Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (October 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78174 78174-19989054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns virtually this October with Trevor Pawl!

On July 2nd, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer formally announced the launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) with Trevor Pawl named as Chief Mobility Officer. Trevor will provide insight into the creation of OFME, its vision, and its use as a tool for all key mobility stakeholders in Michigan. This webinar will include a Q&A session.
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About the speaker: Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:35:03 -0400 2020-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
Clean Energy Trust: Co_Invest Cleantech 2020, 10/22/2020, 2PM CT (October 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78218 78218-19994962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

Join nonprofit Clean Energy Trust on the cutting edge of cleantech innovation at Co_Invest Cleantech 2020 on Thursday, October 22nd at 2 PM CT – free and online! Hear from Clean Energy Trust’s early-stage cleantech portfolio companies, their newest sustainable investments, and witness a live recording of the My Climate Journey podcast with special guest, Rodrigo Prudencio who leads investments for Amazon’s $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. Register here:
https://pheedloop.com/register/coinvestcleantech/attendee/

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:55:34 -0400 2020-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Co-Invest Cleantech
Brave Blue World (October 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78497 78497-20052316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Narrated by Liam Neeson, the documentary Brave Blue World challenges some of the commonly held myths and assumptions about water, and introduces the pioneers and innovators at the front-line addressing global water and sanitation challenges in new and creative ways. The film includes interviews with leading water activists and researchers, including Matt Damon and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Glen Daigger.

After the screening, a panel of experts on water and policy will answer questions and discuss their vision for the future of water in Michigan and beyond.

PANEL
-Eleanor Allen: CEO, Water For People
-Glen Daigger: Professor, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
-Debbie Dingell: U.S. Congresswoman (MI-12)
-Rebecca Esselman: Executive Director, Huron River Watershed Council
-Paul O’Callaghan: CEO, BlueTech Research; Producer, Brave Blue World
-Jen Read (Moderator): Water Center Director, Graham Sustainability Institute

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Film Screening Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:49:23 -0400 2020-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Film Screening Lighthouse
Finland-MI Energy Circle Webinars (October 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78372 78372-20018695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The State of Michigan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland recently expressed their official interest to collaborate on clean technologies. Experts include U-M faculty Anna Stefanopoulou, Jason Siegel, David Kwabi, Tulga Ersal, Neil Dasgupta, Jeff Sakamoto, Bart Bartlett, and Wei Lu, who will present in a series of webinars on October 26-29 and November 10-12. Registration is free and open to the public. Topics include battery degradation and recycling, flow batteries, and fuel cells. Registration is free.

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Presentation Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:18:46 -0400 2020-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Presentation Finland-Michigan Energy Circle
NERS Colloquia: The Power of Neutron Fluctuation Analysis—an Overview and Some Recent Developments (October 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75534 75534-19519134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Due to the branching character of neutron transport in multiplying media (particle production by fission), neutron reactions and numbers are correlated in space and time. Hence the statistics of the neutron distribution become non-trivial (non-Poisson), and each statistical moment (mean, variance etc) carries independent information. This wealth of information was originally used only to determine subcritical reactivity during start-up (Feynman-alpha method) from the first two moments of the detector counts. However, the number of applications and corresponding new methods has exploded in the last two decades with new areas such as neutron fluctuations in accelerator driven systems (ADS) and multiplicity counting of neutrons and photons for nuclear safeguards, including developments in the detection statistics.
The talk will give an overview of both the principles of the methods, including an essay on the forward and adjoint forms of the master equations and their moments, as well as of the latest developments and applications, such as using fluctuations in the detector current to replace pulse counting techniques. This latter means that the statistical information of discrete underlying events can be unfolded from the continuous random processes which they induce. One advantage of such a method is that it is free from the dead time problem, present in pulse counting techniques. Thus the application area can be extended to high count rate processes, such as multiplicity measurements of high activity spent fuel or reactivity measurements by the Feynman- or Rossi-alpha methods in power reactors.

Bio
Imre Pázsit is full professor at the Department of Physics, Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering Group, at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. His research interests are transport theory of neutral and charged particles; fluctuations in neutron transport and atomic collision cascades; theory of multiplicity in nuclear safeguards; reactor diagnostics based on noise analysis including diagnostics of two-phase flow; elaboration of inverse methods in neutron noise diagnostics; intelligent computing methods such as artificial neural networks and wavelet analysis, and, recently, fractional kinetics and fractional diffusion processes.
Prof. Pázsit has published over 210 articles in international journals. Together with L. Pál, he authored the book “Neutron Fluctuations – a Treatise on the Theory of Branching Processes”, Elsevier (2008). He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the fourth recipient of the Leo Szilard Medal of the Hungarian Nuclear Society (2016). He is also Honorary Editor of the Elsevier journal “Annals of Nuclear Energy."

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:16:03 -0400 2020-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar NERS Colloquia