Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. IGDA Ann Arbor : Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit) (May 26, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95246 95246-21789060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

==Industry Lecture==
Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit)

Step into the world of game design and game pedagogy as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes LTU Game Program Director, IGDA Detroit Chair, and former Terminal Reality designer Dr. Stephen Mallory!

IN-PERSON : Ann Arbor SPARK Central (parking directions below)
VIRTUAL (Discord) : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm
VIRTUAL (Twitch.tv) : https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

==Parking==

Republic Parking : 324 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Library Lane Parking : 319 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Streetside parking / meter parking free after 6pm EST.

==In-Person Requirements==

You must have been vaccinated, and will need to attest to this fact before entering.

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 May 2022 12:29:42 -0400 2022-05-26T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-26T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Lecture / Discussion Dr. Stephen Mallory joins IGDA Ann Arbor
Dissertation Defense: Elise Woodard (May 31, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94778 94778-21767864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 9:30am
Location:
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

COMMITTEE:
Weatherson, Brian (co-chair)
Moss, Sarah (co-chair)
Joyce, Jim
Lasonen-Aarnio, Maria
Buss, Sarah
Hershovitz, Scott (cognate, Law)


ABSTRACT:
TBD

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:54:50 -0400 2022-05-31T09:30:00-04:00 2022-05-31T11:30:00-04:00 Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Behind the Frame: Policing the Filming of Fruitvale Station (May 31, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95337 95337-21789191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Lisa Doris Alexander is a Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Alexander is the author of Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades and Homicide: Life on the Street with Wayne State University Press’ TV Milestone Series. Her first book, When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in The National Pastime, won the Society of American Baseball Research’s Negro League’s Committee Robert Peterson Recognition Award in 2013. She also co-edited The Circus is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle with Joel Nathan Rosen. She earned her doctorate in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, her Masters degree in Afro American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Bachelors degree in Political Science from Grinnell College. She refuses to choose between Star Trek and Star Wars and is a Chicago native and avid fan of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 May 2022 12:16:29 -0400 2022-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 2022-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
EEB Special Seminar: "Insights from phenotype x genotype x environment interactions in species-specific functional traits in non-model systems" (June 2, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95336 95336-21789190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 2, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

ABSTRACT: Untangling the interaction between genotype, environment, and phenotype represents a central goal of evolutionary biology, yet a comprehensive understanding of the relative influence of each remains elusive, especially in non-model systems. My research uses several approaches for investigating the multiple sources of variation that can impact observed phenotypic traits. I highlight how functional traits impacting dispersal ability in Caribbean mangrove species, when coupled with spatially explicit ocean current data, can lead to crucial insights about how genetic variation was shaped by the environment. Especially in periods of rapid climate change, environmental pressures can impact the adaptive nature of traits, and in some cases, adaptive variation can transcend species boundaries. Using a case of recent (i.e., Pleistocene) hybridization in montane sedges, I illustrate how genotype-environment association analyses identify adaptive loci with respect to environmental gradients that overwhelmingly correspond to loci with excess ancestry from one parental lineage. Digitized museum specimens may represent an efficient way to study the interaction of genome, phenome, and environment; I propose an analytical framework for explicitly quantifying the covariation of genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data from thousands of conspecific specimens.

SPEAKER'S WEBSITE: https://richiehodel.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 May 2022 11:19:37 -0400 2022-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2022-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion EEB Special Seminar poster with images of interrelation of environment, phenotype and genotype
7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21789263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
7th Annual Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD Lecture (June 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95013 95013-21788268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

Talk Title: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype, and Promise

Abstract: Data science was introduced as a “new” profession in the early 1960s, yet the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was not established until 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its roots to at least the 1950s, with its first application as an expert system in medicine in the early 1970s. Yet, the NIH Working Group on AI was not established until 2018 as well, with their first report issued in 2019. This is not to say that these topics have been neglected over the past half-century, but it begs the question of why have they only now come to the forefront of biomedicine? We have seen multiple AI booms and busts, each of which has caused massive hype, dream crushing failures, and notable advancements (some more flashy than others) along the way. This talk is not intended to be a history lesson, but it will provide some context for how we got to where we are and what this says about where biomedical research and healthcare seems to be heading. I will further provide insight into how various innovations in computation, policy, and industry have pushed the field forward and where recently established programs to expand AI activities, such as AIM-AHEAD and Bridge2AI, may push the biomedical research community over the next decade. To ground this presentation, I will provide examples of how AI and data science more generally have driven activities at the All of Us Research Program and the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center.

Short Bio: Bradley Malin is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He founded and co-directs the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center, as well as the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), the latter of which is an NIH Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research. Since 2007, he has chaired the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) for the NIH-sponsored All of Us Research Program and, in 2021, he became one of the founding PIs of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He serves on various governmental advisory bodies, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Medicine (CDC). He was honored as a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . He received a B.S. in Biological Sciences, M.S. in Machine Learning, M.Phil. in Public Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 May 2022 12:03:12 -0400 2022-06-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion Bradley Malin, PhD
Dissertation Defense: Josh Hunt (June 3, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94779 94779-21767865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Description:
Symmetry and Reformulation: On Intellectual Progress in Science and Math


COMMITTEE:
Ruetsche, Laura (co-chair)
Belot, Gordon (co-chair)
Baker, David
Elvang, Henriette (cognate, Physics)

ABSTRACT:
TBD

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:56:53 -0400 2022-06-03T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar: "Long non-coding RNAs as evolutionarily fluid chromatin weavers" (June 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92839 92839-21697184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

HYBRID SEMINAR:
In-person: BSRC, ABC seminar rooms
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3ga-wcUYSgqPEKw57DSfpg

Talk title: "Long non-coding RNAs as evolutionarily fluid chromatin weavers"

Keywords: lncRNAs, Genomics, Genome topology

Abstract: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have recently emerged as prominent elements of the regulatory transactions of eukaryotic genomes. Many of the know regulatory functions of lncRNAs in both animals and plants rely on the rearrangement of chromatin through direct interactions or recruitment of chromatin-modifying elements. In this talk, I will discuss the difficulty in identifying evolutionary conservation in lncRNAs, and how we characterize these evolutionarily volatile elements in the context of their role as regulators of the three-dimensional conformation of nuclear chromatin. I will focus on our findings resulting from the concurrent characterization of transcripts, tridimensional chromatin structure and direct RNA-DNA interactions in closely related plant species. I will also discuss how such techniques have vast potential to illuminate biomedically relevant lncRNAs when analyzed from a comparative genomics perspective.

If you are having trouble registering, please contact Martina Jerant at mjerant@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde, Advanced Genomics Unit, LANGEBIO, Cinvestav
Thermal Infrared for Robot Vision in the Field (June 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95439 95439-21789928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Abstract:
The human visual system did not evolve to optimize tasks such as driving in a blizzard, navigating subterranean sites or rescuing trapped victims from a burning building. For such crucial avenues, we hope to build robots that operate better than humans. But, studies on passive robot vision have largely focused on visible cameras which, much like the human eye, were not designed for adverse conditions. By relying on visible light, we are inadvertently constraining the robots’ abilities. In this thesis, we explore the use of thermal infrared cameras for robot vision in the field under arbitrary lighting and weather conditions. In particular, uncooled microbolometers, which are the affordable type of thermal cameras, suffer from significant image degradation, including motion blur and rolling shutter distortions, in the presence of relative motion between the camera and the scene. The lack of control over exposure time and the lack of global shutter technology limit the use of thermal cameras in robotics. Our work studies the origins of motion blur in microbolometers starting from their physics of image formation and proposes model based algorithms using high end microbolometers. Combining this knowledge of microbolometer physics with the generalizability of learning methods could enable wider adoption of thermal cameras in robotics. Towards this end, we collected the first-of-its-kind outdoor driving dataset in adverse lighting and weather conditions with a state-of-the-art cooled photon detector that captures sharp images without motion blur and without distortions. We then used the regularization capabilities of implicit neural representations to fuse noisy measurements from a cooled thermal camera and a high-resolution lidar to generate dense pseudo-ground truth images, depth maps and optical flow maps that are pixel-wise aligned with the microbolometer. This can enable developing novel deep network algorithms to perform vision tasks using only microbolometer data. We believe these developments could propel thermal cameras to undertake a primary role for safe robot operation in all lighting and weather conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:39:53 -0400 2022-06-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion Robot thermal infrared vision
EEB Thesis Defense: Novel DNA mycovirus BdDV-1 alters the phenotype of amphibian pathogen batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (June 7, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95384 95384-21789257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please reach out to the department for the zoom link

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:29:17 -0400 2022-06-07T14:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T16:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Poster advertising a thesis defense featuring a jumping frog
Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture and Medical Education Scholars Program Research Symposium (June 7, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94775 94775-21766997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Please join us on June 7, 2022, from 2:30-5:00pm for the Department of Learning Health Sciences’ Annual Roland “Red” Hiss Event. This event honors the life and work of Dr. Red Hiss and celebrates the accomplishments of Scholars in the Medical Education Scholars Program.

2:30-3:30: MESP Research Symposium
3:30-5:00: Hiss Lecture

The 2022 Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture will be given by Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Dr. Edje is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, where she was President of the medical school student body. She began her path to medicine at age 16 when she pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology at Michigan State University. In 2012, Dr. Edje was selected as the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Physician of The Year. She is currently the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversees the education of over 700 residents and fellows. Dr. Edje holds dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is also a board-certified family physician practicing at UC Health and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Edje was recently elected to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Medical Education. She is actively speaking globally on viruses, variants and vaccine hesitancy via multiple media platforms as a Moderna trial participant.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 May 2022 09:51:30 -0400 2022-06-07T14:30:00-04:00 2022-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Research Symposium, June 7th
“Genetic regulation of epithelial homeostasis and injury” (June 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95318 95318-21789154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis trainees are please to present a Special Series, "Building and Rebuilding: Regulation of Cell Signaling in Development and Regeneration," featuring guest speaker, Adam D. Gracz, PhD.

Dr. Gracz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Division of Digestive Disease at Emory University.

The talk is entitled, “Genetic regulation of epithelial homeostasis
and injury.”

Trainee Host
Megan Radyk, PhD-Lyssiotis & Shah Labs

For more information email: Organogenesis@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 May 2022 10:58:57 -0400 2022-06-07T16:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Gracz flyer
Energy Policy Innovation for a Clean Future: a Carbon Fee and Alternatives (June 7, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95118 95118-21788486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Carbon pricing is one measure that many experts believe can be implemented quickly and can dramatically lower carbon emissions. Mary Garton, of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and the Climate Reality Project will discuss the role of national carbon pricing in addressing the climate crisis. This presentation is aimed to be understandable by those with no previous knowledge, yet educational for those already interested and active in working toward climate solutions.

Mary Garton is a nurse and educator. Ms. Garton has participated in 28 lobby meetings with 15 different members of Congress or their legislative aides. She has been active with Citizens Climate Lobby for 5 years, and believes, like they do, that the best way to fight one’s own climate anxiety is to actively work towards a viable solution.

This event is in partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library and will take place at the Westgate Branch of the Ann Arbor District Library, 2503 Jackson Ave.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 May 2022 22:00:36 -0400 2022-06-07T18:30:00-04:00 2022-06-07T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Lecture / Discussion decorative
Drug Commercialization and Launch (June 8, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93273 93273-21702119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Innovation Partnerships

In this lecture, we will focus on drug commercialization and early planning for launch to maximize the commercial value of a novel therapeutic. Specific emphasis in the session will be placed on discussing early planning for launch and commercialization. The discussion will also highlighting some of the common pitfalls during commercialization and how to avoid them while you and building an organization for launch success.

Learn more at:
https://innovationpartnerships.umich.edu/stories/cure-symposium-drug-development/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:00:43 -0500 2022-06-08T15:30:00-04:00 2022-06-08T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Innovation Partnerships Lecture / Discussion Drug Commercialization and Launch
BME PhD Defense: Feiran Li (June 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95461 95461-21789961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 520
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Cell-based therapies are emerging for Type I diabetes mellitus (T1D), an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of insulin producing pancreatic β-cells, as a means to provide long term restoration of glycemic control. The limited supply of donor islets has motivated research into methods for differentiating pancreatic β-cells from renewable pluripotent stem cells such as human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Biomaterial scaffolds maintain the integrity of cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix connections by avoiding the disruption of the cell niche during handling. This dissertation addresses three key questions with respect to cell therapy and immunomodulation for T1D, including culture system on porous PLG scaffold, functionalized scaffold for improved cell viability and maturation, and immunomodulation with the membrane coated nanoparticles (MCNPs).

Culture on porous biomaterial scaffolds of hPSCs was investigated at multiple stages of differentiation between Stage 0 and 6 for improved differentiation. Scaffolds are biomaterial devices that could provide chemical and physical cues to control the microenvironment and subsequently alter cellular behavior by facilitating cell-cell interactions. The culture of cells on the scaffolds was found to support maturation of SC derived beta cells depending on the stage of seeding. Suspension cultured-pancreatic progenitors seeded onto scaffolds for stage 5 culture (pancreatic endocrine development), demonstrated enhanced expression for many maturation genes compared to cells that remained in suspension culture through the end of stage 6. This study showcased the scaffold culture as a promising platform for maturation that allows cells to develop a niche and may allow for direct transplantation without manipulating cells.

Early engraftment and development of β-cells post transplantation are a major limitation for stem cell derived beta cells due in part to their being immature. The survival and development of hPSC-derived β-cells seeded onto PLG microporous scaffolds were investigated within the initial 2 weeks post transplantation. Early inflammatory events induced by the biomaterial and transplanted cells heavily affected hPSC-derived β-cell engraftment due to the innate immune response. The inflammation includes the production of soluble mediators, inflammatory cytokines and the recruitment of innate cells at the graft site, hindering early graft engraftment and in-vivo hPSC-derived β-cell maturation. The PLG-based biodegradable scaffold chemically linked with a novel form of FasL chimeric with streptavidin, SA-FasL, was applied to create an immunoprivileged transplant site by modulating the local inflammatory microenvironment. The β-cell viability and differentiation were found improved at the SA-FasL induced immunoprivileged site together with a suppressed inflammatory reaction.

Life-long systemic immune suppression due to allogenic graft/cell transplant also limits the translation of cell therapies for T1D. We investigated the design of membrane-coated nanoparticles (MCNPs), with membranes derived from bone marrow-derived dendritic cells and coated onto poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticle cores, to directly interact with both naïve and activated T cells. Mechanistic studies revealed that the developed MCNPs have the capability to communicate with allogenic T cells by modulating the cytokine secretion levels similar to professional antigen presenting cells. Furthermore, the MCNPs can be engineered pre- and post-fabrication for upregulated surface molecules or varied antigen binding and can be functionalized by biotinylation for a wider range of protein loading.

Overall, this dissertation discussed optimization and early immunomodulation of the biomaterial culturing system for hPSC-derived β cells, and development of tunable MCNPs for direct T cell communication.

Date: Monday, June 13, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: NCRC Building 520 Room 1122 and Zoom (https://umich.zoom.us/j/93840656651)
Chair: Dr. Lonnie Shea

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:22:42 -0400 2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T13:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 520 Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Defense
Making Sense of Afghanistan History and Place in World Politics (June 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91310 91310-21677935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will explore the recent withdrawal from Afghanistan, and its causes and consequences in America’s position on the international stage. It will also provide historical, political, and cultural context for this country and region spanning the last 20 years, even 200 years.

Our speaker, Saeed A. Khan is a lecturer in the Department of History and Near East and Asian Studies at Wayne State University. He teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Politics and Culture and where he is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship.

His primary area of research is the identity politics of Muslim Diaspora communities in the US, UK, and Europe. Dr. Khan is also Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, a panelist on CBC’s Turning Point and contributor to Detroit Today on Detroit Public Radio.

This is the last of five lectures to be presented once each month from February through June of 2022. A new series will start in September 2022. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:44:58 -0500 2022-06-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion OLLI Image
Understanding and engineering microbes for solving complex problems in biology and medicine (June 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95526 95526-21790074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:

The microbiome represents an exciting frontier in medicine, and early successes in the field have demonstrated the dynamic interactions among individual microbial species and highlighted the crosstalk between microbiota and their hosts at the mucosal interface.  The Li research group in the Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University focuses on the development of molecular and live cell-based therapeutics, with a major emphasis on harnessing innovative synthetic biology and drug delivery approaches for improving human health in a sustainable manner. In this talk, I will present our work from the past three years in interrogating and manipulating commensal bacteria and probiotics as therapeutic platforms to promote human health.

Bio:

Jiahe Li obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University in 2015, where he leveraged synthetic biology approaches and cell biology to engineer bacteria and platelets as platforms for treating metastatic cancer. Later, he pursued his postdoctoral training at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT from 2015-2018, where he gained complementary expertise in polymer science and gene delivery. He started a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University in 2019, and his current research is supported by NIH, DoD, and various biotech companies.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97247012805

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:34:33 -0400 2022-06-16T15:30:00-04:00 2022-06-16T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Seminar
LHS Collaboratory (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95245 95245-21789057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Restructuring health systems for learning: Building equity into the Learning Health System"
Learn more about ELSI-LHS (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems). The session will be moderated by, Jody E. Platt, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences.

Speaker:
Lauren A. Taylor, PhD, MDiv, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Health
Division of Medical Ethics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 May 2022 00:20:49 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Understanding Genetic Factors that Modulate Hedgehog-Driven Skin Cancer (June 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95720 95720-21790785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Dissertation Defense

We are pleased to welcome Kenny Trieu, Ph.D. candidate, to the ABC Seminar Rooms in BSRB on June 27, 2022, to present his talk titled “Understanding Genetic Factors that Modulate Hedgehog-Driven Skin Cancer.”

Professor Andrzej A. Dlugosz, Chair
Associate Professor Sunny Y. Wong, Mentor
Professor Pierre A. Coulombe
Associate Professor David B. Lombard
Associate Professor Xing Fan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:08:38 -0400 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T14:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Understanding Genetic Factors that Modulate Hedgehog-Driven Skin Cancer
AIM Research: Developmental byproducts and collaborative activity: from informal language learning to engineering education research (June 21, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94879 94879-21779767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us for AIM Research, where we host speakers working with data analytics and research to share their knowledge and engage with the University of Michigan research and learning analytics community. The field of learning analytics is a multi- and interdisciplinary field that brings together researchers from education, the learning sciences, computational sciences and statistics, and all discipline-specific forms of educational inquiry. Event details are listed below and registration is required. This event will be hosted in-person in the Wolverine Room at the Michigan Union. Andrew’s talk will be followed by a social/networking reception with light refreshments.

In this talk, Andrew Moffat explores the idea of learning outcomes that happen when you least expect it, ‘byproducts’ of activities that are not themselves motivated by a desire to learn. Beginning with the notion of incidental second language learning, Andrew previews his forthcoming book by presenting data from a global survey of L2 English users. These data attest to a wide range of L2 English use online, for both leisure and work purposes. The data also show that language activities that are inherently evaluative in nature are most likely to make L2 users uncomfortable, as well as revealing many of the specific difficulties that L2 English users have in online discourse. He goes on to outline a Vygotskian theoretical framework that underpins the incidental learning process. Building on this framework, Andrew proposes an approach to language teaching that seeks to harness learners’ online L2 activities to augment their classroom learning. Making connections with his current research as part of the CAI/EER collaboration Tandem project, Andrew explores how a similar framework may be used to conceptualize developmental ‘byproducts’ from task-oriented teamwork, as well as helping to foster equitable team interactions.

This seminar will:

- Demonstrate the importance and usefulness of adopting an ecological approach to language learning.
- Outline a framework for understanding collaborative human activity in its social and cultural contexts.
- Suggest ways in which developmental byproducts might be augmented and exploited.

Andrew Moffat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UM, working with Engineering Education Research and the Center for Academic Innovation on the teamwork support platform Tandem. He has a background in language teaching, having taught English as a foreign language in the Czech Republic, South Korea, Spain and the UK, and holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK. Working subsequently at the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence expanded his portfolio in education research, and he now finds Tandem bringing together many of these prior professional experiences.

The Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) is committed to ensuring that our meetings and events are accessible to all individuals. Please let us know how we can ensure that this event is inclusive to you. What accommodations or access needs can we help facilitate? Contact Trevor Parnell, Events and Marketing Specialist (tparn@umich.edu) with any questions or access needs.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Academic Innovation, English Language Institute, Language Resource Center, and Engineering Education Research.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 May 2022 09:54:56 -0400 2022-06-21T15:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Research
“Ethics and Equity Considerations for Clinicians Requesting Mental Health Wellness Checks for Patients in the Community Setting” (June 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95679 95679-21790546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

Patients experiencing acute mental health crises in the community setting may not have access to crisis management services. Clinicians may call upon law enforcement to facilitate mental health wellness checks to handle such emergencies. Through a case presentation followed by a multidisciplinary panel discussion, this talk will review the practice of mental health wellness checks and consider the risks of unnecessary police exposure for these patients. Guidance for providers to mitigate harm in these situations will be discussed, including an updated Michigan Medicine policy that reinforces strategies for effective real-time communication before, during, and after calling 911 if a mental health wellness check is indicated.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:49:14 -0400 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Lecture / Discussion 6/22 BGR
An Extragalactic Fossil Record: Uncovering the Merger History of a Galaxy (June 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95515 95515-21790026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

In this talk, U-M Astronomy Ph.D. student Katya Gozman will explore how astronomers can learn about the formation and evolution of galaxies. Gozman will talk about galaxy mergers and how we can find evidence of past mergers in the outskirts of nearby galaxies. She will also present the results from a research project she worked on with Prof. Eric Bell in her first two years of UMich’s Astronomy PhD program.

The talk will be followed by tours of the Observatory and observing with the historic Fitz telescope, if weather permits.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:56:40 -0400 2022-06-23T19:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of a red double star.
EEB Dissertation Defense: The Soil Microbiome and its Response to Permafrost Thaw in Arctic Tundra (June 29, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95513 95513-21790025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:48:55 -0400 2022-06-29T14:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion hikers on a boardwalk over a grassy field with distant mountains
UMBS Summer Lecture Series - Global change impacts on forest ecosystems: Amplifying Indigenous voices to find community-driven solutions (June 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95347 95347-21789210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

The annual Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station explores scientific topics and celebrates notable achievements. Our lecture series is free and open to the public, allowing interested community members to learn more about the natural world, and the Biological Station.

Pettingill Endowed Lecture in Natural History - Global change impacts on forest ecosystems: Amplifying Indigenous voices to find community-driven solutions

Eastern US forests are losing a foundation tree species, the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadenis), due to the exotic insect pests hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) and elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa). The widespread destruction of this important evergreen conifer has large ramifications for ecosystem processes and other species that depend on it for survival. Using an "accidental experiment" initiated by patch-level timber harvesting ~30 years ago in western Massachusetts, Dr. Ignace will present the impacts on source/sink carbon dynamics, which may be exacerbated by a warming climate. Building on this framework, she will discuss how we can center Indigenous voices and knowledge to fully understand local land use history. Going beyond the peer-review publications and moving to include many forms of writings, knowledge sharing, artwork, and communication will be needed to find community-driven solutions to environmental problems.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 May 2022 15:50:59 -0400 2022-06-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Danielle Ignace
UAS Contingency Management Autonomy with Experimentally Validated Models (June 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95819 95819-21791022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Chair: Ella Atkins

Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) are increasingly deployed for surveillance and trans­port applications. However, their safety and performance are significant concerns. This dissertation develops a risk-aware autonomy architecture backed by experimen­tally validated performance and degradation models necessary to maintain acceptable risk levels even when flying at low altitude in urban areas.

The first contribution is an experimental model of aerodynamic performance for tractor and pusher hexacopter configurations. This work was motivated by exper­imental analysis of a single propulsion unit with different propeller configurations for which a pusher configuration generated 20% more thrust than tractor configu­rations. Wind tunnel experiments yielded the insight that in static conditions, the pusher hexacopter has a higher lift-to-weight ratio than the tractor configuration be­cause the pusher generates 15% more thrust than the tractor. However, in forward flight this higher lift-to-weight ratio is traded against a lower lift-to-drag ratio for the pusher design that has 25% more drag than the tractor design. We verified these re­sults by conducting outdoor autonomous flight tests. These results further motivated an investigation of wind sensing sensitivity for a hexacopter in tractor and pusher configurations. Wind sensing experiments and analysis revealed that the pusher hex­acopter configuration offers higher sensitivity to wind fluctuations than the tractor hexacopter.

The second contribution is a battery and motor reconfiguration scheme in a multi­battery pack to assure a UAS has sufficient stored energy to reach its destination. The proposed reconfiguration scheme is proactive by design, utilizing component failure predictions from model-based prognostic methods. A model for the LiPo battery is experimentally determined using a novel low-cost test bed to collect charge/ discharge data for battery model parameter identification. Fault modes of BLDC motors are studied, and a technique for motor fault prognosis is presented. Battery and motor degradation models are used for prognosis, providing End of Discharge and Remaining Useful Life estimates, respectively. Using abstractions of EOD value and other critical state features, a novel battery reconfiguration MDP is proposed for a series-parallel battery pack. The MDP policy optimally reconfigures the battery pack in flight. Case studies are presented to demonstrate benefits of the battery reconfiguration MDP.

The third contribution is an MDP-based Contingency Management Autonomy (CMA) capability to generate mission-level directives that preserve safety when com­ponent reconfiguration alone is insufficient. Although component reconfiguration pre­vents most sudden mission failures, there is no guarantee a degraded U AS can safely complete its planned flight. Optimal CMA policy effectiveness is evaluated on a high-fidelity simulator using experimentally validated models. Metrics such as mis­sion failure rate are used to analyze CMA MDP performance over 900 Monte Carlo simulations. In poor battery health conditions, CMA MDP policy has a failure rate of 1.3% compared to a baseline policy's failure rate of 71%.

In summary, this thesis contributes to better understanding multicopter flight per­formance and to improving safety of small UAS flight. Safety is addressed using an abstract MDP decision-making approach due to vehicle and operational complexity. Component reconfiguration and contingency management will be instrumental in de­ploying autonomous UAS. This dissertation provides a baseline capability on which future component and systems performance and prognostics elements can be added.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:29:11 -0400 2022-06-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion Emergency landing considerations
Targeting cancer cell stress tolerance and drug resistance (July 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95711 95711-21790766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome David Cheresh, Ph.D. to Forum Hall in Palmer Commons on Thursday, July 7, 2022, to present his talk titled "Targeting cancer cell stress tolerance and drug resistance"

Hosted By:
U-M Life Sciences Institute
Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Medical School
Faculty Host: Stephen J. Weiss, M.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:53:49 -0400 2022-07-07T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T10:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Targeting cancer cell stress tolerance and drug resistance
Win or a Loss? A New Measure of Protest Success (July 7, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95946 95946-21791482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:41:25 -0400 2022-07-07T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-07T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion ICPSR Summer Program promotional image for Blalock Lecture with Kimberly Turner
David Schottenfeld Lecture (July 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95837 95837-21791683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 20 at 12:15 PM

Topic: Maladjusted Epidemiology and Iatrogenic Health Disparities

Jay Kaufman, PhD
Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health McGill University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:13:19 -0400 2022-07-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Lecture flyer
Measuring societal change: the General Social Survey (July 12, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95971 95971-21791509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:30:24 -0400 2022-07-12T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Measuring societal change: the General Social Survey (ICPSR Blalock Lecture)
Philip S. Brachman Memorial Lecture (July 13, 2022 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95836 95836-21791047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

Wednesday, July 13 at 12:15 PM

Topic: "Beyond Magic Bullets: White Race as Social Determinant of Opioid Crisis"?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:43:39 -0400 2022-07-13T12:15:00-04:00 2022-07-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion Lecture flyer
The Effect of Media Frames on Public Attitudes about Policy (July 13, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95972 95972-21791510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:34:12 -0400 2022-07-13T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Effect of Media Frames on Public Attitudes about Policy - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
DEI Film Discussion | "Searching for Justice: Life after Lockup" (July 14, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95984 95984-21791525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

There are now more than 1 million persons in U.S. prisons -- the highest incarceration rate of any other country in the world. This 2022 PBS NewsHour documentary focuses on the many challenges individuals face after incarceration -- from reconnecting with family, to finding work and housing, to staying out of prison or jail. A crucial look at the impact of mass incarceration in the country. It is FREE to stream on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp8SF2Ky_bM This conversation is open to all, but please register to receive the Zoom link beforehand.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:15:51 -0400 2022-07-14T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Silhouetted figure against a sky at sunrise
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) as a Resource for Scholars of Elections, Opinion, and Behavior (July 14, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95973 95973-21791511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:38:22 -0400 2022-07-14T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) as a Resource for Scholars of Elections, Opinion, and Behavior - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
The Gift, A Conversation with Artist Bonnie Devine (July 16, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95838 95838-21791049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 16, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ej9cs612d5439be4.

UMMA’s exhibition Watershed features fifteen artists whose work invites us to reflect on issues central to the Great Lakes region and its future. Join us on Saturday, July 16 to hear from Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine and experience The Gift, her 40-foot mural newly installed in the gallery. Bonnie Devine's artistic practice, which spans installation, painting, and writing, is rooted in a commitment to the storytelling and pictorial traditions that are core to Anishinaabe culture. For Watershed, she painted the mural directly in the gallery. In this special UMMA commission, Devine draws attention to the removal of Anishinaabe people from the Great Lakes region, as well as their erasure from historical narratives.    This program is the first public opportunity to see the completed mural. Devine will be joined in conversation by exhibition curator Jennifer Friess. 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:15:35 -0400 2022-07-16T16:00:00-04:00 2022-07-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Using the Health and Retirement Study for Research on Aging in the United States (July 19, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95974 95974-21791512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:44:16 -0400 2022-07-19T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Using the Health and Retirement Study for Research on Aging in the United States - ICPSR Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Dept. of Neurology Grand Rounds Presented by Dr. Joanna Mattis (July 20, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96097 96097-21791923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 11:00am
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Plan to attend this Wednesday’s Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Joanna Mattis, MNI Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Professor of Neurology.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:06:09 -0400 2022-07-20T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion
FFT-Accelerated and Tucker-Enhanced Parameter Extractors for Voxelized Structures (July 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95835 95835-21791046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Today, designers are extensively using parameter extractors during the designs of their chips, packages, integrated circuits, micro-electro-mechanical systems, and wireless charging units. While developing their designs via voxel-based virtual fabrication environments, which recently became popular to model unit process steps of the semiconductors and micro-electro-mechanical systems, designers are in need of parameter extractors that can be operated on interconnects/circuits/structures discretized by voxels (i.e., cubes). Furthermore, today’s 3D printing technology is voxel-based. To efficiently and accurately perform the analysis of 3-D printed boards, coils, and components, voxel-based analysis and design tools, particularly parameter extractors, are called for. In this seminar, I will talk about a series of integral equation-based parameter extractors for computing the capacitances, inductances, and impedances of interconnects and circuits discretized by voxels. These extractors were developed by exploiting the structured grid on which voxels reside and accelerated by fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) and specially developed preconditioners. Their memory and computational time requirements were drastically reduced by tensor decompositions, particularly Tucker decompositions. For voxelized structures, these extractors called VoxCap, VoxHenry/SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp were proven to be much faster, more accurate, and more memory-efficient than their traditional fast and famous counterparts, FastCap, FastHenry, and FastImp, respectively. For the same level of accuracy in the analyses of voxelized structures, VoxCap, SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp required 47x, 13x, and 55x less memory and 12x, 876x, and 16x less computational time compared to FastCap, FastHenry, and FastImp, respectively. On a desktop computer, VoxCap, SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp successfully extracted the parameters of the structures requiring the solutions of linear system of equations with more than 100, 47, and 53 millions of unknowns, respectively. After introducing the Vox series, I will briefly talk about the DeepHenry, a deep learning-based extractor for inductance extraction of voxelized interconnects. I will share our results showing that deep learning-based DeepHenry is indeed 1157x faster than physics-based VoxHenry, while providing self/mutual inductances and self resistances of the interconnects with less than 4% error.

Bio: Abdulkadir C. Yucel is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technology University (NTU), Singapore, where he is currently developing physics-based and deep learning-based computational frameworks for the forward and inverse electromagnetic characterization. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies in various institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA. Dr. Yucel was the recipient of Fulbright Fellowship in 2006, EECS Departmental Fellowship of University of Michigan in 2007, and Honorable Mention Award at IEEE Int. Symp. AP-S in 2009. He is the author/co-author of 110 journal papers and conference papers/abstracts. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, as a reviewer for various technical journals, and as a reviewer and organizing committee member of several IEEE conferences

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:50:45 -0400 2022-07-20T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T15:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Abdulkadir Yucel
EEB Dissertation Defense: Diversification in the Unionidae: Investigating the role of parasitism (July 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95512 95512-21790024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

In addition to in-person, there will be a Zoom link. Please reach out to eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu at least two hours in advance for the link.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:42:17 -0400 2022-07-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion EEB superimposed over leaves, a rodent, an amphibian and a bird
HIPAA: protection and use of US health information (July 21, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95975 95975-21791513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:50:14 -0400 2022-07-21T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion HIPAA: protection and use of US health information - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
U-M Climate & Space Dissertation Defense: Patterns of Electron Flux in the Near-Earth Plasma Sheet - Statistical Learning (July 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96181 96181-21791997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The focus of this dissertation is on improving the understanding and prediction capability of thermal (1–10 keV) to superthermal (10–100 keV) electron flux in the near-Earth (6–12 RE, 18–00–06 MLT; RE ≈ 6370 km, MLT = magnetic local time) plasma sheet and especially its dependence on solar wind driving.

The solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field flow past and interact with Earth’s magnetic field, forming a magnetic cavity called the magnetosphere. In Earth’s nightside magnetosphere, the dynamics of electrons within the near-Earth magnetotail are highly dependent on variations in the solar wind and overall solar activity. The electrons are the source population for the Earth’s outer radiation belts, contribute to storm-time ring current pressure and energy, and precipitate into the ionosphere forming part of the aurora. Additionally, this population of electrons are most responsible for the spacecraft surface charging environment at geosynchronous (GEO) orbit. Some dependencies of superthermal electrons on solar wind variations have been identified through several previous investigations; however, there is much that is not known, and it has been difficult to predict their behavior.

Utilizing more than twelve years of data from THEMIS spacecraft, we have investigated the long-term and short-term dependencies of electron flux in the near-Earth plasma sheet to solar wind variations. On time scales of a solar sunspot cycle, we explore the response of energetic electron flux in the near-Earth plasma sheet to solar wind and geomagnetic activity. We show that with only slight solar wind driving (solar wind flow speed, VSW = 400–500 km·s-1) and weak geomagnetic activity (Auroral Electrojet index, AE = 100–300 nT), there is a substantial increase in median 12–52 keV electron flux. We also explored the role that solar wind driving has on short-term (1–2 hours) electron flux variations and found that VSW is the most significant contributor to severe spacecraft surface charging environments at GEO. Furthermore, simply the presence of elevated geomagnetic activity (as indicated by the AE index) is a sufficient indicator of risk for an extreme charging environment. In examining 101 observations of the change of electron flux in the near-Earth plasma sheet during substorms, we failed to find a dependence of flux changes on substorm strength, nor spacecraft location, nor location relative to the peak of auroral activity.


Finally, we develop an empirical, machine-learned neural network model of electron flux in the near-Earth plasma sheet, dependent on inputs of solar wind parameters and their time history. Our model overcomes limitations of previous models by including only inputs that are external to the magnetosphere and predicting differential flux at a wide range of energies. We calculate several model–observation metrics—our model predicts electron flux with a Pearson correlation coefficient between 0.55–0.77 and has a median symmetric accuracy of between 41–140% (metric ranges depend on energy); and, we rank which solar wind parameters are most relevant to predictions. We show that including short time (5-minute) resolution inputs to the model does not result in predicting small scale (1-hour) variations of plasma sheet electron flux. Overall, this dissertation advances knowledge of the dependence of superthermal electron flux in the near-Earth plasma sheet to solar wind variations.

For details, please visit: https://rackham.umich.edu/navigating-your-degree/oral-defense-dates/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:46:25 -0400 2022-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T09:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion
Harmful Political Content in a Fragmented Digital Media Environment (July 26, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95976 95976-21791514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:15:42 -0400 2022-07-26T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Harmful Political Content in a Fragmented Digital Media Environment - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Hann Lecture in Ornithology (July 27, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96244 96244-21792165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Ben Winger, (Assistant Professor, U-M Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Assistant Curator, U-M Museum of Zoology) will present the 2022 Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology: "From Northwoods dark skies to bright city lights: bird migration in a changing world". Open to the public, Q&A to follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:12:38 -0400 2022-07-27T19:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ben Winger
Forecasting Congressional Midterms: Long Lead, Strong Theory, No Polls (July 27, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95977 95977-21791515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:20:41 -0400 2022-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Forecasting Congressional Midterms-Long Lead, Strong Theory, No Polls - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
IGDA Ann Arbor : Jeremy Bond (MSU GameDev / IndieCade / ExNinja Interactive) (July 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96167 96167-21791983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Soft

==Guest Lecturer==
Jeremy Bond of MSU GameDev / IndieCade / ExNinja Interactive

Step into the world of game design, education, and game festivals as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Michigan State University Professor of Practice, IndieCade Education Chair, GDC Speaker, and GameDev Author Jeremy Bond!

(Consider Jeremy's latest book : https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Game-Design-Prototyping-Development/dp/0134659864/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1654148970 )

(NOTE : Free pizza will be served).

==Special Note : Live-Streamed Event!==
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==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:47:55 -0400 2022-07-28T19:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Soft Lecture / Discussion Jeremy Bond of Michigan State University joins IGDA Ann Arbor
The American National Election Studies: Measuring Public Opinion Since 1948 (July 28, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95978 95978-21791516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:24:58 -0400 2022-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The American National Election Studies- Measuring Public Opinion Since 1948 - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Discovery and Development of Agonist Antibodies for T Cell Receptors (July 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96254 96254-21792188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Agonist antibodies that activate co-stimulatory immune receptors, such as the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptors OX40 and CD137, are an important class of emerging therapeutics due to their ability to regulate immune cell activity. Despite their promise, there are no approved agonist antibodies for treating cancer as demonstrated by previous unsuccessful clinical trials. Although multiple factors are responsible for poor clinical efficacy, one major bottleneck is the reliance on FcγR-mediated crosslinking for sufficient receptor activation. This is inherently problematic because FcγR expression varies greatly on different immune cells, leading to a wide range of receptor agonism. Emerging research suggests that antibodies engaging two different epitopes on the same immune receptor mediate receptor superclustering and enable robust antibody agonism without extrinsic Fc crosslinking. However, there are no systematic methods for identifying such biepitopic (also known as biparatopic) agonist antibodies. Therefore, the objective of this research work is to develop facile methods for reliably identifying biepitopic antibodies to activate immune receptors for immunotherapeutic applications.

Biepitopic antibodies have been shown to mediate potent receptor activation for a variety of immune receptors. Traditionally, the generation of these antibodies requires key steps including animal immunization, epitope binning to identify unique antibody pairs, and combining antibody pairs to engineer biepitopic antibodies. While this approach has been used to successfully discover biepitopic antibodies, it suffers from key limitations. Notably, animal immunization and subsequent antibody isolation is an arduous and unpredictable process. Even when successful clones are discovered from these processes, further epitope binning experiments are needed to select antibody pairs to discover potent immune therapeutics. To overcome these limitations, we developed an antibody screening strategy that greatly simplifies the discovery of biepitopic antibodies. Our approach eliminates the need for animal immunization by using existing, off-the-shelf IgG antibodies specific to the target receptor. Next, we perform in vitro selections by blocking the receptor epitope of the existing antibody and conducting subsequent sorts to identify single-chain antibodies with orthogonal binding domains. Thus far, our work has shown that the antibody screening strategy can be used to discover antibodies for a variety of TNF receptors including OX40 and CD137.

Given that receptor clustering of three or more receptors is critical for activating TNF receptors, we first generated biepitopic tetravalent OX40 antibodies by attaching novel single-chain antibodies to the C-termini of the light chain of existing clinical-stage antibodies. These tetravalent biepitopic antibodies showed remarkable T cell proliferation and cytokine secretion for biepitopic antibodies compared to their monoepitopic counterparts. Next, we sought to improve the additional clinical-stage OX40 IgGs engineered as biepitopic antibodies to show the generality of our findings that biepitopic antibodies can mediate superior and FcγR-independent activities. Beyond OX40 IgGs, we also show that biepitopic antibodies can be used to mediate superior T cell proliferation for other TNF receptors including CD137. Looking forward, we anticipate that these research advancements will accelerate the discovery and development of the next generation of immune therapeutics.

Date: Friday, July 29, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/5163583658
Co-Chairs: Professors Peter Tessier and Lonnie Shea

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:09:39 -0400 2022-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Ph.D. Defense
Planning, Control, and Estimation for Diverse Multi-UAS Missions (August 1, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96246 96246-21792168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 1, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Light refreshments will be provided.

Chair: Ella Atkins

Abstract:
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are being used for a variety of single vehicle missions such as surveillance, inspection, and payload delivery. Teams of UAS can perform these same missions more efficiently and will pursue novel cooperative missions not possible with a single vehicle. However, this comes at the cost of increased system complexity and introduces the challenge of safe team coordination. This motivates our research to pursue four diverse multi-UAS mission configurations. We propose novel methods to command and control teams of UAS with the majority supported with full-scale experimental validation.

To support all experiments conducted in this thesis, an experimental test bed consisting of a custom, open-source quadrotor, flight controller, and supporting infrastructure is developed with designs and code shared publicly.

This thesis offers four specific contributions to enable the deployment of UAS teams in missions with potential to benefit society. First, an existing formation control method, continuum deformation, is experimentally validated with observed tracking errors and delays informing the theory. Required inter-vehicle separation constraints are defined and applied to the real system. A global minimum separation bound based on a local controller error bound is derived to guarantee safety during real-world flights.

Second, a novel heads-up haptic pushing interface is developed that enables a user to move a heavy payload carried by multiple small UAS through a crowded cluttered environment. Real-time estimation of user applied force via an instrumented payload updates virtual dynamics of an admittance controller to guide the system. This capability will support resilient and safe package delivery to untrained consumers and can assist in delivering medical and survival supplies in disaster relief scenarios.

Third, computationally efficient planning methods are developed to support wildfire mapping over a large area by a team of UAS. A state machine is used to handle multi-vehicle task allocation between exploration (coverage) and exploitation (line following). Efficiency gains are achieved by separating the 3D problem into 2D lateral and 1D terrain avoidance sub-problems.
This work offers a first step towards mapping increasingly severe wildfire threats that cause significant damage and claim the lives of hundreds of people every year.

Fourth, a generalized path planner is developed to manage a deformable small UAS formation capable of rotating, expanding, contracting, and shearing. Provably sufficient inter-agent collision avoidance constraints are leveraged to efficiently plan safe trajectories in large-scale complex but static environments. An integrated guidance and control module onboard each small UAS tracks the designed trajectory while avoiding pop-up obstacles and vehicle failures by following an ideal fluid flow field airspace template.

We are only beginning to imagine and prototype the missions made possible with teams of UAS. This thesis provides problem formulations, solution methods, and experimental realizations for four multi-UAS mission configurations. Countless other missions can be pursued that will operate safely and can improve quality of life. Continued research is needed to achieve this including full system integration with onboard sensing and collaboration with key stakeholders for each mission that deeply understand the problem spaces. Nonetheless, this thesis provides a solid foundation for future researchers to build upon.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:07:30 -0400 2022-08-01T15:00:00-04:00 2022-08-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion quadcopters on the ground in formation
The New NIH Data Sharing Policy (August 2, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95979 95979-21791517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:29:19 -0400 2022-08-02T19:30:00-04:00 2022-08-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The New NIH Data Sharing Policy - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Rackham Grad School 101: Rackham Resources and Emergency Funding (August 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95781 95781-21790896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School


In this program you will learn about the resources available to you through Rackham such as conflict resolution services and the Rackham Emergency Fund.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-08-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-03T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
The Sources and Consequences of Affective Polarization (August 3, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95980 95980-21791518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:35:46 -0400 2022-08-03T19:30:00-04:00 2022-08-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Sources and Consequences of Affective Polarization - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Rackham Grad School 101: Financial Aid and Scholarships (August 4, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95782 95782-21790897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 4, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn what types of financial aid and scholarships are available from Rackham and how they may impact your financial aid during graduate school.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-08-04T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-04T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Hierarchical motion modeling of abdominal motions for radiation therapy (August 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96536 96536-21792631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:

Human abdominal organs are subject to a variety of physiological forces that superimpose their effects to influence local motion and configuration. Motions include breathing, gastric contraction, and other types of less periodic slow configuration changes. Breathing motion has been extensively studied and well characterized; however, gastric contraction and slow configuration motion have been rarely investigated. By using a golden angle stack-of-star radial sampling magnetic resonance image (MRI) sequence, we constructed a hierarchical motion model that characterizes each of these three motions, as well as their combined effects. Breathing motion is extracted and corrected as the first step, following by reconstruction of gastric motion and slow configuration changes. The model shows non-neglectable geometric displacements raised by all three motion modes. These motions, if not managed properly during radiation therapy, may potentially result in overdose to normal tissue or underdosage to the tumor target. Magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) systems have been developed which have the technical capability to address these complex motions, but to date their primary applications have been relegated to management of breathing motion. In this dissertation, we proposed a gastric motion prediction framework to allow real-time management of contractile motion during MRgRT taking advantage of the intra-scan stability of gastric contraction motion observed in patients under standard pre-session eating restrictions. The framework was able to achieve submillimeter prediction error with a sufficient future prediction time to overcome the latency introduced by the image sampling reconstruction, motion assessment and treatment interruption or modification on MR-guided linear accelerators. Motions and deformations during radiation treatment present a challenge to precisely and accurately measure the radiation dose delivered to abdominal organs. A dose accumulation tool, developed based on the hierarchical motion model, was built to estimate dose distributions with abdominal motions. The tool demonstrates potential deviations of dose due to motion and shows exceeding of dose constraints in certain cases. It could support offline adaptation or help record delivered dose more accurately than stationary images used for daily patient positioning and/or online adaptation of treatment plans. The motion model is also currently supporting other clinical applications, including providing improved image quality reconstructions from free-breathing scans for improvement of accuracy of perfusion as well as liver functional maps. In the future, the model can be further utilized in other fields including radiology or gastroenterology.  

Room: LBME 2185 / Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93620134849 Meeting ID: 936 2013 4849 Passcode: 268890

Committee Chair(s): Dr. James Balter and Dr. Rojano Kashani

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:05:16 -0400 2022-08-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-09T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Defense
The Impact of Exposure to Online Media (August 9, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95982 95982-21791520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:48:53 -0400 2022-08-09T19:30:00-04:00 2022-08-09T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Impact of Exposure to Online Media - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Effects of Electric Stimulation on Physiology and Anatomy of the Visual Pathway (August 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96539 96539-21792637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:
Retinal degenerative diseases that progressively lead to severe blindness impact the affected individual’s quality-of-life. Visual prosthesis technology aims to provide an individual a potential means of obtaining visual information lost to them by blindness. Since the proof-of-concept success in 1968 of a device implanted in a human, visual prostheses have had sustained academic research and commercial interest. However, commercial failure of two retinal prosthesis device has raised concerns for the visual prosthesis field. To learn from this experience, research in this dissertation is aimed at understanding the impact of electric stimulation on the target neural tissue and investigating technology for a visual cortex prosthesis, which can reach a larger patient population (compared to a retinal prosthesis).

My first set of experiments assessed, in an animal model of retinal degeneration, the condition of the brain and its ability to receive artificial vision information. Retinitis Pigmentosa has been proven to impact the human brain. My study investigated the extent to which this was replicated in a rat animal model of a single genetic mutation of Retinitis Pigmentosa. The P23H-1 rat was investigated with electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry to understand the brain’s function and structural condition. The rat brain’s response to light and electric stimulation was investigated, and the change of visually evoked responses and maintenance of electrically evoked responses was observed. Histology images show a relatively stable macrostructure of the blind rat brain.

I also performed retinal and cortical implant procedures to test newly developed visual prosthesis technology to enable investigations into researching neural change occurring from blindness and electric stimulation. A retinal device with Parylene-C as its main component was tested and its feasibility in the small eye of a rat animal model was investigated. The device can survive 4-weeks of implantation and is stable within the eye. In support of the development of a novel cortical visual prosthesis device that fits the need of blind individuals, I used a small animal model first to prove the efficacy and safety of a novel neurostimulation electrode. The device, named StiMote, is in preclinical development. I worked to characterize the full ability of the neural interface, High-Density Carbon Fibers with electrodeposited Platinum-Iridium. The ability of PtIr-HDCF as a recording and stimulation neural interface device was verified using electrochemical measurements before, during, and after a long-duration 7-hour electric stimulation session that simulates a full day of device use.

PtIr-HDCF as a neural interface device was verified by my previous work and its improvement in reducing neuroinflammatory response compared to other microelectrode array archetypes has been previously researched. As a result, PtIr-HDCF can be used as a device to monitor the brain and can better extract the effect of electric stimulation on the brain alone. I recorded neural electrophysiology to verify the rat brain’s sensitivity to stimuli before and after 7-hour stimulation. To supplement the already existing neural implant and electric stimulation inflammation data, Spatial Transcriptomics as a novel method to define electric stimulation safety was performed. Spatial Transcriptomics showed that PtIr-HDCF, when compared to a conventional microwire array, performs better in sustaining neural health by reducing neuroinflammation and eliciting mRNA upregulation of neurotrophic factors.

Findings of this project can be used to better inform future investigations into brain electrophysiology and transcriptomics projects aimed to understand the neural change from blindness and electric stimulation.

Committee Chair(s): Dr. James Weiland

Location: 1501 Auditorium, NCRC Bldg 32 & https://umich.zoom.us/j/91500987159?pwd=RWIvQkZVT2FHZjQ2S1BBS2k0ck1SUT09

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:32:21 -0400 2022-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Defense
The Analog Designers Toolbox (ADT): Towards A New Paradigm for Analog IC Design (August 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96350 96350-21792295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

The integrated circuit (IC) technology has witnessed an exponential advancement in the last decades and has changed every aspect in our life. On the other hand, the analog IC design flow did not experience any major change since the introduction of Berkeley SPICE in the 1970s, posing significant challenges to the design of complex systems in nanometer technologies and to the transfer of analog design expertise and knowledge. The Analog Designer’s Toolbox (ADT) is a new analog design productivity and automation tool that addresses this problem and defines a new paradigm in analog IC design. ADT provides a turnkey solution that enables everyone to reap the benefits of the gm/ID design methodology powered by precomputed lookup tables (LUTs). At the device level, ADT gives an easy interface to automatically size devices given their performance metrics and plot arbitrary design charts involving complex expressions. The designer can explore devices from different technologies at different corners and temperatures, and extract simulator-accurate design points while taking second-order effects into consideration. At the block level, ADT gives the designer the power of interactive design space exploration, agile constraints management, design trade-offs visualization, live tuning, and blazing speed optimization. Moreover, with a single click, ADT can build the testbenches in the background and report the results from your favorite simulator. The aim of ADT is to boost productivity, restore designer’s intuition, and make the design process systematic, optimized, and fun!

Bio: Dr. Hesham Omran received the B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2015, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Design Engineer with Si-Ware Systems (SWS), Cairo, Egypt, where he worked on the circuit and system design of the first miniaturized FT-IR MEMS spectrometer (NeoSpectra), and a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Integrated Circuits Lab (ICL), Ain Shams University. From 2011 to 2016 he was a Researcher with the Sensors Lab, KAUST. He held internships with Bosch Research and Technology Center, CA, USA, and with Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt. In 2016, he rejoined the ICL, Ain Shams University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He created the Mastering Microelectronics YouTube channel with 7k+ subscribers. He co-founded Master Micro in 2020 to develop the Analog Designer’s Toolbox (ADT), a novel EDA tool that defines a new paradigm for analog IC design. Dr. Hesham has received several awards including the Egyptian State Encouragement Award for Engineering in 2019. He has published 40+ papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:21:00 -0400 2022-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Lecture / Discussion Hesham Omran, Ain Shams University
Feedback Control of Highly Dynamic 3D Bipedal Locomotion (August 10, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96529 96529-21792624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Chair: Jessy Grizzle

Abstract:
Bipedal robots have the potential to free humans from tedious or dangerous tasks. Compared to robots in other forms, a bipedal robot has similar morphology to humans and thus can work in almost all spaces where humans work and requires little to none facility modifications. However, while many other robots are deployed in real life and are beginning to have an impact, bipedal robots are hardly seen outside of labs due to stability issues. Bipeds are inherently unstable due to their morphology. A bipedal system is nonlinear, high dimensional, hybrid, and underactuated, which poses great challenges to controller design. This thesis will therefore focus on developing control methods for biped locomotion.

First, we discuss a controller for a Cassie Robot designed with gait-library methods. The full 20 DoF dynamic model of Cassie and optimization are used to design seven gaits for walking in place, forward, and backward, while meeting key physical constraints. Moreover, we show how to practically implement these gaits on the robot.

Next, we focus on studying the dynamics of bipedal robots. We established connections between various approximate pendulum models that are commonly used for heuristic controller design and those that are more common in the feedback control literature where formal stability guarantees are the norm. We clarify commonalities and differences in the two perspectives for using low-dimensional models. In the process of doing so, we argue that models based on angular momentum about the contact point provide more accurate representations of robot state than models based on linear velocity. Specifically, we show that an approximate (pendulum or zero dynamics) model parameterized by angular momentum provides better predictions for a physical robot (e.g., legs with mass) than does a related approximate model parameterized in terms of linear velocity. We call the pendulum model parameterized by angular momentum ALIP.

Finally, we discuss general mechanisms in bipedal balance, explain why foot placement is the most effective method, and select it as our major method to stabilize a bipedal gait. We focus on regulating angular momentum about the contact point with the ALIP model. We implement a one-step-ahead angular-momentum-based walking controller on Cassie, a 3D robot, and demonstrate high agility and robustness in experiments. We also design a running controller with the same methodology and demonstrated the results in simulation and experiments.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:07:45 -0400 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion Cassie robot walking on wave field
Grad School 101: Financial Aid and Scholarships (August 10, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95780 95780-21790895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn what types of financial aid and scholarships are available from Rackham and how they may impact your financial aid during graduate school.
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
An Overview of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Project (August 10, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95983 95983-21791521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:52:50 -0400 2022-08-10T19:30:00-04:00 2022-08-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion An Overview of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Project - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Rackham Grad School 101: Rackham Resources and Emergency Funding (August 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95783 95783-21790898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

In this program you will learn about the resources available to you through Rackham such as conflict resolution services and the Rackham Emergency Fund.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/pZym5.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-08-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
A Conversation on Indigenous Performance and Production (August 19, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96719 96719-21793117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

Creating, performing, producing, and distributing works of art are fundamental processes for many artist. The choices artists make, the paths they choose, the roadblocks they face shape what is possible and what audiences can encounter. This event attempts to understand how Indigenous artists make these choices, how they practice their creative processes, and how they navigate the networks, institutions, and organizations that shape their disciplines. In a conversation moderated by Department of American Culture Assistant Professor Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), representatives from an Indigenous film festival in Virginia and an Indigenous theatre company in Michigan will discuss practice, performance, and production through an Indigenous creative lens. Joining the conversation will be Brad Brown (Pamunkey), director of Pocahontas Reframed: Native American Storytellers Film Festival, and Colleen Medicine (Ojibwe Sault Ste. Marie), Executive Director of Anishinaabe Theater Exchange, and Tomantha Sylvester (Ojibwe Sault Ste. Marie), artistic director of Anishinaabe Theater Exchange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:32:48 -0400 2022-08-19T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues (August 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97106 97106-21794134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 22, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The tumult of the first years of this decade – a global pandemic, an unprecedented presidential election, movements for social and racial justice, impacts of climate change, pressures on urban infrastructure – has played out in our nation’s cities and thrust the challenges and opportunities for mayors and their leadership into the spotlight. This special virtual event brings together mayors from cities across the states of the Big Ten in a discussion about how leadership at the city level shapes our national approaches to some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Welcoming Remarks:
Jonathan Massey, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor, MI

Confirmed Participants:
Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit, MI
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, IL
Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati, OH
Bruce Teague, Mayor of Iowa City, IA

Moderated by Paul Helmke, Director, Civic Leaders Center, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and former Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN

This virtual event will have a live watch party for the University of Michigan community in the Art & Architecture Building (2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor), Classroom 1360. Portions of the event will be filmed and live streamed from the watch party. All are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by
Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century
Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, University of Michigan
Democracy & Debate 2022-’23, University of Michigan
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Watch Party Schedule
Monday, September 12, 2022
3:40PM Doors to Classroom 1360 open for seating
3:55PM Doors to Classroom 1360 close for seating
4:00PM Mayors Forum begins
5:00PM Mayors Forum concludes

Important Information
The doors to Classroom 1360 will be open from 3:40PM - 3:55PM. Guests that arrive after 3:55PM will not be admitted into the classroom for the watch party until after the welcoming remarks have been made. Dean Jonathan Massey and Mayor Christopher Taylor will be giving the welcoming remarks for the event live from the classroom. Attendees sitting behind these presenters will be visible on-camera to the virtual panelists and public audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:40:36 -0400 2022-08-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-22T10:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Mayors Forum Poster
Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues (August 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97106 97106-21794135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 22, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The tumult of the first years of this decade – a global pandemic, an unprecedented presidential election, movements for social and racial justice, impacts of climate change, pressures on urban infrastructure – has played out in our nation’s cities and thrust the challenges and opportunities for mayors and their leadership into the spotlight. This special virtual event brings together mayors from cities across the states of the Big Ten in a discussion about how leadership at the city level shapes our national approaches to some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Welcoming Remarks:
Jonathan Massey, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor, MI

Confirmed Participants:
Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit, MI
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, IL
Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati, OH
Bruce Teague, Mayor of Iowa City, IA

Moderated by Paul Helmke, Director, Civic Leaders Center, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and former Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN

This virtual event will have a live watch party for the University of Michigan community in the Art & Architecture Building (2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor), Classroom 1360. Portions of the event will be filmed and live streamed from the watch party. All are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by
Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century
Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, University of Michigan
Democracy & Debate 2022-’23, University of Michigan
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Watch Party Schedule
Monday, September 12, 2022
3:40PM Doors to Classroom 1360 open for seating
3:55PM Doors to Classroom 1360 close for seating
4:00PM Mayors Forum begins
5:00PM Mayors Forum concludes

Important Information
The doors to Classroom 1360 will be open from 3:40PM - 3:55PM. Guests that arrive after 3:55PM will not be admitted into the classroom for the watch party until after the welcoming remarks have been made. Dean Jonathan Massey and Mayor Christopher Taylor will be giving the welcoming remarks for the event live from the classroom. Attendees sitting behind these presenters will be visible on-camera to the virtual panelists and public audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:40:36 -0400 2022-08-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-22T10:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Mayors Forum Poster
Rackham Grad School 101: The Rackham DEI Certificate—Benefits and Advantages for Your Career (August 22, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95784 95784-21790899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 22, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School


The Rackham Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Certificate is the preeminent professional development experience during graduate school. This presentation will define what the DEI certificate is, what is required to obtain it, and how it will benefit your career aspirations.
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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:16:04 -0400 2022-08-22T13:30:00-04:00 2022-08-22T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Rackham Grad School 101: What I Wish I’d Known—A Panel Discussion on Graduate School Norms (August 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95785 95785-21790900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join this panel discussion featuring first-gen graduate students from the Rackham Graduate School as they discuss graduate school culture and unspoken norms within the environment. Topics will include advisor and power dynamics, professional attire, networking, finding grants, and work-life-family balance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Ek2wg.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-08-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-23T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Hedgehog Signaling in the Olfactory Epithelium: Taking a Nosedive into the GLIs (August 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96783 96783-21793307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to announce that Anna Shirazyan, Ph.D. candidate, will present her Dissertation Defense on "Hedgehog Signaling in the Olfactory Epithelium: Taking a Nosedive into the GLIs" on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, from 10:00-11:00a.m., via live stream: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99809893179 Passcode: CDB, and in Person at BSRB Kahn Auditorium.

Hosted by the Dissertation Committee:
Professor Benjamin Allen, Mentor
Associate Professor Sunny Y. Wong, Chair
Professor Charlotte Mistretta
Professor Andrzej Dlugosz
Associate Professor Bradley Goldstein

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:47:53 -0400 2022-08-24T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T11:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Hedgehog Signaling in the Olfactory Epithelium: Taking a Nosedive into the GLIs
IGDA Ann Arbor : Matthew Stone (Elder Scrolls Online / Halo / Warframe) (August 25, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96514 96514-21792611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Soft

==Guest Lecturer==
Matthew Stone (ZeniMax Online / 343 Industries / Digital Extremes)

Step into the world of game design and studio culture as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Elder Scrolls Online / Halo Infinite Content Designer (and Wolverine alum) Matthew Stone!

(NOTE : Free pizza will be served).

==Special Note : Live-Streamed Event!==
Please join us at...
- https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst
- https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:56:01 -0400 2022-08-25T19:00:00-04:00 2022-08-25T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Soft Lecture / Discussion Matthew Stone joins IGDA Ann Arbor
Rackham Grad School 101: Filing Taxes for Graduate Students (August 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95786 95786-21790901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This session will get domestic graduate students prepared for tax season and answer their questions.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QeJrj.
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:15:21 -0400 2022-08-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
WCED Book Talk. From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia (August 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96532 96532-21792627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

This event will be moderated by Mary Gallagher, Director, International Institute; Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor in Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, U-M Department of Political Science.

Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and democracy. Why have some Asian countries become more democratic as they have grown richer, while others—most notably China—haven’t? In *From Development to Democracy*, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong offer a sweeping and original answer to this crucial question.

The event will be followed by a reception.

Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. His research interests include comparative politics, international relations, world politics, and methodology. He is the author of *Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia* (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of *Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis* (Stanford University Press, 2008).

Wong is the author of many academic articles and several books, including *Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea* and *Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State*, both published by Cornell University Press. He has been a visiting scholar at institutions in the U.S., Taiwan, Korea, and the UK; has worked extensively with the World Bank and the UN; and has advised governments on matters of public policy in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. His current research focuses on poverty and innovation.

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at https://myumi.ch/n8ePe.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@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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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:59:30 -0400 2022-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Dan Slater, WCED Director, U-M; Joseph Wong, Vice-President, International, Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
HET Brown Bag | Interesting Aspects of Nearly Extremal Black Holes (August 31, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97564 97564-21794756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss some very interesting aspects of physics one can learn from studying nearly extremal black holes, especially the near-horizon AdS_2 region.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:56:43 -0400 2022-08-31T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-31T14:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Robust Autonomous Vehicle Localization: from Tandem Drifting Cars to “GPS” on the Moon (September 1, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97616 97616-21794809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Speaker: Grace Gao
Assistant Professor
Stanford University

Autonomous vehicles often operate in complex environments with various sensing uncertainties. On Earth, GPS signals can be blocked or reflected by buildings; and camera measurements are susceptible to lighting conditions. While having a variety of sensors is beneficial, including more sensing information can introduce more sensing failures as well as more computational load. For space applications, such as localization on the Moon, it is even more challenging.
In this talk, I will present our recent research efforts on robust vehicle localization under sensing uncertainties. Inspired by cognitive attention in humans, we select a subset of “attention landmarks” from GPS and camera measurements to reduce computation load and provide robust positioning. I will also show our localization techniques that enable autonomous tandem drifting cars, as well as a “moonshot” project to design a GPS-like system for the Moon.

Bio:
Grace X. Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. She leads the Navigation and Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (NAV Lab). Before joining Stanford University, she was faculty at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her Ph.D. degree at Stanford University. Her research is on robust and secure perception, localization and navigation with applications to manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous driving cars, as well as space robotics.
Prof. Gao has won a number of awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Institute of Navigation Early Achievement Award and the RTCA William E. Jackson Award. She received the Inspiring Early Academic Career Award by Stanford University, and Distinguished Promotion Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has won Best Paper/Presentation of the Session Awards 18 times at Institute of Navigation conferences. She received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois. For her teaching and advising, Prof. Gao received AIAA Stanford Chapter Advisor of the Year Award. She won the Illinois College of Engineering Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, and AIAA Illinois Chapter’s Teacher of the Year.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:49:55 -0400 2022-09-01T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T16:15:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Grace Gao
CSEAS Lecture Series. Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures (September 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97503 97503-21794655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Mekong River is Southeast Asia’s longest drainage system, and more than 60 million people today rely on the Mekong River to support farming, fishing, and other livelihoods. Watering the region’s rice bowl and serving as a biodiversity hotspot, the Mekong is also a contested space whose existence is now threatened by both human and natural forces. A complex web of international agreements and a fully-functioning multi-country Mekong River Commission have not prevented the construction of six hydroelectric dams in China, with more than ten major dams in the planning stage for Laos and Cambodia, and dozens more on its tributaries. These dams, and increasingly unpredictable rainfall, have already impacted Mekong River communities downstream, and the future promises to be even more bleak. What was life like before the dams? How did the Mekong River ecology shape the everyday life of its communities in the premodern world? What were some unexpected consequences of these practices, and how did communities and the state manage these problems? Archaeological research in Cambodia offers insights on major turning points in how Khmers managed the art of living with their Mekong River: the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian worlds.

Dr. Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She has worked in Cambodia since 1996 and her last decade of publications examine urbanization, ceramic production and distribution, and power relations in premodern Cambodia. Stark’s archaeological research program integrates research with capacity-building in collaboration with Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and its various units, involving nearly 100 students, interns, and archaeological professionals since launching her first field-based project in the country. She is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Honorary Research Associate with the University of Sydney, editorial board member for 13 journals, and a member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (US Department of State).

Register at http://myumi.ch/48Pnn

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:43:53 -0400 2022-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Miriam Stark (BA, U Michigan, MA & Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Director of the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies
People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace (September 2, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97443 97443-21794575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In order to bring the performance of people analytics in the algorithmically infused workplace up — and in line with the hype — organizations need to do more than analyze data on demographic attributes. We need to focus not only on who people are but also who they know. The potential for social network analysis to identify “high potentials,” who has good ideas, who is influential, what teams will get work done efficiently and effectively is well established based on decades of research. The challenge has been the collection of network data via surveys that are time consuming, elicit low response rates and have a high obsolescence. This talk presents empirical examples ranging from corporate enterprises to simulated long duration space exploration to demonstrate how we can leverage people analytics – and in particular relational analytics - to mine “digital exhaust”— data created by individuals every day in their digital transactions, such as e‐mails, chats, “likes,” “follows,” @mentions, and file collaboration— to address challenges they face with issues such as team conflict, team assembly, diversity and inclusion, succession planning, and post-merger integration.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:59:00 -0400 2022-09-02T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-02T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HET Brown Bag | New Directions in Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Detection (September 7, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97238 97238-21794171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The science case for a broad program of gravitational wave (GW) detection across a wide range of frequencies is exceptionally strong. At present, the GW frequency band lying between the sensitivities of pulsar timing arrays and LISA, roughly 0.01-100 microhertz, is an open frontier in this rapid evolving field. I will discuss recent progress in ideas to access this band, and some associated challenges and opportunities.

I will outline a conceptual mission proposal in which a few carefully chosen asteroids which orbit in the inner Solar System can be employed as naturally occurring gravitational test masses. A GW detector can then be constructed by ranging between these asteroids using optical or radio links and atomic clocks. I will discuss how a newly estimated gravity gradient noise arising from the combined motion of the other ~million asteroids in the inner Solar System sharply cuts off the sensitivity of this proposal below ~microhertz frequencies. Sensitivity in the middle of this band is mostly limited by various solar perturbations to the asteroid test masses, while the high-frequency sensitivity is limited by noise in the ranging link and asteroid rotational motion. A mission of this type promises significant projected GW strain-sensitivity reach for 0.1--10 microhertz frequencies. I will also mention how it could be repurposed for detection of asteroid-mass-scale dark states transiting the Solar System.

Additionally, I will discuss a different proposal that would enable sub-microhertz GW detection by measuring the astrometric GW signal in a novel way. In contrast to previous studies of this signal based on large-scale astrometric survey data, we propose to monitor to extreme precision the angular separations of a small number of hot, distant, photometrically stable white dwarfs. I will discuss why these are good objects to monitor, and sketch out the parameters of the space-based stellar interferometery instrument that would be required to make the required measurements. While this mission would be ambitious, it may be one of the few ways to access this particularly challenging frequency band.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:44:13 -0400 2022-09-07T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-07T14:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Reconsidering the Canon & Pedagogy of American Classic Song (Roundtable Conversation) (September 7, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97810 97810-21795188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Thomas Hampson, George Shirley, Louise Toppin, Caroline Helton, Mark Clague, Timothy Cheek and Martin Katz. Scott Piper, moderator.

Watch livestream at https://myumi.ch/McIntoshWatch

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:15:18 -0400 2022-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 2022-09-07T21:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Reconsidering the Canon & Pedagogy of American Classic Song (Roundtable Conversation)
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Looking Forward: A Communal Blueprint for our CJS 75th Anniversary Events (September 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96326 96326-21792272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: This lecture will be held virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/48Gnm

What has the Center for Japanese Studies been and what should it become? This presentation critically considers the center’s checkered 75-year history in order to imagine how it might evolve. An anniversary of this magnitude offers a valuable opportunity to reassess the center’s influential institutional role within the field of Japanese Studies. This historical consideration informs the discussion of the working blueprint for our year of 75th anniversary programming, which has been developed from surveys of CJS community members from an array of backgrounds. An explanation of the anniversary programming’s motivating questions, rationale, and goals will ground discussion with the audience of our ambitious plans for the year ahead.

Reginald Jackson is Associate Professor of premodern Japanese literature and performance at the University of Michigan. His research interests include medieval calligraphy and illustrated handscrolls, Noh dance-drama, contemporary Japanese choreography, translation, queer theory, and critical race theory. He is the author of *Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and the Tale of Genji Scrolls* (University of Michigan Press, 2018), and *A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji *(University of California Press, 2021). Currently he is revising a manuscript on feminist dance entitled *Yasuko Yokoshi: Choreographic Translation Beyond Japanese Culture*. His newest research project examines the relationship between slavery and performance in premodern Japan, drawing from black studies and Japanese studies to read beyond their respective disciplinary blind spots. His writing appears in *Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies*, *TDR: The Drama Review*, *Theater Survey*, *boundary 2*, *Asian Theatre Journal*, and *Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory*. His scholarly pursuits are enriched by a devotion to illustration and electric guitar.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:10:34 -0400 2022-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Reginald Jackson, Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance, University of Michigan
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (September 8, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97651 97651-21794857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

"How Could States Use Nuclear Weapons? Four Models After the Bomb."

Abstract: According to the Theory of the Nuclear Revolution (TNR), nuclear weapons bring peace between the great powers because they are the ultimate tools of deterrence. The nuclear balance matters little once states have reliable second strikes. U.S. pursuit of nuclear superiority during the Cold War was therefore irrational. This theory is currently under attack. This paper reviews some recent critiques of TNR and proposes an alternative interpretation. It is very difficult to learn about the effectiveness of nuclear policy. Crises are rare and their outcomes are often overdetermined. U.S. pursuit of nuclear superiority could appear sensible, but it did not emerge from an optimal learning process. Superiority can enhance coercive leverage, but it does so by increasing the risk of disaster, with first-strike capabilities being especially destabilizing. This risk of disaster should be factored into any assessment of nuclear policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:06:22 -0400 2022-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T15:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
UMRA-University of Michigan Retirees Association presents: First Monday in October: What to Expect inthe Supreme Court's Upcoming Term (September 8, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97194 97194-21794112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Professor Barbara McQuade will share her knowledge of the U.S. Supreme Court and what we can expect when it convenes on the first Monday in October. McQuade's law interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, data privacy, and civil rights. From 2010 to 2017 Professor McQuade served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the first worman to serve in this position.
Professor McQuade also served as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. She also serves as a legal analyst for the NBC News and MSNBC. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, Just Securitiy, Slate and on NPR.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:36:30 -0400 2022-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Climate & Space Seminar Series (September 8, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97452 97452-21794591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

"Understanding the Acceleration and Release of Solar Energetic Particles Using Observations from Multiple Viewpoints and in Multiple Wavelengths," presented by Dr. Bin Zhuang, a research scientist at Space Science Center of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

Abstract:
"Understanding the Acceleration and Release of Solar Energetic Particles Using
Observations from Multiple Viewpoints and in Multiple Wavelengths"
Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), especially for gradual and large (flux of ions with energy >10 MeV above 10 pfu) SEP events, play an important role in space weather effects as they may pose major radiation hazards for spacecraft and astronauts. Understanding the acceleration, release, and transport of SEPs in the heliosphere is one of the outstanding problems in heliospheric physics, and thus has been investigated for a long time. Since the 21st century, combining advanced observations from multiple viewpoints and in multiple wavelengths, we are able to further dig into the SEP studies.
In this presentation, we start from gradual and large SEP events which are believed to be produced by shocks associated with fast and wide Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The scattering of the relationship between the SEP peak intensities and CME speeds in statistics suggests a scenario that a fast primary CME is preceded by previous CMEs is favorable to a more efficient particle acceleration (twin-CME scenario). We investigate the role of CME-CME interaction in the acceleration and release of SEPs in detail. In the twin-CME scenario, seed particle populations, which act as an important factor in the shock acceleration mechanism of energetic particles, are thought to be enhanced by preceding CMEs. We further analyze the roles of CME-CME interaction and other associated factors (e.g., magnetic connectivity, CME speed, flare size, and seed particle background) by incorporating SEP-poor events. The results show that in a statistical sense, the consideration of seed populations cannot improve the prediction of SEP peak intensities. We note that these observations for SEPs and seed populations are limited near 1 au, while particle transport effects may not be neglected. The recently launched Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO) moving close to the Sun provide unique opportunities to investigate SEPs and seed populations in the innermost heliosphere. We then study a series of SEP events between 2021 May 27 and June 1 observed by PSP and STEREO-A at different heliocentric distances, and try to answer three questions on seed particle populations: (1) how long can they exist; (2) how widely can they extend/spread; and (3) how do they measured at 1 au correspond to those in the inner heliosphere? Finally, we discuss a question/debate about the acceleration and release of SEPs in association with the coronal EUV wave (which may correspond to the footpoint of CME-driven shocks on the solar surface) based on an SEP event observed by SolO, PSP, STEREO-A, and L1 spacecraft at different locations.

About:
Bin Zhuang joined the University of New Hampshire as a postdoctoral research associate (now is Research Scientist) at the Space Science Center of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) since 2019. He has been working with Prof. Noé Lugaz since then. Bin Zhuang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a PhD in Space Physics in 2019, supervised by Prof. Yuming Wang and Prof. Youqiu Hu. He is focusing on the investigation of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), by multiple remote-sensing and in-situ observations from spaceborne instruments (e.g., Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, SOHO, and STEREO), and numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:33:38 -0400 2022-09-08T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CSRB Building
Song as Social Justice: The Problem and Potential of Music for American History (September 8, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97811 97811-21795189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Panel discussion hosted by the Humanities Collaboratory Singing Justice team - Thomas Hampson, Stephen Berrey, Louise Toppin, Cody Jones, Tyrese Byrd, and Traci Lombré.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:15:18 -0400 2022-09-08T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Song as Social Justice: The Problem and Potential of Music for American History
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Welfare Politics in Cambodia: An Examination of the National Ageing Policy 2017-2030 (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97506 97506-21794659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This talk explores the Cambodian government’s approach to maintain peace and stability in Cambodia through an examination of the Cambodian National Ageing Policy (NAP) 2017-2030. The NAP made an important case study as it is one of the forefront social welfare policies that the Cambodian government implemented along with the National Social Protection Policy Framework (NSPPF) 2016-2025 following a
contested election in 2013. The tracing of the country’s political development in the post-conflict period (1990-present) helps inform the analysis on the Cambodian government’s policy choice toward the vulnerable population such as the old age. The implementation of the NAP can be viewed as a positive step toward creating an inclusive society where no one is left behind. However, I argue that the NAP should be seen first as an apparatus development strategy to reaffirm the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) ruling legitimacy and popularity by proving the ability of an authoritarian ruler to care for the population. Using empirical data collected from my field research attest to my argument on how the Cambodian government incorporates ageing policy as an instrument to strengthen its ruling power, thus, the stability of the regime. By critically assessing the ageing policy’s implementing progress and impact outcomes, this study uncovers the differences between how this social welfare policy serves and benefits the Cambodian government and the ageing population.

Register at: http://myumi.ch/5W2NA

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:44:11 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Soksamphoas Im, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies
The American Institutions Group (AIG) (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97095 97095-21793884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The American Institutions Group (AIG) is a Rackham interdisciplinary workshop for faculty and graduate students that meets twice a month to discuss recent and forthcoming research on American political institutions (e.g. Congress, the presidency, state legislatures and governors, the courts, and the bureaucracy). We aim to offer new and varied perspectives for graduate students to harness in their own work; encourage conversations that breed new research ideas; and spur innovative collaborations among our participants. AIG participants are scholars in political science, public health, social work, public policy, and economics interested in examining American political institutions from a wide variety of perspectives.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:32:32 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Taming corporate power in the 21st century (September 9, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97461 97461-21794610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

There is broad consensus in the US that monopolistic corporations have grown too powerful and that we need to revive antitrust to take on the “curse of bigness.” But information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the operations of our economy in ways that undermine the basic categories we use to understand it. Nationality, industry, firm, size, employee, and other fundamental terms are increasingly perplexing. If we want to understand and tame the new sources of economic power, we need a new diagnosis and a new set of tools.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:40:24 -0400 2022-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Smith Lecture - Collin Ward, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (September 9, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96043 96043-21791864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Photochemical oxidation (photo-oxidation) of crude oil spilled at sea has been studied for over half a century. However, prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, photo-oxidation was widely considered a secondary weathering process that impacted a small fraction of spilled oil. Accordingly, photo-oxidation was not included in oil spill fate and trajectory models and response operations. In this talk, I’ll describe several key findings related to the rates, pathways, controls, and impacts of crude oil photo-oxidation in the aftermath of the DWH spill. These findings have collectively changed the perspective of photochemical weathering in the oil spill sciences, leading to its inclusion in oil spill models and increased consideration during response operations. I’ll also share my perspective on the many reasons why it took a devastating environmental disaster to make such progress. Finally, I’ll discuss the role sunlight may play during future oil spills, including spills in colder, high-latitude waters where risks are increasing as a consequence of global climate change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:36:49 -0400 2022-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquia Series: Building Inclusive Teams (September 9, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96984 96984-21793647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Research demonstrates a strong correlation between inclusion, diversity, and organizational effectiveness. Inclusive teams enjoy higher productivity, and lower attrition. This shaped Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) commitment to building an empowered workforce that’s inclusive and diverse, where everyone feels they belong.

This discussion will outline efforts to:

—Embed inclusivity into all aspects of organizational operations.
—Engage the workforce in a shared commitment to foster belonging, togetherness, inclusion, and psychological safety.
—Build inclusively diverse teams to enhance mission results.

Speaker Bio:
Toni L. Coleman Carter is the energetic Chief Inclusion and Collaborator Officer who strategically drives an inclusive future for Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She's a change champion who collaborates with Laboratory and community leaders to create environments which empower and engage others to achieve a competitive advantage, further leveraging talent platforms to enhance employee capabilities, build next generation leaders, and drive bottom-line results. She also partners as a consultant to create, develop, and oversee inclusion and diversity initiatives, while increasing inclusion awareness and providing governance for INL’s inclusion leadership councils (ERGs).

Carter has nine years of combined governmental experience, which includes her time as the deputy mayor for the Village of Hanover Park Illinois. Prior to joining INL, she spent 23 years in corporate America working for Motorola Solutions in Chicago, IL, an $8 billion technology organization. Carter also spent time in the pharmaceutical and food service industries. She worked for K&B (Katz and Besthoff, now Rite-Aid) and Phar-Mor Pharmacies as a pharmacy technician and as a manager for McDonald’s and Taco Bell Corporations.

In April of 2007, Carter was elected as Hanover Park’s first black council member. Carter’s position at the Village allowed her to assist with the recruitment, selection, and appointment of department heads and to help create policy operation strategies. During this time, Carter founded the Village’s Cultural Inclusion and Diversity committee, the largest volunteer committee in the Village. After two years of confronting challenging opportunities, she became the Village’s first black deputy mayor.

In her position, Carter created a homeless prevention task force that focused on providing solutions to reduce the impact of the 2008-2010 economic crisis, preventing home foreclosures and providing transitional housing for residents. In 2008, she was appointed to Hanover Park’s Crime Prevention Task Force, a team that helped design crime prevention strategies and methodologies for the Village. The same year, Hanover Park named her Inclusion and Diversity Champion, and she received an Outstanding Leadership Award from Motorola’s Women’s Business Council.

Carter has earned numerous awards for her humanitarian efforts. In 2020, she was named Idaho National Laboratory’s Community Award recipient. In 2019, she earned Idaho’s Hometown Hero Award Medal and was one of Idaho Business Review’s Women of the Year. In 2018, she was recognized as one of DiversityMBA’s Top 100 Executive Leaders Under 50. In 2015, the National Diversity Council honored Toni with the Leadership Excellence Award for corporate inclusion, and she was named Inclusion and Diversity Champion of the Year by Diversity MBA. In 2013, the Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Relations honored Carter with the Dr. King Workforce Inclusiveness and Community Activism award. The 2010 issue of Who’s Who in Black Chicago named her one of the most influential blacks in government. She is a member of the National Society for Human Resource Management, and the Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society in Business. She is a certified diversity practitioner and professional development coach. She is currently pursuing certifications as a change management and organizational development professional. She earned a bachelor and a master of science degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Carter dedicates part of her life to helping people who have been abused. Her memoir, When Trouble Finds You, is being used as a tool of hope, inspiration, and education for others who may have suffered the way she did as a child. When Carter is not spending time with her three wonderful children - Candes, John, and Taylor - she loves building community relationships and leveraging strategic partnerships.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:58:15 -0400 2022-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion NERS Fall 2022 Colloquia Series
Guest Speaker Senator Hirono + Q&A (September 9, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98435 98435-21796655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan-Hawaii Student Association

Join us in listening to Senator Hirono discuss AAPI issues, growing up in Hawaii, and women of color in politics. There will be an opportunity for guests to ask questions directly to the Senator during a live Q&A discussion! Refreshments will also be included.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:58:56 -0400 2022-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Michigan-Hawaii Student Association Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97106 97106-21793921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The tumult of the first years of this decade – a global pandemic, an unprecedented presidential election, movements for social and racial justice, impacts of climate change, pressures on urban infrastructure – has played out in our nation’s cities and thrust the challenges and opportunities for mayors and their leadership into the spotlight. This special virtual event brings together mayors from cities across the states of the Big Ten in a discussion about how leadership at the city level shapes our national approaches to some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Welcoming Remarks:
Jonathan Massey, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor, MI

Confirmed Participants:
Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit, MI
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, IL
Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati, OH
Bruce Teague, Mayor of Iowa City, IA

Moderated by Paul Helmke, Director, Civic Leaders Center, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and former Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN

This virtual event will have a live watch party for the University of Michigan community in the Art & Architecture Building (2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor), Classroom 1360. Portions of the event will be filmed and live streamed from the watch party. All are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by
Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century
Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, University of Michigan
Democracy & Debate 2022-’23, University of Michigan
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Watch Party Schedule
Monday, September 12, 2022
3:40PM Doors to Classroom 1360 open for seating
3:55PM Doors to Classroom 1360 close for seating
4:00PM Mayors Forum begins
5:00PM Mayors Forum concludes

Important Information
The doors to Classroom 1360 will be open from 3:40PM - 3:55PM. Guests that arrive after 3:55PM will not be admitted into the classroom for the watch party until after the welcoming remarks have been made. Dean Jonathan Massey and Mayor Christopher Taylor will be giving the welcoming remarks for the event live from the classroom. Attendees sitting behind these presenters will be visible on-camera to the virtual panelists and public audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:40:36 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Mayors Forum Poster
Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97106 97106-21793922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The tumult of the first years of this decade – a global pandemic, an unprecedented presidential election, movements for social and racial justice, impacts of climate change, pressures on urban infrastructure – has played out in our nation’s cities and thrust the challenges and opportunities for mayors and their leadership into the spotlight. This special virtual event brings together mayors from cities across the states of the Big Ten in a discussion about how leadership at the city level shapes our national approaches to some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Welcoming Remarks:
Jonathan Massey, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Christopher Taylor, Mayor of Ann Arbor, MI

Confirmed Participants:
Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit, MI
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, IL
Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati, OH
Bruce Teague, Mayor of Iowa City, IA

Moderated by Paul Helmke, Director, Civic Leaders Center, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and former Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN

This virtual event will have a live watch party for the University of Michigan community in the Art & Architecture Building (2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor), Classroom 1360. Portions of the event will be filmed and live streamed from the watch party. All are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by
Big Ten Collaboration: Democracy in the 21st Century
Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, University of Michigan
Democracy & Debate 2022-’23, University of Michigan
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Watch Party Schedule
Monday, September 12, 2022
3:40PM Doors to Classroom 1360 open for seating
3:55PM Doors to Classroom 1360 close for seating
4:00PM Mayors Forum begins
5:00PM Mayors Forum concludes

Important Information
The doors to Classroom 1360 will be open from 3:40PM - 3:55PM. Guests that arrive after 3:55PM will not be admitted into the classroom for the watch party until after the welcoming remarks have been made. Dean Jonathan Massey and Mayor Christopher Taylor will be giving the welcoming remarks for the event live from the classroom. Attendees sitting behind these presenters will be visible on-camera to the virtual panelists and public audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:40:36 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Mayors Forum Poster
RNA Innovation Seminar: Zhipeng Lu, USC (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97465 97465-21794615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

HYBRID SEMINAR:
In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ttcO3H-GR3yAJ8JONZegPg#/registration

Abstract: RNA in living cells are in constant motion, form dynamic structures, and interact with many molecules, including other RNAs. Direct determination of RNA structures and interactions in vivo is essential to understanding their functions, but has been challenging in the past. We developed a number of novel chemical and computational tools to capture the 2D and 3D RNA structurome and interactome in cells, providing a comprehensive view of RNA conformations that underlie their roles in gene regulation and human diseases. Applications of these methods revealed new mechanisms in lncRNA functions, RNA modifications and splicing regulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:54:38 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Zhipeng Lu (鲁志鹏), Ph.D., University of Southern California
STS Speaker. Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90018 90018-21794548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an economic style of reasoning—one focused on efficiency, incentives, choice, and competition—became prominent within U.S. public policy, including in domains that were once not seen as particularly “economic”. Drawing on historical research on policy domains ranging from environmental to welfare to antitrust policy, I show how particular intellectual communities introduced and disseminated this style of reasoning, and examine its lasting political effects. As the values of economics—especially various forms of efficiency—became institutionalized through law, regulation and organizational change, it became harder for competing claims about rights, universalism, equity, and power to gain purchase. While economic reasoning had the potential to conflict with conservative as well as liberal values, in practice it was particularly constraining for the Democratic left—the implications of which continue to be felt. This talk will illustrate this larger argument with a focus on how these dynamics played out in the arena of social policy—welfare, health, housing, and education.

Bio: Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her new book, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, will be published with Princeton University Press in March 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:03:23 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Popp Berman
Global Crossroads Lecture: Join Michigan Public Health Alum, Dr. Gilbert, to learn about her inspiring work with the Seva Foundation (September 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97654 97654-21794867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Office of Global Public Health

Dr. Suzanne Gilbert, is the Senior Director for Research and Strategic Opportunities with the Seva Foundation. She earned both her PhD and MPH degrees at Michigan Public Health. During the lecture, Dr. Gilbert will highlight strategies to strengthen partner-conducted research which is integral to comprehensive program development. Seva (the sanskrit word for service) was founded in 1978 by Michigan Public Health alumni and others who were inspired by the successful eradication of smallpox. Lessons learned are applied to build sustainable community-run eye health programs in over 20 countries including the US.

Registration required: https://forms.gle/CZBaAxVJRcQtiHzQA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:09:00 -0400 2022-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 Public Health II Office of Global Public Health Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Boris Berman, piano (September 13, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96795 96795-21793318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Made possible by the Sally Fleming Masterclass Series Fund

Boris Berman is regularly performing in more than fifty countries on six continents. His highly acclaimed performances have included appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, The Philharmonia (London), the Toronto Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish Orchestra. A frequent performer on major recital series, he has also appeared in many important festivals.

Born in Moscow, he studied at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the distinguished pianist Lev Oborin. In 1973, he left a flourishing career in the Soviet Union to immigrate to Israel where he quickly established himself as one of the most sought-after keyboard performers. Presently, he resides in New Haven, USA.

A teacher of international stature, Boris Berman heads the Piano Department of Yale School of Music and conducts master classes throughout the world. He has been named an Honorary Professor of Shanghai Conservatory, of the Danish Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen, and of China Conservatory in Beijing. He is frequently invited to join juries of various international competitions.

A Grammy nominee, Mr. Berman's recorded all solo piano works by Prokofiev and Schnittke, complete sonatas by Scriabin, works by Mozart, Weber, Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Shostakovich, Debussy, Stravinsky, Berio, Cage, and Joplin. Most recently French label Le Palais des Degustateurs released Boris Berman's recording of Brahms’s Klavierstücke and Brahms’s chamber music CD with Ettore Causa and Clive Greensmith.

In 2000, the prestigious Yale University Press published Professor Berman's Notes from the Pianist's Bench. In this book, he explores issues of piano technique and music interpretation. The book has been translated to several languages. In November, 2017 Yale University Press has published the newly revised version of the book electronically enhanced with audio and video components. In 2008, Yale University Press has published Boris Berman's Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer. Boris Berman has also been an editor of the new critical edition of Piano Sonatas by Prokofiev (Shanghai Music Publishing House).

In 2022-23, Boris Berman is performing and teaching in Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, and the USA.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:15:17 -0400 2022-09-13T10:30:00-04:00 2022-09-13T12:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
A Perfect Pairing of Cookbooks and Dinnerware (September 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96721 96721-21793206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join curators Juli McLoone and Margaret Carney, PhD to discuss A Perfect Pairing, the current Audubon Room exhibit, which pairs cookbooks from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive with dishes from the International Museum of Dinnerware Design. 

We'll begin at 4:00pm with a pre-recorded tour of the exhibit via Zoom, followed by Q&A in real time. Please register for this remote Zoom event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtcu-hpzktGde86fjDctPbQEbRp1M2Aqrm 

Special Collections After Hours events are offered the second Tuesday of each month, and allow you to explore materials from the U-M Library's Special Collections Research Center and chat with staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:14:48 -0400 2022-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Peanuts Lunch Bag Cook Book by June Dutton. San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1970. From the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Gift of Janice Bluestein Longone.
DAAS Africa Workshop: 'Electoral Politics in Ghana: successes and failures, 1992-2022' (September 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97466 97466-21794616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

George M. Bob-Milliar is an Associate Professor in the Department of
History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, one of Ghana's most prestigious public universities. He was head of his department for three terms. He joined the faculty of KNUST in August 2013 and has been involved in research, teaching, and mentoring students at all levels. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt) based at the same university. In 2012, he received his PhD from the Institute of African Studies based at the University of Ghana, the oldest and one of the most prestigious centres of African Studies on the continent.
He trained as an interdisciplinary scholar. Consequently, his research lies at the intersection of three disciplines – history, political science, & development studies. His research focuses on electoral politics in Ghana, informal institutions, social/political history, and African Diaspora, among others. He published in the top-ranked journals in his field of specialization. And he has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including a British Academy grant, KNUST Research Fund (KRef), A. G. Leventis Foundation fellowship, Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) fellowship, American Political Science Association (APSA) professional development grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation fellowship and Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) grant, among others.
He is currently an adjunct professor of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Uganda’s Makerere University, and the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Also, he has been a ‘DAAD Guest Professorship African Economic History at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), guest lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany), and the University of San Francisco (US).
He received the maiden African Author Prize for the best
article published in African Affairs by an author based in an African
institution (2010) and a prize for his contribution to research on African
policy issues from the Centre for International Governance Innovation,
2012. He edits African Affairs, African Economic History, and ContemporaryJournal of African Studies and sits on the editorial boards of several other reputable journals.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:55:14 -0400 2022-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Russia's War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact (September 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96530 96530-21792625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

A livestream video of this event will be available at: https://myumi.ch/AwMPw

Lech Wałęsa was the co-founder and leader of the Solidarity movement that paved the way to the first democratic elections in Poland in 1989 and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he was the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926, serving from 1990-95.

This event is sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Democracy & Debate, and Weiser Diplomacy Center.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:02:58 -0400 2022-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Russia's War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact
Dinner for Democracy: Voting Access (September 13, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98533 98533-21796880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Mary Markley Hall
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58274

This Dinner is only available to residents of Markley residence hall.

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about voting access in the US. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! This Dinner will have catered food or dessert for attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:57:32 -0400 2022-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-13T18:30:00-04:00 Mary Markley Hall Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Dinner for Democracy: Judiciary (September 13, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98535 98535-21796881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Newberry Residence
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58505

This Dinner is only available to residents of Newberry residence hall.

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about the US Judicial System and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! This Dinner will have catered food or dessert for attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:57:42 -0400 2022-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Newberry Residence Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
CREES Noon Lecture. *Jangar*: Nomads, Aesthetics, and Literature (September 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96534 96534-21792629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Rooted in the Great Steppe Route, *Jangar* leads us into an exciting world of travels from east to west and back again. It shows not only how the steppe road was crucial to the accumulation of wealth though global trade, but also its strategic importance to the global flow of people, as well as cross-cultural ideas and imagination. The quintessential elements of the Great Steppe Route were groundwater well (ulgen) stops, “tea and sleep” (chai-honna) stops, diners (khotan), soup kitchens (sholun) for monks and the poor, horse-exchange and postal stations (yam), watchtowers and storm shelters (bolzatin boro), golden and silver bridges over rivers, and jade gates marking the entrances and exits of khanates. *Jangar*'s detailed accounts of nomadic palaces, cities, and empires enable readers to imagine the world of nomads free from contemporary conceptual constraints and to reconsider our understanding of nomadic polities and culture. In this lecture, *Jangar* is discussed as “literature” of the last nomadic empire of the Oirads and their khanates, such as the Jungar Khanate (eliminated in 1758) and the Kalmyk Khanate (eliminated in 1771). As performed across the Eurasian steppe, *Jangar* includes countless songs that represent the old boundaries of the Oirad union and reflects the fate of the Oirad-speaking nomadic peoples who were consolidated in vast geographic and historical settings: the Kalmyk Oirads in today’s Russia, the Western Mongol Oirads in today’s Mongolia, the Xinxiang Oirads in today’s China. To understand the epic scope of *Jangar*, one must consider nomadic sensibilities rather than modern national boundaries.

Saglar (Saga) Bougdaeva was born and raised in Kalmykia. Central to Bougdaeva’s work as a scholar of the Eurasian studies is a commitment to identifying and preserving the nomadic oral and written heritage of the Great Eurasian Steppe. Before receiving a PhD in Sociology from Yale University, Bougdaeva studied Mongolian-Tibetan-Mandarin linguistics at Saint Petersburg State University.

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://myumi.ch/mxEPJ

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:58:48 -0400 2022-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Saglar Bougdaeva, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, CUNY-College of Staten Island
"Social Change in Action: How to be a change agent in a world that feels out of control" (September 14, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97362 97362-21794445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School of Social Work

The Social Justice Changemaker Lecture series, established by a generous gift from Neil and Annmarie Hawkins, focuses on important global social justice issues, including race and nationality, immigration and refugees, income inequality, gender identity and sexual orientation, education, health, and mental and physical abilities. The Lecture aims to bring prominent social justice experts and advocates from multiple disciplines, including social sciences, science, humanities, the arts, and the professions, to the University of Michigan Campus.

This year's lecture will focus on exploring ways to be a change agent during challenging times and how to use philanthropy as a force for social change. Darren Walker will talk about how he sees his position at the Ford Foundation and the role of philanthropy. He will discuss the idea of "trust-based" philanthropy and that being a leader is sometimes being a convener.

*This event will take place in person - A livestream option will be made available on the SSW homepage. Continuing education hours will only be offered for the in-person event.*

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Emma Krzyzaniak at ekrzyzan@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:26:50 -0400 2022-09-14T12:30:00-04:00 2022-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Darren Walker and title of event
MIPSE Seminar | Turbulence and Transport Research Beyond the Burning Plasma Era (September 14, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97908 97908-21795308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The prospect of near-term fusion electricity opens new doors for university-based plasma physics research. Even after the grand societal challenge of putting fusion on the grid is achieved, research addressing grand intellectual challenges in plasma transport will remain vibrant. University groups will engage with sponsors and collaborators including not only governments and national labs around the world, but also private companies and utilities. In this talk I present side-by-side examples of recent research results on turbulence and transport measurements, as well as predictive simulation and modeling, carried out by researchers at MIT in support of both the nascent fusion industry and the established fission industry. I will share my perspective, as an academic department head, on the future of fusion research in universities as we move through and beyond the era of burning plasmas.

About the Speaker:
Anne E. White is the head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT and MIT School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering. She received her PhD in experimental plasma physics in 2008 from UCLA and was a DOE Fusion Energy Sciences ORISE post-doctoral fellow before becoming an assistant professor at MIT in 2009. White performs fusion energy research at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at MIT and in involved in research collaborations at tokamaks in the US and around the world. Prof. White is active in the fusion community, is a member of American Physical Society and American Nuclear Society, and has served on the executive committees and program committees of many workshops and conferences. She currently serves on the US DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). She has won numerous awards for her research, teaching and service to MIT and to the fusion community, and is an APS Fellow.

The seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom; it is free and open to the public. Please check the MIPSE website for information about in-person and remote attendance: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2223.php.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:13:50 -0400 2022-09-14T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-14T14:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Prof. Anne White
CAS Lecture | A Disease in the Lungs of Anatloia: Politics of Reform and Modernization at the intersection of Armenian, Kurdish, and Kizilbach Questions across Empire and Nation-State (September 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97964 97964-21795401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This hybrid event will be held in-person on Wednesday, September 14th at 4:00PM in Weiser Hall 555. It will also be available to attend via zoom using the following link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91902644887 or by entering the Meeting ID: 919 0264 4887.

In their efforts to modernize the state and establish direct rule in territories under their sovereignty, the late imperial Ottoman and early republican Turkish state elites faced a common problem: Dersim. A Kizilbash Kurdish–majority region with a rich and diverse natural environment in Eastern Anatolia, Dersim toward the end of the nineteenth century became a domain where the Kurdish, Armenian, and Alevi (historically known as Kizilbash) questions came together and clashed with the project of Ottoman and Turkish state formation. Subsumed under the banner of the Eastern Question in the literature, these interwoven questions placed foundational limits on the late imperial and early republican state in the realms of ethnicity, religion, and geography, and turned Dersim into a battlefield for Turkish state making. Often used interchangeably with “military operation,” the language of “reforming Dersim” started under the Ottoman administration in the mid-nineteenth century, gained momentum following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and reached its peak with the early republican era. After the Turkish state’s violent transformation of the region in 1937–38, the state elite abandoned the word reform (ıslahat), which indicates that they had achieved what they understood by “reforming Dersim.” The survivors of the Dersim massacres and their descendants, however, remember Dersim 38, a phrase that evokes tragic memories of genocidal operations in the region, as a collective trauma. This lecture provides the conflicting narratives of this “reform process” from the perspective of both the state elite and the inhabitants of Dersim. It proposes that mutual fear and insecurity defined both the state elite’s approach to Dersim and the Dersimis’ reactions to the state, and all three of the Armenian, Kizilbash, and Kurdish questions played a role.

Cevat Dargın specializes in modern Middle Eastern and Eurasian history with a focus on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century transformations from empires to nation-states and their impact on borderlands and peoples in the peripheries. Interested in the theory of internal colonialism as a means of state making, his research explores continuities across regime changes and revolutions. Cevat earned his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2021. He is currently working on several publication projects based on his doctoral research on the history of Dersim, an Alevi Kurdish–majority region with a rich and diverse natural environment in Eastern Anatolia, from the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 to the Turkish state’s violent transformation of the region in 1937–38.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:52:56 -0400 2022-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion CAS Lecture | A Disease in the Lungs of Anatloia: Politics of Reform and Modernization at the intersection of Armenian, Kurdish, and Kizilbach Questions across Empire and Nation-State
DCMB / CCMB Weekly Seminar (September 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97098 97098-21794444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Deep learning for sequence design with a few data points

Abstract:
Deep learning has begun a renaissance in chemistry and materials. We can devise and fit models to predict molecular properties in a few hours and deploy them in a web browser. We can create novel generative models that were previously PhD theses in an afternoon. In my group, we’re exploring deep learning in peptides. We are focused on two major problems: interpretability and data scarcity. Now that we can make deep learning models to predict any molecular property ad naseum, what can we learn? I will discuss our recent efforts on interpreting deep learning models through symbolic regression and counterfactuals. Data scarcity is a common problem in biochemistry: how can we learn new properties without significant expense of experiments? One method is in judicious choice of experiments, which can be done with active learning. Another approach is self-supervised learning and constraining symmetries, which both try to exploit structure in data. I will cover recent progress in these areas.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93929606089?pwd=SHh6R1FOQm8xMThRemdxTEFMWWpVdz09

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:56:14 -0400 2022-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Dinner for Democracy: Supply Chains (September 14, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98641 98641-21797000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/57365

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about the supply chain and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:39:30 -0400 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Clinical Simulation Center Lunch and Learn (September 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97151 97151-21793967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Join us via Zoom on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at noon. Dr. Claar will be presenting and leading a discussion for the Clinical Simulation Center Lunch and Learn meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99927550075?pwd=bEgzcGVaejByTCtwbGIyZzIwd2lVQT09

Meeting ID: 999 2755 0075
Passcode: 1111

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:02:06 -0400 2022-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Dru Claar Assistant Clinical Professor Medicine at University of Michigan and Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor
The CGIS Brief (September 15, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97450 97450-21794587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The CGIS Brief provides a space where CGIS staff and prospective study abroad students can have an opportunity to connect on various topics as a way to encourage students to start thinking more about their time abroad prior to departure. Topics range from working out abroad and food culture to navigating study abroad during a pandemic, scam and fraud abroad, and so much more! We encourage everyone to ask questions throughout the conversation or share any insights of their own. Each event is co-run and co-facilitated by the CGIS Brief Team. The CGIS Brief will be held the third Thursday of each month at 3:00pm EST on Zoom during the Fall & Winter semesters (during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays).

Upcoming Topics:
September 15: Internships, Research, and Volunteering: Engaging outside the classroom

October 20: Overcoming Challenges of Study Abroad: Talking to Parents/Guardians, Housing in A2, and Budgeting Abroad!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:26:07 -0400 2022-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Lecture / Discussion Come join the conversation!
DHRC Panel Discussion | Responding to China's Actions in Xinjiang: Are Economic Sanctions a Route to Improving Human Rights? (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96822 96822-21793372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

This panel will discuss China's policies toward Uighurs in Xinjiang and the use of economic sanctions in response to these abuses. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sanctions as used by the United States government, private companies, and universities -- including the University of Michigan. Do these sanctions bring about meaningful change? How can they be improved and enforced? Or are they are an excuse for economic protectionism? What if they serve to shift imports to other countries with equally poor human rights records?. A distinguished panel of scholars and practitioners will debate these issues.

Panelists:

Louisa Greve, Director of Global Advocacy, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Luis CDeBaca, Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under Pres. Obama; Professor from Practice, U-M Law School

Shannon Tiezzi , Editor in Chief of The Diplomat

Ravi Anupindi, Chair of the University of Michigan's President's Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights; Professor of Business, U-M Ross School

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@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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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:13:48 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion DHRC Panel Discussion | Responding to China's Actions in Xinjiang: Are Economic Sanctions a Route to Improving Human Rights?
EIHS Lecture: Commodified Communism: Values and Prices in the Polish People’s Republic (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95286 95286-21789122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Can a market society exist without commodifying human labor? That question has been debated by Marxist theoreticians for over a century, but in the Polish People’s Republic it penetrated even the most mundane policy discussions. The people who staffed the planning offices had to figure out what things were worth, and in the process they came to erase the line between values (in every sense of that word) and prices. They tried to pursue socialist goals with a neoclassical economic methodology, which even today is often defended as a viable strategy. Maybe it is, but in Poland it failed catastrophically.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1994. His most recent book is Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii (A Perfectly Ordinary Country: A History of Poland without Martyrology) (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2021), which is a revised and expanded version of Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Wiley Blackwell, 2014). His earlier works include Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (Oxford University Press, 2011), and When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in 19th Century Poland (Oxford University Press, 2000).

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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:47:52 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Brian Porter-Szücs
Racial Foundations of Public Policy: Reproductive justice (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98754 98754-21797144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Center for Racial Justice presents Melissa Murray, in conversation with Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes on reproductive justice.

Racial Foundations of Public Policy is a speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action. Through it, we bring in renowned scholar-experts from across the country to be in conversation with Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the founding director of the Center for Racial Justice at the Ford School of Public Policy. The series is open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the wider public.

This event will be presented virtually, with a community watch party available in Weill Hall's Betty Ford Auditorium.

Melissa Murray, J.D., is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. Her writing has appeared in a range of legal and lay publications, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Nation. Prior to joining the NYU Law faculty, Murray was the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction, the Association of American Law School’s Derrick A. Bell Award, and, from March 2016 to June 2017, served as interim dean of the law school. Murray serves as a legal analyst for MSNBC and is a co-host of Strict Scrutiny, a Crooked Media podcast about the Supreme Court. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School, Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the New York bar.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:30:52 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion RFPP: Melissa Murray
Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97968 97968-21795407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Classical Studies

Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature

Joseph Howley,
Columbia U.

Thurs. Sept 15th 2022
4:00 PM

2175 Angell Hall
Classical Studies Library

Summary: Histories of the book have tended to distinguish periods of book history and cultures of the book in technological terms: manuscript and print, scroll and codex, papyrus and parchment, silent reading, hypertext. This paper will argue that the defining material condition of the book in ancient Rome was not an element of format or medium, but rather the role played by enslaved book workers — secretaries, readers, copyists, and other specialists. Though Roman elites could and did read and write for themselves, their book culture depended on enslaved labor to operate at the scale it did. This book culture arose in elite households of the late Republic, and even as book use spread more widely in the early centuries of the Empire, practices and values of the book formed by the role of slavery remained dominant, and the shadow cast over the book trade by elite domestic slavery remained long. This paper will argue for the centrality of enslaved labor to the history and culture of the Roman book, and will consider how the source and evidence challenges of book history intersect with those of social history and the history of slavery. It will consider three case studies from the spheres of writing, reading, and copying books, and suggest that specific practices of enslavement in the Roman world have significantly shaped ideas that are central to how we imagine the book in the long European tradition.

Zoom registration:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lsHGLNvT7y29qMT_moHPw

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:18:33 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion poster image
The Hovey Lecture with Scott Tong, host of NPR's "Here and Now" (September 15, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96578 96578-21793118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Mike & Mary Wallace House
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Wallace House Presents the Graham Hovey Lecture with Scott Tong

In 2013, longtime China correspondent Scott Tong came to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships to research China’s on-again, off-again ties with the global community and how it connected with his family. The resulting book, “A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World,” examines nationalism and globalization through the stories of five generations of Tongs. China’s openness to the western world delivered great benefits to them yet came at a devasting human price during Mao’s communist rule. In the end, this openness made it possible for Tong to become an American journalist covering China.

Today, Beijing’s increasingly antagonistic relations with Washington and many advanced economies present a great risk to its economy and high-tech development.

Now a co-host of NPR’s "Here and Now," Tong returns to Wallace House to discuss Beijing’s increasing authoritarianism and international aggression and what it signals for its future and that of globalization.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:52:21 -0400 2022-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Mike & Mary Wallace House Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Scott Tong, host of NPR's "Here & Now"
LaToya Ruby Frazier (September 15, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96584 96584-21792910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, workers’ rights, human rights, family, and communal history. This builds on her commitment to the legacy of 1930’s social documentary work and 1960’s and1970’s conceptual photography that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life.
In 2016, Frazier spent five months in Flint visiting with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s Daughter, Zion, and her mother Reneé Cobb – documenting their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in US History. Frazier’s “Flint Is Family In Three Acts” chronicles the man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of this family affected by the crisis who fought for their right to access free, clean water. Featuring written word, photographs, poems, and interviews made in collaboration with Flint’s own residents, Frazier’s body of work serves as an exposure of this political, economic, and racial injustice.
Frazier’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Art Gallery of Toronto, and Centre Georges Pompidou. She is the recipient of many honors and awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellows Program, and from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she currently lives and works.
Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, the Stamps Gallery initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. Flint is Family: Act I (2016–2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017–2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery, where Flint Is Family In Three Acts is on view until January 14, 2022. Frazier’s work can also be seen at the University of Michigan Museum of Art as part of the Watershed exhibition.
Join us for a Flint Is Family In Three Acts exhibition reception and book signing directly following this event at Stamps Gallery (201 South Division Street).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:20 -0400 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Two black women drinking from a garden hoes
Reading and Q&A with Torrey Peters (September 15, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95483 95483-21789972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact asbates@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Torrey Peters is the author of the novel *Detransition, Baby*, published by One World, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

A collection of four novellas, titled *Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones*, will be published by Random House in 2023. Additionally, she is writing an adaptation of *Detransition, Baby* for Amazon with the producers of Grey’s Anatomy, as well as a new rom-com for HBO MAX.

She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Torrey rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:29:03 -0400 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Torrey Peters
Dinner for Democracy: Renewable Energy (September 15, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98642 98642-21797003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58510

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about renewable energy and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:44:41 -0400 2022-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Household Gods and Hobgoblins of the Little Mind: Questions of Audience—Both Real and Imagined (September 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95484 95484-21789973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact asbates@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Torrey Peters is the author of the novel *Detransition, Baby*, published by One World, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

A collection of four novellas, titled *Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones*, will be published by Random House in 2023. Additionally, she is writing an adaptation of *Detransition, Baby* for Amazon with the producers of Grey’s Anatomy, as well as a new rom-com for HBO MAX.

She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Torrey rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont.



For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:29:20 -0400 2022-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Torrey Peters
Brown Bag Lecture Series (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98630 98630-21796985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

UMMAA in the Field: Lightning Talks from Graduate Student Field Projects

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:29:08 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Critical Conversations: Prospectus Showcase (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97381 97381-21794516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Critical Conversations is a monthly lunchtime series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session will feature four to five panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.

We see these sessions as an important hub for rigorous and collaborative thinking, giving our Michigan community the chance to share and learn about each other's work on a monthly basis. Now more than ever, our community is in need of the encouragement and inspiration we find in one another’s work, and we see Critical Conversations as a crucial opportunity to connect with colleagues and ideas in our disconnected circumstances. We hope you will join us in Fall 2022!

For the first time, Critical Conversations is hosting a Prospectus Showcase to celebrate the research journeys and commitments of graduate students in the English department who are at that stage.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:11:41 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion A scholar sharpening his quill in his study
Exhibition walkthrough with the Artist, Shea Cobb, and Amber Hasan (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96248 96248-21792172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a walkthrough of LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts led by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier in
conversation with Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan as they discuss their experience
collaborating together to create the work on view.
The exhi­bi­tion LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts brings together photographs from five years of research and
collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists, mothers and
residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status.
The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14, 2023.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:13 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion LaToya Ruby Frazier, "Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan", 2019/2020.
Milestones as Merit: Gatekeeping and Inequality in Elite Early Childhood Admissions (September 16, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97462 97462-21794611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Research on culture and inequality demonstrates that class-based signals acquired during childhood are crucial mechanisms of class reproduction, yet children themselves are relatively undertheorized in this literature. Work tends to portray children from a given social class as culturally homogenous, downplaying within-class differences. In this article, we center children—and their perceived differences—through analyzing a high-stakes gatekeeping interaction relevant to class reproduction: admission to the country’s most elite private (“independent”) (pre)K-12 schools. These schools serve as expressways to elite colleges but admit the bulk of students during the early childhood years. Through an interview-based study of admissions officers at elite independent schools, we find that these educational gatekeepers drew strong distinctions between economically privileged children on the basis of the bodily and behavioral signals they displayed in interaction. Integrating Bourdieu’s work on embodied cultural capital with Goffman’s work on impression management, we argue that gatekeepers favored children whose displays of interactional signals consistently conformed to class-based ideals of merit and lacked markers of stigma. Our findings highlight that, while parents’ knowledge and actions matter for procuring educational and social advantages for children, so do children’s perceived characteristics and behaviors, which can vary within a given class. In addition, our findings call attention to the importance of studying the activation and perception of cultural capital in gatekeeping interactions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:30:39 -0400 2022-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
The Breath of Every Living Thing: Zoocephali and the Limits of Alterity (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97970 97970-21795408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: This paper focuses on the woefully understudied Hammelburg Mahzor (Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13), a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century. The book’s most remarkable feature is perhaps the inclusion of carefully curated zoocephalic, or theriomorphic, figures: humans with beastly and bestial heads. By virtue of their alterity, the zoocephali call attention to themselves with emphatic force. The purpose of this talk is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this alterity, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language, philosophy, poetry, and history. In the Hammelburg Mahzor this visual idiom also signals distinction, albeit in a way that, conspicuously, collapses temporalities, tests the limits of alterity, and makes an argument about likeness and difference. By foregrounding linguistic elisions between words, images, and the celebrants, such an idiom establishes visceral connections with the community of the book’s users. Ultimately, theriomorphs stand as a fitting metaphor for medieval Jewish art as it has been viewed in mainstream scholarship.

Bio: Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University (where she is Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II), has authored an extensive series of field-changing, prize-winning publications. Her many books include The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and most recently The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021), winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:17:51 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union History of Art Lecture / Discussion Haman and His Sons Hanging from a Tree, The Hammelburg Mahzor, Hammelburg, 1347-1348. Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13, fol. 53v.
The Fall 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000" (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97655 97655-21794868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology proudly presents

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
with Gayle S. Rubin

"The Valley of the Kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960-2000"

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, on

September 16, 2022 | Leather: the Emergence of a Subculture

October 7, 2022 | A Short History of Perversion

November 7, 2022 | Sex and the City: Urban Geographies of Sexual Space

December 2, 2022 | The Future of the Queer City

Lectures will also be available via webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155

"Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Gayle Rubin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:35:04 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Professor Gayle S, Rubin
Artists' Roundtable: "I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96926 96926-21793573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

ZOOM WEBINAR LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94676431406

Join us on Friday, September 16th from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Weiser Hall 1010 or on Zoom for the hybrid Artists’ Roundtable discussing the Lane Hall Gallery’s fall exhibit “‘I have a crisis for you’: Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War” featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Curators Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz will moderate a discussion among several of the featured artists. There will be time at the end for Q&A.

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

The exhibit runs from August 25—December 16, 2022 in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space (204 South State Street).

Related Events:
Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:31:23 -0400 2022-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Smith Lecture - Kiefer Forsch, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (September 16, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98387 98387-21796590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The crust’s fourth most abundant element, iron, barely sticks around in the surface ocean. Yet even small pulses of this essential micronutrient support blooms of phytoplankton and vibrant food webs and fisheries. Where does this iron come from, what happens to it once deposited in the ocean, and what are the consequences for the biogeochemical cycles of macronutrients (N, P, Si) and carbon? In this talk, I explore the sources, sinks, and cycling of iron in disparate productive coastal regions of the ocean. I will discuss research where I have examined the effects of insufficient iron supply on diatom communities within zones of upwelling. I will then pivot to discuss ongoing and future research exploring potential signatures of iron transformation by microbes overcoming challenges of ocean anemia and speculate on what this means for glacial weathering inputs to high latitudes.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:30:21 -0400 2022-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquia Series: Department Welcome (September 16, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96985 96985-21793648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

The Chair of the U-M Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences will give a recap of the past school year and a preview of what's to come.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Aug 2022 09:54:49 -0400 2022-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion NERS Fall 2022 Colloquia Series
CSAS Lecture Series | Deconstructing Language Boundaries and Transnational Identities: Malayalees in Kerala and the US (September 16, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97079 97079-21793861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Mesthrie (2008) describes the "third focus" of South Asian diaspora as being economically motivated, which, in the context of the South Asian diaspora in the United States, describes the wave of South Asian immigration following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. Here, I explore the impact of immigrants who moved to the United States after the late 1990s, concurrent with and following the IT boom, on the language practices and ideologies of the three generations of existing diasporic community. I focus in particular on the Malayalee community in Minnesota, an area which did not have a significant concentration of Malayalee- (or South Asian-) origin residents prior to the 1990s (cf., Sridhar & Sridhar 2000). Bringing together data from 45 oral histories of Minnesotan Malayalees, experimental work conducted in Kerala, and a large scale survey (in collaboration with Dr. Maya Abtahian) investigating language use and linguistic ideologies of Malayalees in North America, I interpret the language maintenance practices and ideologies of Malayalees in Minnesota in the context of Malayalees' language practices in Kerala and beyond.

Taken together, this work (A) proposes a distinct "fourth focus" of South Asian diaspora by outlining qualitative differences in linguistic context and practices between the pre- and post-1990s immigrants, (B) problematizes the dichotomy between diaspora and in situ, which are the predominant analytic categories used in this type of linguistic research, and (C) argues that the inclusion of English-origin elements in North American Malayalam does not necessarily indicate language shift, but rather can be reflective of language maintenance.

Savithry Namboodiripad earned her BA and MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. She has been an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 2019, following a two year Collegiate Fellowship. She runs the Contact, Cognition, & Change lab, where her group investigates methodological and theoretical issues relating to how multilingualism shapes how languages change.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:12:44 -0400 2022-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Savithry Namboodiripad, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Trevor Noah Engineering-Only Fireside Chat (September 16, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98949 98949-21797388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs

Join Trevor Noah for a Michigan Engineering-only private conversation where he'll discuss his book Born a Crime. This event is free for Michigan Engineering students, faculty, and staff only—but you must register in advance to participate.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:04:20 -0400 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Engineering Honors & Engagement Programs Lecture / Discussion Trevor Noah on a blue background
Playing 19th Century Pianos (September 18, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98443 98443-21796666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 18, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Faculty Matthew Bengtson & Joseph Gascho, and D.M.A. students Gabriel Merrill-Steskal & Angie Zhang 
discuss and play pianos by McNulty (after Walter), Broadwood, and Erard.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:15:21 -0400 2022-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Conversations on Europe. Loot: Tomb Robbing, Art Restitution, and Italian Cultural Power in the 21st Century (September 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96519 96519-21792616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Through much of its history, Italy was a major source of artworks and antiquities for élite collectors who bought, sold, and plundered for profit and prestige. Today, the national government operates a specialized art police unit to combat looting and smuggling and repatriate stolen Italian art from across international boundaries. But the Italian state now faces intensifying demands to return art and antiquities that its own élites and government officials appropriated during Italy's colonial occupation of Libya and Ethiopia. Why has restitution surged in political prominence, and how has Italy turned the issue to its advantage? This talk will explain the unique components of Italian cultural power—a controversial convergence of nationalism, private capital, and international diplomacy -- and why they have positioned Italy as an authority on restitution within the EU and Mediterranean region.

Fiona Greenland is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She studies nationalism, art markets, and the politics of cultural heritage. Her book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. It traces the ascendence of the Italian state's elite Art Squad and its ongoing effort to eradicate tomb robbing and artifact smuggling from its territories. Her new project examines the pioneering efforts of Jewish artists and survivors to repatriate Nazi-looted art from the West German and Italian governments in the 1960s and 1970s. Greenland’s research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Culture at the University of Virginia. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, Sociological Theory, and Theory and Society, among other outlets. She is the founder and co-director of the CURIA Lab (Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis). For more information: https://curialab.org/

Meets in person in Room 555 Weiser Hall, or you can tune in via Zoom. Registration for the Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/G13Qp

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:00:03 -0400 2022-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Dinner for Democracy: Voting Access (September 19, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98664 98664-21797040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58275

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about voting access in the US. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:17:51 -0400 2022-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Biopsychology Colloquium - The Brain Data Alchemy Project: Using Convergent Genomics to Provide Insight Into the Neurobiology of Psychiatric Illness (September 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98543 98543-21796900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The brain defines us. Therefore, unlike other organ systems in the body, the study of human brain tissue is largely confined to samples donated after death. What can we learn about psychiatric illness from post-mortem samples? In this talk, I’ll overview the use of transcriptional profiling to characterize alterations in brain molecular networks in tissue from subjects with psychiatric disorder. I will also discuss the challenges inherent in the interpretation of data derived from post-mortem samples, and several of our ongoing projects that use a convergence of transcriptional profiling data from animal models to disambiguate results.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:05:54 -0400 2022-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Megan Hastings Hagenauer
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Trips and Traps: How Rodents in China and America Experienced the Korean War (September 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96547 96547-21792875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In 1952, American prisoners captured in the Korean War accused their own government of using bacterial warfare (BW) against civilians. Searching for ways to counter this supposed demonstration of Communist brainwashing, the American government tested novel, mind-altering chemicals such as LSD on human and animal subjects. At the same time, the Chinese government launched national rodent-killing campaigns to eradicate the vectors of diseases such as plague. This presentation shows how communities of rodents separated by the Pacific Ocean experienced these semi-scientific responses to the conflict in the Korean peninsula.

In addition to the in-person format, this event will also be streamed via Zom. Please register for the Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yHtPiDbHT-y2tEOG167udQ

Peter Braden is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a historian whose research interests include environmental history, science and technology studies, and animal studies. His first book manuscript is titled “Serve the People: Bovine Experiences in China's Civil War and Revolution, 1935-1961.” Peter is using his time at the LRCCS to publish his first book and to develop his second monograph, “Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and Medicine in China: 1940-1980.” Before joining the LRCCS, he received his doctorate in history from the University of California-San Diego, and completed an An Wang postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:31:41 -0400 2022-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CPOD Seminar Talk: Brian Capell, MD, PhD, (UPenn) Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer (September 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98510 98510-21796732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design with UM-Skin Biology and Disease Resource based Center presents:

Brian Capell, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Chromatin at the nexus of epithelial development, differentiation, and cancer
In-Person: BSRB ABC Seminar Rooms
Zoom Meeting Option ID: 932 944 30678

Faculty Host: Rajesh Rao, MD
Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:52:11 -0400 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Capell
Revenge: Fantasy and Self Determination in Jewish Discourse (September 20, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97754 97754-21795055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Dr. Max Czollek studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and received his PhD at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Czollek is the curator of numerous events and festivals on contemporary Jewish culture, including the current exhibition Rache: Geschichte und Fantasie [Revenge: History and Fantasy], on display from March through the beginning of October at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He is also co-editor for the magazine Jalta—Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart [Yalta—Positions on the Jewish Contemporary]. In addition to Desintegriert Euch! (Hanser, 2018)—De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century (Restless Books, Jan 2023) and Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming the Present] (Hanser, 2020), he is the author of three volumes of poetry published by Verlagshaus Berlin: Druckkammern (2012), Jubeljahre (2015), and Grenzwerte (2019). A third volume of non-fiction will be published by Hanser in early 2023. Czollek lives and writes in Berlin.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:03:58 -0400 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Max Czollek
Afro-Latinos: 500 Years of Glory and Greatness (September 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99077 99077-21797543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Join Kim as she discusses Afro-Latino culture and the profound legacy in the Americas through history, culture, cuisine, art, dance, music, and more!
Check out the trailer for “Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas”!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:45:52 -0400 2022-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
HET Brown Bag | Dynamics of spinning binaries from an EFT perspective (September 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97595 97595-21794814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk, I will discuss some recent progress on understanding the dynamics of binary astrophysical objects (Kerr black holes or neutron stars) from the EFT perspective. We model the spinning objects by a higher spin field theory with non-minimal couplings to gravity. The order G^2 classical effective Hamiltonian of the binary system is then obtained by matching the gauge invariant scattering amplitudes at one-loop. Up to the fifth order in spin, we find that a unique result can be obtained by imposing a spin shift symmetry and improved high energy behavior in the scattering amplitudes of the binaries. We conjecture that this result corresponds to Kerr black holes. We also find that we need more Wilson coefficients than conventional world line approach to describe a neutron star. I will end the talk by discussing some preliminary attempts to resolve this descrepancy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:30:00 -0400 2022-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
AE200 Seminar Series | Realizing the Power of Digital Engineering (September 21, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98638 98638-21796995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Artie Mabbett
SVP & Operations Manager
Leidos Innovation Center

Abstract:
Digital Engineering (DE) provides a new means to executing time proven engineering approaches. Historically, the issues we encounter are “in the seams”, the interfaces and interdependencies, when solving complex engineering problems. DE enables us to model those interfaces and interdependencies better, be more efficient in communicating and tracking authorized data, and will ultimately help us understand how a system behaves before we ever build or test it.

Bio:
Artie Mabbett is the deputy operations manager of the Leidos Innovations Center, the operation within the Dynetics Group of Leidos. LInC’s mission is to research and develop innovative technologies and solutions for the enterprise.

Prior to joining Leidos, Artie was the founding Director of High Speed Weapons for Raytheon. In this role, he was responsible for Raytheon’s hypersonic systems.

Artie spent thirteen years in the Defense Department, most recently as the Director (SES) of the LRASM Deployment Office, a DARPA/Navy/Air Force co-staffed office responsible to deliver an Urgent Operational Capability of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile by piloting the new accelerated acquisition model. Previous roles include Program Manager at DARPA Tactical Technology Office, and Office of Naval Research.

Artie received a BS in Mechanical Engineering (Cornell University), dual MS degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Michigan), a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Virginia Tech), Certificate of Management (Harvard Business School), and holds a Professional Engineers License. Awarded the DARPA Program Manager of the Year Award (2013), the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service (2016) and the DARPA Game Changer Award (2019) and is an AIAA Associate Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:54:50 -0400 2022-09-21T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Artie Mabbett
DCMB Weekly Seminar (September 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98815 98815-21797218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
The intersect between the life sciences (cells, tissues, organs) and engineered materials (polymers, biomacromolecules, semiconductors) is crucial for a wide range of medical and biotechnological applications. Hence, the precise control of biotic/abiotic interfaces has been one of the main obstacles of past decades. The Lahann Lab designs polymers for a range of different medical applications. In particular, we have developed a class of protein nanoparticles for targeting of glioblastoma. In addition, I will summarize our efforts related to sheet-like 3D organoid systems and will address recent advances with morphologically designed interfaces.

Research Interests:
Designer surfaces, advanced polymers, biomimetic materials, microfluidic devices, engineered microenvironments, nano-scale self-assembly.

Joerg Lahann’s research is broadly related to surface engineering with strong ties to biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. His research on reversibly switching surfaces was featured in an article in Science (J. Lahann, et al., A Reversibly Switching Surface, January 17, 2003, 299, 371-374.) These “smart surfaces” can reversibly switch properties in response to an external stimulus. To demonstrate these findings, a surface design was developed that can be changed from water-attracting to water-repelling with the application of a weak electric field. Designed as a switch, single-layered molecular-level machines are aligned on a surface using self-assembly and then are flipped between defined microscopic states. This type of surface design may offer a new paradigm for interfacial engineering as it amplifies reversible conformational transitions at a molecular level to macroscopic changes in surface properties without altering the chemical identity of the surface.

Joerg has also developed a novel class of polymers with potential for biomimetic and spatially directed surface engineering. This “reactive coating” technology uses chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization to deposit a wide range of chemical signatures on various substrate materials. Its simplicity in providing chemically reactive groups and its applicability to three-dimensional geometries (e.g., for microfluidics) enables the exact tailoring of surface properties and the preparation of biologically relevant microenvironments. Reactive coatings are compatible with soft lithographic processes, allowing for patterning of proteins, DNA, cytokines, and mammalian cells.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:36:52 -0400 2022-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion (Protein pattern deposited on a polymer surface, artistic rendering, credit: Bahar Dadfar)
Dinner for Democracy: The Politics of Abortion (September 21, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98954 98954-21797393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions!
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59076

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about abortion and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:12:28 -0400 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
WCEE Lecture. Investigative Journalists and the Documentation of War Crimes (September 21, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97369 97369-21794481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Professor Janine di Giovanni will draw on her experiences as a war correspondent, author, and educator to highlight the challenges of human rights violations and other abuses against civilian populations in conflict areas. She has reported widely on war and its aftermath for nearly thirty years in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa, and has investigated human rights abuses on four continents.

Di Giovanni will give particular emphasis to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, highlighting similarities and differences from other wars she has witnessed first-hand, and underscoring the degree to which the war crimes being committed there are consistent with Putin’s playbook for Chechnya and Syria. Currently co-director and founder of “The Reckoning Project,’ Professor di Giovanni will speak to the progress her organization and others like it are managing to achieve in documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time, amid devastating violence and terror.

Janine di Giovanni has worked for over 35 years as a human rights reporter and investigator in conflict zones in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East. She is a senior fellow at Yale University, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Non-Fiction, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest prize for non-fiction, the Blake Dodd, for her lifetime body of work. In 2016, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award for her distinguished work tracking war criminals most recently in Syria and Iraq, with a focus on ISIS. Di Giovanni is also the author of nine books. including The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria which is a collection of war testimonies translated into 30 languages. She has made numerous documentaries and is a frequent analyst on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the BBC. Di Giovanni is the recipient of nearly a dozen journalistic awards, including two Amnesty International Awards, and the National Magazine Award, for her work in human rights and war reporting.

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://myumi.ch/XVM23

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:01:29 -0400 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Janine di Giovanni, founder and director, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies
Dinner for Democracy: Judiciary (September 21, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98665 98665-21797041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58506

This Dinner is only available to residents of Bursley residence hall.

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about the US Judicial System and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! This Dinner will have catered food or dessert for attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:13:04 -0400 2022-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Bursley Hall Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
A Jewish Race Scientist in Twentieth-Century Britain (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95227 95227-21789019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will explore how Redcliffe Salaman, an eminent Jewish scientist in early twentieth-century Britain, embraced a racial understanding of Jewish peoplehood and how he developed a biological history of the Jews. It will emphasize the ubiquity of racial notions of physical and intellectual inheritance in scientific circles in Britain before World War II. Above all, it will stress how racial categories allowed secular Jewish intellectuals in Britain (and elsewhere) to develop ways of thinking about the bonds of Jewishness that transcended older notions that saw Jewish difference solely in religious terms. It will also tease out the connections between Salaman's views of Jewishness and his pathbreaking work breeding blight-free potatoes.

This is a hybrid lecture in Room 2022 South Thayer Building. Zoom registration: https://myumi.ch/RWNV4

Todd M. Endelman is Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. A native of California, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976. He is a specialist in the history of the Jews in Britain and in the social history of modern European Jewry. He taught at Yeshiva University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he was director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for eleven years. He retired from teaching in 2012 and now divides his time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Brooklyn, New York. His books include *The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 *(1979); *Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History, 1656-1945* (1990); *The Jews of Britain, 1656-2000* (2002); *Broadening Jewish History* (2014); and *Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History* (2015). He recently completed a biography of the Anglo-Jewish race scientist, country gentleman, and historian of the potato Redcliffe Salaman.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 May 2022 09:49:06 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentlemen
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Okinawan Independence and Autonomy Debates in the 1980s (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96106 96106-21791925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 110 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/z1nRJ

Though some might consider the 1980s to be a quiescent time for political activity in Japan, the 1980s proved to be a pivotal period for intellectual debates around independence and autonomy in Okinawa. Situated in the period between the 1972 reversion process and the resurgence of activism following the 1995 rape incident, this lecture will focus on key intellectual developments during this era, to highlight ways in which Okinawan scholars worked against the dictates of the Japanese state, and imagined new possibilities for sovereignty.

Ryan Masaaki Yokota currently serves as an Instructor in the History Department and Critical Ethnic Studies Program at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He received his PhD in East Asian - Japanese History at the University of Chicago and his MA in Asian American Studies at UCLA. His areas of expertise are in modern Japanese and Okinawan history, East Asian history, Asian American Studies, the history of Asians in Latin America, theories of nationalism, and comparative global ethnic/race studies. His most recent publication is a book chapter titled “Reversion-Era Proposals for Okinawan Regional Autonomy” in Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation, edited by Hiroko Matsuda and Pedro Iacobelli, and published by Lexington Books. Prior publications included an Amerasia Journal article titled “The Okinawan (Uchinanchu) Indigenous Movement and its Implications for Intentional/International Action;” and a book chapter “Ganbateando: The Peruvian Nisei Association and Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles” in Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, edited by Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., from the University of Nebraska Press.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:14:08 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ryan Masaaki Yokota, 2022–23 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
DEI Lecture Series: Ready, Set, Action. (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98637 98637-21796997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Drawing from Michigan Engineering’s Five-Year DEI-Strategic Plan, this lecture will focus on tangible solutions that will help individuals successfully contribute to DEI initiatives across the College, ensuring our commitment as people-first engineers.

Amy Moreno Sherwood will provide various practices and reflection exercises that encourage students, staff and faculty to be active DEI champions.

Presented by Amy Moreno Sherwood, M.Ed.,
Director of The Broadening Opportunities through Leadership
and Diversity (BOLD) Center within the College of Engineering and
Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:09:48 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Amy Moreno Sherwood, M.Ed.
LHS Collaboratory (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96027 96027-21791723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory Kickoff Poster Session Showcasing LHS Work at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:55:57 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Equitable Virtual and Hybrid Researcher-Community Partnerships (September 22, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98437 98437-21796658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Building on equitable partnership principles to advance social change for the public good, this session will explore how scholars have maintained and created community partnerships during the pandemic. Panelists will share best practices and reflect on how to build trust virtually while recognizing power differences, leverage online tools to create community-identified priorities, and embrace hybrid approaches towards collective impact.

Moderator:

Amy J. Schulz, Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan

Panelists:

Rebecca Bratspies, Law Professor at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform

Walter Dogan, Community Partner & Leader, New York

Sammy Kayed, Managing Director and Co-Founder of the Environment Academy at the American University of Beirut

Mira Homeidan, Community Partner & Leader, Btekhnay (in the mountains of Lebanon)


CORRECT event link for day-of: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99791943763

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:23:46 -0400 2022-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Thumbnail that states the title of the event
LGBTQIA+ Rights in Post-Roe America (September 22, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97971 97971-21795409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In the months following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many questions emerged related to if and how this decision would impact hard-fought LGBTQIA+ civil rights. The Spectrum Center is proud to host Avatara Smith-Carrington (they/them), a Staff Attorney in the Washington D.C. office of Lambda Legal. Please join us for a discussion of LGBTQIA+ rights in post-Roe America.

Please register for this event: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7OQYiI4tsuv4Joy?jfefe=new

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:19:33 -0400 2022-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event Graphic for LGBTQIA+ Rights in Post-Roe America
Climate & Space Seminar Series (September 22, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98498 98498-21796722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Join us for a seminar on "Small Bodies, Large Impacts: How Missions to Asteroids Can Inform the Formation and Evolution of the Solar System," presented by Dr. Yun Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Small bodies are among the best tracers of our Solar System’s history. A large number of space missions to small bodies (past and future) offer a unique opportunity to use these bodies as a natural laboratory to study the different processes that drive their formation and evolution, which are connected to the origin, evolution, and current architecture of the Solar System. Images of small bodies sent by spacecraft have revealed unexpectedly rich and complex surface features, including craters of various sizes and depths, boulders of different sizes and morphologies, lineaments, signatures of landslides, terraces, and ridges. In this talk, I will first discuss the role of small-body science in understanding the Solar System evolution and the questions we need to address from space missions. I will then present the surface features of the targets of two recent asteroid sample-return missions, i.e., the NASA OSIRIS-REx and the JAXA Hayabusa2 missions, and elaborate how to derive the key information using both theoretical and computational methods to address these questions. I will conclude by highlighting fundamental physical mechanisms that play important roles in small-body surface processes and giving implications for the preparation of future space missions (e.g., the NASA DART and the JAXA MMX missions).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:37:47 -0400 2022-09-22T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Photo of CSRB Building
WCED Roundtable Discussion. The Birth and Death of Dictatorships (September 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97341 97341-21794377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Recent scholarship has drawn attention to how the origins of authoritarian regimes shape their long-run trajectories. Bringing together a diverse set of experts on authoritarian regimes, this roundtable highlights recent scholarship on the consequences of regime origins for the consolidation and collapse of dictatorships.

Adam E. Casey's research broadly considers the relationship between dictators and their armed forces. He is currently working on two book manuscripts he will develop as a postdoctoral fellow. The first considers the relationship between foreign support and authoritarian rule. His second book project (with Dan Slater and Jean Lachapelle) considers the origins of military political power in the postcolonial world. In particular, this project investigates why some militaries have come to dominate their polities, while others have been tightly controlled by political leadership. Casey received his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto in 2020.

Erica De Bruin's research focuses on civil-military relations, civil-war, and policing. She is the author of *How to Prevent Coups d’état: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival* (Cornell University Press, 2020). At Hamilton, Dr. De Bruin directs the Program on Justice and Security at the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. She received a PhD from Yale University in 2014.

Dan Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. His research interests include comparative politics, international relations, world politics, and methodology. He is the author of *From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia* (Princeton University Press, 2022), *Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia* (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of *Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis* (Stanford University Press, 2008).

Megan A. Stewart's research interests focus on explaining variation in how changes to social, economic, and political hierarchies—especially across racial, gender, class, or religious/ethnic lines—are attempted and achieved, and how war or political violence is often the context or consequence of such endeavors. She explores questions related to this topic using quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methods. Stewart is the author of *Governing for Revolution: Social Transformations in Civil War* (Cambridge University Press, 2021), in which she explains why some rebel groups undertake complex and challenging wartime projects to transform social orders by altering hierarchies of power, while most other rebel groups do not.

Lucan A. Way's research focuses on global patterns of democracy and dictatorship. His forthcoming book (with Steven Levitsky), *Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism* (Princeton University Press), provides a comparative historical explanation for the extraordinary durability of autocracies (China, Cuba, USSR) born of violent social revolution. Way’s solo-authored book, *Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics* (Johns Hopkins, 2015), examines the sources of political competition in the former Soviet Union. Way argues that pluralism in the developing world often emerges out of authoritarian weakness: governments are too fragmented and states too weak to monopolize political control.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at: https://myumi.ch/3kzZp

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:52:36 -0400 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion WCED Roundtable Discussion. The Birth and Death of Dictatorships
Work-Life Balance for Undergraduates (September 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98003 98003-21795444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Your STEM degree at Michigan will challenge you intellectually, but it shouldn't have to affect your mental health. Women in Science and Engineering invites you to a coffee chat with other STEM students and mental health professionals to discuss work-life balance in STEM at UM. Share advice, ask questions, and get real about how to set boundaries and make time for a life outside of your academics.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58540

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:10:08 -0400 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Lecture / Discussion multiple levels of a wooden planks balancing on top yellow and blue balls on either side
American Democracy in Peril (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96650 96650-21793013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Featuring Hon. J. Michael Luttig with introduction by Professor Richard Friedman

Join in person in Jeffries Hall 1225 or via Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93360607078

Hon. J. Michael Luttig served for nearly fifteen years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Among other positions, he has also served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel and as General Counsel to The Boeing Company. The open letter circulated by Vice President Pence on January 6, 2021, quoted Judge Luttig’s assertion that “[t]he only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast,” and not “to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain votes or otherwise.” On June 16, 2022, Judge Luttig testified before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, to the effect that President Trump and his allies had “instigated” a war on democracy. He was also one of the authors of LOST NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election, issued in July 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:21:24 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Policy-focused solutions to the firearm epidemic: What we know works (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98133 98133-21795629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

In the wake of repeated tragedies and the firearm violence that has plagued our nation, the University of Michigan community is grappling with what can be done. There is an urgent need to address the firearm injury epidemic in America, and its social, economic, and public health impacts.

Please join us for a conversation about firearm violence and policies that can help prevent it. Four leading experts in firearm violence will offer their insights, then come together for a panel conversation on the big picture policy implications of and potential solutions for firearm violence.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:15:07 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Rod Brunson, Sonali Rajan, Daniel Webster, April Zeoli
Professor Ann Chih Lin, Endowed Professorship in Chinese Studies, Inaugural Lecture (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95671 95671-21790539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Over the past decade, Chinese American scientists and the American universities they work at have come under increasing government suspicion. Some academics have been arrested in high-profile raids on their homes and laboratories. Many who support multi-million dollar research teams on federal grants have had their grants terminated, their laboratories closed, and their personal savings bankrupted. And large majorities, particularly at research universities, are rethinking their hiring of postdocs, their international collaborations, their research strategies, and even their lives in the United States. Yet few of their university colleagues understand the scope and scale of what is happening. My talk will explore how fears about China’s economic development strategy, zero-sum assumptions about international conflict, and the lack of a coordinated national R&D strategy have led to a cynical focus on Chinese American university scientists as the reason for China's rise and America's decline. I also explore how these suspicions have parallels in the treatment of German American academics in World War I, using the University of Michigan’s treatment of German American academics as a cautionary tale.

To join this lecture virtually, please see the Zoom link below.

When: Sep 22, 2022 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Ann Lin Endowed Professorship Lecture, Septembe 22, 2022

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:46:18 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
Michele Oka Doner (September 22, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96585 96585-21792911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans six decades. Her work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She is well known for creating numerous permanent art installations throughout the United States, including Flight at Reagan International Airport, Arlington, VA, Radiant Site at the Herald Square MTA station, New York and the mile and quarter bronze and terrazzo concourse, A Walk on the Beach at Miami International Airport, seen by 40 million travelers annually.
Oka Doner’s work is found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Victoria & Albert, London, and the University of Michigan, Oxford, Yale and Harvard university art museums, among others. She has received numerous awards, including those given by United Nations Society of Writers and Artists, Pratt Institute, New York State Council of the Arts and the Knight Foundation. She was first Artist in Residence at the New York Botanical Garden. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from The University of Michigan, where she earned her undergraduate and MFA degrees. Oka Doner is the author or subject of numerous books, including Everything Is Alive (2017) from Regan Arts press and Intuitive Alphabet (2017), TRA Publishing. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Michele Oka Doner was made Guardian of the City of Miami Beach’s Centennial Banyan Tree and represents Miami Beach as Ambassador for Arts and Culture in 2021. She maintains a home and studio in New York City.
This event is a part of the 10th Naming Anniversary Celebration of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. September 20, 2022 marks ten years since the naming of the school in honor of Penny W. Stamps for the remarkable gift she and her husband E. Roe Stamps made to support art and design education at the University of Michigan. The event will celebrate this milestone and reflect on the legacy of the school.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:21 -0400 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion a woman stands with her eyes closed with a dark satin fabric rapid around her.
Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and Japanese American Incarceration (September 22, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97160 97160-21794080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Shirley Ann Higuchi, JD, Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF), is the daughter of former incarcerees, Dr. William I. Higuchi and the late Setsuko Saito Higuchi. She will discuss her book Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration, which chronicles her mother’s story alongside many other Heart Mountain characters.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:05:28 -0400 2022-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
IGDA Ann Arbor : Chris Monteferrante (Spellbound AR) (September 22, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98658 98658-21797036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Wolverine Soft

==Guest Lecturer==
Christopher Monteferrante (Spellbound AR)

Step into the world of augmented reality and Michigan technology startups as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Spellbound Lead AR Developer (and Wolverine alum) Christopher Monteferrante!

(NOTE : Free pizza will be served).

==Special Note : Live-Streamed Event!==
Please join us at...
- https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst
- https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:48:03 -0400 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T22:00:00-04:00 Wolverine Soft Lecture / Discussion Chris Monteferrante joins IGDA Ann Arbor
Michigan Archives Night@The DO: Alumni Games & Bonfires: Homecoming History (September 22, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97372 97372-21794486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Michigan Archives Nights at the Detroit Observatory feature compelling collections and selections from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library, covering U-M history, state history, and more. Join us as archivists pull fascinating items out of the collections and share the stories behind them. For this Bentley Night, Greg Kinney, archivist for athletics, will present items covering the history of Homecoming, from its early origins to more recent forms -- its traditions and offbeat moments in between. Tours of the Observatory will follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:59:07 -0400 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Black-and-white image of a homecoming float; Greg Kinney's headshot in the top right corner.
Ross Technology & Operations Department Seminar Series (September 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98537 98537-21796896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross

The Ross School of Business, Technology & Operations Department sponsors a weekly seminar series in which a guest speaker presents their research.

Avinash (Avi) Collis is an Assistant Professor in the Information, Risk and Operations Management department at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He holds a PhD in Management Science from MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include the economics of digitization focusing on measuring the welfare gains from digital goods. His research has been published in top tier academic and practitioner journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, Nature Communications and the Harvard Business Review and has been covered in major media outlets and policy reports including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Economist and reports by the US White House, Federal Reserve, Senate and UK treasury.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:24:39 -0400 2022-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Ross Technology & Operations Seminar Series 22-23
The American Institutions Group (AIG) (September 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97095 97095-21793885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

The American Institutions Group (AIG) is a Rackham interdisciplinary workshop for faculty and graduate students that meets twice a month to discuss recent and forthcoming research on American political institutions (e.g. Congress, the presidency, state legislatures and governors, the courts, and the bureaucracy). We aim to offer new and varied perspectives for graduate students to harness in their own work; encourage conversations that breed new research ideas; and spur innovative collaborations among our participants. AIG participants are scholars in political science, public health, social work, public policy, and economics interested in examining American political institutions from a wide variety of perspectives.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:32:32 -0400 2022-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
WISE STEM Equity Journal Club - September (September 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97824 97824-21795201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Once a month, WISE hosts a journal club for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff to discuss recent research on STEM equity. This month's article is "Outperforming yet undervalued: Undergraduate women in STEM." Feel free to bring your lunch!

Does achievement in STEM courses correlate with perceived expertise in STEM by student peers? In this session we will discuss findings in a recent study that women are outperforming men in both physical and life science undergraduate courses, while simultaneously continuing to be perceived as less-able students. Bring your ideas or just your curiosity - all are welcome to join in the discussion.

*Article Citation:* Bloodhart B, Balgopal MM, Casper AMA, Sample McMeeking LB, Fischer EV. (2020) Outperforming yet undervalued: Undergraduate women in STEM. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234685. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234685

*If you are new to reading journal articles, check out this module from the library on Reading a Scholarly Article: https://umich.instructure.com/courses/484852/pages/welcome-to-reading-a-scholarly-article-module?module_item_id=1799658 *

Registration is recommended but not required.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58990

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:25:03 -0400 2022-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Lecture / Discussion Three women at a conference table in discussion with one another
"How to Turn Your Time Into Your Legacy." (September 23, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99084 99084-21797549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The 2022 CEE Alumni Merit recipient Mr. Larry Brinker, Jr. is the chief executive officer of Brinker, a family of five companies and a leader in commercial construction in southeast Michigan. The company is a significant contributor to the transformation of Detroit, with more than $4 billion dollars of construction projects in the past 30 years. Mr. Brinker has been widely recognized for his leadership and contributions. He was named the 2018 Entrepreneur of The Year in the Michigan and Northwest Ohio Region, and was a national finalist. He was also named a 2015 recipient of the Crain’s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 and Detroit Business Magazine 30 In Their 30’s awards.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:00:43 -0400 2022-09-23T12:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion Mr. Larry Brinker, Jr.
Entrepreneurship Hour: Christian Hicks (September 23, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99075 99075-21797542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This weekly seminar series invites disruptive, influential, and respected entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders to speak to students about their personal experiences founding, financing, and managing a startup venture. Following the lecture, students will be able to meet the guest speaker and network with members of the entrepreneurial community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:36:47 -0400 2022-09-23T12:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Lecture / Discussion Christian Hicks, SVP Employer Growth at Maven Clinic
Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (September 23, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97464 97464-21794612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an “economic style of reasoning”—grounded in the discipline of economics but traveling well beyond it—became influential in Washington, and was institutionalized through legal and organizational changes. This new way of thinking had consequences for what policy options were considered and how policy decisions were made, and was particularly constraining for the left wing of the Democratic Party. Drawing from a new book that looks at how such changes played out across the domains of social policy, market governance, and social regulation, this talk will focus on what this transformation looked like in the realm of antitrust policy. Here, a domain that was once conceived of as balancing competing purposes, including promoting competition, limiting corporate power, and protecting small business, was rethought as focused on a single goal: protecting consumer welfare, understood as allocative efficiency. As this new approach was built into legal frameworks and decision-making processes in federal agencies, it narrowed the scope of legitimate debate in ways that persist to the present—with implications for our ability to address new forms of corporate power.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:59:57 -0400 2022-09-23T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Popp Berman
HET Seminar | Discrete Holography (September 23, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98878 98878-21797293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will review recent progress towards establishing a holographic duality for discrete spaces involving a regular tiling of hyperbolic space. In particular, I will present a recent example where an aperiodic XXZ spin chain is obtained naturally by extrapolating the bulk tiling to its boundary. The properties of this model are studied using RG techniques, which provide a tensor network construction for its ground state. We calculate and compare the entanglement entropy both at the boundary and in the bulk. I will comment on the next steps towards obtaining a full dynamical duality of discrete systems. In particular, this may be useful for going beyond the large N limit on the gravity side

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:44:59 -0400 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
My Journey in electrifying the world’s most popular truck (September 23, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98392 98392-21796600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Linda Zhang is the 2022 ECE Alumni Merit Award Recipient.

Linda Zhang, chief program engineer for the F-150 Lightning, Ford’s first electric truck, will talk about her experience leading the team behind this game-changing vehicle, including the challenges and successes of shifting America’s perception of what an EV can be.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:02:30 -0400 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Chrysler Center
Smith Lecture - Eileen Evans, CSU Northridge (September 23, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98900 98900-21797328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America is capable of producing magnitude ~9 earthquakes, likely often accompanied by tsunamis. An outstanding question in this region, as in most subduction zones, is the degree and spatial extent of strain accumulation, which will eventually release as an earthquake, on the subduction megathrust. Geodetic observations, including those from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including the Global Positioning System (GPS), may be used to image the strain actively accumulating on a fault before an earthquake ultimately occurs. Technology combining GNSS and underwater acoustic ranging (GNSS-A) is now capable of making centimeter-level horizontal geodetic observations on the seafloor. GNSS-A enables previously inaccessible observations to better image seismogenic portions of the Cascadia subduction zone. Because seafloor geodetic instruments, and the time and logistics associated with observations, can be cost-prohibitive, it is important to identify where deploying seafloor geodetic instruments will provide information that cannot be obtained through a similar investment in onshore geodetic networks. Here we leverage the concept of information entropy to 1) quantify the relative information provided by expanding GNSS observation networks offshore Oregon and Washington and 2) identify optimal locations for a network of seafloor geodetic instruments. The information gained by new observations, and their optimal locations, depends on the expected uncertainties on the seafloor velocity observations, modeling assumptions, and the modeling objectives.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:11:51 -0400 2022-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
NERS Colloquia Series: NERS Alumni Award Talk (September 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96986 96986-21793649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

A Career in Pulsed Power—a 40-Year Retrospective and the Next 20 Years

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:25:45 -0400 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion NERS Fall 2022 Colloquia Series
Social Policy is health policy: Lessons from the Pandemic (September 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98135 98135-21795630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join Ford School Dean and founding director of the U-M Center for Racial Justice, Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Paula Lantz, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, as they discuss the devastating structural inequities exposed by the COVID pandemic—and why all policymakers must now be equipped with a toolkit for navigating pandemics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:56:05 -0400 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Watkins-Hayes and Lantz
Predictive analysis and deep learning of functional MRI in Alzheimer's disease (September 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97916 97916-21795315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia pose a significant burden to individuals and public health. AD is expected to grow in prevalence in the coming decades due to the aging population. Brain atrophy is a major component of AD pathology and can occur before symptoms of cognitive impairment. However, pathological brain atrophy and symptoms of cognitive impairment may be a result of many years of disease impacts. Evidence supports the need for early detection of impacted neurocircuitry to foresee future progression to advanced stages of AD and develop treatments. This dissertation examines predictive modeling and deep learning methods to identify brain-behavior relationships and learn low-dimensional representations of brain activity from MR imaging data. The dissertation and methods are separated into four parts.  

Part one of this work examines multivariate analysis approaches applied to functional connectivity from subjects with an early clinical phenotype of AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A regression framework using partial least squares and feature selection demonstrated significant brain-behavior relationships with measures of cognition and memory. The results also confirm other findings that ecologically relevant task-based connectivity serves as a ``stress-test" for memory-related deficits such as those observed in MCI. This approach elucidated brain regions that may be implicated in MCI and warrant future study (superior temporal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, and superior frontal gyrus). Part two extends the multivariate analyses studied in part one to an additional brain imaging modality, arterial spin labeling (ASL). Cerebral blood flow (CBF) as measured by ASL demonstrated brain-behavior relationships with composite measures of memory and learning in a cohort along the spectrum of AD, demonstrating that CBF data warrant further investigation as a predictor in this application.

Parts three and four utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) model, a deep learning approach to encode latent representations that aim to disentangle sources of fMRI signal. A surface-based VAE trained on only healthy controls is shown to be generalizable to patients with known AD pathology. The results maintained individual separation and high input/decoder output spatial reconstruction correlation of r=0.8 across all three groups. Part four extended the surface-based model used in part three to a volumetric fMRI approach. Similarly to the surface-based model, high reconstruction accuracy (NRMSE=0.68) and temporal correlation (r=0.8) between input and decoder output are demonstrated. This approach is more readily applicable to 3D fMRI data as compared to the surface-based model. 

In summary, this work has proposed and developed multivariate and deep learning analysis techniques for brain imaging data in the context of AD with the ultimate goal of improving detection and intervention for early pathological changes in the brain.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcOigrjIsHtJq_xJ1aboK1T0PdWpTkBP5
*Registration Required

Committee Chair(s):
Dr. Scott J. Peltier and Dr. Douglas C. Noll

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:07:14 -0400 2022-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Ph.D. Defense
What I Talk about when I Talk about Palestine (September 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97463 97463-21794613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the early waves of immigration to the Americas, and more than seven decades after the Nakba of 48, generations of Palestinians have grown up in a variety of different contexts within Israel-Palestine and the world at large. This ongoing scattered state has led to the proliferation of Palestinian culture as it is simultaneously growing in multiple directions, depending on geographical, political, and lingual contextualization. The Palestinian story no longer exists exclusively in Arabic. A new generation of Palestinian and Palestinian-descended writers and artists from both Latin and North America, Scandinavia, and Europe at large, as well as Israel-Palestine are bringing stories of their heritage and the Palestinian nation into a variety of languages such Spanish, Italian, English, Danish, and Hebrew—among so many other languages.

In this talk, Maurice Ebileeni explores how the Palestinian homeland is being imagined in multiple languages from a variety of positions both locally and globally and wishes to discuss unsettling questions about this current situation. He also invites us to look to the future to speculate about how a Palestinian nation might still house the notion of home for an increasingly diverse Palestinian population.

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Maurice Ebileeni is a member of faculty in the English department at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense and Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World, and his work on Palestinian literature and culture has appeared in Comparative Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, and Hebrew-language Ot, among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:21:09 -0400 2022-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Maurice Ebileeni
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 26, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99162 99162-21797647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Title:
Giving Structure to the Cognitive Map

Abstract:
The cognitive map within the minds of animals is the mental process of perceiving and arranging relevant environmental features upon which behavioral decision making processes can be built (Tolman 1948). The previous 5-decades have seen investigation of the neural processes that underlie animals’ ability to cognitively map spaces primarily through recording the electrical activity of neurons as animals navigate a physical space (O’Keefe 1974). Among the most prominent features of the cognitive mapping system within the brain are the discovery of place cells which respond to an animals’ specific location in space, and lay the foundation of seeing the hippocampus as being foundational to the cognitive map (O’Keefe & Nadel 1978).

Recently more attention has been placed on how the cognitive mapping system of the brain encodes for structural features (Behrens et al. 2018). However, little research has gone into how structural features directly interact with spatial representations of the hippocampal system. Data presented here demonstrates that while CA1 place-representations are relatively unimpacted by the structure of the space the animal is in, one synapse away in dorsal subiculum, a mapping of structure emerges within the activity patterns of individual and populations of neurons. These results show the importance of environmental structure when studying spatial navigation, and helps elucidate the relatively understudied brain region of the subiculum.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:02:48 -0400 2022-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 2022-09-26T15:50:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Alexander Johnson
Evaluation of Phosphate Treatment and Long-Term RUNX2 Suppression On Adult Human MSC Chondrogenesis and Neo-Cartilage Formation (September 26, 2022 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99026 99026-21797474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 3:15pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract:
Clinical repair strategies for articular cartilage defects are limited by the inability of the tissue to self-repair, often resulting in post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). PTOA arises from the degradation of structural cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins responsible for maintaining articular cartilage mechanics, such as aggrecan and collagen. Current cartilage tissue engineering strategies aim to utilize human-derived cells to regenerate cartilage prior to the onset of PTOA. Limited availability of chondrocytes – the primary cell type in articular cartilage – imposes a need for alternatives. Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are a promising solution as they can be found in a variety of tissues and can differentiate into MSC-derived chondrocytes (MdChs). However, MSCs are limited by their inability to produce a stable chondrogenic phenotype and deposit and maintain ECM in long-term culture due to maturation, (hypertrophy) where metalloproteinases cleave collagen II and aggrecan. As a result, MSC-derived cartilage regeneration techniques are not yet suitable for clinical use. The central objective of this thesis is to increase cartilage matrix accumulation for more clinically functional cartilage tissue by increasing matrix deposition and stabilizing the chondrogenic phenotype of MSCs.

We investigated two approaches to increase cartilage ECM accumulation and improve MdCh-based cartilage tissue engineering functional outcomes: inorganic phosphate (Pi) treatment and RUNX2 suppression. First, we found that Pi increased cartilage ECM production, but also increased MdCh hypertrophy, while RUNX2 suppression increased stiffness of neo-cartilage tissues long-term. Finally, we showed that combined treatment of Pi and RUNX2 suppression exhibited reduced MdCh hypertrophy but did not significantly increase matrix accumulation. Overall, this dissertation explores methodologies that promote both cartilage matrix accumulation and reduces cartilage matrix loss during long-term culture to better support the use of MdChs in cartilage defect repair strategies.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98189564171 Password: cartilage

Committee Chair: Dr. Rhima Coleman

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:31:39 -0400 2022-09-26T15:15:00-04:00 2022-09-26T16:15:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME PhD Defense
RNA Innovation Seminar: David Shechner, University of Washington (September 26, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97617 97617-21794810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

David Shechner Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
University of Washington

Keywords: RNA, proximity-biotinylation, subcellular architecture, nuclear architecture, spatial biology, biomolecular condensates, interactomics, nucleolus, Xist.

Abstract: In the context of the living cell, very little RNA is naked. RNA molecules form complex, dynamic networks of molecular interactions that underlie a host of biochemical functions, and which are central to organizing subcellular compartmentalization. In humans, for example, RNAs are key determinants of chromatin folding, and they nucleate and scaffold a host of biomolecular condensates that collectively control cellular metabolic, epigenetic, and stress-signaling pathways. But, characterizing these structures—identifying the biomolecules within an RNA's subcellular microenvironment—remains technically cumbersome.

To address this challenge, I introduce oligonucleotide-mediated proximity-interactome mapping (O-MAP), a straightforward and flexible method for identifying the proteins, RNAs, and genomic loci near a target RNA, within its native cellular context. O-MAP uses programmable oligonucleotide probes to deliver proximity-biotinylating enzymes to a target RNA. These enzymes then pervasively label all nearby (~20 nm) molecules, enabling their enrichment by streptavidin pulldown. O-MAP induces exceptionally precise RNA-targeted biotinylation, and its modular design enables straightforward validation of probe pools and real-space optimization of the biotinylation radius, thus overcoming key technical challenges for the field. Moreover, O-MAP can be readily ported across different target RNAs and specimen types, including patient-derived organoids and tissue samples. And, O-MAP achieves this without complex cell-line engineering, using only off-the-shelf parts and standard manipulations.

Using a small cohort of model RNAs, we have developed a robust O-MAP toolkit for proteomic (O-MAP-MS), transcriptomic (O-MAP-Seq) and genome interaction (O-MAP-ChIP) discovery. O-MAP of the 47S-pre-rRNA—the long noncoding RNA that scaffolds the nucleolus—enabled a comprehensive "multi-omic" analysis of this subnuclear structure, and revealed hundreds of novel nucleolar protein-, RNA-, and chromatin interactions. O-MAP of XIST—the master regulator of X-chromosome inactivation—revealed novel RNAs that may play a role in this process, and unanticipated interactions between XIST and other chromatin-regulatory RNAs. Finally, targeting O-MAP to introns within a key cardiac developmental gene enabled unprecedented molecular dissection of a subnuclear compartment that would be impossible to purify biochemically.

Given these results, we believe that O-MAP will be a powerful tool for elucidating the mechanisms by which RNA molecules drive subcellular compartmentalization in time and space, with particular impact on our understanding of nuclear architecture. Moreover, with O-MAP's precision, flexibility, and ease, we anticipate its broad use in studying countless other RNA phenomena throughout biology, and as a clinical diagnostic- and discovery tool.


HYBRID SEMINAR:
In-person: BSRB, ABC seminar rooms
Livestream: https://myumi.ch/NmGqG

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:16:25 -0400 2022-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion David Shechner, University of Washington
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96516 96516-21792613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

To date, the historical Tibeto-Mongolian symbiosis has been analyzed from the perspective of Tibeto-centric or China-centric political histories. In this talk, Dr. Ujeed reexamines the religio-cultural developments of Buddhism and Buddhist identity amongst the Mongols from the Mongol Empire through to the Qing period. As well as revisiting well-known religio-historical works, her main case studies are extracted from newly obtained Mongolian and Tibetan language Buddhist biographies, religious histories, and records of received teachings from the early modern period. Collectively, these case studies will demonstrate how the Mongols engagement with Tibetan Buddhism was fundamental for the dissemination and development of the wider Tibetan Buddhist tradition far beyond the realms on the steppe.

In addition to the in-person format, this event will also be streamed via Zom. Please register for the Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CP6CCQhrS-iwuFreoJvQYA

Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received her MSt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from the Department of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Her main research focus is the trans-national, trans-regional, and cross-cultural aspects of Buddhism, lineage, translation, monastic and reincarnation networks, and identity in Tibet and Mongolia in the Early Modern period, with a particular emphasis on the contributions made by ethnically Mongolian monk scholars.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:32:15 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (September 27, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97652 97652-21794858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

9/8 (Thursday, 2-3:20pm): Alexandre Debs, Yale University, "How Could States Use Nuclear Weapons? Four Models After the Bomb" (Note different day and time)

9/27: Htet Thiha Zaw, "The Societal Origins of State Education: Evidence from British Burma" (Practice job talk)

10/4: Byung Koo Kim (Practice job talk)

(10/4 BONUS, 2:30-4pm, 201 Lorch Hall: Luigi Pascali, Pompeu Fabra University and Princeton University (Visiting); joint with Economic History Seminar) (Note different time and place)

10/25: Adriane Fresh, Duke University

11/1 (2:30-4pm, 201 Lorch Hall): Leander Heldring, Northwestern University (joint with Economic History Seminar) (Note different time and place)

11/15: Edgar Franco-Vivanco

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:09:33 -0400 2022-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Dinner for Democracy: Voting Access (September 27, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98667 98667-21797042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 5:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58276

This Dinner is only available to residents of East Quad residence hall.

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about voting access in the US. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! This Dinner will have catered food or dessert for attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:13:48 -0400 2022-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-27T18:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Dinner for Democracy: The Politics of Abortion (September 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98955 98955-21797394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59077

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about abortion and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:14:16 -0400 2022-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Dinner for Democracy: Gun Violence Prevention (September 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98957 98957-21797396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59079

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about gun violence prevention and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:14:43 -0400 2022-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
HET Brown Bag | The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity (September 28, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99163 99163-21797648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum error correction has given us a natural language for the emergence of spacetime, but the black hole interior poses a challenge for this framework: at late times the apparent number of interior degrees of freedom in effective field theory can vastly exceed the true number of fundamental degrees of freedom, so there can be no isometric (i.e. inner-product preserving) encoding of the former into the latter. I will explain how quantum error correction nonetheless can be used to explain the emergence of the black hole interior, via the idea of “non-isometric codes protected by computational complexity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:09:09 -0400 2022-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
HET Brown Bag Seminar | The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity (September 28, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100871 100871-21800460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum error correction has given us a natural language for the emergence of spacetime, but the black hole interior poses a challenge for this framework: at late times the apparent number of interior degrees of freedom in effective field theory can vastly exceed the true number of fundamental degrees of freedom, so there can be no isometric (i.e. inner-product preserving) encoding of the former into the latter. I will explain how quantum error correction nonetheless can be used to explain the emergence of the black hole interior, via the idea of “non-isometric codes protected by computational complexity".

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:01:58 -0400 2022-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Distinguished Lecture Series: Leadership in Technology (September 28, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97360 97360-21794442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The Distinguished Lecture Series: Leadership in Technology invites you to hear from industry leaders and find inspiration in their journeys related to the transformative power of technology.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Learn more and register: its.umich.edu/speakerseries

*ABOUT THE EVENT*

Join Dr. Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at U-M, for a conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia from 2006-16. The conversation will cover the intersection of technology and government, cybersecurity, and more — Ilves was in office when Estonia was a victim of a massive cyber-attack, believed to have originated in Russia, in 2007.

President Ilves is renowned for making Estonia one of the most digitally advanced nations through innovative policies that invested heavily in the future. He used his office to further the country’s leadership in digital governance as well as in cyber security. His interest in computers stems from an early age — he learned to program at the age of 13 — and he has been promoting Estonia's IT-development since the country restored its independence. He was born to Estonian refugees and raised in the United States, and holds a BA from Columbia and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to submit questions in advance, during the registration process, or live in the session.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:31:37 -0400 2022-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture Series: Leadership in Technology; Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia from 2006-16
Before Roe: The History (and Future) of Abortion Access for University of Michigan Students (September 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96934 96934-21793581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- Rianna Johnson-Levy, Ph.D. student in History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
- Christine S. Asidao, Associate Director of Community Engagement and Outreach, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), University of Michigan
- Laura Blake Jones, Dean of Students, University of Michigan
- Moderator: Anna Kirkland, Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Description:
Following the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade, faculty, students, staff, and administrators have spoken out about the importance of abortion access for members of the Michigan community. These supporters join a long lineage of advocates for reproductive freedom on campus, many of whom worked tirelessly to make abortion accessible under Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban. But how exactly did the university act to support students, faculty, and staff seeking abortion services pre-Roe?

Rianna Johnson-Levy, a joint Ph.D. student in History and Women’s and Gender Studies, will lead an exploration of how supportive counselors and university administrators worked to ensure safe, legal access to abortion for those under their care in late 1960s and early 1970s.

Ms. Johnson-Levy spent the summer combing through resources and collections of the Bentley Historical Library to uncover what U-M did to help students pre-Roe, including facilitating interstate travel and working with pro-choice clergy. The findings of her research have been compiled into a report, which offers critical lessons for the University in the post-Dobbs, post-Roe moment.

Rianna Johnson-Levy will present the report, followed by a discussion with U-M’s Dean of Students, Dr. Laura Blake Jones, and CAPS Associate Director of Community Engagement and Outreach, Dr. Christine Asidao. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Anna Kirkland, the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, with time for Q&A with the audience.

This event is presented by IRWG, in collaboration with the U-M Post-Roe Campus Community Working Group.

This event will be presented in-person with an option to watch the livestream on Zoom. Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/6NGRM

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:52:38 -0400 2022-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion images from the Bentley archives, "Any Woman Can" headline from the September 1972 edition of Ann Arbor's feminist magazine "her-self."
Heberle Award & Lecture (September 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92330 92330-21690193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us virtually for Professor Cheng's lecture, “Against Use: Asian American Masculinity and the Telos of Utilitarianism.”

What does a concept like “Ornamentalism” have to teach us about Asian American masculinity? Does Asian American masculinity, normally excluded from the realm of aesthetic consideration, have anything to do with ornamentality at all? This talk explores the tension between beauty and ugliness, between usefulness and uselessness, embedded in and provoked by the ornament for the specter of Asiatic masculinity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:35:55 -0400 2022-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Professor Cheng
Dinner for Democracy: Campaign Finance (September 28, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98959 98959-21797398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59080

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about campaign finance and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:15:12 -0400 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
EXPOSED BODIES: FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND PERFORMING ARTS SINCE AND BEYOND THE CHILEAN REVOLT (September 28, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99028 99028-21797477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

CherIl Linett is a Chilean Performance artist, stage director, and
author of the performance project entitled Yeguada
Latinoamericana. She began her artistic work in 2015 mainly
performing independently in public spaces. She has also published
the books Yeguada Latinoamericana de Cheril Linett (Editorial Trio,
2021) and is coauthor of the book Anarcografías del Cuerpo.
Performances de Cheril Linet (2015-2020) (Editorial Trio, 2021).
Cheril has participated in exhibitions in Chile, Germany, and Spain.

SEPTEMBER 28th, DIALOGUE WITH LARRY LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES
SEPTEMBER 29th, TALK, DISCUSSION, AND Q&A

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:52:52 -0400 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (September 28, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96586 96586-21792912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in oil painting, public art and multimedia installations. Her work is rooted in community engagement and the public sphere. She makes site specific work that considers how people, particularly women, queer folks, and Black and brown people, experience race and gender within their surrounding environments – from the sidewalk to retail stores, and from church to college campuses.
Currently, Fazlalizadeh is Artist in Residence at the UM Institute for the Humanities where her exhibition Pressed Against My Own Glass is on view. During her residency, she will produce a public mural To Be Heard as a community engagement project in order to hear and amplify the voices of marginalized groups on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how others engage with them based upon their identities.
Fazlalizadeh will discuss her methodology and cover her most well known works such as Stop Telling Women to Smile, the international street art series addressing gender based street harassment, and America is Black, a series of portrait and text pieces that explore and amplify the stories of non-White people in the United States.
Fazlalizadeh is from Oklahoma City, born to a Black mother and Iranian father. In 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. The impact of Fazlalizadeh's work spread to popular culture when she collaborated with director Spike Lee to base all of the artwork featured in his Netflix series, She's Gotta Have It, on her work. She also served as the show's art consultant. In 2020, Tatyana's debut book, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power, was released by Seal Press. She has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine and has lectured about her work at Brooklyn Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. Her work has been exhibited at museums such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is in the collection of institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Pressed Against My Own Glass is on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery from September 15 - October , 2022

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:22 -0400 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion large mural on a red brick wall of 4 black women in black and white
Machine Learning Hands-on Workshop with TensorFlow.js! (September 28, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99373 99373-21797933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Online
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Come and learn how to make a webpage that uses TensorFlow.js to train a model in the browser. We will then use the model to make interesting predictions! This codelab will demonstrate steps common to training many different kinds of models, but will use a small dataset and a simple (shallow) model. The primary aim is to help you get familiar with the basic terminology, concepts and syntax around training mode. We will walk through the exercise together and allow everyone to get hands on experience by coding on their own device.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:00:28 -0400 2022-09-28T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Online Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion Image Imported from Maize Pages
Bee Knowledgeable: An Interactive Introduction to the Lives & Behavior of Your Club Bees (September 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99398 99398-21798161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This talk educates attendees and club members on how our university honeybee colonies function and behave as superorganisms, from the viewpoint of the beekeeper who has been loving them and caring for them since 2015. It is designed to reach those members of our community who are curious about honeybees and would like to learn more and maybe become active in the field.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:39:25 -0400 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
New Processes Enabled by Innovative Materials for Environmental Application (September 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98729 98729-21797117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

ABSTRACT: The development of innovative materials enables new processes, which can make a significant contribution to promoting sustainability, e.g., decreasing the cost and increasing the supplies of water, energy, and health. This presentation will introduce two examples and talk about their environmental applications. One is about a chemical-free pathogen inactivation technology called locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT). This technology has been applied for water disinfection and algae control. Another example is a three-dimensional (3D) filtration process based on rationally designed super-absorbent polymer (SAP) beads. Applications of 3D filtration have been demonstrated in water purification, algae harvesting, and environmental and biological sample preservation.
BIO: Dr. Xing Xie is an Assistant Professor and the Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining GT, he was a postdoc at Caltech. Dr. Xie received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Science & Engineering from Tsinghua. He received his second M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including PNAS, Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, and Energy & Environmental Science. His work has been cited over 8000 times with an H-index of 33. Dr. Xie received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2019, the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Emerging Investigator Award in 2020, and the Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Honor Award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists in 2021.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:13:08 -0400 2022-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion New Processes Enabled by Innovative Materials for Environmental Application
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Racism, Mestizaje, and the American World War II Ethnic Cleansing of Latin American Japanese (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96242 96242-21792163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 110 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/j2xrm

Cosponsored by the U-M Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Drawing on a comparative perspective, in this presentation, I discuss racism as a modern global system rooted in European colonialism, mestizaje as a racial regime of white assimilation, and the US empire-state led elimination of people of Japanese origin across the Americas.

Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada completed her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. Her doctoral research examined the overlooked historical experiences of Mexicans of Japanese origin across five generations in relation to the 'mestizo' racial system, citizenship and state violence, as well as repertoires of resistance in Mexico. This study built upon her master’s dissertation on graphic novel representations of mestizaje, the positioning of afro-descendants, and the operation of race and racism in Mexico from a transnational lens. Her research interests include trans-pacific history, nation-state building, and colonial formations in Mexico and Japan. Previously, Jessica completed an MA in Latin American Studies (with Distinction) at University College London, and a BA (First Class Honours) in Law at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies at El Colegio de México; co-founder of the CRASSH Research Group 'Power and Vision: The Camera as Political Technology'; and co-organiser of the conference Memories in Transit, supported by The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, at the University of Cambridge, and the British Academy.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:15:16 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada, 2022–23 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Tobacco Regulatory Science: Distinguished Speaker Series (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97439 97439-21794571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations

University of Michigan and Georgetown University, Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations, Distinguished Speaker Series Presents, Mitch Zeller, JD, Former Director, Center for Tobacco Products, FDA,

Mr. Zeller will take an in-depth look at the historically unregulated marketplace for tobacco products and the public health consequences of the lack of regulation. He will then explore the critical role that the FDA plays in conducting premarket product reviews to determine whether new tobacco products are "appropriate for the protection of public health" and should be authorized for sale. He will close with a look forward, sharing observations and posing a series of questions related to the ongoing harm reduction debate surrounding e-cigarettes.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:09:34 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations Lecture / Discussion CASTOR_Zeller_September2022
10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration - Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (September 29, 2022 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98793 98793-21797190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:15pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Omenn Lecture

On September 29, 2022, the University of Michigan Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a symposium and in-person gathering.

The event will be introduced by James Woolliscroft, M.D., Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine, and former dean of the Medical School. Department faculty members will present about their research, and two distinguished alumni –Erin Shellman, Ph.D., Head of Data at Gingko Bioworks, and Dan Rhodes, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO at Strata Oncology – will talk about their respective careers.

At 4:00 p.m., Holden Thorp, Ph.D., editor-in-chief, Science Family of Journals will give the 8th Annual G. Omenn Lecture: "Data Science and Medicine in the Age of Open Data, Open Code, and Open Access: From Protein Structure Prediction to COVID Origins"

A poster session will close the afternoon. For more information and registration, visit our website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:17:20 -0400 2022-09-29T13:15:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Omenn Lecture Lecture / Discussion DCMB 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration
Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought (September 29, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97794 97794-21795141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Transportation Research Institute
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

This presentation focuses on two well-known means of re-timing ordinary traffic signals to mitigate city-street traffic congestion. The first entails synchronizing green times on 4-way (i.e., all-directional) street grids. The second involves re-timing the signals that reside along cordon lines, to meter vehicle inflows during the morning rush. We show that, in both cases, simple strategies can perform remarkably well. The lecture will offer next steps toward real-world implementation.

To synchronize green times, Professor Cassidy's team use common phase durations for all signals on a grid, rather than optimize each signal’s timing plan to suit local conditions. This simple idea enables them to exploit features of perfectly orthogonal grids to synchronize all signals on the grid in two orthogonal (e.g., northbound, and westbound) travel directions. As a result, drivers headed toward clustered workplaces in the morning rush, and away from those workplaces in the evening, can enjoy exceptionally good signal progression over their entire trips, even when their paths entail two directions. One synchronization mode is used for undersaturated conditions when queues dissipate during green times; another is used when conditions become oversaturated with long residual queues; and the team's strategy toggles promptly between these two synchronization modes, as measurable conditions on the grid change over time. Simulations of numerous scenarios indicate that our simple, adaptive strategy dramatically outperforms other synchronization schemes, including complicated ones and those viewed as gold standards. Importantly, the presentation also shows that their strategy can be easily modified to perform well on irregular, real-world street grids.

As regards cordon metering, they fill a gaping hole in the literature by providing logical and easy-to-follow rules on how exactly to place cordons around clustered workplaces. Simulations show that the simple rules hold for varying congestion levels and regional configurations, and that following the rules can be impactful, especially when cities become severely congested.

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About the speaker: Michael Cassidy is the Robert Horonjeff Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a doctorate in Civil Engineering (majoring in Transportation Engineering) from Berkeley; served for nearly 4 years as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1994. He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part B. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory; a former Director of the University Transportation Center for federal region 9; and a Vice Chair in Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His research interests focus on transportation planning and management, particularly in the areas of highway traffic, public mass transit and multi-modal systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:53 -0400 2022-09-29T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T14:30:00-04:00 Transportation Research Institute Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Michael Cassidy. It features the presentation title 'Using Traffic Signals to Decongest Cities May Be Simpler Than We Thought', Professor Cassidy's headshot, and an aerial photograph of an intersection.
Chairs Distinguished Lecture: Micropropulsion Systems Using Water as a Propellant (September 29, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99279 99279-21797805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Hiroyuki Koizumi
Associate Professor
Department of Advanced Energy
The University of Tokyo
Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About this lecture:
The University of Tokyo has been researching various micropropulsion systems using water as a propellant for diversified microsatellite missions. In this seminar, I will introduce the research and development status of these propulsion systems: 1: water ion thrusters for missions that require high specific impulse; 2: water resistojet thrusters for missions that require high and multi-directional thrusts; 3: water Hall-effect thrusters for further delta-V requirement using high-electrical power, and 4: water-metal combustion thrusters for high thrust enough for impulsive maneuvers. The first two thrusters have ongoing flight programs, and those are also introduced here. The water ion thruster is based on the design developed for xenon propellant and demonstrated in orbit in 2014 and 2015. The university spin-off company, Pale Blue, developed its demonstration model and is scheduling its launch and operation on JAXA Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4 by early 2023. The water resistojet thruster was equipped on 6U Lunar CubeSat, EQUULEUS, which has been waiting for the launch by Artemins 1 in 2022. The other two thrusters are in the research phase and do not yet have a flight program, but here is the latest status of their research.

Bio:
Hiroyuki Koizumi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Energy and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he directs the Space Propulsion Laboratory and leads the development of micro-propulsion systems for microsatellites: Hodoyoshi-4, PROCYON, AQT-D, and EQUULEUS. In 2020, he started working as CTO at the space-propulsion startup Pale Blue Inc., which was founded by him and engineers who got Ph.D. at his lab. Previously, Hiroyuki Koizumi served as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at JAXA from 2007 to 2011, where he was involved in Hayabusa-1 project and he was responsible for the operation of the ion engines mu-10 and the retrieval of the Hayabusa capsule at Woomera in Australia. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the International Electric Propulsion Conference Best Paper Award (2015) and Prizes for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2017).

Also viewed by zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91746715474

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:19:14 -0400 2022-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Hiroyuki Koizumi
Climate & Space Seminar Series (September 29, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99074 99074-21797541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Join us for a seminar with Dr. Ying-Hwa "Bill" Kuo, the director of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Community Programs. He will give a talk titled "Improving Tropical Cyclogenesis and Heavy Rainfall Prediction with Radio Occultation Data: The COSMIC-2 Mission."

The seminar will take place Thursday, September 29, in the CSRB Auditorium, Room 2246 at 3:30pm ET. Please join us!

Viewing will also be available using this link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92206076360?pwd=REpEMkJQNC9yZlljK3ZFMWJIWlhuZz09

For more information on the CLASP Seminar Series, visit: https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/seminars/

Abstract:
"Improving Tropical Cyclogenesis and Heavy Rainfall Prediction with Radio Occultation Data: The COSMIC-2 Mission"
Dr. Ying-Hwa (Bill) Kuo

The atmospheric limb sounding technique, which makes use of radio signals transmitted by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), has evolved as a robust global observation system. This technique, known as radio occultation (RO), can provide valuable observations of ionospheric electron density and total electron content, neutral atmospheric temperature and moisture to support space weather specification, and forecasting, weather prediction, and climate monitoring.

The joint Taiwan-U.S. COSMIC-2 mission was launched in June 2019 and has been providing approximately 6,000 profiles per day from 40N to 40S since inception. Equipped with an advanced GNSS receiver and unique antenna design, COSMIC-2 has produced high signal-to-noise ratio RO measurements that penetrate deeper into the tropical lower troposphere than any previous RO missions. The ability of COSMIC-2 to capture water vapor in the lower tropical troposphere has been shown to be critical for the prediction of tropical cyclogenesis and heavy rainfall events associated with mesoscale convective systems along with the Mei-Yu front.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:33:10 -0400 2022-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Photo of CSRB Building
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Poland as a Front-Line State: How to Defend Pax Europaea (September 29, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96531 96531-21792626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

After the fall of communism the independent Poland set two strategic goals. Firstly, to join the western world, to make transatlantic (NATO) and European (EU) integration the cornerstone of our security and civilizational development. Secondly, to “build the West in the East”- that means to continue the enlargement process to Ukraine and Belarus. This was perceived as the only way to guarantee the sovereignty of these states and finally bury the imperial ambitions of the Kremlin. As a consequence Poland, for the first time in history, would be surrounded by allies who would not pose any threat to its security.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine proved that these goals remain valid. There is no secure Poland without a strong West and a free, independent Ukraine. At the same time the invasion demonstrated how much the world has changed over the last three decades. The Pax Europaea (which was believed to be eternal) is in mortal danger, and with that the integrity and the global position of the western world. The outcome of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict will not only determine the security of Poland and freedom of tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe. It will also predestine the future of the West and the global balance of power.

Poland as a front-line state may have a historical role to play in this process. However the significance of Poland will depend on its ability to act not as a peripheral player but as an important partner to the US, Germany and France. A partner which is able and willing to share responsibility not only for itself but also for the future of the whole Western world.

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz served as the first female Ambassador of Poland to the Russian Federation since the establishment of Polish–Russian relations (2014-16). Previously, she served as the Undersecretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2008 to 2012 she was a member of the Polish Russian Group on Difficult Matters. She graduated from the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw in 1994 and subsequently worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She was a deputy director of the Center for Eastern Studies and the head of its Russian Department. She is the author of numerous publications on the systemic transformation in Central-Eastern Europe, the EU, and Polish eastern policy.

This even will be held both in person and webcast via Zoom. Registration is required to attend the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/Qe9Nk.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:23:21 -0400 2022-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Polish Ambassador to Russia, Director of Strategies 2050, Warsaw
Asian Americans, Religious Freedom, and the State (September 29, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98308 98308-21796470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

How have Asian Americans pursued legal recognition, religious freedom, and religious equality in the United States? This public forum convenes scholars from across disciplines to discuss how state governance has defined and regulated Asian American religious liberty claims and how Asian American religious practitioners have advocated for rights and recognition.

Panelists
Dr. Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Dr. Arvind-pal Mandair, University of Michigan
Dr. Junaid Rana, University of Illinois
Dr. Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University

Moderators
Dr. Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Melissa Borja, University Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:15:01 -0400 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXPOSED BODIES: FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND PERFORMING ARTS SINCE AND BEYOND THE CHILEAN REVOLT (September 29, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99028 99028-21797478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

CherIl Linett is a Chilean Performance artist, stage director, and
author of the performance project entitled Yeguada
Latinoamericana. She began her artistic work in 2015 mainly
performing independently in public spaces. She has also published
the books Yeguada Latinoamericana de Cheril Linett (Editorial Trio,
2021) and is coauthor of the book Anarcografías del Cuerpo.
Performances de Cheril Linet (2015-2020) (Editorial Trio, 2021).
Cheril has participated in exhibitions in Chile, Germany, and Spain.

SEPTEMBER 28th, DIALOGUE WITH LARRY LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES
SEPTEMBER 29th, TALK, DISCUSSION, AND Q&A

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:52:52 -0400 2022-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Legendary Drag Queens (September 29, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89846 89846-21665959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design


This program presents a rare coming together of five legendary Drag Queens from two notoriously fabulous nightclubs in the gritty epicenters of Detroit and San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. This series event brings the San Francisco Aunt Charlie’s Queens together with Detroit’s own reigning Queens from Gigi’s Cabaret, home of the longest running drag pageant in the United States. Appearing from Detroit are Maxi Chanel (House of Chanel), Nickki Stevens, and Lady T Tempest, and hailing from San Francisco are Olivia Hart and Donna Personna. The five artists come together to discuss the history of their legacies and artform, the role of lineage and queer community building, and how drag has changed the world through activism, glamour and celebratory inclusion.
The evening will be hosted by Ben Johnson, currently the Arts and Culture Manager for the City of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. Previously he was the Director of Performing Arts of the City of Los Angeles and Director of Education and Audience Development at the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan (1996-2008). While in Michigan, he was steeped in Detroit’s history and lore, and it is through this lens which he centers drag heritage and history as an important and unique cultural contribution to the vitality of Michigan performing arts history, aligning it with the equally important and vital history of Aunt Charlies, the last remaining stronghold of queer and trans-centered cultural space in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
Postponed due to Covid and inspired by the Institute for Humanities exhibition of photographer and filmmaker James Hosking’s multimedia project Beautiful by Night, an examination of class, labor, and identity among aging drag performers, featuring the two San Francisco Queens presented here. The film follows the San Francisco Drag Artists over the course of one night at Aunt Charlie’s, the last gay bar in the famed San Francisco Tenderloin district, an area in the process of being completely re-defined by gentrification and the dot-com takeover. James Hosking supports his subjects by sharing their stories and hopes to work towards ironclad non-discrimination laws protecting employment and housing, and the more truthful representation of this community in both news and entertainment.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:23 -0400 2022-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A drag queen in sunglasses dancing in a nightclub.
ZOOM ONLY: Reading and Q&A with Layli Long Soldier (September 29, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95485 95485-21789974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Due to unexpected health circumstances, this event has been changed to ZOOM ONLY. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. Please contact asbates@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in *Poetry Magazine*, *The New York Times*, *The American Poet*, *The American Reader*, *The Kenyon Review*, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. She is the author of *Chromosomory* (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and *Whereas* (Graywolf Press, 2017). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

*Whereas* is most well-known for its 28-poem response to the National Apology to Native Americans, a Congressional Resolution signed by President Obama in December 2009. It is also a foundational text for Long Soldier’s position as a mother, educator, artist/writer, and Lakota woman—a critical push-and-pull with the language and encounters within these various roles.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:28:50 -0400 2022-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Layli Long Soldier
Dinner for Democracy: The Politics of Abortion (September 29, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98956 98956-21797395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/59078

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about abortion and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! Virtual attendees receive a $15 gift card as a thank you for participating. You'll have an opportunity to select from a list of restaurants/stores at the end of the event. You are welcome to participate in as many dinners as you like, though gift cards are limited to one per student per topic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:15:42 -0400 2022-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo
Dinner for Democracy: Judiciary (September 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98668 98668-21797043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Stockwell Hall
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Please sign up through Sessions! https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/58507

This Dinner is only available to residents of Stockwell residence hall.

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about. This presentation will be about the US Judicial System and how that relates to your vote. Participants can expect to gain:

- A deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts.
- Information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue.
- Additional resources you can use to learn more.
- Free food! This Dinner will have catered food or dessert for attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:17:39 -0400 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Stockwell Hall Turn Up Turnout Lecture / Discussion Turn Up Turnout Logo