Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Rony Keppens, of Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (September 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76497 76497-19719155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Rony Keppens, of Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

[lecture zoom details coming soon!]

Title: PROMINENT: unraveling the secrets of solar prominences and coronal rain showers

Abstract:
In the ERC-funded project PROMINENT, we set forth to study the `coolest' part
of the million-degree solar atmosphere: the condensations formed by thermal
instabilities. These come in all shapes and sizes, with the largest condensations
forming prominences - clouds suspended magnetically against gravity, one
hundredfold cooler and denser than the atmosphere itself. Their formation,
internal dynamics, and ultimate ejection into violent coronal mass ejections are
routinely witnessed with modern solar observatories, but they pose severe
challenges to modelling efforts. I will present state-of-the-art magnetohydrodynamic simulations, where the process of runaway condensations due to radiative losses is studied in unprecedented detail. The simulations cover prominence scenarios as well as coronal rain showers, where small-scale condensations repeatedly form and rain down in thermodynamically structured magnetic arcades. This solar analog of our own weather turns out to be ubiquitous throughout the solar atmosphere. Our simulations all use the open-source MPI-AMRVAC simulation toolkit [1,2], where the grid-adaptivity is essential to zoom in on details that will be resolved by future observing facilities.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:29:43 -0400 2020-09-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
EER Seminar Series (September 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76055 76055-19661498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a significant knowledge gap regarding factors that influence the participation of Black and Hispanic women in computer science, and Dr. Ross has engaged in research to address this gap. She works to critically examine efforts and initiatives that aim to broaden participation in computer science by listening to voices of individuals who are often unheard. The outcomes of Dr. Ross’ research have the potential to reshape the community’s perceptions of what and who are computer scientists, and as well as to crack the code to diversifying this lucrative and impactful discipline. This talk will describe Dr. Ross’ research journey and will present preliminary results.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Monique Ross, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences and in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, an M.S. degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and four years of experience as a full-time faculty member in computer science and engineering. Dr. Ross’ interests focus on broadening participation in computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award, and she uses her scholarship to challenge the perceptions of who belongs in computing.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:42:16 -0400 2020-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Monique Ross, Florida International University
CLASP Dissertation Defense: Yeimy Rivera (September 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76667 76667-19735029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Please join us via BlueJeans: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/dpawhccc.

Title: Investigating Nonequilibrium Ionization and Recombination Processes in Solar Wind and Transient Plasma

Abstract: In this work, I investigated the evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the solar wind by combining remote sensing, in situ observations, and nonequilibrium ionization modeling using the Michigan Ionization Code (MIC). The work investigates physical processes governing the plasma’s radial evolution and the injection of energy to the system. The aim of this thesis is to investigate low ionized charge states in CMEs and He+ in the solar wind to understand their origin and formation.
Through simulations of charge states with the MIC, the modeling work reconstructed the thermodynamic evolution of several plasma structures within the expansion of a coronal mass ejection (CME) by examining heliospheric ion composition within the ejecta. The reconstructed CME contained rare, low charge states, which are often absent within CMEs, along with typical highly ionized coronal plasma. Modeling results show that the source of the low ionized material in the CME measurements is from prominence material and are not a result of recombination from cooling of the plasma. However, part of the prominence also exists in a highly ionized form. These results provide important constraints to the evolution of prominence material that is often observed at the Sun but rarely measured in situ.

In addition, this study indicated the CME components experienced rapid, continuous, and non-uniform heating as they travelled away from the Sun. Motivated by these results, I identified useful spectral lines to study the eruption with future solar telescopes. This study investigated the diagnostic potential of several spectral lines spanning the EUV to near-Infrared and ranging between chromospheric and sub-flare temperatures to enable a comprehensive examination of solar eruptions that can be coupled with in situ and nonequilibrium modeling. I present a list of recommended spectral lines along with a discussion of their diagnostic capability. Results show that several of the most observable lines will be within the planned observations of future solar telescopes; Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), and Upgraded COronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (UCoMP), and instruments on Solar Orbiter, e.g. Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) and Multi-Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (METIS).

Furthermore, I investigated the presence of singly ionized He in the solar wind, that are outside of CME cores and pick up ions, to determine their origin and formation mechanism using the MIC. Current ionization models of the solar wind cannot account for the enhanced density of He+ observed at 1AU, therefore we reconcile the additional He+ through charge exchange of solar wind alphas and outgassed interplanetary dust neutrals. We find that charge exchange processes can be an important mechanism in the formation of solar He+ from alphas particles below 10-15Rsun, and due to this, may potentially shape ion densities for other species in the solar wind as well.

Faculty advisors: Prof. Enrico Landi, Assoc. Prof. Susan Lepri

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:19 -0400 2020-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual phd defense
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Rony Keppens, of Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (September 10, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76670 76670-19735031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Rony Keppens, of Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This will be a Zoom lecture.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/s/98089586308
Meeting ID: 980 8958 6308
Passcode: 188480

TITLE: PROMINENT: unraveling the secrets of solar prominences and coronal rain showers

ABSTRACT: In the ERC-funded project PROMINENT, we set forth to study the `coolest' part of the million-degree solar atmosphere: the condensations formed by thermal instabilities. These come in all shapes and sizes, with the largest condensations forming prominences - clouds suspended magnetically against gravity, one hundredfold cooler and denser than the atmosphere itself. Their formation, internal dynamics, and ultimate ejection into violent coronal mass ejections are routinely witnessed with modern solar observatories, but they pose severe challenges to modelling efforts. I will present state-of-the-art magnetohydrodynamic simulations, where the process of runaway condensations due to radiative losses is studied in unprecedented detail. The
simulations cover prominence scenarios as well as coronal rain showers, where small-scale condensations repeatedly form and rain down in thermodynamically structured magnetic arcades. This solar analog of our own weather turns out to be ubiquitous throughout the solar atmosphere. Our simulations all use the opensource MPI-AMRVAC simulation toolkit [1,2], where the grid-adaptivity is essential to zoom in on details that will be resolved by future observing facilities.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:21:44 -0400 2020-09-10T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
CLASP Dissertation Defense: Rajeswari Balasubramaniam (September 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76732 76732-19741038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Rajeswari Balasubramaniam will be defending her PhD thesis via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96764825341
Meeting ID: 967 6482 5341
Passcode: 725995.

TITLE: Investigating the Sensitivity of Spaceborne GNSS-R Measurements to Ocean Surface Winds and Rain

Faculty Advisor: Chris Ruf

ABSTRACT: Earth remote sensing using reflected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals is an emerging trend, especially for ocean surface wind measurements, primarily due to its all day/all-weather capability. GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) measurements of ocean surface scattering cross section are directly related to the surface roughness at scale sizes ranging from small capillary waves to long gravity waves. These roughness scales are predominantly due to swell, surface winds and other meteorological phenomena such as rain. In this study we are interested in understanding and characterizing the impact of these phenomena on GNSS-R signals through observations and models in order to develop a better understanding of the geophysical parameters retrieved from these measurements.

In the first part of this work, we look at GNSS-R measurements made by the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) for developing an effective wind retrieval model function for GNSS-R measurements. In a fully developed sea state, the wind field has a constant speed and direction over a sufficiently long time and distance and can be assumed to be spatially homogeneous; thus the surface roughness at all scale sizes can be assumed to be wind driven. In this case, a single Fully Developed Seas (FDS) Geophysical Model Function (GMF) is constructed which relates the scattering cross section to the near surface wind speed. However, the sea age and fetch length conditions inside a hurricane are in general not consistent with a fully developed sea state. Therefore, a separate empirical Young Sea Limited Fetch (YSLF) GMF is developed to represent the conditions inside a hurricane. Also, the degree of under development of the seas is not constant inside hurricanes and conditions vary significantly with azimuthal location within the hurricane due to changes in the relative alignment of the storm’s forward motion and its cyclonic rotation. As a result, the relationship between the surface roughness at different scale sizes is azimuthally dependent, as is the relationship between scattering cross section and wind speed represented by the GMF. The azimuthal dependence of the scattering cross-section is modelled and a modified azimuthal YSLF GMF is constructed using measurements by CYGNSS which are nearly coincident with HWRF reanalysis winds for 19 hurricanes in 2017 and 2018.

Next, we study the impact of rain on CYGNSS measurements. GNSS-R uses L-band navigation signals that can penetrate through clouds and rain. Rain has a negligible impact on the transmitted signal in terms of path attenuation at this wavelength. However, there are other effects due to rain, such as changes in surface roughness and rain induced local winds, which can significantly alter the measurements. Currently there are no careful observation-based characterizations of the impact of rain on radar forward scatter, which is the nature of operation of GNSS-R missions. In this part of the study we propose a 3-fold rain model for GNSS-R signals which accounts for: 1) attenuation; 2) surface effects of rain; and 3) rain induced local winds. The attenuation model suggests that a total of 96% or greater transmissivity exists at L-Band up to a rain rate of 30mm/hr. A perturbation model is used to characterize the other two rain effects. It suggests that rain is accompanied by an overall reduction in the scattering cross-section of the ocean surface and, most importantly, this effect is observed only up to surface wind speeds of ~15 m/s, beyond which the gravity capillary waves dominate the scattering in the quasi-specular direction. This work binds together several rain-related phenomena and enhances our overall understanding of rain effects on GNSS-R measurements.

Next, we try to understand the behavior of GNSS-R signals in a near specular scattering regime (surface wind speeds < 5 m/s). Over the ocean surface, roughness can be described by the Mean Square Slope (MSS) which is the integration of the omnidirectional wave spectrum up to an upper limit on the wavenumber which is defined by the Geometric Optics (GO) approximation. In this work we have identified that this upper limit is not applicable at very low wind speed ranges. A new wavenumber model is proposed that shows a dependence of the upper limit on wind speed at very low wind speed ranges (< 5 m/s) and asymptotes to the GO limit at higher wind speeds. This model suggests that the GO limit breaks down at very low wind speeds, and it is under those conditions that the effects of surface roughening by rain becomes significant and is measurable due to an increase in the upper bound on wavenumbers that affect the MSS.

Finally, one of the important objectives for the CYGNSS mission is to provide high quality global scale GNSS-R measurements that can reliably be used for ocean science applications such as the study of ocean wind speed dynamics, tropical cyclone genesis, coupled ocean wave modelling and assimilation into Numerical Weather Prediction models. To achieve this goal, strong quality control filters are needed to detect and remove outlier measurements. Currently, quality control of CYGNSS data products are based on fixed thresholds on various engineering, instrument, and measurement conditions. In this part of the work we develop a Neural Network based quality control filter for automated outlier detection of CYGNSS retrieved winds. The primary merit of the proposed Machine Learning (ML) filter is its ability to better account for interactions between the individual engineering, instrument and measurement conditions than can separate thresholded flags for each one. Use of ML capabilities to capture inherent patterns in the data provides an efficient and effective mechanism to detect and remove outlier measurements, thereby significantly improving the data quality.

Please plan to attend virtually.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:15:07 -0400 2020-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual phd defense
LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series Virtual Kick-Off: Academic Medical Centers as Learning Health Systems (September 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75856 75856-19615923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Learning Health Systems (LHS) methods are now being implemented in interesting and varying ways by academic health centers and their clinical and translational science institutes across the country.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the following are key attributes of Learning Health
Systems:

• Having leaders who are committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Systematically gathering and applying evidence in real-time to guide care
• Employing IT methods to share new evidence with clinicians to improve decision-making
• Promoting the inclusion of patients as vital members of the learning team
• Capturing and analyzing data and care experiences to improve care
• Continually assessing outcomes, refining processes and training to create a feedback cycle for learning and improvement

The LHS Collaboratory's fall seminar series virtual kick-off event will showcase the LHS experiences of three research-intensive academic centers that have been promoting LHS methods. We will be joined by distinguished senior colleagues from Duke,Vanderbilt, and Washington University, who will describe and discuss their institutions' work in this area. They will discuss strategies employed, investments made, challenges encountered, and successes achieved.

Panelists:
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, Vanderbilt University
Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, Washington University
Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke University
Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH, Duke University

Discussant:
Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:45:31 -0400 2020-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo-blocks
U-M Climate & Space Seminar Series: (September 17, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76498 76498-19719156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Named the U-M Climate & Space Alumni of the Year, Dr. Shannon Brown, principal technologist and the supervisor of the microwave instrument science group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will give a seminar on Thursday, Nov. 17. A reception will follow the seminar, which is part of the U-M Climate & Space Seminar Series.

Please join us! The talk will also be streamed live and recorded via Zoom. For details, visit the CLASP Seminar Series webpage.

Abstract:
Instrument science bridges the fields of science and engineering and it’s where I’ve found myself since graduating from Michigan nearly two decades ago. The art is translating the discoveries scientists want to make into the instruments engineers can build (and launch into space). This talk will reminisce on my nearly two decades of research and instrument development of passive microwave radiometer systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Getting from the tiniest nugget of an idea to a full-fledged science mission in space requires persistence, agile thinking and a bit of luck. Space-based missions generally follow a familiar pattern; the initial honeymoon period where anything is possible, building hardware where nothing seems possible and finally science operations where no one expected what was possible. Each of these phases is unique, immensely interesting and the instrument scientist is one of only a few project jobs that spans all three. I’ll share a mix of stories and science from inside the development of the NASA Juno mission and the US Space Force Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) mission. Both of these missions had unique challenges. COWVR was a 2-year instrument development that took 10-years to get into space, finally landing on the International Space Station in 2022. Juno had to be designed to survive the harsh Jovian environment. But once they reached their destination in space, they have been changing our understanding of Jupiter and its moons and demonstrating revolutionary technology back here on Earth. Getting there is never easy nor follows a linear predictable path, but that is what makes it so
interesting.

Shannon T. Brown is a principle technologist and supervisor of microwave instrument science group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He received a B.S degree in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 2005, also from the University of Michigan under the advisement of Professor Christopher Ruf. His research interests include microwave radiometer instrument design, calibration and algorithm development for spaceborne and airborne instruments. He has been involved with the spaceborne Topex and Jason Microwave Radiometers, WindSat Polarimetric Radiometer and the Jason follow-on Advanced Microwave Radiometers on Jason-2/3, Sentinel-6 and SWOT along with a number of airborne radiometers. He is the instrument scientist for the NASA Juno Microwave Radiometer and principal investigator for the US Space Force Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer instrument that is deployed on the International Space Station.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:41:42 -0500 2020-09-17T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
EER Seminar Series (September 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77085 77085-19796480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Much of the conversation on equity and inclusion centers on the need to “increase” something—the marginalized student population, mentoring programs, engagement opportunities, “knowledge” of topics like white privilege. However, few conversations focus on a much harder truth—that the culture of whiteness and maleness in engineering limits sustained improvement in equity and inclusion efforts of most institutions. Using preliminary findings from their current NSF-funded project called “I-MATTER,” Drs. Masta and Pawley examine how engineering culture has normalized racism and sexism for underrepresented students in engineering contexts. Through their discussion, they will highlight the strong need for more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) researchers in white spaces, and encourage white researchers to “stay in their lanes” when approaching equity and inclusion research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:15:05 -0400 2020-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Drs. Stephanie Masta & Alice Pawley
2020 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: Prof. Donald C. Winter, of U-M NAME (September 24, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76499 76499-19719158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Climate & Space is very pleased to announce that Prof. Donald C. Winter of the U-M Naval and Marine Engineering department will give our 2020 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93463339990?pwd=MDV6cUlabmhtNTdIaEcwZndGcWovUT09
Meeting ID: 934 6333 9990
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Ruminations on a career in industry, government and academia

ABSTRACT: I have been blessed with a broad range of professional opportunities in engineering during my career. These ranged from research, systems engineering and management responsibilities at a major aerospace firm, TRW, to appointment as Secretary of the Navy, and most recently, Professor of Practice at the College of Engineering. As a Professor of Practice, I was motivated to look back at my career and assess what experiences proved to be most valuable in enabling me to contribute to my profession and take on additional responsibilities. While many of these experiences have to be lived to obtain full value, I have tried to incorporate some of the more valuable lessons learned into my courses.
I will start off my Spencer lecture with a recap of my career, adding to the normal biographical notes my rationale for the more significant job changes that I took on. Following that, I will highlight some of the particularly valuable lessons learned, putting them into the appropriate programmatic and political context. This personal, intellectual history will include consideration of experiences gleaned from international engagements as well as my US based activities. Lastly, I will attempt to integrate all of these experiences and provide some general recommendations for both students and faculty present.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:10:46 -0400 2020-09-24T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic event image
Center for Global Health Equity Introductory Seminar (September 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77700 77700-19901736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the Introductory Seminar for the Center for Global Health Equity, where we will discuss:
What is the purpose of the Center?
What has been our journey to date?
Where are we going?

Speakers Include:
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
Nancy Love, PhD
Joseph Kolars, MD
John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Laura Rozek, PhD
Andries Coetzee, PhD

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:32:00 -0400 2020-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Speakers
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Justin Kasper of U-M CLASP (October 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76501 76501-19719161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Justin Kasper of U-M CLASP will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95923093443?pwd=ZHVXdUttcEI1dndtWWhZZ1B6OWVJZz09
Meeting ID: 959 2309 3443
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Nuclear power and space exploration

ABSTRACT: After a career as a student, research scientist, civil servant, and professor, this summer I accepted a position with BWX Technologies, Inc (BWXT) as Deputy Chief Technology Officer. BWXT provides safe and effective nuclear solutions for national security, clean energy, environmental remediation, nuclear medicine and space exploration. For example, we manufacture the naval reactors and fuel for every submarine and aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy’s fleet and provide management and operations for more than a dozen DOE and NASA facilities. I have three goals for this seminar. First, I will give you three examples of the projects under way at BWXT that I am really excited about: nuclear thermal propulsion to enable human exploration in space, isotopes to treat cancer, and a new form of high temperature nuclear fuel that could meaningfully combat climate change by producing electrical power and serving as an industrial heat source. Second, I would like to tell you a little bit about what a CTO does in a company in general. And finally I would like to share some observations about what industry is like. I will try to leave a good amount of time at the end for discussion.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:04:26 -0400 2020-10-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
MDP Project Preview Night (October 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78172 78172-19989036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Join us for a virtual project recruitment event, using the Career Fair Plus software.

- Talk to corporate sponsors and faculty PI’s about their projects
- Register ahead of time for interview slots similar to the engineering career fair
- Upload your resume and be prepared to ask questions
- Read the project descriptions on the MDP website before attending

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:57 -0400 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Reception / Open House A Sponsor Mentor from the Human Rights First - Multidisciplinary Design Program project speaks with a prospective applicant at the Project Preview Night event in 2019.
MDP Project Fair (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78176 78176-19989039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Join us for a virtual project recruitment event, using the Career Fair Plus software.

- Talk to corporate sponsors and faculty PI’s about their projects
- Register ahead of time for interview slots similar to the engineering career fair
- Upload your resume and be prepared to ask questions
- Read the project descriptions on the MDP website before attending

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:54 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Reception / Open House A Sponsor Mentor and a Faculty Mentor from the Northrop Grumman Solar Truss - Multidisciplinary Design Program project speak with a prospective applicant at the Project Preview Night event in 2019.
A Virtual Event: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Exposure, Toxicity, and Policy (October 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77430 77430-19854020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

This M-LEEaD Virtual Symposium will focus on issues related to exposure, toxicity, and policy in the unfolding PFAS contamination across Michigan and globally. Speakers will each focus on one of these topics related to their expertise.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:36:19 -0400 2020-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual 10.7.20 Poster
EER Seminar Series (Engineering Education Research) (October 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77660 77660-19899719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity has been a persistent challenge in engineering. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of papers and more than 25 national reports have been published focusing on broadening participation in STEM. Simultaneously, people throughout the U.S. have been working endlessly to solve this problem. Yet, we have seen only incremental progress, suggesting that there is a need to take a step back and re-examine what has been done, in terms of both research and practice. To support this effort, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on critically evaluating the research-to-practice cycle as it relates to broadening participation. In this seminar, he will discuss an ongoing project focused on the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science. The goals of this project are to advance our understanding of the disconnect between research and practice, to identify barriers to progress, and to set a national agenda for broadening the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:41:43 -0400 2020-10-07T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-07T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Walter Lee
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Lisa Welp, of Purdue University (October 8, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76502 76502-19719163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Lisa Welp, of Purdue University will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95849940141?pwd=ZE5mUGkycTAreUpGbW9wWklFVE4zQT09
Meeting ID: 958 4994 0141
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Precipitation isotopes in the Andean Coastal Cordillera reflect the transition between Atlantic and Pacific moisture influence sub-seasonally

ABSTRACT: The western rain-shadow of the Andes mountains is an extremely arid region stretching from Peru through Chile, but is home to millions of people and associated infrastructure. While rainfall is important for water resources and supporting native vegetation, infrequent extreme rainfall events cause costly damage to human life and property. Just in the past several years, there have been extreme rain events in Northern Peru (2015 and 2017) and the Atacama Desert (2015, 2017, and 2019). This region is a transition zone between Atlantic and Pacific moisture influence driven by atmospheric circulation and coastal conditions. The conditions that produce rain in this region are still not fully understood, especially the role that Pacific sea surface temperatures play. Daily rainfall in Arequipa in southern Peru, near the arid Andean Coastal Cordillera, was analyzed for stable water isotope composition during the 2019 wet season to better understand rainfall processes. During anomalously warm coastal sea surface temperatures, Pacific influence was identified, and the isotopic values were more depleted at the 2,328 masl observation location. Improved understanding of regional moisture sources and rain events in this region can aid communities in managing critical water supplies and mitigating flood damage in the future, inform studies of coupled atmosphere-ocean-cloud feedbacks in the tropics, as well as provide insight into paleoclimate studies in this region. This presentation will also describe some of the unique natural ecological and agricultural systems in this arid region.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:24:50 -0400 2020-10-08T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
CFE TechLab Programs Info Session (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77446 77446-19854031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This is your opportunity to ask TechLab staff and instructors anything and everything! During this info session, we’ll go deeper into program specifics and have you leave with a better understanding of how TechLab Climate Change and TechLab at Mcity can help you with your entrepreneurial career goals.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:31:58 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Students visiting IA Ventures in D.C.
2020 Virtual EER Prospective Student Open House (October 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77361 77361-19844064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Students from all institutions are invited to attend. Participants will hear all about the program, meet the faculty and graduate students, learn about career opportunities as a UM graduate in this field and take a virtual tour of the beautiful University of Michigan campus.

Please note that applicants to the EER graduate program must have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in a traditional engineering discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:53:47 -0400 2020-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
Hands-on Workshop: Creating a Hybrid Simulation System Using the Simple Run Time Infrastructure Software (October 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76684 76684-19735053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The goal of this hands-on workshop is to introduce the Simple Run-Time Infrastructure software toolkit (SRTI) to the participants, and provide a template project consisting of multiple simulators, each with a specialized purpose, relating to a natural-disaster scenario. It will take place after the feature talks.

The SRTI is a free, open-source solution developed at the University of Michigan, and enables researchers to connect computer programs and simulators written in different languages, to share data during execution, and to design hybrid systems using disparate simulator modules, with a primary goal of being user friendly. This hands-on workshop will explain what the SRTI is, and provide an example on how to use it.

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to run the SRTI. Please install it prior to the workshop. Refer to icor.engin.umich.edu for more information on supported operating systems and languages. Participants will need to use their own computer systems at home to take part. Basic coding skills in any programming language are required.

Open to the general public. Please register if you wish to participate.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Sep 2020 16:10:17 -0400 2020-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Creating a Hybrid Simulation System Using the Simple Run Time Infrastructure Software
NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Mini Symposium Series: Climate Change, the Environment & Health (October 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77387 77387-19846079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies

It is impossible to ignore the evidence of the past decade - wildfires have made air on the west coast incredibly hazardous and children have been poisoned by drinking water at crucial ages of development. The environment we have created for ourselves is a serious threat to our health.

Eva Feldman, MD, PhD, Director of the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies, will moderate the 30-minute mini symposium that discusses both global and local impacts that the environment has on our health. Along with Dr. Feldman, presentations will be made by Jonathan Overpeck, PhD, Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, who will address climate change and environmental justice; Stuart Batterman, PhD, a professor from the U-M School of Public Health, who will discuss how contaminants in the air affect your health; and Stephen Goutman, MD, MS, director of the Pranger ALS Clinic, who will talk about the association between environmental pollution and ALS.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:26:08 -0400 2020-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Conference / Symposium Climate Change, the Environment & Health Mini Symposium
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. William Kuo, of UCAR (October 15, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76503 76503-19719164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. William Kuo, of UCAR will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94447382809?pwd=cTc5Rnd4NlFkcWwzN2UrNkloQ2pxQT09
Meeting ID: 944 4738 2809
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Impact of Radio Occultation Data on the Prediction of Tropical Cyclogenesis

ABSTRACT: Tropical cyclones are one of the most devastating severe weather systems that are responsible for huge loss of lives and properties every year. Accurate prediction of tropical cyclogenesis by numerical models has been a significant challenge, largely because of the lack of observations over the tropical oceans. The atmospheric limb sounding technique, which makes use of radio signals transmitted by global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), has evolved as a robust global observing system. This technique, known as radio occultation (RO) can provide valuable water vapor and temperature observations for the analysis and prediction of tropical cyclogenesis. Using the WRF modeling and data assimilation system, we show that the assimilation of RO data can substantially improve the skills of the model in predicting the tropical cyclogenesis for ten typhoon cases that took place over the Western Pacific from 2008 to 2010. To gain insight on the impact of GPS RO data assimilation, we perform a detailed analysis of the formation process of Typhoon Nuri (2008), and examine how the assimilation of the GPS RO data enables the model to capture the cyclogenesis. The joint Taiwan-U.S. COSMIC-II mission was launched in June 2019. It has been providing more than 5,000 GPS RO data per day over the tropics since March 2020, after the check-out phase. This offers a great opportunity for research and operational prediction of tropical cyclogenesis.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:30:26 -0400 2020-10-15T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
CLASP Alumni of the Year Lecture: Dr. Sue Ellen Haupt of UCAR (October 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76506 76506-19719167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Climate & Space is very pleased to welcome back alumna Dr. Sue Ellen Haupt of UCAR to give our 2020 Alumni of the Year Lecture. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94836006294?pwd=Skgzb0JjTi9ESFV2akZNeFJScWNBZz09
Meeting ID: 948 3600 6294
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Using AI in Environmental Sciences

ABSTRACT: Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become important tools for the environmental scientist, both in research and in application. These methods have become quite popular in recent years, but they are not new. Early applications in the 1980’s featured more heuristic expert systems approaches, but by the 1990’s supervised learning methods were beginning to predominate. I began applying genetic algorithms to some of my problems during that timeframe. Uses continued to progress to the point where these tools have become nearly as standard as statistical analyses.

The environmental sciences possess a host of interesting problems amenable to advancement by intelligent techniques. We will review the evolution from the early applications and how they have impacted these sciences. We will discuss the types of applications that have been most prevalent as well as my own journey as a physical scientist applying AI as a tool for environmental problems. The talk will touch on topics in weather forecasting, probabilistic prediction, climate applications, optimization problems, downscaling model runs, and emulating processes in models. We will finish with a look at where AI is being applied to environmental science, appears to be going in the future, and some thoughts on how these methods might be best blended with the physical / dynamical modeling approaches to further advance our science.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:43:31 -0400 2020-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic event image
Dr. Nahum Melamed on Asteroid Interception (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78685 78685-20105421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics this Thursday, October 22nd, for a lecture by Dr. Nahum Melamed on Applying Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Solutions to the Problem of Asteroid Interception for Planetary Defense.

Dr. Melamed is a project leader in the Embedded Control Systems Department in the Guidance and Control Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation who validates and certifies the flight software and mission parameters for the Delta IV launch vehicles, and conducts planetary defense technical and policy studies. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

If you're interested please add your name to the spreadsheet linked below.

When: Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 7pm ET (4pm PT)
Where: Zoom (see link below, passcode 424378)

We hope to see you there!!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:08:36 -0400 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion lecture flyer
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
(Re)Engaging the Role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Graduate Education (October 28, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78529 78529-20058230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Increasingly, engineering graduate programs have emphasized the need to train individuals who are capable of working in diverse teams so they are better able to address complex problems in a global society. Yet, discourse related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in engineering is often focused on recruiting and retaining students who are racially minoritized and/or women in the field. Less attention is given to what students learn about DEI during their graduate training. Drawing from findings across multiple research projects, this talk will explore what graduate students learn about the role of DEI in engineering and the implications these lessons have for racially minoritized students’ retention, success, and career pathways.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Perez is an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.S. in biological sciences and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, her M.Ed. in higher education and student affairs at The University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. in higher education from University of Michigan. Dr. Perez’s scholarship has three interrelated lines of inquiry and explores: (a) how people make meaning of collegiate experiences; (b) diverse learning environments and intercultural development; and (c) the professional socialization of graduate students and new practitioners. Across projects, Dr. Perez explores the tensions between structure and agency, and how power, privilege, and oppression affect individuals and groups within higher education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and ACPA-College Student Educators International.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:58:11 -0400 2020-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Rosemary Perez
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Derrick Lampkin, of NASA HQ (October 29, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76504 76504-19719165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Derrick Lampkin, of NASA HQ will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91331459775?pwd=eVA3Z1NhcjR0NDR2cmQzSWdrc1FWZz09
Meeting ID: 913 3145 9775
Passcode: 421507

TITLE:
Greenland’s Shear Margins in Warming Climate: A Summary of Recent Work

ABSTRACT:
The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced unprecedented changes in the couple decades resulting from regional warming resulting in enhanced surface melting. The increase in melting has activated a dynamic surface hydrologic system contributing to significant mass loss. Surface melt runoff contributes directly to Greenland’s mass loss as well as infiltration which impact ice dynamics and mass discharge. The ice sheet has a few critical bounding forces that can influence the rate of mass loss which includes the loss of ice shelves/tongues, enhanced calving at marine-terminating outlet glaciers, and an evolving basal hydrologic system due to infiltration of surface melt. In particular, the impact of surface melt water on ice dynamics via supraglacial lake drainage and runoff has been well documented. Little attention has been focused on direct injection of surface melt water into the shear margins of fast flowing, marine-terminating outlet glaciers, which are a critical control on mass flux. Our initial work was the first to characterize water-filled crevasse ponds within the shear margins of Jakobshavn Isbræ and assess the volume of infiltrated melt water potentially reaching the bed. In the intervening years since this seminal work, we have utilized satellite observations and numerical models to decode the impact of hydrologic shear weakening due to melt water injection from these structures with implications for the evolution of Greenland’s other marine-terminating outlet glaciers under a warming climate.

We have constrained the theoretical impact of hydrologic shear weakening on extra-marginal ice flow using diagnostic models and provide projections for flow enhancement under future warming scenarios. For select seasons, we assessed relationships between extra-marginal, summer-time ice velocities and drainage of water-filled crevasses. We are starting to understand factors that drive how these crevasse systems fill and drain. We have characterized the spatial and temporal variability of melt extent over a 16 year period and assess the temporal changes in hydrologic state (filled vs. drained). Lastly, we explore implications for how not only water-filled shear ponds but other mechanisms such as rheological modification influence the dynamics of marine-terminating outlet glacier systems. Under future regional warming scenarios, we expect for mass discharge from Greenland’s outlet glaciers to be enhanced by perturbations to shear margins of these glacial systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:16:35 -0400 2020-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
CLASP Seminar Series: Lulu Zhao, of U-M CLASP (November 5, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76505 76505-19719166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Lulu Zhao, of U-M CLASP will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92764378588?pwd=VE8zZWpGOTBjaWd1N2VvNWZvNmN0QT09
Meeting ID: 927 6437 8588
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Solar Energetic Particles

ABSTRACT: Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the most powerful solar explosive events occurred on the Sun. In large solar flares, a wide range of electromagnetic waves ranging from the kilometric radio wave to the Gamma-rays are released in a short period of time and a gigantic amount of ionized gas is ejected in the coronal mass ejections. In those processes, solar energetic particles can be accelerated to near-relativistic energies and injected into the interplanetary space. When traveling in the interplanetary space, they impose a serious radiation hazard to human lives on the earth, the orbiting astronauts, spacecraft, and our future space exploration missions. However, the underlying acceleration mechanisms in those events and the particles’ transport process from the sun to the interplanetary space is still under debate. I investigate the behaviors of those energetic particles with observational analysis, and model their behavior using numerical simulations. In particular, I modeled the acceleration and transport process of energetic particles by solving the Fokker-Planck equation numerically and evaluate the temporal and spatial distribution profiles, energy spectra, and element abundances of energetic particles with the measurement made by various spacecraft. Because of their great impact to the space radiation environment and the growing demand for space travel and exploration, a successful forecast of the occurrence and flux of solar energetic particles is urgent. Both numerical models and machine learning techniques are utilized in my current approach to predict the occurrence and flux of solar energetic particles.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:31:39 -0400 2020-11-05T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of natural gas storage capacities of materials for vehicular applications (November 11, 2020 9:40am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79212 79212-20231453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 9:40am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Transportation is responsible for nearly one-third of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission because of burning fossil fuel. While we dream for zero-carbon vehicles, future projections suggest little decline in fossil fuel consumption by the transportation sector until 2050. Therefore, ‘bending the curve’ of CO2 emission prompts the adoption of low-cost and reduced-emission alternative fuels. Natural gas (NG), the most abundant fossil fuel on earth, is such an alternative with nearly 25% lower carbon footprint and lower price compared to its gasoline counterpart. However, the widespread adoption of natural gas as a vehicular fuel is hindered by the scarcity of high-capacity, light-weight, low-cost, and safe storage systems. Recently, materials-based natural gas storage for vehicular applications have become one of the most viable options. Especially, nanoporous materials (NPMs) are in the spotlight of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) because of their exceptional energy storage capacities. However, the number of such NPMs is nearly infinite. It is unknown, a priori, which materials would have the expected natural gas storage capacity. Therefore, searching a high-performing material is like ‘finding a needle in a haystack’ that slows down the speed of materials discovery against growing technological demand. Here we present a novel approach of developing machine learning-guided equations for the on-demand prediction of energy storage capacities of NPMs using a few physically meaningful structural properties. These equations provide users the ability to calculate energy storage capacity of an arbitrary NPM rapidly using only paper and pencil. We show the utility of these equations by predicting NG storage of over 500,000 covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), a class of NPMs. We discovered a COF with record-setting NG storage capacity, surpassing the unmet target set by DOE. In principle, the data-driven approach presented here might be relevant to other disciplines including science, engineering, and health care.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:22:47 -0500 2020-11-11T09:40:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation Alauddin Ahmed
Fusing Computer Vision And Space Weather Modeling (November 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79214 79214-20231455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Space weather has impacts on Earth ranging from rare, immensely disruptive events (e.g., electrical blackouts caused by solar flares and coronal mass ejections) to more frequent impacts (e.g., satellite GPS interference from fluctuations in the Earth’s ionosphere caused by rapid variations in the solar extreme UV emission). Earth-impacting events are driven by changes in the Sun’s magnetic field; we now have myriad instruments capturing petabytes worth of images of the Sun at a variety of wavelengths, resolutions, and vantage points. These data present opportunities for learning-based computer vision since the massive, well-calibrated image archive is often accompanied by physical models. This talk will describe some of the work that we have been doing to start integrating computer vision and space physics by learning mappings from one image or representation of the Sun to another. I will center the talk on a new system we have developed that emulates parts of the data processing pipeline of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI). This pipeline produces data products that help study and serve as boundary conditions for solar models of the energetic events alluded to above. Our deep-learning-based system emulates a key component hundreds of times faster than the current method, potentially opening doors to new applications in near-real-time space weather modeling. In keeping with the goals of the symposium, however, I will focus on some of the benefits close collaboration has enabled in terms of understanding how to frame the problem, measure success of the model, and even set up the deep network.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:27:08 -0500 2020-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Presentation David Fouhey
Decoding the Environment of Most Energetic Sources in the Universe (November 11, 2020 10:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79215 79215-20231456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:20am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Astrophysics has always been at the forefront of data analysis. It has led to advancements in image processing and numerical simulations. The coming decade is bringing qualitatively new and larger datasets than ever before. The next generation of observational facilities will produce an explosion in the quantity and quality of data for the most distant sources, such as the first galaxies and first quasars. Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe, reaching luminosity up to 10^14 that of the Sun. Their emission is powered by giant black holes that convert matter into energy according to the famous Einstein’s equation E = mc^2. The largest progress will occur in quasar spectroscopy. Detailed measurements of spectrum of quasar light, as it is being emitted near the central black hole and partially absorbed by clouds of gas on the way to the observer on Earth, allows for a particularly powerful probe of quasar environment. Because spectra of different chemical elements are unique, spectroscopy allows to study not only the overall properties of matter such as density and temperature, but also the detailed chemical composition of the intervening matter. However, the interpretation of these spectra is made very challenging by the many sources contributing to the absorption of light. In order to take a full advantage of this new window into the nature of supermassive black holes we need detailed theoretical understanding of the origin of quasar spectral features. In a MIDAS PODS project we are applying machine learning to model and extract such features. We are training the models using data from the state-of-the-art numerical simulations of the early universe. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional astronomical data analysis. We have only started learning what information can be extracted and still looking for a new framework to interpret these data.

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Performance Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:31:24 -0500 2020-11-11T10:20:00-05:00 2020-11-11T10:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Performance Oleg Gnedin
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Alex Glocer of NASA GSFC (November 12, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76672 76672-19735032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Alex Glocer of NASA GSFC will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92337149110?pwd=NzZFRUJ5dUhGcEtIcHRFRFVtSll3QT09
Meeting ID: 923 3714 9110
Passcode: 421507

TITLE: Recent Developments in Modeling the Origin of Near-Earth Plasma

ABSTRACT: The origin of near-Earth plasma has been a topic of intense scientific study since the beginning of the space age. Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic cavity carved out of the solar wind by the planet's intrinsic magnetic field, is populated by two sources. One source is the solar wind, the tenuous plasma comprised primarily of protons that is constantly blowing outward from the sun. The second source is Earth itself, where plasma flows from the ionosphere to fill the magnetosphere with protons as well as heavier ion species. Plasma of ionospheric origin is implicated in a host of magnetospheric processes with impacts on various space weather impacts. This presentation will discuss recent advances in modeling ionospheric outflows of plasma and their impact on magnetospheric composition and dynamics. These advances apply an amalgam of fluid and kinetic techniques, adding new features and capabilities to models in the Space Weather Modeling Framework. These tools are then applied to study a number of interesting science problems. First, we will use numerical simulations to explore how energy inputs connect to ionospheric outflow for H+ and O+ and what controls the upper and lower bounds of the outflow. These results help to explore the causal physical connections underlying widely used empirical results. We will then look at the coupled space environment during a geomagnetic storm using a simulation that separates the different sources of near-Earth plasma. These simulations include separate fluids for solar wind and ionospheric protons, ionospheric oxygen, and the plasmasphere. Additionally, the model includes the effects of both a hot ring current and a cold plasmasphere population simultaneously.
A number of intriguing results are found in this study touching on the evolution of magnetospheric composition, hemispheric asymmetry of ionospheric outflow, and the system-wide impact caused by the arrival of the plasmaspheric plume at the dayside magnetopause.
Finally, the potential of new flight projects to address outstanding mysteries in this area will be discussed.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:10:58 -0500 2020-11-12T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic seminar image
Dignifying the Disinherited: The Case for Pro-Black Engineering Education Research (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79149 79149-20217705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Research is essential to the infrastructure of education and plays a prominent role in driving curriculum, policy, and professional practice. Therefore, engineering education research (EER) is critical to driving the impetus and approach to racial equity within engineering education and practice. This presentation will spotlight how anti-Blackness is embedded in EER practices and delineate its roots in America’s systemic racism. Centering the experience of Black people within the engineering education community helps reframe the problem of racial/ethnic exclusion, while generating a new way forward through pro-Black EER (PEER). PEER uses critical methodologies, frameworks, and intentional citation practices to assert the genius of Black people.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:47:59 -0500 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. James Holly, Jr.
CLASP Fall 2020 Student First Paper Celebration and Oral Session (November 19, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76674 76674-19735034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Several Climate & Space students published their first lead-author paper this year!

Please join CLaSP Dept. Chair Tuija Pulkkinen and Prof. Shasha Zou as we recognize their achievement with a program of virtual oral presentations.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92184245518...
Meeting ID: 921 8424 5518
Passcode: 421507

Student presentations:

1. Xiantong Wang (Gabor Toth, advisor)
“Predicting Solar Flares with Machine Learning: Investigating Solar Cycle Dependence.” Wang, X., Chen, Y., Toth, G., Manchester, W. B., Gombosi, T. I., Hero, A. O., et al. (2020).
The Astrophysical Journal, 895(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab89ac

2. Chongxing Fan (Xianglei Huang, advisor)
“Satellite-observed changes of surface spectral reflectances due to solar farming and the implication for radiation budget.” Fan, C. X. and X. L. Huang.
Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbdea.

“Strong Precipitation Suppression by Aerosols in Marine Low Clouds.” Fan, C., Wang, M., Rosenfeld, D., Zhu, Y., Liu, J., & Chen, B. (2020).
Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7), e2019GL086207. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086207

3. Agnit Mukhopadhyay (Mike Liemohn, advisor)
“Conductance model for extreme events: Impact of auroral conductance on space weather forecasts.” Mukhopadhyay, A., Welling, D. T., Liemohn, M. W., Ridley, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Anderson, B. J. (2020).
Space Weather, 18, in press, e2020SW02551. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002551

4. Maryam Salim (Roger De Roo, advisor)
"A Novel Frequency Tunable RF Comb Filter." M. Salim, S. Mousavi, L. Van Nieuwstadt, R. De Roo and K. Sarabandi.
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2020.3031287.

5. Zach Fair (Mark Flanner, advisor)
“Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals.” Fair, Z., Flanner, M., Brunt, K. M., Fricker, H. A., and Gardner, A. S. (2020).
The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-136, in press.

6. Shannon Hill (Tuija Pulkkinen, advisor)
“Local heating of oxygen ions in the presence of magnetosonic waves: Possible source for the warm plasma cloak?” Hill, S., Buzulukova, N., Boardsen, S., Fok, M.‐C. (2020).
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027210. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027210

7. Daniel Huber (Allison Steiner and Eric Kort, advisors)
"Daily cropland soil NOx emissions identified by TROPOMI and SMAP." Huber, D. E., Steiner, A. L., & Kort, E. A. (2020).
Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089949. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089949.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:15:14 -0500 2020-11-19T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual generic event image
Sustainability Movie Night (November 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78152 78152-19985102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Come watch "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" and listen to Professor Bryan Goldsmith talk with us about sustainability! Cowspiracy is a great documentary film on how humans are creating environmental disasters in ways most people might not know about. And Professor Goldsmith is performing cutting-edge research to promote sustainability through advanced materials and computational modeling. This event is put on by the sustainability committee of the Engineering Student Government and we believe that with education, we can learn to become more sustainable together.

RSVP here to get a GrubHub food voucher for the event:
https://forms.gle/UqoPKGzYcKY2MRXr8

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Film Screening Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:35:08 -0400 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Student Government Film Screening Cowspiracy
Bioethics Discussion: Annihilation (December 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58833 58833-14563725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our obliteration.

[Video-conference link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94651294615]

A few readings to consider before oblivion:
–– Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death
––The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage
––The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective
––Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/052-annihilation/.

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When the server hosting this blog is turned off, where does the website go: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:52 -0500 2020-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Annihilation
U-M Center for Global Health Equity: Climate, Vulnerability and Health Seminar (December 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79775 79775-20491895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Nancy Love (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Joseph Eisenberg (School of Public Health) will lead a multi-disciplinary panel on navigating data gaps towards creating impact in low income countries. Professors Love and Eisenberg lead a climate-focused Challenge Group through the new UM Center for Global Health Equity, which seeks to bring experts from across the University together in multi-disciplinary collaborations that can positively impact some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Panelists include:
Pamela Jagger, School of Environment and Sustainability
Marie O'Neill, School of Public Health
Dirgha Ghimire, Population Studies Center
Branko Kerkez, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:54:15 -0500 2020-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Bioethics Discussion: The Madness of Crowds (January 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58834 58834-14563726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on popular delusions.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings from the madding crowd:
––The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest
––The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review in the Web Era
––The Hippocratic Thorn in Bioethics’ Hide: Cults, Sects, and Strangeness
––The Importance of Complying with Vaccination Protocols in Developed Countries: “Anti-Vax” Hysteria and the Spread of Severe Preventable Diseases

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/053-the-madness-of-crowds/.

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It would be shear madness if you did not crowd the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:27 -0500 2021-01-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Madness of Crowds
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning In Health Sciences Education (January 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80071 80071-20554878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us on Thursday, January 14, 2021, 12:00 - 1:00 PM for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Health Sciences Education. We are interested in learning more about how these new technologies can cultivate new approaches in teaching and learning that can improve health and science outcomes.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:13:27 -0500 2021-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Livestream / Virtual RISE Virtual Talking Circle
Tianle Yuan: Artificial Intelligence-based Cloud Distributor (AI-CD): Modeling Clouds at Different Scales (January 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80989 80989-20830790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: Here we introduce the artificial intelligence-based cloud distributor (AI-CD) approach to generate cloud fields across different scales and cloud types. We show that generative adversarial nets (GANs) can not only generate realistic cloud fields with corresponding meteorological variables, but also capture known physical relationship between cloud fields and meteorological variables such as sea surface temperature, atmospheric stability, and relative humidity etc. We demonstrate that this approach works across a large range of spatial scales: from individual grid points (sub-grid process modeling), multiple grids, to global scale. In addition, the AI-CD approach is stochastic in nature. We suggest the AI-CD approach can be used as a data-drive framework for stochastic cloud parameterization.

Bio: Dr. Yuan got his B.S. in Geophysics and Computer Science in Peking Univ., PhD from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2008. After graduation, he is affiliated with Joint Center for Earth Systems Technologies (JCET) at the UMBC and NASA GSFC as an Associated Research Scientist. His research interest includes cloud and aerosol climate feedback, aerosol-cloud interactions, remote sensing, cloud physics, and application of ML/Deep Learning in Earth science. In deep learning applications, Dr. Yuan published a few papers in modeling sub-grid clouds, global scale clouds, hurricane prediction, finding ship-tracks, and supervised and unsupervised cloud morphology classifications.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:05:38 -0500 2021-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Tianle Yuan
Bioethics Discussion: Population Control (January 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58835 58835-14563727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on limiting ourselves.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence
––Contraception and its ethical considerations
––Must Growth Doom the Planet?
––The Population Control Holocaust

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/054-population-control/.

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The masses will not be controlled at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:14 -0500 2021-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Population Control
MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (January 27, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80221 80221-20601997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

The seminar is free and open to the public.
To request the Zoom link, please send an email to:
mipse-central@umich.edu

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental information about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our communications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.

Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft strategically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the farthest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untangle the effects of the star we live with.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:28:38 -0500 2021-01-27T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Nicola Fox
Supporting the Integration of Numerical Computation in Physics Education (January 27, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80602 80602-20761740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Computation has revolutionized how modern science is done. Modern scientists use computational techniques to reduce mountains of data, to simulate impossible experiments, and to develop intuition about the behavior of complex systems. Much of the research completed by modern scientists would be impossible without the use of computation. And yet, while computation is a crucial tool of practicing scientists, most modern science curricula do not reflect its importance and utility. In this talk, I will discuss the urgent need to construct such curricula and present research that investigates the challenges at a variety of scales from the large (institutional structures) to the small (student understanding of a concept). I will discuss how the results of this research can be leveraged to facilitate the computational revolution in science education. This research will help us understand and develop institutional incentives, effective teaching practices, evidence-based course activities, and valid assessment tools. This work has been supported by Michigan State University’s CREATE for STEM Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), the Norwegian Research Council, and the Thon Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:45:09 -0500 2021-01-27T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Danny Caballero
CLASP Seminar Series: Sean Potter (January 28, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80416 80416-20719752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Sean Potter will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

This is a zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92505573756?pwd=aGhlSGpvaVVidDMzMnM2VzBYMm1jdz09
Meeting ID: 925 0557 3756
Passcode: 935679

In the first installment of our Winter 2021 Series, meteorologist and weather historian Sean Potter will share excerpts and insights from his new book, "Too Near for Dreams: The Story of Cleveland Abbe, America’s First Weather Forecaster."

"Cleveland Abbe’s Michigan Connection"

Abstract:
Abbe was the first person in America to successfully provide regular, practical weather forecasts to the public, based on reports from a network of observers. Before he turned his attention to meteorology, however, Abbe was an astronomer—and he spent time at the University of Michigan, studying astronomy under the famed astronomer Franz Brünnow and teaching physics and civil engineering. These early experiences in his professional life helped set him on a course that would lead to his establishment, in 1869, of a weather forecasting enterprise at the Cincinnati Observatory, where he served as director.

In 1871, he moved to Washington, where he became a civilian assistant to General Albert Myer, chief signal officer of the Army, who had taken charge of the nation’s first weather service the year before. Abbe would lead the forecasting efforts at the nation’s newly established weather service and set the standard for scientific research in a career that would last nearly half a century. Throughout his life, this “man of gentle and generous ways,” guided by his abiding faith, overcame personal and professional hardships in pursuit of science to become the most famous—and celebrated—meteorologist in America, if not the world.

During his talk, Mr. Potter, whose career in weather and communications has included work for ABC News, and the National Weather Service, will share stories from Abbe’s life and career, with a focus on his time in Michigan.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:44:35 -0500 2021-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Sean Potter 2
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Shasha Zou (February 4, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80418 80418-20719753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP Prof. Shasha Zou will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91943103577?pwd=aEtVenE0SXBCdkVrcU56N1RRWWxZUT09
Meeting ID: 919 4310 3577
Passcode: 662986

"The Bubbly Ionosphere"

ABSTRACT:
In the equatorial and low latitude ionosphere, the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) is the most striking large-scale phenomenon. Embedded within EIA are low-density smaller-scale structures, i.e., the equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs), which occur preferentially over the post-sunset local times. EPBs are known to host ionospheric irregularities that can cause severe satellite signal scintillations and even signal loss of lock, thereby affecting communication and navigation. However, our understanding of the day-to-day and longitudinal variability of EIA and EPBs is still illusive and thus prohibits forecasting capabilities. In recent years, the rapidly developing ground-based GNSS receiver network has enabled regional to continental scale measurements of the ionosphere and has revealed rich dynamic structures in those regions during storm time, such as much widened or asymmetric EIA crest and super equatorial plasma bubbles reaching relatively high latitudes. In this talk, I will talk about our recent work on super bubbles and machine learning effort to characterize their occurrence better.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:24:56 -0500 2021-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Shasha Zou
AIAA Winter Mass Meeting (February 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81559 81559-20927549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join us for our Mass Meeting this Thursday, February 4 at 7 PM as we present an overview of our org and bring everyone up to speed as to what to expect this semester as a member of AIAA! We'll briefly go over our plan, have a bite together (all attendees will be reimbursed $5 on Venmo), and then, we'll finish off the night with a game of Aerospace Kahoot! The winner gets a $15 Amazon gift card, so come PREPARED!!!

Please fill out this Google form if you are interested in becoming a member of our branch:
https://forms.gle/3a4f4qHd1E4Ta67t7

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:09:28 -0500 2021-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Rally / Mass Meeting meeting flyer
The Coming Global Storms: The Critical Impact & Future of Weather Forecasting (February 5, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80965 80965-20824893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The 2020 Atlantic cyclone season shattered historical records for the number of tropical/subtropical storms in a single year and the highest number of storms since 1916 to make landfall. These storms are becoming stronger, more frequent, and with greater rainfall than ever before, leading to higher loss of life and economic damage. Like Earth, space is a place of potentially violent storms, transferring energy from the solar wind into disturbances in our planet's atmosphere and space environment. These storms have the potential to cause disruptions and failures of networked systems around the world.

In this discussion moderated by Eric Michielssen, hear from Tuija Pulkkinen and Chris Ruf about the coming global storms and what Michigan Engineering is doing to better help warn and protect people against their risks.

This is a zoom presentation.
Registration link: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/clasp_2_5_21_rsvp_form

Meet the speakers:

Eric Michielssen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He currently serves as the Associate Dean for Research where he provides support for the College of Engineering’s research enterprise. In addition to this role, he served as the University’s Associate Vice President for Advanced Research Computing from 2013 to 2018. In this role, he helped develop several new degree programs in computational and data science and brought together faculty from disparate disciplines to tackle interdisciplinary problems using advanced computational methods.

Tuija Pulkkinen received her Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the University of Helsinki in Finland. She is currently the Professor and Chair of the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has worked previously as Dean and Vice President for Research and Innovation at Aalto University and as Research Professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Prof. Pulkkinen’s research interests focus on the plasma physics of the Sun-Earth system, including numerical simulations and the development of methods that help improve space weather forecasts.

Chris Ruf received a B.A. degree in physics from Reed College and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently the Frederick Bartman Collegiate Professor of Climate and Space Science at the University of Michigan. He has worked previously at Intel Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Penn State University. Prof. Ruf’s research interests include remote sensing methods, atmospheric, oceanographic and terrestrial applications, and sensor technology development. He is currently Principal Investigator of the NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:44:02 -0500 2021-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual coming global storm
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81709 81709-20943461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

With Amy Schulz (HBHE UM SPH), Stuart Batterman (EHS UM SPH), and Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation) speaking on "Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit".

ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96155698295

Organized by the Community Engagement Core & Integrated Health Sciences Core of M-LEEaD (Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease)

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:27:30 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Livestream / Virtual Feb 9 Air Quality & Health in Detroit
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Herek Clack (February 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80419 80419-20719754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Herek Clack of U-M Civil and Environmental Engineering will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96762177345?pwd=WDduMDJiL1IzMitiemY4VnBwcmtnQT09
Meeting ID: 967 6217 7345
Passcode: 513676

"Non-Thermal Plasma Air Sterilization: Recent Experimental Validation, Identified Challenges, and Comparisons to Conventional Air Treatment Technologies"

Abstract:
Increasing recognition of the transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus between humans as airborne aerosols, and the limited options for respiratory protection against such transmission, have drawn attention to air purification products, with their relative advantages and disadvantages being closely considered. This presentation reviews recent experimental achievements in developing non-thermal plasmas (NTPs) to potentially displace HEPA filtration and ultraviolet irradiation for rapid inactivation of airborne viruses in ventilation air. Studies considering both viral surrogates and actual viral pathogens known to cause animal disease are discussed. Unique challenges faced in conducting airborne virus inactivation studies are described along with solutions developed. Finally, performance comparisons between NTP air sterilization and the established technologies of UV irradiation and particle filtration are presented, demonstrating the substantial promise posed by NTP-based approaches.

Bio:
Herek Clack is an associate professor of civil & environmental engineering at the University of Michigan. At U-M, his group focuses on chemical and biological aerosols and their interactions with electric fields and electrical discharges. He has served on numerous National Research Council committees addressing environmental issues ranging from the implications of changes to the regulations governing power plant emissions to the safe and ethical thermal destruction of both conventional munitions and chemical warfare agents by the U.S. military. He is the recipient of the XVI Distinguished Young Alumni/ae award (MIT, 2000), the NSF CAREER Award (NSF, 2004), the Harry J. White Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Science and Application of Electrostatic Precipitation (Int’l Soc. for Electrostatic Precipitation, 2013), and the Kenneth M. Reese Outstanding Research Scientist Award (Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering, 2019). He is vice-president and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation (ISESP); serves on the Mitigation and Control Technology working group, Awards Committee, and Representation & Equity Affairs Committee of the American Association for Aerosol Research; and is co-founder and acting CEO of the startup company Taza Aya LLC. He earned an S.B. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT (1987) and an M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:40:47 -0500 2021-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Herek Clack
Improving the Evidence to Practice Gap through Innovation in Health Science Education (February 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81403 81403-20893762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 3:00 - 4:00 PM for a discussion on Improving the Evidence to Practice Gap through Innovation in Health Science Education.

Register for the event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-virtual-talking-circle-tickets-130006826919

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:37:46 -0500 2021-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
An Honest Conversation: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering (February 17, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81702 81702-20943454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In 2020, we witnessed several examples of social injustice and social unrest. As human beings and engineers, we must decide how we want to respond to what happened and how we want to move forward. Calls to improve our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have coincided with the call to update our overall engineering curriculum. Over the years, several initiatives have been launched to address such issues, which primarily attempt to address perceived inadequacies in underrepresented students. However, scarce efforts have been developed to address the engineering culture that has limited the full participation of women and people of color in engineering. Furthermore, few of us in engineering have the knowledge, skills, or ability to productively engage with issues leading to the marginalization and social unrest. Rarely do we dare to apply our problem-solving or critical thinking approaches to how to educate or improving DEI. As a result, the goal of this talk is to provide engineers with language to have an honest conversation about our individual and collective response to the inequity in engineering and realign our actions to improve engineering education. This impactful workshop will provide definitions and practical examples of key DEI concepts in engineering based on holistic interdisciplinary research.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:44:52 -0500 2021-02-17T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kelly Cross
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Merav Opher (February 18, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80420 80420-20719755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Merav Opher of Boston University will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/91268753609?pwd=d3JXTnpwZ00wUmpLaFpLaDkvVDdBdz09
Meeting ID: 912 6875 3609
Passcode: 068208

"Our Heliospheric Shield"

ABSTRACT:
Astrospheres shield stars and their systems of planets from energetic particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) that stream from the galaxy. The shielding of GCRs by astrospheres is a fundamental, open question whose answer is critical to assessing the habitability of exoplanets. But even before we study the shielding properties of other astrospheres to ascertain habitability, we must understand why the only known astrosphere that harbors life, Earth’s Sun’s heliosphere, does so. Space science is at a pivotal point in generating new understandings of the heliosphere due to the flood of new in situ data from the Voyager 1 (V1), Voyager 2 (V2), and New Horizon spacecraft, combined with the energetic neutral atom (ENA) maps generated by IBEX and Cassini. To date, our best large-scale computer models fail to reproduce critical observations, such as the size of the heliosphere, the plasma speeds and directions, and the width of the heliosheath.

Heliospheric observations indicate that processes such as turbulence, reconnection, wave-particle interactions and thermal conduction play a crucial role in the outer layers of the solar system; however, these processes have not yet been included in current global models. Observations by Voyager indicate that suprathermal particles, such as pickup ions (PUIs, ionized particles formed from the interaction of the ionized solar wind with the neutral interstellar H atoms), carry most of the plasma pressure in outer layers of the solar system. How these suprathermal populations evolve in response to kinetic effects, such as turbulence, reconnection and acceleration, is poorly understood, but given their energy contribution they significantly impact global scales. Other remaining puzzles are: 1) The acceleration region and mechanism for anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs); the two Voyager spacecraft found no evidence of acceleration of high-energy ACRs at the termination shock (TS) but instead detected their increase of the ACRs as they moved across the heliosheath (HS). 2) The HS 30-50% thinner than current models predict 3) The magnetic field direction doesn’t change at the HP and we don’t know how far from the HP does the solar wind influence extend 4) The significant increase in Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) just prior to the HP crossings by both V1 and V2, and the unusual anisotropies observed in the LISM are not understood.

In this talk I will review some of the puzzles and advances being made in understanding some of the fundamental features of the heliosphere as well as the efforts being made in that regard by the SHIELD DRIVE Science Center (http://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/). These aspects include the basic “shape” of the heliosphere, the extent of its tail, the nature of the heliosheath, and the structure of the local interstellar medium (LISM) just upstream of the heliopause (HP).

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:39:41 -0500 2021-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Merav Opher
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Hailong Wang (February 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80421 80421-20719756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Hailong Wang of the Pacific Northwest Laboratory will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a Zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94897438456?pwd=S3h5VWxEWVhhVmRNSTEzVUt6Yyt2Zz09
Meeting ID: 948 9743 8456
Passcode: 192897

"Understanding roles of cloud and precipitation in the recent Arctic warming through radiative feedbacks"

Abstract:
Since the early 1980s, the Arctic has warmed 2-3 times faster than the global mean, a feature often called Arctic amplification (AA). As the Arctic warms, the melt of snow and ice together with the associated feedbacks is known to be an important reason for AA. According to our feedback estimates from historical climate model simulations and reanalysis datasets, much of the amplified Arctic warming can be attributed to the surface albedo feedback. In a recent study, we used results from a global climate model and multiple reanalysis datasets to unravel the causes of a 1% per decade absolute reduction in the Arctic surface albedo, as revealed by satellite observations. We found that reductions of terrestrial snow cover, snow cover fraction over sea ice, and sea ice extent appear to contribute equally to the Arctic albedo decline. Further analysis of the global model results showed that the decrease in snow cover fraction is primarily driven by the increase in surface air temperature, followed by declining snowfall. Although the total precipitation has increased as the Arctic warms in the recent decades, Arctic snowfall has decreased substantially in all of the analyzed datasets. While CMIP6 models agree well on the importance of surface albedo feedback to AA, net cloud feedback over the Arctic has large uncertainties including its sign, which strongly depends on the datasets (e.g., reanalysis, satellite, or climate models), the time periods, and the methods used for the feedback estimation. AMIP6 models with known historical effective radiative forcing give a near-zero global mean cloud feedback for the recent past, leading to a negative global mean net feedback that is about twice the feedback estimated from CMIP6 long‐term warming (4×CO2) experiments.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:32:02 -0500 2021-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Hailong Wang
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. John Knox (March 4, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80422 80422-20719757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. John Knox of the University of Georgia will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

"New Insights Into Tornado Debris"

ABSTRACT:
From "The Wizard of Oz" (Dorothy) to "Twister" (cows), the transport of objects by tornado winds has captivated the public. In this talk I'll discuss the history of scientific research into this phenomenon and its evolution from anecdotal accounts to "dual-pol" radar observations. I'll focus on the work of University of Georgia students to fuse social media and atmospheric science to create an unprecedented dataset of tornado debris from the April 2011 tornado super outbreak in the Southeast U.S. By the end of the talk, you'll know more about the how-big, how-high, how-far of tornado debris, and also why this topic matters to meteorologists and emergency managers alike.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:11:58 -0500 2021-03-04T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion John Knox 3
MIRA Conversations on Inclusion and Equity Presents: (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82672 82672-21155686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics

“Diversity in Astronomy: The Role of Summer Research Programs”

Summer research is probably one of the most effective ways to give students experiences and motivation for a career in science. In 2002, I served as the first director of the UW-Madison Astrophysics REU program, and I have been involved in this program ever since, including running the program during the one summer where we had a gap in funding. I will describe the evolution of this program, my thoughts and experiences about what works, and what we could be doing better as a community. The continuity of this program has allowed us to obtain funding from the UW-Madison’s Graduate School, individual grants, and other sources. (This additional support has allowed us to fund 45 additional students beyond the NSF supported students.) From 2002 to 2018, over fifty mentors have worked with a total of 175 students, including 92 women (53%), 49 students who are members of under-represented minorities (URM, 28%), and four students with documented disabilities. We now have fifty-one alumni who have earned their PhDs (22 in Astronomy/Space Physics, 14 in Physics, and nine in other areas), including twenty-five women and eleven URM alumni.

Please note: Should you require any reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Nicholle Cardinal at ndcard@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:43:55 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Bob Benjamin
Motivation and Identity as Signals of Systemic Problems in Engineering Education (March 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82513 82513-21114065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a well-documented history of systemic engineering education problems ranging from a persistently chilly climate to a burgeoning mental health crisis. Outcomes of these problems include but are not limited to increased attrition, decreased learning, and reduced engineering innovation resulting from a homogenous engineering population. While these measures provide concrete evidence of systemic problems, they do not provide clear targets for change or an early warning system of how systemic problems influence students before crucial decision points.

To address the limitations of existing engineering education outcome measures, measures of how students internalize engineering experiences are needed. Students' motivations for engineering tasks and identifications as engineers can fill this gap as they are contextually responsive and connected to educational outcomes such as deep learning, student retention, and task persistence. Additionally, students' educational experiences directly influence their motivations and identities.

Informed by specific theories of motivation and identity (future time perspective and engineering role identity, respectively), this presentation describes how students' motivations and identities are shaped by their engineering education experiences and shape engineering education cultures. Specifically, I will discuss the homogenization of undergraduates' motivations and identities; the connections between motivation and identity and experiences of discrimination and bias; and the identity and motivationally undermining experiences of engineering graduate students. I will conclude by discussing actionable steps to shift engineering education defaults to foster students' motivations and identities.

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the ways students' motivations and identities shape and are shaped by their engineering education experiences. The results of this work seek to implement evidence-based practices to create educational defaults that foster student success and thriving. Adam has a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Bioengineer, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:14 -0500 2021-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Adam Kirn
2021 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: Dr. Jack Kaye (March 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80426 80426-20719761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department is very pleased to welcome Dr. Jack Kaye of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as our 2021 Spencer Lecturer.

Dr. Kaye is Associate Director for Research of the Earth Science Division (ESD) in NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

"From Alphabet Soup to Gourmet Cuisine - My 30+ Years of Interagency and International Coordination in Earth System Science"

The Earth is a complicated system that is driven by a mix of naturally-occurring and human-induced forcings, and its study requires a variety of integrated approaches addressing multiple Earth system components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, lithosphere) and the processes that couple them, now combined into the overall subject of Earth System Science. Besides being simply an object of scientific study, Earth is also our collective home, and its response to natural and human change affects the lives of today’s and tomorrow’s global citizens, making Earth System Science a rich subject for both scientific research and for the application of the results of that research to policy and decision making. The scope and breadth of the topic makes the topic too big to be addressed fully by any one organization, so coordination across organizations, both domestically and internationally, becomes a key consideration in our respective efforts. The resulting coordination affects all aspects, including observations (from space, air, and surface), modeling, process research, assessment, and applications. In the US, this has meant interagency coordination, both bilateral and multilateral, while internationally, the coordination has also involved bilateral and multilateral relationships, the latter including those that are both government-driven and community-driven. In this talk, my experience in interagency and international coordination will be reviewed, along with some highlights, lessons learned, and thoughts about the future. Interagency examples will include the US Global Change Research Program and its National Climate Assessment, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology and the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System, while international examples will include the World Climate Research Program, the World Meteorological Organization, and bilateral cooperation with several international partners on Space Shuttle and Satellite programs.

Please join us!

Contact: Laura Hopkins, lhopkins@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:21:07 -0500 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual 2021 Spencer Lecture 3
What Should Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Be Known For? (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82425 82425-21098206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:25:35 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Xianzhe Jia (March 18, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80423 80423-20719758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Xianzhe Jia of U-M CLASP will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

This is a zoom virtual event. Please contact lhopkins@umich.edu to request zoom access.

"Searching for Water Plumes on Europa"

ABSTRACT:
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is one of the best places in our solar system to search for extraterrestrial life because it is believed to harbor a global ocean beneath its ice cover. In recent years, following the discovery of water jets spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, numerous efforts have been undertaken to look for plume activity at Europa. Data that have been analyzed so far include telescopic observations covering a wide range of wavelengths as well as in situ data acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft that conducted multiple close flybys of the moon during its mission. Signatures of putative water plumes have indeed been identified in Hubble Space Telescope images and a re-analysis of the Galileo magnetic field and plasma wave data suggests that the spacecraft passed through a plume during its closest encounter with Europa. In this presentation we will review current evidence of plumes on Europa and discuss various challenges encountered in the search for plume activity. We will also provide an outlook for future missions to the Jupiter system, such as the Europa Clipper and JUICE missions, that will offer new opportunities for probing plume activity at Europa.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:59:29 -0500 2021-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Xianzhe Jia
Todd Barber on the Curiosity Rover (March 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83025 83025-21253076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Curiosity's mission to the red planet will be covered in detail by Todd Barber, a graduate of MIT and recipient of NASA's exceptional achievement award. Topics to be discussed include the history of Mars rovers at JPL, the scientific motivation for Curiosity, and the preparations for launch two days after Thanksgiving in 2011.

The science suite on board this one-ton mega rover will be presented, as well as the engineering challenges involved in getting Curiosity to the launch pad, traveling 352 million miles to Mars over 8.5 months, and ‘sticking the landing’ following the so-called ‘seven minutes of terror’ on August 5th, 2012.

Please join AIAA virtually for this event with an amazing speaker!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:43:32 -0400 2021-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Community Cultural Wealth, Program Evaluation, and ASEE CDEI, Oh My! (March 24, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83003 83003-21235293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As a sociologist who has been working in STEM and Engineering Education for 18 years, and who isn’t on the tenure track, Liz will share a little bit about a few different areas (Research, Evaluation, and Service) that she has focused on in her career.  Assets-based frameworks for understanding student experience are receiving more and more visibility these days and Liz’s work has used critical race theory Community Cultural Wealth (Samuelson & Litzler, JEE 2016) to understand the ways minoritized engineering undergraduates deployed their cultural assets to persist in engineering. She is also now working on further Community Cultural Wealth research with her colleagues on the PNW-LSAMP project.  She will also talk about using her social science research skills to conduct high quality program evaluation of projects focused on improving DEI in STEM.  Finally, she’ll share about the work of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, of which she is the current chair. CDEI is a great resource for the community and also a wonderful opportunity to develop new connections with colleagues while providing important service to the engineering education field.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:42:39 -0500 2021-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Elizabeth Litzler
Designing for Impact in Global Health (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82821 82821-21179589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:12:00 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Panelists
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Sparkle Malone (March 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80424 80424-20719759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Sparkle Malone of Florida International University will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a zoom virtual event. Please contact lhopkins@umich.edu to request zoom access.

"Focus on the carbon: Understanding the conditions that facilitate resilient ecosystems"

ABSTRACT:
Although wetlands are valued for their capacity to support the resilience of coastal communities, these ecosystems are at risk due to anthropogenic pressure and sea level rise (SLR). In one of the most dynamic wetland complexes in the world, the Florida Everglades, changes in freshwater supply and accelerated rates of SLR are changing historical landscape patterns, including the carbon (C) cycle. The hydrology and disturbance regime in the Everglades region developed a rich diversity of communities. Productivity across the Everglades peaks near the coast (Mangroves Riverine Forests; 1200 g C m-2 yr-1) where the supply of P from seawater is balanced by freshwater supplies. Further inland, long- and short-hydroperiod freshwater ecosystems range from being a small sink to a small source of CO2 (-11– -110 g CO2 m-2 yr-1) annually. With the future of South Florida tied to the management of natural resources, it is essential that we understand how shifts in climate, land management and disturbance regimes influence the resilience of South Florida.

Dr. Malone’s primary research focus is to improve our understanding of how climate and disturbance regimes influence spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure and function. Using remote sensing, eddy covariance, and spatial and temporal models she explores questions related to ecosystem condition, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate extremes.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:00:25 -0500 2021-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Sparkle Malone 2 - updated
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Elizabeth Turtle (April 1, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80425 80425-20719760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Elizabeth Turtle of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

This is a zoom virtual event. Please contact lhopkins@umich.edu to request zoom access.

"Dragonfly: In Situ Exploration of Titan's Prebiotic Chemistry and Habitability"

ABSTRACT:
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an ocean world with a dense atmosphere, abundant complex organic material on its icy surface, and a liquid-water ocean in its interior. The Cassini-Huygens mission revealed Titan to be surprisingly Earth-like, with active geological processes and opportunities for organic material to have mixed with liquid water on the surface in the past. These attributes make Titan a singular destination to seek answers to fundamental questions about what makes a planet or moon habitable and about the prebiotic chemical processes that led to the development of life here on Earth.

NASA's Dragonfly New Frontiers mission is a rotorcraft lander designed to perform long-range in situ investigation of the chemistry and habitability of this fascinating extraterrestrial environment. Taking advantage of Titan's dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will fly from place to place, exploring diverse geological settings to measure the compositions of surface materials and observe Titan's geology and meteorology. Dragonfly will make multidisciplinary science measurements at dozens of sites, traveling ~100 miles during a 3-year mission to characterize Titan's habitability and to determine how far organic chemistry has progressed in environments that provide key ingredients for life.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:01:06 -0500 2021-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Turtle 2 - updated
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Whitney Lohmeyer of Olin College of Engineering (April 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76675 76675-19735035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Olin College of Engineering Prof. Whitney Lohmeyer will give a virtual lecture as part of this week's Seminar Series. Please join us!

Prof. Lohmeyer's presentation is titled "The LEO Communications Systems Landscape: Technological Advances and Interference Mitigation" and will take place this coming Thursday, April 8 at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

This is a Zoom virtual event.
Please contact lhopkins@umich to request zoom access.

ABSTRACT:
In a connected society, it is challenging to fathom that the year 2019 marked the first year in which more than half the world had access to the Internet. For decades, but in particular the past five years, tremendous efforts from government and private sector entities have been made to bring more individuals online, and to realize the economic and arguably social benefits of a connected culture. In her seminar, Whitney Lohmeyer will discuss the technological progress of the satellite communications sector, focusing on low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems including those of OneWeb, SpaceX, and Amazon along with coexistence issues amongst LEO megaconstellations, terrestrial and radio astronomy services (RAS), and the potential for public-sector + academic partnerships to progress science. Additionally, she will discuss her postgraduate school journey in the private sector and the process of returning to academia as a faculty member at Olin College of Engineering. In doing so, she will share lessons learned along the way, and strategies for pursuing careers in either or both the private sector and academia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:08:11 -0400 2021-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Whitney Lohmeyer
Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83622 83622-21440409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Featuring Donele Wilkins (CEO, Green Door Initiative, Detroit) and Kathryn Savoie (Detroit Community Health Director, Ecology Center) with welcome and introductions by Amy Schulz (Professor HBHE, UM SPH). https://umich.zoom.us/j/91685410400

Final in this Series: April 20 "Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit".

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:05:04 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice
Can Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Benefit from Being More Cohesive? (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83220 83220-21314487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:31:47 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
Assessing the Progress of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in the College of Engineering: Student Perceptions of the Climate at the University of Michigan (April 14, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83292 83292-21367800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

The University of Michigan College of Engineering is nearing the end of its five-year strategic plan to improve the climate on campus with regards to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). As part of that plan, focus groups were held with students across every department and program in the College of Engineering, to gather qualitative data that can serve as metrics to consider how the DEI strategic plan is progressing. Over thirty focus groups were held with more than 220 undergraduate and graduate students across the College in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years. Students were asked about various elements of their perception of DEI, including factors that impacted their sense of inclusion, if they had been treated differently based on their identity, and their perceptions of the College and their department with regards to diversity. The data collected in these focus groups illuminates the nuance and complexity of the engineering student experience, and how that experience, and their perceptions of DEI in the College, can vary based on their identities and home department.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:00:26 -0400 2021-04-14T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Laura Hirshfield
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83634 83634-21446267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join us on Zoom as we discuss 'Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit' featuring Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation), Stuart Batterman (Environmental Health Sciences, UM SPH), and Amy Schulz (Health Behavior & Health Education, UM SPH). (Rescheduled from Feb 9.)

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96155698295

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:08:12 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments in Detroit
Bioethics Discussion: Abdication (April 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58841 58841-14563735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our renunciation.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455

A few readings to consider:
––The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
––Decentralization of health care systems and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment
––Vox Populi or Abdication of Responsibility?: The Influence of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the Public Discourse Regarding Abortion, 2016-2019
––Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/060-abdication/.

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Before you give up, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:38:57 -0500 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Abdication
Connecting Education Innovation to Activism (May 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83807 83807-21538170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

R.I.S.E., the Center for Academic Innovation, and the Center for Research on Learning & Teaching (CRLT) invite you to join a Virtual Talking Circle (VTC) to discuss unique connections between education innovation & activism.

This collaboration across the University will serve as a first step in building a community interested in designing and promoting education innovation to improve society.

Anyone interested in education innovation and/or social justice and activism is invited!  We want to learn who is already doing this important work and identify potential collaborations across the University.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Register via Eventbrite

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:37:52 -0400 2021-05-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Getting Engaged in Campus Education Innovation Activities (June 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84084 84084-21619928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Our next Virtual Talking Circle (VTC) will feature representatives from several units on campus that are leading the way in cultivating education innovation: The Center for Academic Innovation (CAI), Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI), and the International Mixed Reality Grand Rounds.

Join us on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM to learn more about these units and how you can get involved in their education innovation activities. We hope you will also share other education innovation resources available to faculty, staff and learners.

All are welcome!

Register via Zoom at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xVYKDuaYSXa6AevHutqXBA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 May 2021 06:44:41 -0400 2021-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle