities (October 6, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87975 87975-21648125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper considers a semiparametric model of dyadic network formation under nontransferable utilities (NTU). NTU arises frequently in real-world social interactions that require bilateral consent, but by its nature induces additive non-separability. We show how unobserved individual heterogeneity in our model can be canceled out without additive separability, using a novel method we call logical differencing. The key idea is to construct events involving the intersection of two mutually exclusive restrictions on the unobserved heterogeneity, based on multivariate monotonicity. We provide a consistent estimator and analyze its performance via simulation, and apply our method to the Nyakatoke risk-sharing networks.

*To join the seminar, please contact: econometrics-seminar-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:37:15 -0400 2021-10-06T13:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Premed Roundup: LSA Honors Program (October 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85380 85380-21626332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Hello LSA Honors Program students!

Are you considering a career in medicine or in another health care profession and wondering where to get started? If so, then we invite you to participate in an information session brought to you by Stephanie Chervin, Honors premed advisor, to learn about:

• Pre-health resources.
• Medical school course requirements.
• Timing and strategies for the long and short term.
• Choosing a major. Does it have to be in science?
• Explorations in patient and clinical exposure.
• Research opportunities.

This session will be live-virtual and you will have the chance to ask questions of the speaker. Event will be repeated on Oct. 4, 6 and 11, 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:38:56 -0400 2021-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar stethoscope
Workshop: E3 (LinC October) (October 6, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84308 84308-21623262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 3:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:23:55 -0400 2021-10-06T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Learning in Community graphic (Buildings on top of "C")
Department Colloquium | Bringing together Quantum Chemistry and Physics with Ultracold Molecules (October 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87073 87073-21638673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94692610056

Advances in quantum manipulation of molecules bring unique opportunities, including the use of molecules to search for new physics, harnessing molecular resources for quantum engineering, and exploring chemical reactions in the ultra-low temperature regime. In this talk, I will focus on the latter two topics. First, I will introduce our effort on building single ultracold molecules with full internal and motional state control in optical tweezers for future quantum simulators and computers. This work allows us to go beyond the usual paradigm of chemical reactions that proceed via stochastic encounters between reactants, to a single, controlled reaction of exactly two atoms. Second, I will summarize our work giving a detailed microscopic picture of molecules transforming from one species to another. We develop full quantum state mapping of chemical reaction product-pairs from single events, which we use to precisely benchmark statistical theory.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:16:31 -0400 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
Hub Workshop: Early Career Exploration (October 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85100 85100-21625572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

A question many students encounter is, “So, what are you going to do with that degree?”

As liberal arts students, the question you should be answering is, “What do you want to do with that degree?” The goal of this workshop is to introduce you to the concept of career exploration and equip you with a toolkit that will support you during the process. Hub coaches will demonstrate practical activities that you can do to help discover your interests and explore potential career paths, regardless of your major.


This workshop consists of two parts:
(1) A live, coach-led session where you’ll begin to identify your goals, dreams, aspirations, and more; and what you want most out of a career based on your interests, values, and skills
(2) An optional online Canvas module that can be completed after the live session where you can establish the next steps in pursuit of more in-depth career knowledge and in-the-field experiences

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and sciences (LSA) student
Exploring academic majors and minors, career interests, and professions
Looking for internship opportunities that can help clarify your career options
Interested in developing professional skills that will make you career-ready

What you’ll gain by attending the workshop:
Gain clarity on what type of work you find viable, meaningful, and enjoyable
Get introduced to new ideas from coaches and peers on the various ways to meet your career goals
Get access to always-on resources on Canvas for deeper career exploration and career development

Through the online Canvas module portion of this workshop, you can:
Identify your pre-existing skills and determine competencies you want to cultivate
Uncover your career values or what you want out of your career in terms of time commitment, type of work, location, and climate
Learn how to research career options that match your values, skills, and interests

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As.
RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:55:00 -0400 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar
LGBTQ Jewish History Timeline (October 6, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87359 87359-21641515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This workshop will use an interactive timeline activity to explore key moments in LGBTQ Jewish history in the United States, and explore the implications of this history on working towards LGBTQ equality and belonging in Jewish life today. Facilitated by staff from Keshet, a national organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ activism and inclusion within the Jewish community.

Register today: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/47592

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:12:53 -0400 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar On the left side, title of event in white text with the program details included below on a black background. On the right side, horizontal stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue with a black star at the top.
Transfer Information Session for Michigan Community College Students (October 6, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86835 86835-21636908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Transfer Bridges to Michigan is an opportunity available only to Michigan community college students. Join us to learn how accessible transferring to LSA can be for high achieving community college students. Transfer Bridges offers tailored support and advising as you plan to transfer, the chance to participate in U-M programs like optiMize and UROP before you transfer, and the opportunity to be mentored by a current LSA transfer student.

We will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.

Registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:43:56 -0400 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Student Center
Project Incubator Workshop (October 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87812 87812-21646475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is hosting workshops aimed at catalyzing innovative and impactful sustainability-related projects on campus! Join us as we brainstorm areas on campus where sustainability can be enhanced, generate project ideas, and lay the foundation for future projects. SSC also offers grants to support the funding needs of sustainability projects on campus.

Tuesday, 1/25: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDgyZm0yM3RkMnJjaWFqZGFlOGIzMjBmcGYgY185cWh1Z29mZ2lmaTBpbXR2dHV2Zmc2ZzUxc0Bn&tmsrc=c_9qhugofgifi0imtvtuvfg6g51s%40group.calendar.google.com

Thursday, 2/3: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjlydHJybmM1NmZhZzNkYzUzNjhpNmU1bmogY185cWh1Z29mZ2lmaTBpbXR2dHV2Zmc2ZzUxc0Bn&tmsrc=c_9qhugofgifi0imtvtuvfg6g51s%40group.calendar.google.com

SSC is a student group driven to promote a sustainable campus culture at U-M, with sustainability encompassing both environmental and social justice issues.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:04:03 -0500 2021-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Student Sustainability Coalition Workshop / Seminar Student Sustainability Coalition
Free Beginner Tango Series with Avik Basu (October 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87869 87869-21647273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: 2401 IdeaHub Movement Studio
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

The Michigan Argentine Tango Club is excited to bring an amazing opportunity for you to express yourself through this amazing dance!We are proud of our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community that has introduced thousands of people to tango, and we hope you will make exciting new friends through this dance.Free BEGINNER Series starts September 29th, 2021. Sign up!  

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:00:08 -0400 2021-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 2401 IdeaHub Movement Studio Maize Pages Student Organizations Workshop / Seminar
Writing and Refining Your Grad School Application Essays (October 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86247 86247-21632223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: English Language Institute

(For students applying to masters, PhD, and professional programs)Are you applying to a graduate program for fall 2022? Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? How do a Teaching Philosophy Statement or a Diversity Statement fit in? We will examine organizational strategies for the range of essays you are crafting and explore ways to find the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to. Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or draft essays to work on during the workshop. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:57:49 -0400 2021-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T20:30:00-04:00 English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Variations In Biology Seminar Series: What can we learn about brain function by studying reptiles and cephalopods? (October 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87665 87665-21644956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design alongside The Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology departments and the Cell and Molecular Biology CMB/Genetics Training Program are proud to present Gilles Laurent.


The Model System revolution (which began in the 1980s and continues to this day) was driven by development of powerful genetic tools in a small group of organisms. While these popular models have driven major advances in many fields, they represent a narrow slice of biological diversity. Evolution has created a smorgasbord of variations in biology that can be exploited to address interdisciplinary questions in fields spanning Development, Cell Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. This seminar series aims to explore variations in biology and bring together audiences across the Biosciences at UM, to foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

We look forward to your attendance.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:07:01 -0400 2021-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Gilles Laurent.photo
Econometrics: Revisiting Treatment Effects in the Presence of Anticipatory Behavior (October 7, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87971 87971-21648123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come

*To join the seminar, please contact: econometrics-seminar-requests@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:36:51 -0400 2021-10-07T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
EEB Thursday Virtual Seminar: (Berv) Spurious correlations in analyses of tip-diversification rates on molecular phylogenies AND (Saulsbury) Dispersal from the West Tethys as the source of the modern Indo-West Pacific marine diversity hotspot in comatulid (October 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85675 85675-21628187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Some seminars will be in person. This week's is virtual but you can gather to watch it livestream in 1060 BSB if you wish or see Zoom link on this page.

Images: Melting Watch, 1954 by Salvador Dali https://www.dalipaintings.com/melting-watch.jsp and Comatulid crinoids on a reef, Nusa Kode Island, Indonesia. Alexander Vasenin, Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:07:04 -0400 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Comatulid crinoids on a reef, Nusa Kode Island, Indonesia. Alexander Vasenin, Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) and Melting Watch, 1954 by Salvador Dali https://www.dalipaintings.com/melting-watch.jsp
BLI Leadership Learning: Allyhood Workshop (October 7, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87460 87460-21642272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Are you interested in being a better ally?

The BLI is hosting a leadership lunch in partnership with the Spectrum Center on October 7th, from 4:30 PM-6:00 PM in Weiser 855 dedicated to the intersection between allyhood and leadership! The Spectrum Center seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity. In collaboration with the BLI, participants will learn how to align allyhood to leadership and how to use this knowledge to embed inclusivity into their thinking and behavior.

We will also be providing a grab-and-go meal for attendees!

RSVP: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/48205

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:28:38 -0400 2021-10-07T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar Hello I am an Ally name tag with a rainbow header
Binary Calculations are Inadequate to Assess Us: A Workshop by Stephanie Dinkins (October 7, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85137 85137-21625614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Renowned transmedia artist and Stony Brook University Professor Stephanie Dinkins leads a conversation about the exclusionary nature of artificial intelligence (AI) and the algorithms that undergird our technologies as well as the steps we can take to create more equitable datasets. This workshop will rely partially on the contributions of participants to create a more inclusionary and interactive algorithm, proposing a data commons approach where anyone can contribute to a training dataset that in turn can be used to power AI.
The data collected during the workshop will contribute to Our Data, an app which is currently under development and aims to co-create more nuanced algorithmic possibilities by creating two repositories—one for text and one for image—which will be available for people to use as an alternative to existing data sets. Limited spaces available.
Registration Required
If you are interested in participating in this virtual workshop, please contact Stamps Gallery Director Srimoyee Mitra at srimoyee@umich.edu.
Participants are requested to bring the following:
Bring selfBring thoughts around what your data means to democracy and/or governanceBring images to donate to the appPre-Workshop Readings:
Black data matters: How missing data undermines equitable societiesMachine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against Blacks.Data, justice and power: how data can light the way to a fairer worldPresented by Stamps Gallery, Penny W. Stamps School of Art &amp; Design, University of Michigan, in partnership with Science Gallery at Michigan State University Museum.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:16:50 -0400 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Workshop / Seminar Computer-generated image shows a flower garden full of glowing spheres
LSA Transfer Information Session (October 7, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86783 86783-21635968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

To register go to https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdeutqzksGdJCQTm9gM788ZUiuVuJJFaM

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:50:08 -0400 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Center
IOE Graduate School Workshop (October 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87824 87824-21647045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This workshop offers direct access to faculty, staff, and graduate students from the IOE department at the University of Michigan, who are looking forward to providing you with information and answering your questions about studies and career paths in the field of Industrial and Operations Engineering. We will cover topics of graduate school applications and admissions, research, life on campus, funding, and much more!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 11:41:53 -0400 2021-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Graduate School Workshop image
2021 EER Prospective Student Open House (October 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85934 85934-21630496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL OPTION

We invite students from all institutions to attend the University of Michigan Engineering Education Research (EER) graduate student open house!

THE OPEN HOUSE AGENDA FEATURES:
An overview about the program
Discussions with faculty
Meet the EER Grad Coordinator & Financial Administrator
Discussions with current EER graduate students
A tour of the beautiful University of Michigan campus

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:43:37 -0400 2021-10-08T09:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar EER Logo
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies (October 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85781 85781-21628994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study the effects of intensifying competition for procurement contracts. Conceptually, opening contracts up to bids by more participants leads to lower acquisition costs. However, expanding the set of bidders hinders buyers' control over the quality of prospective contractors, potentially exacerbating adverse selection on non-contractible quality dimensions. We study this trade-off in the context of procurement by the U.S. Department of Defense. Our empirical strategy leverages regulation that mandates agencies to publicize contract opportunities whose value is expected to exceed a certain threshold. We find that advertising contract solicitations increases competition and leads to a different pool of selected vendors who, on average, offer lower prices. However, it also worsens post-award performance, resulting in more cost overruns and delays. This negative effect on post-award performance is driven by goods and services that are relatively complex, highlighting the role of contract incompleteness. To further study the scope of this tension, we develop and estimate a model in which the buyer chooses the extent of competition, and the invited sellers decide on auction participation and bidding. We estimate sellers' cost and ex-post quality distributions, as well as buyers' preference parameters over contract outcomes. Simulating equilibrium conditions under counterfactual settings, we benchmark the current regulation design with complexity-tailored publicity requirements, and find that adjustments to publicity requirements could provide savings of 2 percent of spending, or $104 million annually.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:00:22 -0400 2021-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Lihua Lei, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (October 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84419 84419-21623921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Valid uncertainty quantification is crucial for high-stakes decision-making. Conformal inference provides a powerful framework that can wrap around any black-box prediction algorithm, like random forests or deep neural networks, and generate prediction intervals with distribution-free coverage guarantees. In this talk, I will describe how conformal inference can be adapted to handle more complicated inferential tasks in statistics.

I will mainly focus on two important statistical problems: counterfactual inference and time-to-event analysis. In practice, the former can be used as a building block to infer individual treatment effects, and the latter can be applied for individual risk assessment. Unlike standard prediction problems, the predictive targets are only partially observable owing to selection and censoring. When the missing data mechanism is known, as in randomized experiments, our conformal inference-based approaches achieve desired coverage in finite samples without any assumption on the conditional distribution of the outcomes or the accuracy of the predictive algorithm; when the missing data mechanism is unknown, they satisfy a doubly robust guarantee of coverage. We demonstrate on both simulated and real datasets that conformal inference-based methods provide more reliable uncertainty quantification than other popular methods, which suffer from a substantial coverage deficit even in simple models. In addition, I will also briefly mention my work on adapting and generalizing conformal inference to other statistical problems, including election, outlier detection, and risk-calibrated predictions.

Short bio: Lihua Lei is a postdoctoral researcher in Statistics at Stanford University, advised by Professor Emmanuel Candès. His current research focuses on developing rigorous statistical methodologies for uncertainty quantification and calibration. Prior to joining Stanford, he obtained his Ph.D. in statistics at UC Berkeley, working on causal inference, multiple hypothesis testing, network analysis, stochastic optimization, and econometrics. His personal website is https://lihualei71.github.io/.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:36:15 -0400 2021-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Lihua Lei
Alum Connection: Bay Area Entrepreneur, Vijay Chattha (October 8, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86932 86932-21637596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Vijay Chattha, founder and chief talker of VSC, an award-winning strategic communications firm based in San Francisco and Brooklyn, will share his perspective on the advantage the study of humanities has in shaping the future. In an era driven by profit through products and technology, Chattha will provide a case for how empathy and global understanding are powerful tools for undergraduates entering the workforce today.

VSC clients include Tonal, Tile, Ford, Poshmark, and 500 other top startups. The firm has also helped build 14 Unicorns (Billion-dollar plus brands), including BYJU's, Clearco, Honeybook, and Mammoth. Chattha was recently named among the Top 5 "Most Purposeful Agency Pros" by PRWeek and his firm is one of the highest-ranked PR agencies on Glassdoor.

About Vijay:
Vijay Chattha is the Founder and CEO of VSC, a firm that specializes in media relations and content marketing. Vijay has pioneered an aggressive and creative approach to brand building as an investor and marketing partner, with an 18-year track record establishing dominant technology brands across AI, automation, climate tech, consumer platforms, fintech, enterprise software, health tech, mobile, and venture capital. The firm has represented 4 IPOs, 14 unicorns, and 50 startups that have exited, in addition to 500 brands, such as Softbank, Sony, Admob, Sequoia, Zume, Mammoth Diagnostics, Ada Health, Mopub, Tile, Molekule, Fastly, Osmo, Honeybook, PAX Labs and more.

VSC has earned industry accolades with 100+ communications awards including the Holmes Report’s Sabre Awards, the Stevie Awards, and a Bulldog Stars of PR Award, as well as recognition in PR week’s 40 under 40, Business Insider’s Top 50 Tech Influencers, and Robert Scoble’s Top PR firms.

You should attend this session if you are:
-An undergraduate UM LSA student
-Interested in learning about careers in tech communications, media & PR, and content marketing
-Hoping to gain powerful tools to help with entering the workforce after college

What you’ll gain by attending:
-Gain insights on the myriads of career options in the communications space including strategy & media relations, marketing & research, and content creation & distribution
-Learn about a variety of different agency roles such as communication or brand strategists, content storytellers, and data visualizers
-Learn how Vijay established his company and how he pioneered strategic and creative approaches to brand building

Interaction Level: Moderate

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection 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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:09:26 -0400 2021-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Vijay Chattha Headshot
From molecules to development: how biological clocks function and coordinate (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84686 84686-21624426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Organisms from bacteria to humans employ complex biochemical or genetic oscillatory networks, termed biological clocks, to drive a wide variety of essential cellular and developmental processes for robust timing. Despite their complexity and diversity, these clocks seem to share some core architectures that are highly conserved from species to species, suggesting an essential role of network structures underlying clock functioning.

The Yang lab, bridging biophysics and systems & synthetic biology, has integrated modeling with experiments in minimal systems to elucidate universal physical mechanisms underlying the complex processes. In this talk, I will focus on our recent efforts in answering several fundamental questions regarding the design and behaviors of cell cycles and embryonic developmental patterns. Computationally, we have identified network motifs, notably incoherent inputs, that universally enhance systems' robust performance. Experimentally, we developed a unique synthetic-cell system to analyze circuits and functions of robustness and tunability in cell-sized microfluidic droplets. We also explore the role of energy and mechanical and biochemical signaling in spatiotemporal patterns.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:32:09 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
LAGS Seminar | Finished Graduate School-Now What? (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87000 87000-21638112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96489263490
Meeting ID: 964 8926 3490
Passcode: 313712

Traditionally, doctoral graduates pursue faculty positions. However, with changing times, demographics, and little to no faculty positions readily available, graduates are forced to explore other employment options. This talk will discuss my experiences in academic post-doctoral research, the AAAS government science and technology fellowship and employment in government research and development.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:16:05 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Nevena Paripovic, Facebook (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84849 84849-21625191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
After completing my MSE IOE, I joined the digital forensics team at a consulting company in San Francisco (SF) where I had the opportunity to work with many different tech companies to improve the inefficiencies for how data flows. It was a rewarding experience that allowed me a wide breadth of interesting challenges and approaches to privacy as well as fun travel and exposure to meet new people. I pivoted in-house to Facebook's (FB's) privacy program where I now work directly with teams implementing privacy by design before products are launched. My engineering background has prepared me to quickly and critically think through product proposals and effectively communicate privacy by design requirements.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:13:21 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nevena Paripovic
MCDB Seminar > Sensory representation in the Drosophila brain (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85319 85319-21626222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Note: This seminar will now be virtual.
Zoom link and passcode in MCDB Weekly update or email us:
mcdb.seminar.info@umich.edu
Viewing in BSB 1060 is also available.

Host: Monica Dus

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:35:23 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image of mushroom body structures (neuron clusters) in Drosphila brain
Wicked problems in vaccine equity: Exploring challenges & opportunities for impact (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88014 88014-21648531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

-Joseph Matthew, MD, Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
-Matthew Boulton, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health; Professor of Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine. U-M
-Diane Harper, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-Pascale Leroueil, PhD, Vice President of the Healthcare Sector, William Davidson Institute. U-M
-Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD, Professor of Public Policy; Director, Science Technology, and Public Policy program; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-John Ayanian, MD (Moderator) Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Health Management and Policy; Professor of Public Policy. U-M

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:53:30 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Economics at Work (October 8, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87787 87787-21645949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 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 visit the website below.
https://courses.lsa.umich.edu/econ208/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:02:34 -0400 2021-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85629 85629-21627811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

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

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

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

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:51:32 -0400 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Fall 2021
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop (October 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87645 87645-21644656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2021 Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, hosted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor! The workshop is free and open to all, and participants can attend either in person or via Zoom.

To register for the workshop, please visit:
https://greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/2021/09/26/workshop-2021.html

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Reading with Islamicate theories of love and rhetoric (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Jeson Ng, “Mathal and Majāz as Method in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān”
10:00–10:45 / Allison Kanner-Botan, “Desire and Askēsis: Sexuality, Animality, and the Figure of Majnūn in Medieval Islam”

Making Mughal literary culture (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45 / Nathan LM Tabor, “Association, Conduct, and Style During Delhi’s Roaring 1720s”
11:45–12:30 / Justin Smolin, “Krishna the Magician”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

Engaging the Arabic literary tradition and its interpreters (2:00–3:30) 2:00–2:45 / Jennifer Tobkin, “Khālid al-Kātib: Abū Tammām’s Political, Literary, and Romantic Foil”
2:45–3:30 / Samer Ali, “Whiteness and Orientalism: Race, Methodology, and the Problem of Nonwhite Poetry”

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Rethinking adab (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Shounak Ghosh, “Early Modern Diplomacy: Practices and Cultures in the Persianate World, 1489–1722”
10:00–10:45 / Pia Maria Malik, “Reading Sufi Prescriptions and Descriptions: Adab as Ritual Emulation and Performative Action”

Function and form in the early modern Persian panegyric (11:00–12:30) 11:00–11:45 / Shaahin Pishbin, “To Praise, Remember, and Connect: Writing Poems about Poets in Early Modern Persian Literary Culture”
11:45–12:30 / Paul Losensky, “The Shrine Keeper’s Lament: A Manqabat for Imam Rezā by Qodsi Mashhadi”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

(De)constructing masculinities in Persian narrative poems (2:00–2:45)
2:00–2:45 / Amanda Caterina Leong, “Rethinking Female Javanmardi: Nizami’s Haft Paykar as a ‘Mirror for Princesses’ ”

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:18:37 -0400 2021-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar GLAS Workshop Poster
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop (October 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87645 87645-21644657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2021 Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, hosted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor! The workshop is free and open to all, and participants can attend either in person or via Zoom.

To register for the workshop, please visit:
https://greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/2021/09/26/workshop-2021.html

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Reading with Islamicate theories of love and rhetoric (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Jeson Ng, “Mathal and Majāz as Method in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān”
10:00–10:45 / Allison Kanner-Botan, “Desire and Askēsis: Sexuality, Animality, and the Figure of Majnūn in Medieval Islam”

Making Mughal literary culture (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45 / Nathan LM Tabor, “Association, Conduct, and Style During Delhi’s Roaring 1720s”
11:45–12:30 / Justin Smolin, “Krishna the Magician”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

Engaging the Arabic literary tradition and its interpreters (2:00–3:30) 2:00–2:45 / Jennifer Tobkin, “Khālid al-Kātib: Abū Tammām’s Political, Literary, and Romantic Foil”
2:45–3:30 / Samer Ali, “Whiteness and Orientalism: Race, Methodology, and the Problem of Nonwhite Poetry”

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Rethinking adab (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Shounak Ghosh, “Early Modern Diplomacy: Practices and Cultures in the Persianate World, 1489–1722”
10:00–10:45 / Pia Maria Malik, “Reading Sufi Prescriptions and Descriptions: Adab as Ritual Emulation and Performative Action”

Function and form in the early modern Persian panegyric (11:00–12:30) 11:00–11:45 / Shaahin Pishbin, “To Praise, Remember, and Connect: Writing Poems about Poets in Early Modern Persian Literary Culture”
11:45–12:30 / Paul Losensky, “The Shrine Keeper’s Lament: A Manqabat for Imam Rezā by Qodsi Mashhadi”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

(De)constructing masculinities in Persian narrative poems (2:00–2:45)
2:00–2:45 / Amanda Caterina Leong, “Rethinking Female Javanmardi: Nizami’s Haft Paykar as a ‘Mirror for Princesses’ ”

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:18:37 -0400 2021-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar GLAS Workshop Poster
CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability Dialogue (October 11, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86652 86652-21635289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This is an in-person event for U-M students only. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed. Registration for this event is now closed.

After their meeting in Geneva on June 16, U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a Joint Statement announcing the launch of “an integrated bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue in the near future that will be deliberate and robust.” The Strategic Stability Dialogue offers an opportunity for both sides to examine—and possibly reshape—the fundamentals of the bilateral relationship. High-level dialogue and even working-level contacts have atrophied in recent years. The two sides have not had meaningful discussions on fundamental issues such as arms control, cyber security, interference in domestic politics, “red-lines” in domestic and international behavior, and other “rules of the game.” Nor have they engaged in discussions of such positive efforts as cultural connections, student exchanges, or collaborative scientific research. The U.S.-Russia relationship needs to be updated for the 21st century. Each side needs to examine its national interests and determine how the bilateral relationship reinforces or undermines them—and how both sides can work together to defend and advance their interests. The goal of any negotiation is to find outcomes that both sides can consider a win.

Prior to the workshop, students will receive a small packet of readings on precedents for the Strategic Stability Dialogue and current issues in U.S.-Russian relations. During the workshop, students will break into small groups, each tasked with determining U.S. preferences for the basic structure of the Strategic Stability Dialogue, its conduct, and its mandate and agenda (i.e., the substantive issues it will address).

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:39:50 -0400 2021-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-11T12:45:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Workshop / Seminar Amb. Mark Pekala
Social, Behavioral and Experimental Economics (SBEE) Seminar: Nastiness in Groups (October 11, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85647 85647-21627919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

ABSTRACT: This paper provides evidence showing that people are more prone to engage in nasty behavior, malevolently causing financial harm to other people at own costs, when they make decisions on behalf of a group rather than when making choices individually on their own. We establish this behavioral regularity in four large-scale experiments among adolescents, university students and a nationally representative sample of adults (N = 7,426). We test several potential mechanisms, and the results suggest that the “destructiveness shift” in groups is driven by lower perception of individual responsibility, in line with self-signaling models.

(To attend this online event, please complete the form to receive email instructions and announcements for this and future SBEE Seminars.)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:16:29 -0400 2021-10-11T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-11T12:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar SBEE seminar series
Premed Roundup: LSA Honors Program (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85381 85381-21626333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Hello LSA Honors Program students!

Are you considering a career in medicine or in another health care profession and wondering where to get started? If so, then we invite you to participate in an information session brought to you by Stephanie Chervin, Honors premed advisor, to learn about:

• Pre-health resources.
• Medical school course requirements.
• Timing and strategies for the long and short term.
• Choosing a major. Does it have to be in science?
• Explorations in patient and clinical exposure.
• Research opportunities.

This session will be live-virtual and you will have the chance to ask questions of the speaker. Event will be repeated on Oct. 4, 6 and 11, 2021

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:42:53 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar syringe
HEP-Astro Seminar | The DES Year-3 Cosmic Shear Results (October 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86496 86496-21634735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has recently completed the blinded analysis of its first 3 years of data. We have obtained cosmological constraints from a powerful weak lensing data set of more than 100 million galaxies spanning an effective area of over 4000 square degrees. In this talk, I will present the constraints on the lensing amplitude parameter S8 that come from cosmic shear correlations in DES Y3. I will describe what the DES Y3 results add to our understanding of the apparent tension in S8 between low-redshift weak lensing constraints and those inferred via the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). I will also describe our approach to mitigating the main modeling/astrophysical systematics of cosmic shear, namely baryons and intrinsic alignments (IA), and what our data says about the IA signal under a Bayesian model selection method. I will finally comment on a novel detection of 3-point shear correlations and what to expect from DES Y6.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:16:28 -0400 2021-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
LSA Transfer Information Session (October 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87557 87557-21644075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Join the LSA Student Recruitment Team for our weekly virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits. Each session includes a Q & A featuring the Transfer Student Ambassadors. For any questions about this session, please email us at LSATransferCenter@umich.edu.

Registration is required

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:29:58 -0400 2021-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar LSA Transfer Student Center
LSA/Ross Dual Degree Info Sessions (October 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87098 87098-21638699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

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

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom at 4 pm: 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, 16 Sep 2021 16:05:34 -0400 2021-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Zoom call with coffee
In-Person Community Workshop (October 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88345 88345-21653269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

We are excited to announce the return of our community workshop this semester! Join us for a chance to engage in the creative arts.

For questions, please email:
Mary Heinen mheinen@umich.edu
Emily Cole emilcole@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 17 Oct 2021 22:04:37 -0400 2021-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T19:30:00-04:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Eye of the Mongoose by M Bassin, watercolor
CSCS Seminar | Dynamical system models for politics and voting (October 12, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87644 87644-21644655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

ZOOM MEETING https://umich.zoom.us/j/96616169868 Passcode: CSCS

ABSTRACT: The recent US political landscape brings many puzzling questions. For example, the two major parties have become increasingly polarized since the 1960s, while most voters maintained moderate policy positions. What can lead to the disconnect between the parties and the voters? Also, a sizable proportion, often the majority, of the voting population is uninformed about facts relevant to their voting decisions, such as policies proposed by the candidates. Can such a voting body deliver good collective decisions? In this talk, I give an overview of research projects that address these complex issues, which leverage dynamical-system models, empirical findings in psychology, and data analysis. This approach takes into account the impact of multiple, complex, and often non-linear factors, and aims to give a coherent understanding of complex social phenomena.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:07:11 -0400 2021-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Vicky Yang
Elevating Diverse Perspectives to Advance Organizational Outcomes (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86943 86943-21637610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/elevating-diverse-perspectives-to-advance-organizational-outcomes-presented-by-cew-and-fidelity

As U-M moves into the next phase of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic planning, join DEI experts from Fidelity and U-M for a lively discussion on how diverse perspectives help our schools, colleges, and units develop leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future. Panelists will share real-world examples from their collective wisdom. Leaders can expect to hear strategies to foster an environment that supports and celebrates diverse perspectives, while staff and faculty can learn how to draw on the strength of their unique perspectives to shape the priorities of their organization and inspire passion and action to further diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in their own sphere of influence.

This panel will feature:

- Wendy E. John, Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Fidelity Investments
- Sonya Jacobs, Special Advisor to the President and Chief Organizational Learning Officer U-M; Senior Director, Faculty and Leadership Development U-M Medical School
- Dilip Das, PhD, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at U-M
- Kristen Howard, J.D. Senior Director, Office for Health Equity and Inclusion at U-M Medical School
- Moderator: Tiffany Marra, PhD, CEW+ Director

This CEW+ Panel is made possible through our partnership with Fidelity, our platinum corporate sponsor.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:13:24 -0400 2021-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar People of color working in a professional setting sitting at a table talking
Targeted DNA Integration Without Double-Strand Breaks Using CRISPR RNA-Guided Transposases- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84852 84852-21625193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit I
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Sternberg will deliver an in person seminar in room 3330 MS I

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:54:48 -0400 2021-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit I Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar Dr. Sam Sternberg
Science Success Series | Ace Your Courses: Metacognition is Key! (October 12, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85316 85316-21626219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Have you ever found yourself putting forth a great deal of effort into your courses, but not feeling like you are actually learning or are left unsatisfied with your grade? This workshop, based on the work of Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, will enable you to analyze your current learning strategies, understand exactly what changes you need to implement to earn an A in your courses, identify concrete strategies to use during the remainder of your semester, and become a more efficient learner.

Register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/VPrbE

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:35:07 -0400 2021-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Teach Yourself How to Learn Book Cover
CM-AMO Seminar | Searching for New Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules (October 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87372 87372-21641629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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The fact that the universe is made entirely out of matter, and contains no free anti-matter, has no physical explanation. The unknown process that created matter in the universe must violate a number of fundamental symmetries, including those that forbid the existence of certain electromagnetic moments of fundamental particles whose signatures are amplified by the large internal fields in polar molecules. We discuss spectroscopic and theoretical investigations into polyatomic molecules that uniquely combine multiple desirable features for precision measurement, such as high polarizability through symmetry-lowering mechanical motions, novel electronic and bonding structures, laser cooling, and exotic nuclei.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:16:02 -0400 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
LSA/Ross Dual Degree Info Sessions (October 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87098 87098-21638700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

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

All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom at 4 pm: 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, 16 Sep 2021 16:05:34 -0400 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Zoom call with coffee
Rackham / Sweetland Workshops on Writing (October 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86617 86617-21635227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

What kinds of arguments can graduate students make as they proceed through their coursework, professional development, and dissertation process? This presentation will focus on how to conceptualize and scaffold arguments to develop and shape scholarly work across the whole of one's graduate career.

Presenter: Raymond McDaniel, Sweetland Center for Writing

Registration information at https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html

Rackham / Sweetland Workshops, co-sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School and held in the Fall and Winter terms, cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:27:27 -0400 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar
Anti-Racism Teach-In (October 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86872 86872-21637054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Racial justice begins with anti-racism. Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices, and attitudes so that power is redistributed and shared equitably. This 90 minutes Anti-Racism Teach-in/Workshop will engage analytical frameworks for examining systemic cultural, social, economic, and political forces in the community along with individual reflection. Our hope is to raise critical consciousness, understand the opportunity for actions, and how our resources can be distributed.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:26:51 -0400 2021-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Workshop / Seminar Picture of a classroom that reads Peer-Led Anti-Racism Teach-In
How to Read Journal Articles (October 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87962 87962-21648026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

Ever feel stuck while reading scholarly articles? Have a seemingly endless pile of articles to read but don't know how to start? Join the librarian for the ME department, Joanna Thielen, for a workshop on how to read scholarly articles effectively and efficiently.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to:
- Develop a personalized method for reading scholarly articles
- Set up the ideal reading environment for you
- Organize your articles with citation management software (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, etc.)
- Get personalized assistance from your ME librarian

Please RSVP in the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegPLnNGlM3udrcqjn4v49vD-UMh4dda1sFvKlFKmqtBe2npA/viewform?usp=sf_link

All CoE students, grad and undergrad, are encouraged to attend
Food will be provided
We look forward to having you in this workshop!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:18:46 -0400 2021-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Workshop / Seminar MEGC Workshops
OrgBasics: Marketing (October 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87562 87562-21644077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Looking for ways to advertise your student org? OrgBasics has you covered! Join us on October 12 from 5:30-7:00 P.M. in the Union IdeaHub and over Zoom to learn more about marketing options for your organization. All student orgs in attendance will receive a free digital ad from SORC!

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:54:32 -0400 2021-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Workshop / Seminar OrgBasics - Marketing
Employer Panel: HR, People, and Organizational Culture (October 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87461 87461-21642271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

“Financial resources may be the lifeblood of a company, but human resources are the brains” - Rob Silzer, PhD Organizational Psychology

The LSA Opportunity Hub is teaming up with AlphaSights, EY, Google, and other employers to showcase the many avenues that a career in HR, People, and Organizational Culture can take. During this virtual roundtable discussion, you’ll learn from LSA alums who solve industry problems by connecting companies to experts; provide insights to companies on how to maximize their talent; and shape organizations by identifying and developing talent. You’ll have the opportunity to connect with each employer representative in a small group, so be prepared to ask questions and dig deeper into the many pathways within people-oriented fields. 

You should attend this Employer Connection if you are:

-A U-M LSA student
-Actively pursuing internship and full-time opportunities
-Interested in careers in HR, people development, organizational culture, and more

What you’ll gain by attending:

-Gain perspective from a variety of organizations that are actively recruiting LSA students
-Get an understanding of next steps in the Fall (and future) recruiting process

RSVP now to reserve your spot. The zoom link to join the session will be emailed to you the day before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangement

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:37:59 -0400 2021-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Students
Meals of Meaning (October 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87093 87093-21638693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join the Interfaith Program for "Meals of Meaning" - an opportunity for students to come together for a dinner conversation (meal provided) and the chance to go beneath the surface, lean into vulnerability and to explore the struggles and stories that make up our lives.

Register using the following link (limited space available): https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8051

*The Interfaith Program at the Trotter Multicultural Center recognizes the critical role religious, spiritual and secular (RSS) worldview has in identity exploration, self-expression and in the practice of scholarship. Through intentional programming, this campus-wide initiative seeks to create and support efforts where students can explore their own RSS identity and make transformative connections with their peers across worldviews. Interfaith efforts are available through a collaborative partnership between the Center for Campus Involvement and the Trotter Multicultural Center

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:20:38 -0400 2021-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar "Meals of Meaning" text in purple above a plate containing four bread rolls and one bread loaf with a cup with coffee on the side. Underneath that, text in white: "Join us for an evening of conversation over dinner (meal provided) about what matters most to you.
Time Management Tuesday (October 12, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87595 87595-21644210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Looking to build your time management skills? In this program, we assess how you currently spend your time, set goals for how you want to spend your time in the future, and take steps to get there. Learn how to create a structure and schedule for yourself and find ways to create a productive learning space for yourself at home. Additionally, get tips to effectively manage your time to be successful academically, personally, and organizationally!

***This event is part of the FYE Fall Series, and registration is required. Find the list of all events and register here: https://myumi.ch/jxAll***

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:58:02 -0400 2021-10-12T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar FYE Fall Series Flyer
Labor Economics and Macroeconomics: Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility With Jørgen Modalsli, M. Daniele Paserman and Laura Salisbury (October 13, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87625 87625-21644543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
This paper explores the connection between intergenerational economic mobility and the entry of women into the labor force. We propose a simple statistical model of intergenerational transmission, in which children’s human capital is a function of parental money and time inputs. We derive the father-son (and father-daughter) intergenerational elasticities (IGEs) under two regimes: one in which mothers devote all their time to childrearing, and one in which mothers split their time between market work and childrearing. We find that the impact of mothers’ entry into the labor force on the father-child IGE depends on three key factors: (i) the nature of sorting in the marriage market; (ii) the relative importance of parental time and money in the determination of child’s earnings; and (iii) selection of mothers into labor force participation. We discuss the circumstances under which the entry of mothers into the labor force may have contributed to a decline in the father-son and father-daughter IGEs in Norway.
We empirically and theoretically relate the U-shaped labour supply to the process of structural transformation, and namely the reallocation of labour from female-intensive agriculture into male-intensive manufacturing at early stages of development, and from manufacturing into female-intensive services at later stages. We propose a multisector model of the economy, where the interplay between un-even productivity growth and consumption complementarities across sectors predicts the modernization of agriculture and decline of family farms, the rise in manufacturing and services, and the marketization of home production. The downward portion of the U-shaped pattern is associated with the decline in agricultural employment and the disappearance of the family farm, while the upward portion is driven by the expansion of the service economy, to the detriment of manufacturing, and the marketization of home production.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:34:26 -0400 2021-10-13T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-13T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Environmental Job Search Workshop (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86852 86852-21636925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Job searching can feel like an overwhelming process, but PitE career services is here to help! By starting to think about your job search during the fall semester, you can set yourself up for success. During this virtual Environmental Job Search Workshop, we will review how to determine your job search criteria, network within a field, draft your application materials, develop an application strategy, and stay organized and motivated. You will leave the workshop with a concrete action plan and resources to successfully search for an environmental job.

This event is directed towards PitE students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:18:24 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in the Environment (PitE) Workshop / Seminar
Hub Workshop: Internship Prep & Search (October 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85102 85102-21625575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Internships are a form of in-the-field education that links classroom learning with paid or unpaid employment experiences, that can help you experience a taste of the working world and cultivate an awareness of yourself as a professional. But what should you consider before and during your internship search? Join Hub coaches to get a broad overview of the steps in the internship search process such as considering your interests, knowing where to look, and preparing your application materials.

A portion of this workshop will be spent in breakout rooms with Internship Program Coordinators who’ll provide powerful tips on seeking out opportunities in healthcare and public health, business, arts and nonprofits, and public service.


You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Hoping to learn more about what an internship is and how it can help propel you forward
Curious to develop effective strategies for entering the fields of business, healthcare, or government, policy, and law.

What you’ll gain by attending:
Identify the skills and experiences you want to get out of an internship
Build an understanding of how and where to search for internships
Learn how to find professionals within your industry area to build your professional network
Learn how to leverage your professional network to create opportunities
Connect with your peers about strategies for success in the internship search process

Moderate Interaction
Video and audio presence is preferred
The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Paige Baker at paigebak@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:08:19 -0400 2021-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar
Understanding Organizational Culture for Registered Student Organizations (October 13, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87641 87641-21644654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join Trotter Multicultural Center as we examine organizational culture using objective/subjective culture framework. Participants will explore the implications of this framework within the context of their organization. Open to members and positional leaders/officers of registered students organizations. Register using the following link: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8299.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:43:35 -0400 2021-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T18:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar Title in white words with the details in yellow words below on a blue background
Policing in the U.S.: A WeListen Staff Discussion (October 14, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87876 87876-21647283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: WeListen Staff

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/WLOctober2021

We will discuss a brief history of policing in the U.S. as well as modern day policies, activism and public dialogue around policing.

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 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:31:37 -0400 2021-10-14T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location WeListen Staff Workshop / Seminar WeListen Policing Flyer
International Economics: (October 14, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87923 87923-21647704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:27:22 -0400 2021-10-14T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
LSI Seminar Series: Ahna Skop, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (October 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87901 87901-21647478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
The midbody is a transient structure at the spindle midzone that is required for the terminal stage of cell division, cytokinesis. Long ignored as a vestigial remnant of cytokinesis, emerging data suggest midbodies are released from post-mitotic cells as a large 2um extracellular vesicles, which can modulate cell fate decisions, proliferative state, tissue polarity, cilia formation, neuronal architecture and function, and oncogenesis.

Our ‘structure reveals function’ approach first demonstrated that the midbody matrix — a mysterious electron-dense region of unknown composition — is the assembly site of a phase-separated biomolecular condensate, enriched for mRNAs encoding proteins involved in cytokinesis, oncogenesis and pluripotency regulation, including transcription factors. Hexanediol-sensitivity and FRAP analysis confirmed that the midbody matrix exhibits biophysical properties expected of an RNP condensate. SUnSET analysis of protein synthesis showed that both the mitotic and post-mitotic midbody are sites of recent translation. Consistent with this, ribosomal subunits and elongation factors co-localize with puromycin labeling in a ring structure surrounding the midbody RNA core. We discovered that translation of midbody-enriched mRNAs is under tight temporal regulation, beginning in G1 after cells have formally exited mitosis, and continues after the midbody is abscised and released extracellularly from the daughters that birthed it.

Our data suggest a model in which the midbody functions as a novel organelle with a complex life cycle comprised of both membraneless and membrane-bound phases: 1) an RNP condensate is assembled at the spindle overlap; 2) spatiotemporally regulated translation is initiated as the daughter cells leave mitosis and reenter G1; 3) abscission occurs and the membrane-bound RNP granule is released; 4) the midbody is bound, internalized, and transfers information to recipient cells.

About the Speaker:
Ahna Skopis a geneticist, artist, author and a winner of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Her lab seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie asymmetric cell division. In 2004, she pioneered proteomic and genomic approaches to identify novel cell division proteins by utilizing biochemically purified midbodies, which was published in Science. More recently, the lab has discovered that the midbody is a translationally active RNA containing organelle. The Skop lab’s focus now is to determine how this signaling organelle behaves as novel form of intercellular communication in mammalian cancer and stem cells.

Understanding how cells divide is highly dependent on in vivo microscopy and large amounts of visual data, which dovetails perfectly with one of her other passions: art. The combination of scientist and artist inspires her to think differently and maintain an open mind. Some of her work can be seen in the main entrance of the Genetics/Biotechnology Center building on the UW-Madison campus with a 40-foot scientific art piece called “Genetic Reflections.” She has also curated and contributed to a traveling exhibition of scientific art called “TINY: Art from microscopes” from the UW-Madison campus, and she has organized the bi-annual Worm Art Show for the International C. elegans Meeting for over 26 years.

Skop is also passionate about increasing the numbers of underrepresented students in STE(A)M fields. In 2016, she was awarded the very first of two, Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award for her outreach and inclusive teaching efforts. She has served as a board member for SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) and currently serves on the ASCB (American Association for Cell Biologists) Minority Affairs Committee, where she has broadened her impact on underrepresented students in science nationally. Her recent book, “Genetic Reflections”, showcases the beauty of genetics, model organism biology, and DNA.

Skop majored in biology and minored in ceramics as an undergraduate student at Syracuse University. She received her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and conducted her post-doctoral work at UC-Berkeley. She is now a professor in the Department of Genetics and an affiliate faculty member in Life Sciences Communication and the UW-Madison Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She mentors both scientists and art students in her lab, and also serves on the board of the Wisconsin Science Museum, where many of her art-science collaborations are on display. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the College of St. Benedicts and was named a Remarkable Women in Science from the AAAS. In 2015, she was honored as a Kavli Fellow from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2018, she was awarded the first ever Inclusive Excellence Award by the ASCB and HHMI. She currently serves as an advisor to the chief diversity officer at the NIH, and is a diversity consultant to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). In 2019, she was honored as one of 125 Women in STEM with an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadorship. In 2020, she published a book with her two talented undergraduates called “Genetic Reflections: A Coloring Book.” Her science and art have been featured by Apple, The Scientist, USA Today, Smithsonian, PBS.org, NPR and Science magazine. She has recently started an online science art home décor store with her family called skopology.com. One of her great hobbies is cooking/baking (including scientific cakes); and she also manages a foodblogs, foodskop.com, and her AAAS IF/THEN funded labculturerecipes.com.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:34:56 -0400 2021-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar LSI Seminar Series
WISE Science Communication- Calling BS (October 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87830 87830-21647055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

The best laid plans can go awry with poorly thought through conclusions drawn from otherwise accurate data. Learn to identify misleading results (deliberate or accidental) in research with an exercise from the famous University of Washington course Calling Bullshit.

We'll look at an example from science media, from a researcher, and from an NIH report, each of which have serious but easy to miss errors but still got published. Just what is wrong with the papers? How did the editors neglect to find the issue with their conclusions? Why did the scientist who wrote up the results not see their own error? (spoiler alert- the answer to all these questions is usually bias or outright discrimination)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 11:36:37 -0400 2021-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Workshop / Seminar
SEMINAR: "Avoiding Weather Hazards in General Aviation: Display Interpretation as a Contributing factor" - Elizabeth L. Blickensderfer (October 14, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87593 87593-21644208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 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: Avoiding Weather Hazards in General Aviation: Display Interpretation as a Contributing factor

Abstract: Pending

Bio:
Dr. Beth L. Blickensderfer has over 20 years of experience in human-machine systems research and development using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. She has designed and validated numerous training programs for purposes such as teaching general aviation pilots to interpret and understand weather displays and fostering crew resource management skills in helicopter and fixed-wing pilots. In addition, she has developed metrics to assess human performance in a range of domains and tasks such as aviation operations, nurses responding to cardiac arrest, and tennis teams. Her other recent work includes investigating patient safety at a community hospital, measuring general aviation pilots' knowledge and skill at interpreting weather displays, and performing cognitive task analyses to identify safety issues inherent to Live-Virtual-Constructive flight training environments for the U.S. Navy. Dr. Blickensderfer has held leadership positions in both the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society as well as Division 21 Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She earned an M.S in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from the University of Central Florida.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:42:23 -0400 2021-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Elizabeth L. Blickensderfer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Development and International Economics Seminar: Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries (October 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87318 87318-21641048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
Is there misallocation in firm production, as we might expect to result from market power, contracting constraints, taxes, regulations, corruption, or other potential distortions? And if there is misallocation, how severe are its resulting welfare consequences? In this paper we propose a new test for misallocation that is nonparametric in the sense that it does not restrict any firm’s production technology, demand, market structure, or optimizing behavior. We also develop a new procedure to quantify losses from misallocation via a nonparametric instrumental variable random coefficient model. Our procedures exploit exogenous shocks that induce some firms to alter their input use and then measure the average level of, and cross-firm dispersion in, the rate at which firms’ output value increases, on the margin, for a given increase in inputs. We apply these results to a setting in which thousands of firms experience exogenous demand shocks due to a lottery-based assignment of public procurement contracts for construction services in Ecuador. Using monthly data on firm-to-firm transactions and employer-employee payments, a randomization inference version of our test rejects (at standard levels) the null of overall allocative efficiency (AE) but the costs of this misallocation appears to reduce aggregate output among this set of firms by only 1% relative to the first-best. This derives roughly half from an insufficient aggregate use of inputs and half from cross-firm dispersion in the marginal products of the inputs that are used. Standard parametric assumptions applied to the same setting would suggest losses that are many times larger.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 08:44:38 -0400 2021-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T17:20:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization and Economic Theory: (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87323 87323-21641055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
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, 21 Sep 2021 11:50:20 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Rahul Mazumder, Robert G. James Career Development Professor and Associate Professor, Operations Research and Statistics group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84420 84420-21650730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: Many fundamental high-dimensional statistics estimators, such as best-subset selection (BSS), can be naturally expressed as discrete optimization problems. Recently, mixed integer programming (MIP) methods have been shown to be promising candidates for formulating and solving, small/moderate instances of these problems. This sheds interesting insights into some less-understood statistical aspects of BSS, suggesting the need to design new estimators. On the computational front, current high-performance commercial integer programming solvers are somewhat black-box and can be challenging to scale to large instances. I will discuss our recent work on tailored branch-and-bound methods to solve, to optimality, a family of regularized BSS problems with up to a million features. For the first time, we employ first-order convex optimization methods within a branch-and-bound framework to solve instances of regularized BSS that show speedups of over 5000X over commercial solvers. If time permits, I will discuss some ongoing work where statistical modeling considerations can lead to the design of computationally attractive MIP formulations in the context of the well-known sparse PCA problem.

[This represents joint work with: Hussein Hazimeh, Ali Saab, Antoine Dedieu, Peter Radchenko and Kayhan Behdin]

Bio: Rahul Mazumder is the Robert G James Career Development Associate Professor in the OR and Statistics group at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is affiliated with MIT Operations Research Center, MIT Center for Statistics, and MIT IBM Watson AI Lab. His research interests are at the intersection of statistics and mathematical programming (convex and mixed integer optimization), and their applications to industry, the government, and the sciences. He is a recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize (2020), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2018). Student co-authors of his papers have received student paper/poster awards from the INFORMS Optimization Society '15, INFORMS Computing Society '20, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop '18, '21, MIT Operations Research Center '20.
He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics, an editorial board member of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and will be joining the editorial board of Bernoulli in 2022. He is the founding cluster chair of Machine Learning within the INFORMS Optimization Society (2020).

http://www.mit.edu/~rahulmaz/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:40:25 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Rahul Mazumder
U-M Structure Seminar: "Watching enzymes at work: Structure and dynamics of cytochromes P450 using NMR" (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87284 87284-21640722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Thomas Pochapsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Brandeis University

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:31:08 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Workshop / Seminar U-M Structure
Alum Connection: Joey Litman, General Counsel & SVP Operations at H1 (October 15, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87863 87863-21647169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join Joey Litman (Political Science '03) for an inspiring conversation about pursuing a dynamic career in law. A native New Yorker, Joey combined his love for Michigan sports and learning when he attended U-M. While a student, Joey delighted in his classes taught by Ralph Williams and Matthew Lassiter and was a dedicated member of The Michigan Daily's editorial staff. In this candid and exploratory conversation, Joey will answer LSA students' questions about his time at U-M, law school, legal careers and everything in between to demonstrate the importance of learning and growing at all stages in your life.

About Joey:

Joey Litman (Political Science '03) lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as general counsel and SVP of Operations at H1, a healthtech startup whose platform connects the healthcare ecosystem. Joey is responsible for all legal functions, including contracting, intellectual property, data security, corporate governance, fundraising, employment, international growth, and litigation. Before joining H1, Joey worked as associate general counsel at Aterian.io, a tech-enabled consumer-products company, and was earlier a litigation associate at Winston & Strawn. While at Winston, Joey led all aspects of litigation and counseled clients in white-collar investigations. His work included representing the victorious plaintiffs class in Jenkins v. NCAA, a landmark trial that held NCAA compensation restraints illegal, and numerous NFL players, including Tom Brady in the "Deflategate" case. His first legal job was serving as a law clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona. Before attending law school, Joey worked in New York state politics and public relations.


You should attend this session if you are:

-A UM undergraduate LSA student interested in the breadth of a career in law
-Interested in alum tips for maximizing your time as a student
-Considering law school as a next step after U-M

What you’ll gain by attending:

-Alum insights into navigating career opportunities in the legal field
-Perspective on how to connect your experiences as a student on campus to your career goals
-Access to the LSA alum network by connecting directly with U-M grads in an informal setting

Interaction Level: Moderate

RSVP now to be part of the conversation. The link to join this Alum Connection 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. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:55:57 -0400 2021-10-15T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Joey Litman Headshot
EIHS Workshop: Violence, Witnessing, and Recovering the Archives (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85456 85456-21626475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a hybrid event. Link here for in-person registration (limited): https://myumi.ch/88Be9
Link here to stream via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/v2VjW

Inspired by Monica Muñoz Martinez, who studies vernacular history makers that “participate in shaping popular understandings of the past by making histories of racial violence, preserved in community memory, available to the public,” and Arlette Farge’s analysis of “rekilling” in the archives, this roundtable graduate student workshop will address the emotional and ethical traumas built into archives and how historians grapple with them.

These talks will focus on issues of methodology and the experience of conducting archival research on violence broadly construed. The panelists will address eighteenth century Paris police archives and the descriptions of domestic violence within them; children’s experiences with settlement houses, welfare, and the juvenile legal system in the United States during the Progressive Era; the lives and afterlives of personal objects located in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the Iranian diaspora in France in the mid-to-late twentieth century and beyond.

Panelists:
• Haley E. Bowen (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Allie Goodman (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Keanu Heydari (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Tori Herzig-Deribin (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Deirdre de la Cruz (moderator; Associate Professor; History, Asian Languages and Cultures; University of Michigan)

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:56:42 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Agnes Inglis in the Labadie Collection, August 1924 (Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan)
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Greg King, GAP (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86015 86015-21630949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Dr. Greg King is a Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Science at Gap Inc. where he leads the teams that focus on analytics in the inventory management and product domains. The essence of his team's mandate is predicting what is going to sell and where (Forecasting). and then using that information to make the best possible decisions related to the placement of inventory (Inventory Optimization) and the pricing of merchandise (Price Optimization). Greg holds a Ph.D. and MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and regularly utilizes tools from Operations Research and Machine Learning for his work.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:51:41 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Greg King
MCDB Seminar > Microtubule organisation and bidirectional cargo transport inside cells (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85320 85320-21626223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Microtubules span the entire cell, provide structural integrity and serve as the tracks for long distance transport. To position organelles and transport vesicles and mRNAs inside the cell, cargoes recruit molecular motor proteins that walk unidirectionally along microtubules. Cytoplasmic dynein is the major minus end directed motor, while a range of kinesins transport cargo towards the plus end of microtubules. The Straube lab combines quantitative live cell imaging approaches with in vitro reconstitution assays to uncover the mechanisms that generate specific microtubule arrays in polarised cells and the transport along microtubule arrays mediated by dynein and kinesins.

Host: Morgan DeSantis

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:59:13 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar tracks of microtubule assembly
Relating Structure and Function in Actin (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84768 84768-21624924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Actin is one of the most abundant intracellular proteins and it is highly conserved across all eukaryotes. The primary functional form of actin is the filament, formed by the polymerization of actin monomers. This polymerization process is exquisitely controlled through a host of actin-binding proteins, but since actin is an ATPase, it is also a function of the bound nucleotide. Much of our understanding of actin comes from experiments using animal cells, but even though the protein sequence is strongly conserved, the function and dynamics of actin in yeast, or more primitive systems, show some interesting differences. In this talk I will present results from a combination of simulations and mathematical modeling that provide new insight into the sequence-structure-function relationship in this important protein.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:19:22 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Grad School in the Biosciences (October 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88102 88102-21650295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST

A Zoom panel on applying and preparing for grad school, doing thesis research, and pursuing careers post-degree.

Professor, Postdoc, and Grad Student speakers from the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91884583350

Question Submission: https://forms.gle/KSiZLTCicKygKcWg9

FIRST Events: https://linktr.ee/FIRST_Org

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:43:59 -0400 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Futures in Research, Science, Teaching - FIRST Workshop / Seminar FIRST Logo
Speaking American English: A Workshop for English Language Learners (October 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85629 85629-21627812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mary A. Rackham Institute

The University Center for Language and Literacy is offering a Speaking American English workshop for Fall 2021. The Speaking American English workshop is designed to help you reach personal communication goals and offers a supportive environment to practice the language skills that are important to you.

The session will run for 10 weeks from September 10 to November 19, 2021. Participants will meet weekly on Fridays from 4-5 p.m.

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

Participants set their own individual goals at the start of the workshop and will work to achieve those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction. If the group workshop does not work with your schedule, please contact us; individual consultations are available.

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

Register by filling out the form here: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bg6tZhShXwx5IfH

If you have questions or need assistance, please call (734) 764-8440.

Details
When: 4-5 p.m. Fridays, September 10-November 19, 2021 (no session on October 1)
Where: Virtually through Zoom, with a potential for in-person meetings as needed or available.
Cost: $275.00, plus purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:51:32 -0400 2021-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Mary A. Rackham Institute Workshop / Seminar Speaking American English Fall 2021
Story Lab Retreat Applications (October 17, 2021 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88057 88057-21649067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 11:59pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

Fall Retreats
Thursday, November 4, 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Friday, November 5, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET

Held in-person at the Ross School of Business

Applications due Oct. 17, 2021

Story Lab develops executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. To be an effective leader — at work, in the community, or in your personal life — you must be able to communicate with impact. Often this means telling stories that are meaningful to you and others, and doing so in the rich language and expressive style of a seasoned storyteller. If you can craft and deliver an effective story, you will be better able to convey your value to recruiters, inspire and motivate classmates and colleagues, and influence your audience. At Story Lab, you’ll find an immersive experience and an opportunity to hone your skills in a safe and supportive environment.

This half-day retreat will be led by expert storytellers who will lead you through exercises to build your confidence and realize your unique communication style while celebrating extraordinary displays of leadership on stages large and small. A meal will be provided.

Who should participate in the retreat:
Students with a strong interest in building storytelling abilities and leadership development. Any level student at any school is welcome.

How to participate in the retreat:
Fill out the application form (linked at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn0VTMOQlPesnKVVkGHZhUVTIetagLNRl4ye9LcqKhp0mt2Q/viewform) by October 17. We have a limited number of spots available.

This event is powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, Ross Design + Business, and is in partnership with Student Life and M-LEAD.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:39:41 -0400 2021-10-17T23:59:00-04:00 2021-10-17T23:59:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Workshop / Seminar Story Lab workshop held pre-COVID
Cover Letter Writing for Teaching-Focused Faculty Positions (October 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87485 87485-21642406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Are you seeking teaching-focused faculty positions? This interactive workshop with Professor Deborah Field of Adrian College will provide you with advice and strategies for tailoring your cover letter to effectively communicate your teaching skills and interests.
Please note: this workshop will be held in-person, not via Zoom.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/wlkMQ.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time, preferably one week, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:16:35 -0400 2021-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
"No Cure for Being Human with Kate Bowler" (October 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85152 85152-21625637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The world loves us when we are good, better, best, but what about when we get sick, lose someone we love, or life hasn't turned out like we thought is should? Duke Professor Kate Bowler offers a richer understanding of hope in the face of uncertainty, despair, and suffering as we being to understand that life is a chronic condition and there is no cure for being human.

Kate Bowler is a New York Times bestselling author, host of a podcast Everything Happens, and Duke University professor. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she wrote Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved), which tells the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character. Her latest book, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear), grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to comes to terms with limitations in a culture that says anything is possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:31:40 -0400 2021-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Kate Bowler, PhD
In-Person Community Workshop (October 18, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88345 88345-21653270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

We are excited to announce the return of our community workshop this semester! Join us for a chance to engage in the creative arts.

For questions, please email:
Mary Heinen mheinen@umich.edu
Emily Cole emilcole@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 17 Oct 2021 22:04:37 -0400 2021-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T19:30:00-04:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Eye of the Mongoose by M Bassin, watercolor
Transfer Information Session for Michigan Community College Students (October 19, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86838 86838-21636912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Transfer Bridges to Michigan is an opportunity available only to Michigan community college students. Join us to learn how accessible transferring to LSA can be for high achieving community college students. Transfer Bridges offers tailored support and advising as you plan to transfer, the chance to participate in U-M programs like optiMize and UROP before you transfer, and the opportunity to be mentored by a current LSA transfer student.

We will discuss LSA requirements, transfer credit, pre-transfer academic advising, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.

Registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:51:49 -0400 2021-10-19T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Transfer Student Center Workshop / Seminar Transfer Student Center
Michigan Minibook (October 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86071 86071-21631265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger shows how to create a miniature maze book that she designed, entitled "Maze 'N Blue." This is a complex version of an accordion book which also includes pockets, a foldout map, pamphlet-stitched pages, and miniature facsimiles of photos, postcards, and other U-M related ephemera.

Registration: https://myumi.ch/wlB1v
Registration ended September 30, and the workshop is full.

This workshop is also being offered on October 20; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:18:01 -0400 2021-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Maze 'N Blue, a maze book by Lara D. Unger.
LSA DEI Workshop: Allies at Work-CANCELLED (October 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85189 85189-21625698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*This program has been modified to deliver in a remote setting and updated to include content directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For questions or requests for accommodation, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible.*

In this session, participants will learn:

- The role of allies in creating inclusive environments and creating change
- The best practices for being an ally
- How to apply these best practices in a work environment
- To identify unique obstacles towards being an ally in a remote working environment
- To challenge their own practices to be more intentional and effective allies

You will benefit by:

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

Audience:

This session is open to all LSA employees. External guests may request to join as space allows.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:31:53 -0400 2021-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Hands linked by pinky fingers
Trust in Religious Leaders & Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID-19 in Central Asia (October 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87821 87821-21647040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Pauline Jones (University of Michigan)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92005095888


Abstract:
What is the relationship between trust in religious leaders and voluntary compliance with policies that are costly to the individual? Religious leaders have the moral authority to affect individuals’ willingness to adopt pro-social behaviors across many societies. Less clear is whether that influence will be positive or negative. It cannot be assumed ex ante that religious leaders will uniformly support social distancing guidelines both because they may be reluctant to discourage congregants from attending services and because their leadership within a country is often decentralized. We investigate how trust in religious leaders affects compliance in countries where religious authority is centralized and state aligned. We argue that, under these conditions, greater trust in religious leaders will be associated with more voluntary compliance, but that this effect will be limited to religious celebrations and rituals. Using novel data from surveys fielded in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find support for both hypotheses but only in Kazakhstan, where religious leaders consistently offered adherents substitutes that enabled them to practice their faith while social distancing. The influence of religious leaders on voluntary compliance, therefore, may depend as much on the content of the message as it does on the source.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:16:40 -0400 2021-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
Hub Workshop: Application and Interview Prep (October 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87394 87394-21641778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Did you know that recruiters spend an average of 6 seconds to scan a résumé? Did you also know that the most popular interview technique used by HR Professionals, according to LinkedIn, is structured interviews (74%), followed by behavioral interviews (73%), phone screening (57%), and panel interviews (48%)?

Join Hub coaches for an hour-long interactive exploration of these topics. Learn what steps you can take to get recruiters to review your application for longer and also learn how to prepare for interviews so that you can anticipate questions and ultimately, impress potential employers.

This workshop consists of two parts:

1. A live coach-led session that will highlight key points for tailoring your resumé and cover letter for a specific job description. You will also learn about interview strategies, review sample interview responses, and participate in practice interview time with feedback.

2. An optional online Canvas module that can be completed after the live session where students can further develop application materials.


You should attend this workshop if you are:

A liberal arts and/or sciences (LSA) student
Applying for a job or internship
Looking to become career-ready by learning about the application process
Searching for ways to effectively communicate and frame your experience during an interview
What you will gain by attending:

Learn how to tailor the content of your application materials to match job requirements and requisite skills
Gain valuable insights on interview preparation and communication strategies
Identify your strengths and opportunities for growth through sample interview responses that find their foundation in the STAR method
Learn about different tools for practicing virtual interviewing like Big Interview
Determine the next steps in developing your application materials and in your internship or job search

Moderate Interaction

Video and audio presence is preferred
The event will be a mixture of interactive activities and passive viewing
NOTE: Students who cannot participate as recommended are still encouraged to attend

RSVP now to reserve your spot! The link to join this workshop will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.


The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom (learn more about Zoom accessibility) and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:56:44 -0400 2021-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar LSA Students
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency∗ (October 20, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87927 87927-21647708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received less attention. To study these outcomes, we build a model of bargaining under incomplete information and test our predictions in the context of the U.S. private sector. Our model predicts that transparency reduces the individual bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to any one worker to avoid costly renegotiations with others under transparency. In situations where workers do not have individual bargaining power, such as under a collective bargaining agreement or in markets with posted wages, greater transparency has a muted impact on average wages. We test these predictions by evaluating the roll-out of U.S. state legislation protecting the right of workers to inquire about the salaries of their coworkers. Consistent with our prediction, the laws lead wages to decline by approximately 2% overall, but declines are progressively smaller in occupations with higher unionization rates. Our model provides a unified framework to analyze a wide range of transparency policies, and reconciles effects of transparency mandates documented in a variety of countries and contexts.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:36:22 -0400 2021-10-20T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Michigan Minibook (October 20, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86072 86072-21631266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Lara D. Unger shows how to create a miniature maze book that she designed, entitled "Maze 'N Blue." This is a complex version of an accordion book which also includes pockets, a foldout map, pamphlet-stitched pages, and miniature facsimiles of photos, postcards, and other U-M related ephemera.

Register via Google form: https://myumi.ch/qgoDy
The registration deadline has been extended to October 10.

This workshop is also being offered on October 19; please sign up for one session only.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:18:55 -0400 2021-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Workshop / Seminar Maze 'N Blue, a maze book by Lara D. Unger.
Department Colloquium | The Quark Gluon Plasma: A Look Inside the Hottest Matter in the Universe (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87158 87158-21639218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

Under normal conditions quarks and gluons are confined within protons and neutrons, which in turn are confined to the atomic nucleus. However, in the early universe, about a millionth of a second after the Big Bang,the temperature was hot enough that neither nuclei nor protons and neutrons had formed. This matter, consisting of deconfined quarks and gluons is called the Quark Gluon Plasma. This matter can be recreated in laboratory experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory by colliding pairs of nuclei at ultrarelativistic energies. Interestingly, a good description of the bulk properties of this matter can be made in terms of nearly ideal hydrodynamics. A major focus of the current effort in this field is to understand how this fluid behavior emerges from the interactions between the quarks and gluons. The main experimental tool in this study is high momentum quarks and gluons, jets, passing through the plasma which act as short length scale probes. Measurements using the first LHC data from collisions between two lead nuclei at top energies have recently become available and I will discuss what we have learned from these measurements as well as how upcoming data from the LHC and RHIC will together constrain the inner workings of the quark gluon plasma.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:15:57 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87930 87930-21647719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract: We document a new intermediation method, “reserve-draining intermediation”, which has been dominant in global banks’ provision of dollar liquidity post-Global Financial Crisis. Using daily supervisory data, we show that large U.S. banks use their excess reserves at the Federal Reserve to finance short-term lending in the repo and foreign exchange swap markets in response to dollar funding shortages. Intra-firm liquidity sharing between depository institutions and broker-dealer subsidiaries within the same bank holding company are crucial to reserve-draining intermediation. Our results highlight the importance of a large Federal Reserve balance sheet even when interest rates are above the zero-lower bound.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:06:23 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
International Economics: Selection and Sorting of Heterogeneous Firms through the Procompetitive Effect (October 21, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87924 87924-21647705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study how an increase in market size causes selection and sorting of firms with different productivity by intensifying competitive pressures. To this end, we introduce the procompetitive effect into the Melitz (2003) model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms, using the H.S.A. (Homotheticity with a Single Aggregator) class of demand systems, which has many advantages relative to other non-CES demand systems used in the literature.
First, it is homothetic. Market size can be thus defined unambiguously because the composition of market demand does not matter. It also helps to isolate the effects of variable markups from those of
nonhomotheticity. Furthermore, the homotheticity makes it straightforward to use H.S.A. as a building block in multi-sector general equilibrium models.
Second, it is nonparametric. This makes it flexible enough to allow not only for Marshall’s Second Law, which implies incomplete pass-through. It also allows for what we call the (weak and strong) Third Law--the pass-through rates for less efficient firms are no lower (under the weak Third
Law) or strictly higher (under the strong Third Law). Furthermore, since this class contains CES (as well as translog) as a special case, H.S.A. helps us understand which predictions of the Melitz model are
critically dependent on CES and which ones are not.
Third, because the single aggregator serves as a sufficient statistic for competitive pressures, it is simple to establish the existence and uniqueness of free-entry equilibrium with firm heterogeneity. H.S.A. also retains much of the tractability of CES; most of comparative statics can be conducted by means of simple diagrams, and the key qualitative results are free of any further parametric restrictions on the demand systems and productivity distribution. In a one-sector setting, we show, among others, that an increase in competitive pressures, -- whether it is caused by an increase in market size, a lower entry cost, or a first-order stochastically dominant improvement in productivity distribution--, leads to a tougher selection of firms, larger dispersion of profit across surviving firms under the Second Law (and of revenue across firms under the weak Third Law), and smaller dispersion of markup rates under the strong Third Law. An increase in market size also leads to higher (lower) profits for the more (less) efficient among the surviving firms under the Second Law. If the weak Third Law holds additionally, an increase in market size leads to higher revenue for all surviving firms with large enough overheads, but only for the more efficient with small enough overheads. We also show that employment could be hump-shaped in the firm productivity under the Second and weak Third Laws, in which case employment could be inversely related to productivity among surviving firms with overheads large enough relative to market size.
Then, in a multi-sector/region setting, we show that, under the Second Law, competitive pressures are stronger in larger markets, which causes more efficient firms to sort themselves into larger markets. Due to this composition effect, the average markup rates are not necessarily lower in larger markets. This result offers a caution against testing the procompetitive effect of market size by comparing the average markup rates in a cross-section of cities with different sizes.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:37:21 -0400 2021-10-21T11:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Interdisciplinary QC/CM Seminar | Can We Simulate the Quantum Dynamics of Many Electrons Both, Accurately and Fast? (October 21, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86560 86560-21634897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

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The accurate description of the ultrafast quantum dynamics of mutually interacting particles is of high interest in many areas of physics and chemistry. This includes the response of electrons in atoms, molecules, solids, and plasmas to short laser pulses. Similar phenomena occur in optical lattices where cold atoms are driven out of equilibium by ultrafast changes of the lattice parameters (quenches) [1]. A third example is the collective response of electrons in correlated 2D materials to the impact of charged particles [2]. Common to all these systems is that the interaction between the particles (i.e. correlations) significantly affects the time evolution. Common is also that for these systems a solution of the Schrödinger equation is impossible.

I will report how we approach the quantum dynamics of interacting particles. We apply the method of nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) which has proven to be a powerful tool to capture electron-electron correlations [3]. However, NEGF simulations are computationally expensive due to their cubic scaling with the simulation duration T. With the introduction of the generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz [4], quadratic scaling could be achieved for second order Born (SOA) selfenergies [5], which has substantially extended the scope of NEGF simulations. Recently [6], we could achieve linear scaling within SOA and even the GW and dynamically screened ladder approximations which is a break through for simulating the correlated electron dynamics.

[1] N. Schlünzen et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 035107 (2016)
[2] K. Balzer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (2018)
[3] K. Balzer and M. Bonitz, Lect. Notes Phys. 867 (2013)
[4] P. Lipavský et al., Phys. Rev. B 34, 6933 (1986)
[5] S. Hermanns et al., Phys. Scripta T151, 014036 (2012)
[6] N. Schlünzen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076601 (2020); Joost
et al., Phys. Rev. B 101, 245101 (2020)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:16:00 -0400 2021-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar
BME 500 Seminar: “Elucidating and engineering microbial communities: systems and synthetic biology approaches” (October 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88452 88452-21654121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Microbes are everywhere in nature and they live in diverse communities that show remarkable metabolic capabilities and robustness. On the other hand, disruption of microbiome homeostasis and associated changes in the community’s structure/function underlies numerous health or environmental issues. My lab has been developing methods and tools rooted in engineering to study microbial communities in order to discover the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms. In particular, we have pioneered a technological pipeline, based on nanoliter-scale microfluidic droplets, to co-cultivate sub-communities and characterize interactions between community members. A number of technological modules have been created and the pipeline is being applied to the investigation of a range of health or environment related microbiomes. A second distinct yet complementary research thrust in my lab, inspired by naturally occurring synergistic microbial communities, has been the design and construction of synthetic microbial consortia for microbial engineering and biochemical production. One application focus has been synthesis of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass. For instance, we designed and optimized a consortium consisting of a cellulolytic fungus capable of hydrolyzing hemicellulose and cellulose (main components of lignocellulosic biomass) into mono and oligosaccharides and a genetically engineered bacterium for converting mono and oligosaccharides into isobutanol, an advanced biofuel. The general framework of engineering defined co-cultures of coordinated specialists also offers exciting new opportunities for the efficient and flexible production of many valuable chemicals from other non-conventional bio-feedstocks.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:08:36 -0400 2021-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME LOGO
EEB Thursday Seminar: Viper venoms and rodent phytochemical detox genes give shared insights on the evolution of molecular trait complexity (October 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85676 85676-21628188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Our weekly seminar series featuring internal and external speakers in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:09:15 -0400 2021-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Circular phylogeny of small mammals, lizards, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians, headshot of Matthew Holding, picture of a snake eating a small rodent
Hub Small Group: Finding an Internship in Environment & Sustainability (October 21, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85101 85101-21650298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Join an Internship Program Coordinator for an advice-laden discussion on finding, applying, and securing an internship in the environmental and sustainability fields. We will explore strategies for searching for opportunities, as well as ways you can stand out from among other applicants. We will also explore job boards that focus on environmental science, energy, and wildlife, as well as strategies for entering the field depending upon your year in undergrad. The small group setting will allow plenty of time for discussion—so bring your questions!

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and sciences (LSA) student
Interested in finding out how you can enter the field powerfully and knowledgeably regardless of your year in undergrad
Looking for different science job boards
Seeking experiential learning opportunities to explore the environment and sustainability fields

What you’ll gain by attending:
Learn how to effectively search for environment and sustainability internships
Find out what types of experiences add value to your undergraduate and career journeys
Explore alternative ways to gain exposure to careers in the environment and sustainability

High Interaction
Video and audio presence is strongly encouraged
The event will mainly be interactive through some combination of full-group interactions, small-group interactions, worksheets, and Q&As.

Register now, as spots are limited. The link to join the small group will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed by phone or computer. Presentation materials may be shared in advance if requested, and live captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations please contact Anna Colvin at ancolvin@umich.edu so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 May 2022 13:36:43 -0400 2021-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Internship in Environment
Pre-Med Check Up for Sophomores and Juniors (Virtual) (October 21, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87357 87357-21641513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

This event, co-sponsored by LSA Honors Program and the University Career Center, is designed to help pre-medical students make informed coursework decisions; take stock of the relevant experiences they have accumulated thus far; and plan for future ones in order to become competitive applicants for their targeted application cycle. See
Open to all U-M students! Register below.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:58:59 -0400 2021-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar stethoscope
Project Incubator Workshop (October 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87812 87812-21646476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is hosting workshops aimed at catalyzing innovative and impactful sustainability-related projects on campus! Join us as we brainstorm areas on campus where sustainability can be enhanced, generate project ideas, and lay the foundation for future projects. SSC also offers grants to support the funding needs of sustainability projects on campus.

Tuesday, 1/25: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDgyZm0yM3RkMnJjaWFqZGFlOGIzMjBmcGYgY185cWh1Z29mZ2lmaTBpbXR2dHV2Zmc2ZzUxc0Bn&tmsrc=c_9qhugofgifi0imtvtuvfg6g51s%40group.calendar.google.com

Thursday, 2/3: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjlydHJybmM1NmZhZzNkYzUzNjhpNmU1bmogY185cWh1Z29mZ2lmaTBpbXR2dHV2Zmc2ZzUxc0Bn&tmsrc=c_9qhugofgifi0imtvtuvfg6g51s%40group.calendar.google.com

SSC is a student group driven to promote a sustainable campus culture at U-M, with sustainability encompassing both environmental and social justice issues.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:04:03 -0500 2021-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Student Sustainability Coalition Workshop / Seminar Student Sustainability Coalition
Applied Microeconomics | Industrial Organization: Should The Government Sell You Goods? Evidence from the Milk Market in Mexico (October 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87325 87325-21641152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We study a nationwide welfare program in Mexico in which the government, in an effort to eliminate hunger, sells milk to households at subsidized rates via a network of thousands of specialized "ration stores." Such direct provision programs, which exist in many countries, often appear puzzling to economists, as it seems unlikely that the government would have any comparative advantage relative to the private market in procuring and distributing milk. To understand direct provision, we formulate and estimate an equilibrium model of the milk market, and use it to compare this program with natural (budget-neutral) alternatives such as milk vouchers or unrestricted cash transfers. Using rich household-level panel data and the variation generated by the staggered entry of new government stores, we show that market power by private milk suppliers is an important concern, and that government-sold and privately-sold milk are close (though imperfect) substitutes. Consequently, direct provision plays an important role in the milk market in Mexico by disciplining private-milk prices. Indeed, our results suggest that, in the absence of government milk, private market prices would be 3% higher, and that direct provision generates consumer welfare gains of 4% relative to milk vouchers and 2% relative to unrestricted cash transfers.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:06:36 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar econ umich
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Gerda Claeskens, Professor, Research Centre for Operations Research and Statistics (ORSTAT), KU Leuven (October 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84421 84421-21623923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract: When a model for a statistical analysis is not given before the analysis, but is the result of a model search endeavor, the uncertainty about the model that is used for inference has consequences for hypothesis testing and for the construction of confidence intervals for the model parameters of interest. Ignoring this uncertainty leads to overoptimistic results, implying that computed p-values are too small and that confidence intervals are too narrow for the intended coverage.
I will explain how to use confidence distributions to obtain valid inference after model selection for the parameters of interest. Under some assumptions, uniformly most powerful post-selection confidence curves are obtained.

This is joint work with Andrea Garcia-Angulo.

Gerda Claeskens is a professor at the Research Centre for Operations Research and Statistics (ORSTAT), KU Leuven. Her research interests are Model selection and model averaging; Post-selection inference; Nonparametric regression.

https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0043181/index.htm

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:19:11 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Gerda Claeskens
U-M Structure Seminar: “The Structural Basis for Control of Methylation Extent in Polyketide Synthase Metal-dependent C-methyltransferases” (October 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85433 85433-21626420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Yongtong Lao
Graduate Student
Janet Smith Lab
University of Michigan

Hybrid: LSI Library and Zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/97763780708 (Password: structure)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:31:40 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Workshop / Seminar U-M Structure
Peace Corps Application Workshop (October 22, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88085 88085-21650193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Center

Join your recruiters for this virtual workshop to learn what steps are required to complete your Peace Corps application. You will have an opportunity to ask questions about service, learn steps you can take to improve your resume and personal statement, and gain valuable tips to guide you through the application process.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:04:34 -0400 2021-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Center Workshop / Seminar Application Workshop
LUNCH & LEARN: CAREER TALKS — Pamela Martinez Villarreal, University of Colorado Health System (October 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84659 84659-21624504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Discover and develop your personal career interests and acquire professional development skills through seminars and conversations with alumni of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Alumni will talk about their roles, their career path, and give advice on making the most of a degree from IOE.

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

The Career Talks event series is also the focus of the course, IOE 190. IOE Careers: Find Your Purpose, a 1-credit course open to all U-M students and available in the Fall. For more information about enrolling in IOE 190 please contact IOE Undergraduate Student Advisor, Leonora Lucaj < lucajl@umich.edu>.

Bio:
Pamela Martinez is a Health Systems Engineer at UCHealth, a nonprofit health care system that includes 12 Colorado hospitals and more than 150 clinics in Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. She holds an MSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering with a concentration in Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety from the University of Michigan. Pamela works to deliver human-centered solutions that drive innovation, improve patient experience and increase the quality and efficiency of health care.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:51:58 -0400 2021-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Pamela Martinez Villarreal