Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. M Farmers Market at NCRC (October 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22978 22978-13589887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at NCRC on select Tuesdays, May 15 – December 4, 2018. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 15:36:32 -0400 2018-10-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower NCRC.
Staff & Faculty Lunch and Learn: Serving on a Nonprofit Board (October 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56334 56334-13880808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you a UM faculty or staff member interested in learning about serving on a non-profit board and connecting with local community organizations seeking board members? Please join the Ginsberg Center on Tuesday, October 16th in the Shapiro Library (Rm 2160) from 12-1:30 pm for a lunch and learn opportunity, lunch will be provided. The last half hour of the session is optional and will include networking with community partners.

We will have a guest speaker from NEW: Solutions for Nonprofits that will give broader context to what it means to serve on a non-profit board and offer strategies on how to identify appropriate board membership positions for you. During the session, there will be opportunities to learn about and speak with several community organizations seeking new board members including: Child Care Network, Avalon Housing, and Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels.

Being on a non-profit board is a meaningful way to engage with your community and lend your skills to the needs of community partners and the populations they serve. Combine your professional skills, time, and commitment through service on a non-profit board.
Please register below using the 'Register Here' link to ensure we have an accurate count for lunch.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:23:16 -0400 2018-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Logo for Learning in Community (buildings on top of C)
ChE Seminar Series: Greg Thurber (October 16, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56664 56664-13960666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan

ABSTRACT

"Molecular Engineering of Advanced Imaging Agents and Therapeutics:
Using ChE principles to aid in design"


Traditionally, drug development has proceeded in a linear fashion from optimizing target affinity, validating in cell culture, testing in animal models, and moving to the clinic. For some drugs, such as small molecules, extensive data are available to define empirical ‘rules’ to help guide development of early screening hits to avoid attrition at later stages. However, for new, more advanced therapeutics, sufficient data are not available for empirical guidance. Because of their more complex structures, many of these agents have transport limitations within the body. These include the transient kinetics of an imaging agent reaching its target and washing out of the background or a macromolecular therapeutic trying to navigate its way through the tumor microenvironment and bind a receptor, either inside or outside the cell.


Our lab uses predictive computational transport simulations to guide the design of these agents without the need for a priori data. I will outline several examples where these transport limitations give rise to counter-intuitive results. These include i) the design of antibody-drug
conjugates, where lower potency can result in higher tumor killing, ii) directed evolution of stabilized alpha helical peptides where lower cellular efficacy can more efficiently hit currently ‘undruggable’ targets in the body, and iii) use of high charge density to improve oral
absorption and targeting of a ‘disease screening pill.’ By incorporating these predictive, multiscale simulations – from the molecular level to the whole organism scale – we can use molecular engineering to help design novel therapeutics and imaging agents rather than develop them through costly trial-and-error.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:02:24 -0400 2018-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Greg Thurber
"Deej" (documentary film) (October 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55825 55825-13779924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Human Resources

Deej is DJ Savarese, a non-talking autistic man who was abandoned by his birth parents and remained uneducated until his adoptive parents helped him pursue an education. This film deals with Deej's transition to college life and the difficulties and growth that Deej pursues at Oberlin. He is a wordsmith who uses a machine to talk and he and his community know something you don't.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Film Screening Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:55:53 -0400 2018-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Human Resources Film Screening Investing in Ability
M Farmers Market at KMS (October 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/30697 30697-12652735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at KMS every third Wednesday of month, May – October 2018 and buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 15:31:25 -0400 2018-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MHealthy Other Fresh vegetables and fruits at M Farmers Market at KMS
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 18, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
Telling Our Own Stories: A Visual Storytelling Workshop on Disability Life at U-M (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55827 55827-13779925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Human Resources

Panelists: Victor Strecher, Ph.D., Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education and Director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; and Patricia F. Anderson, Emerging Technologies Informationist for the Health Sciences; with surprise special guests.

Comics allow us to explain feelings and events in ways that bridge time and space and identity in unexpected ways. Comics can give us a way to tell stories we might not tell in other ways, or which might not be heard if we did. In this two part workshop, we’ll first hear from people about why and how comics worked for their stories, followed by a workshop activity for artists and storytellers to collaborate on telling stories about life with disabilities.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:55:27 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Investing in Ability
Hopwood Tea (October 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
HET Seminars | Complexity of Vacua and Near-Vacua (October 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56748 56748-13994902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

In this talk I will study the computational complexity of vacua and near-vacua in field theory and string theory. From analogy to protein folding, it is natural to expect that finding stable vacua is computationally hard, in the sense of complexity theory. However, I will demonstrate that this is the case even for metastable vacua. The problem is exacerbated in string theory, since setting up the hard problem of finding string vacua requires actually computing the scalar potential in a controlled regime. Such computations involve solving instances of computationally hard problems. Cosmological implications will be discussed in light of a recently proposed measure that utilizes computational complexity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:39:38 -0400 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Bringing the Stars Down to Earth with the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator in the World (October 20, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54063 54063-13521828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

We also celebrate the James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture on this date.

The elements we see around us are all forged in the glowing fires of stars. Nuclear energy and nuclear reactions are driving these fires, and the only way to ever understand how they work is by producing the relevant nuclei here on Earth and studying their properties. For this reason, among others, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, FRIB, is currently under construction in the heart of Michigan. When built, FRIB will finally give us unique access to those nuclei that are responsible for building the whole Universe.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:47:46 -0400 2018-10-20T10:30:00-04:00 2018-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Stars Explosion with Chart of Nuclei
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 22, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
Positive Links Speaker Series (October 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54145 54145-13530688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Affirming the Self to Reduce Conflict, Stress, and Underperformance
David Sherman

Monday, October 22, 2018
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register: http://myumi.ch/aAK3W

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
Self-affirmations can be powerful tools to attenuate threats to the self that emerge from the stressors of organizational life. When people are given opportunities to affirm core values and relationships, they are more responsive to otherwise difficult information. Drawing on decades of experimental and field studies, Sherman will present research on how, when, and why self-affirmations can lead to more adaptive outcomes, and the implications for organizational outcomes.

About Sherman:
David Sherman is a professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a social and health psychologist whose research centers on how people cope with threatening events and information. He is Editor at the Personality and Social Psychology Review and is the president of the International Society for Self and Identity. Sherman’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.

Host:
Julia Lee, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ’87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:25:29 -0400 2018-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion David Sherman
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22957 22957-12650133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Wolverine Tower
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower on select Tuesdays, May 8 – December 11. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 09:52:29 -0400 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Wolverine Tower MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower.
Dialogues on Diversity in Science (October 23, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56172 56172-13841826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Join the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and The Endowment for Basic Sciences at an innovative diversity dialogue event featuring EMMY award-winning actor and diversity trainer Ron Jones.

Ron Jones is the executive director of Dialogues on Diversity (DOD), a theatre company that uses theatrical models to make messages of difference, inclusion, and social justice accessible, engaging, and entertaining. At this event, Ron Jones and his cast will create a performance specifically catered to address obstacles faced in our scientific communities and workspaces.

RSVP Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QYRPPVJtxrVMICEWsE91a4yDMg2denVc1hQFxm3EGB4/edit?ts=5ba3e8ad

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Performance Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:11:17 -0400 2018-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Michigan Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Performance Marketing Ad for event
Neubacher Ceremony (October 24, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55830 55830-13779928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University Human Resources

The Ceremony recognizes U-M affiliates (faculty/staff/students/alums) who have been nominated and selected for their contributions to disability issues.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:53:29 -0400 2018-10-24T09:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University Human Resources Ceremony / Service Investing in Ability
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Neutrino-dark matter interactions (October 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54071 54071-13521837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will describe scenarios where the dark matter couples to neutrinos. This possibility has important implications for structure formation. I will describe novel probes of this possibility at the LHC and intensity frontier facilities. Additionally, the possibility of detecting neutrinos from dark matter decays at future experiments looking for the cosmic neutrino background such as PTOLEMY will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:34:29 -0400 2018-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Disability and Accessible Teaching: Current Perspectives and Best Practices (October 24, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55831 55831-13779930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: University Human Resources

Free session but registration required at crlt.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:54:00 -0400 2018-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons University Human Resources Other Investing in Ability
M Farmers Market at the Grove (October 25, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52936 52936-13150956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:00am
Location: The Grove
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Join Michigan Dining and Central Student Government for the farm fresh tradition of M Farmers Market.

Stop by September 27th and October 25th on the Grove to pick up some fresh, local produce from our fabulous farmers, see live chef demos, or just pick up a healthy snack on the way to class.

There will be more surprises in store, so follow Michigan Dining on Twitter and Instagram (@MichiganDining) for updates!

Invite a friend that is passionate about produce/fanatical about farming!

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Other Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:40:56 -0400 2018-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 The Grove Michigan Dining Other M Farmers Market
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 25, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
ChE Seminar Series: Cecilia Leal (October 25, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56806 56806-14006009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ABSTRACT
"Complexity in the chemistry and physics of lipid membranes as a handle to activate the delivery of cargo to cells"

Lipid materials having nanostructures that deviate from the conventional flat bilayer arrangement such as hexagonally packed lipid tubes and bicontinuous cubic phases are ubiquitous in nature. Their role remains elusive but over the years several pathologies and organelle functions have been coupled to lipid membrane structural complexity. In this talk we will discuss lipid membrane polymorphism and how it can be exploited to generate a new class of materials for the delivery of cargo to cells. We combine a number of techniques including X-ray scattering, cryo-EM, and cell culture to demonstrate that the structure of lipid nanoparticles is a powerful handle to boost the delivery of genes to cells. The simple argument that non-bilayer phases having intertwined nanoscale channels exist to increase surface-to-volume ratio might be insufficient to completely describe the experimental findings. We will show that synthetic lipid and lipid-polymer hybrid materials are able to capture many structural and dynamic properties seen in natural systems, when local heterogeneities and self-assembly out of equilibrium is taken into account.

BIO
Cecilia Leal is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and is affiliated with the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a M.S. in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Lund in Sweden. Cecilia was a Swedish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in Materials Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara before she started her appointment at UIUC in 2012. Her research interests lie at the intersection of materials science and physical chemistry with a focus on soft materials relevant in biology. Cecilia is the recipient of a 2018 UIUC College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, the 2016 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2016 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:22:59 -0400 2018-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T14:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Tea (October 25, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-14066097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
HET Seminars | Hunting for Heavy Winos (October 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56969 56969-14057147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

I will discuss recent progress in calculating a precision photon spectrum for heavy wino annihilation to photons, along with implications for indirect detection experiments. I will review arguments that the 3 TeV mass wino is one of the simplest WIMP dark matter candidates. Then I will discuss how the large separation of scales from 3 TeV to the weak scale leads to a breakdown of perturbation theory. I will demonstrate how one can rely on modern effective field theory techniques to restore the convergence of the perturbative expansion, and will discuss our precision prediction for the wino annihilation spectrum. I will review the status of searching for these photons using a ground based air Cherenkov telescope array (the H.E.S.S. experiment), along with the impact of our calculation on the interpretation of these limits.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:41:14 -0400 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Purple Run 2018 (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55494 55494-13750108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: UMPD

Join us for the 4th annual PURPLE RUN hosted by the University of Michigan Police Department and Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office. It is a timed 5k race route on North Campus for those serious athletes, but also for fun runners or walkers. Check out the demonstrations by first responders (Police K9, Motorcycle, and Mounted Horse Units) and the live music by an all lawyer band. Proceeds from this event benefit SafeHouse Center, an organization that provides support for those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault in Washtenaw County. The PURPLE RUN is much more than a fundraiser. Our goal is to raise awareness about Domestic Violence and to help the community recognize this issue affects all of us.

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Community Service Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:39:53 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center UMPD Community Service Purple Run 2018 logo
Saturday Morning Physics | Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a Resilient Human Society (October 27, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54064 54064-13521829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Today's Anthropocene time marks humanity's domination of Earth's changing environment. Societal resilience to the impacts of change requires preparation and adaptation, and, increasingly, mitigative action.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:50:18 -0400 2018-10-27T10:30:00-04:00 2018-10-27T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Earths Future
Updated ADA information: Assistive Animals and Emotional Support Animals (ESA) (October 29, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55688 55688-13768290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Human Resources

Panelists: Christina Kline, Disability Coordinator, U-M Office for institutional Equity; Jack Bernard, U-M Associate General Counsel; Randi Johnson, U-M Housing Accommodations

Moderator: Jeff Edelstein

Do you know the difference between Emotional Support Animals and assistive animals? Do you know which animals can legally be kept in dorms or in rentals? Which animals can be taken into public spaces such as restaurants and stores? Our panel can provide the answers.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:51:56 -0400 2018-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Human Resources Other Investing in Ability
M Farmers Market at NCRC (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22978 22978-12652748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at NCRC on select Tuesdays, May 15 – December 4, 2018. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 15:36:32 -0400 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower NCRC.
Language and Disability: An Exploration (October 30, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55832 55832-13779931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Human Resources

This event will explore language and disability experiences through multiple lenses, including poetry, political implications, access to the nuances of English for people with hearing loss, and a discussion panel on linguistic authority, implications of language choice, and building community across differences.

The Council for Disability Concerns produces an annual series of events designed to raise awareness of disability topics on campus and in our community. The events are presented by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in collaboration with University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and University Health Service. All events are free and everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed, contact disability@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:52:39 -0400 2018-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Human Resources Other Investing in Ability
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Dark Matter and Fusion: Signals and Constraints from the Dark and the Light (October 31, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54073 54073-13521839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Over the past several years, non-WIMP dark matter candidates have attracted a surge of interest in the particle physics community. In this two-part talk, I will summarize the underlying physics motivation for (and observable consequences of) two such candidates, which share the feature that they are bound states of more familiar constituents. The first part of the talk will examine the astrophysical implications of a dark fermion that can form two-body bound states. The second part of the talk will examine new constraints on the "dibaryon", a hypothetical QCD bound state of six light quarks. The common thread of the talk will be the unique signals of fusion within or into a dark matter sector.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:36:02 -0400 2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Mapping the Underworld of Buried Utilities (October 31, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57188 57188-14128649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Records of the locations and properties of vast underground utility networks are incomplete, inaccurate, and many times unavailable. This lack of information of underground pipes poses a critical challenge to maintaining and upgrading underground infrastructure, a grand engineering challenge outlined by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). It is also a main reason for the over six million of utility interruptions every year that cause injuries, fatalities, property damages, and environmental pollutions, amounting to billions of dollars in loss. Although sensing methods such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been exploited and proven its promise, it usage in urban environment is limited because of the complexity of the underworld and its reflection on the GPR signals and image signatures. We have created new methods to more accurately determine the location and dimension of underground pipes by fusing data from utility specifications and regulations and contextual cues, termed as “virtual sensors”, and GPR scans. Algorithms have been devised to extract image signatures from GPR radargrams to guide field robots in real-time, extract spatial rules from text documents, and integrating multiple sources of heterogeneous data. Research findings have been implemented as an autonomous robotic system with the capacity of adapting to complex spatial configurations of underground networks to generate accurate, geospatial 3D pipe models. Research findings are expected to shift the paradigm of the current practice in mapping underground pipes.
Dr. Hubo Cai is an Associate Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University. He is the founding director of the Laboratory of Computer-Integrated Infrastructure Informatics (LCIII) and the codirector of the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) Laboratory.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:33:09 -0400 2018-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
CEE Halloween Party (October 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56895 56895-14021556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

GSAC invites grad students, faculty, postdocs, and staff to the CEE Halloween party on Halloween day, Wednesday, October 31st from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Blue Lounge (1280 GGB).
Don't forget to fly over on your broom and dress up in your best Halloween costume ever. There will be a Costume Contest with prizes(!), Halloween Snacks and Ice Cream Specials!!!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:48:18 -0400 2018-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Social / Informal Gathering round gray bowl on white marble board
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (November 1, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
Behaviorally Stable Vehicle Platooning for Energy Savings (November 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57190 57190-14128651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative vehicle platoon is a set of vehicles driving together with low in-vehicle distance enabled by the connected and automated vehicle technology. One of the major benefits of vehicle platooning is energy savings due to air drag reduction. However, as vehicles at different positions in a platoon save differently from the platooning, e.g., the lead vehicles may save little, some drivers or owners of vehicles may not be willing to join or stay in the platoon even if they are advised to do so, yielding behaviorally unstable platoons. The instability further lead to chaos in traffic flow, which is likely to bring unnecessary traffic congestions. As such behavioral side of the problem has been drawn little attention in literature, this study intends to fill this void by focusing on the drivers and owners’ economic consideration of platooning. We envision a freeway system where vehicles are capable of platooning but each platoon has limited size. A novel utility function is proposed to measure a vehicle’s benefit in platooning. Based on that, a mathematical programming model is established to find the optimal platoon formation that specifies which vehicles should be platooned together and their platoon speeds as well as positions to achieve the maximum system benefit. A benefit allocation mechanism, either charges or compensates the vehicles, is then created to incentivize them to form and maintain the desired platoon formation. The model framework is further extended to the setting with an environmental concern, where the proposed mechanism has been shown to benefit not only the vehicles, but also the whole society by bringing greater reductions on traffic emissions.

Xiaotong Sun is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:45:13 -0400 2018-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Engineering Seminar
HET Seminars | The Status of the String Landscape (November 2, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57129 57129-14119705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Whether string theory admits a multiverse of de Sitter solutions that look approximately like our universe is a hotly debated current topic. I will overview the basics of landscape constructions and explain my view on this question.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:41:40 -0400 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | Particle Physics Buffet (November 3, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54067 54067-13521832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 3, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Recent news, eternal questions, and current conundrums in particle physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:51:37 -0400 2018-11-03T10:30:00-04:00 2018-11-03T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion Particle Physics Buffet
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (November 6, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54799 54799-13645235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

MHealthy, in collaboration with Michigan Visiting Nurses and Student Life, is holding walk-in, mass flu shot clinics for NON-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff, as well as students, spouses, and other qualified adults (OQA) of employees.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $25 per person.

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Well-being Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:40:28 -0400 2018-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being Flu shot clinics
M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower (November 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22957 22957-12650134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Wolverine Tower
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower on select Tuesdays, May 8 – December 11. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 09:52:29 -0400 2018-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Wolverine Tower MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower.
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes: Their Importance in Wind Engineering (November 6, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57192 57192-14128652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Windstorms cause the most damage annually of any natural hazard in the United States. In most years, an overwhelming percentage of this damage is caused by severe convective storms (i.e., thunderstorms and tornadoes). Despite these losses, very little is known about the characteristics of these events, their relation to wind loading, and how they differ from current prescriptions available in wind load codes and standards. This talk will focus on the ongoing and future work that is occurring at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in an attempt to increase understanding of these phenomena and their impacts. Specifically, discussion will include: 1) characterization of tornado and thunderstorm winds relevant to engineering; 2) interpretation of the loading from these events and how they differ from wind load codes and standards 3) analysis of damage from recent tornado and thunderstorm events and 4) the development of a full-scale laboratory at UIUC to capture these events and address potential mitigation strategies.

Franklin Lombardo is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:53:07 -0400 2018-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Engineering Seminar
Blood Drive: Michigan vs. OSU Blood Battle (November 7, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57062 57062-14077289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

The Blood Battle is an annual blood drive competition between Ohio State and the University of Michigan that takes place in the weeks leading up to The Game. The goal is to extend the athletic rivalry beyond the field and collect more pints of blood than Ohio State. The Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society participates in organizing and hosting one blood drive in collaboration with Blood Drives United to encourage the habitants of UM’s North Campus to donate blood to tackle the ongoing shortage being experienced by the Red Cross. Appointments may be made at https://redcrossblood.org using sponsor code "goblue". Donors are eligible for free t-shirts, food, and the chance to win prizes. Give blood and Beat OSU!

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Community Service Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:33:22 -0400 2018-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T20:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Tau Beta Pi Community Service Pierpont Commons
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Holographic Entanglement and BMS blocks in three dimensional flat space (November 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57371 57371-14182266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will discuss the holographic construction of entanglement entropy and blocks in three-dimensional flat space-times. I will present a prescription based on world-line methods in the probe limit, inspired by recent analog calculations in AdS/CFT. Building on this construction, a full extrapolate dictionary will be proposed, and used to compute holographic correlators and blocks away from the probe limit. Blocks involving heavy operators will be shown to involve probe particles propagating in flat space cosmologies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 08:31:32 -0500 2018-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Affordable and Wearable Biosensors to Understand Workers’ Mental and Physical Stress (November 7, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57193 57193-14128653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Occupational stress is defined as the harmful physical and mental responses that happen when job requirements are greater than a worker's capacity. Construction is one of the most stressful occupations because it involves physiologically and psychologically demanding tasks performed in a hazardous environment. Various survey instruments for measuring workers′ perceived mental and physical stress have been used, e.g., the perceived stress and fatigue severity scales. These methods can document subjects′ overall stress. However, they have several key limitations. They are subjective, invasive, and cannot be used for continuous stress monitoring. To address these issues, my doctoral research applies several signal processing and machine learning techniques to propose a comprehensive and efficient stress measurement framework by acquiring high-quality physiological signals from wearable biosensors at job sites. Results yielded a high of 80.13 % mental stress and 90.00% physical stress recognition accuracy. These results are promising given that stress recognition with sensitive and wired physiological devices in the clinical domain has, at best, a similar level of accuracy. The proposed physiological signal-based stress recognition framework is expected to help us better understand workplace stressors and to improve worker productivity, safety, and well-being through early detection and mitigation of factors that cause stress.

Houtan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Tishman Construction Management Program, working under the supervision of Prof. SangHyun Lee. Houtan received his bachelor′s degree in civil engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2012.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:06:42 -0500 2018-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
Construction Annual Research Symposium (November 8, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57327 57327-14155507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 9:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The annual construction research symposium is an excellent opportunity for engineering students to learn about ongoing research projects in the construction field. Students will have a chance to meet industry partners, and view previous CEE 530 projects. Lunch will be provided.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:55:16 -0400 2018-11-08T09:30:00-05:00 2018-11-08T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium construction
Controlling connected automated vehicles: From theory to experiments (November 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57194 57194-14128654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details to be announced.

Gabor Orosz is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:09:31 -0400 2018-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Engineering Seminar
Hopwood Tea (November 8, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 2018-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
When an engineer has a bad day (November 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57380 57380-14184482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professional Engineers are problem solvers. As part of the design process, we typically work with others to design solutions to infrastructure problems, including identifying feasible solutions, evaluating the alternates, completing a design and overseeing construction. Professional engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public with the design process. However, what happens when things do not go as planned on a design project? Jon and Catherine will present a case study from a slope failure project. The design process was supposed to stabilize an existing slope supporting a roadway, but resulted in a failure of a retaining wall. The project details will be presented to demonstrate the “lessons learned” from this project and to provide insight as to what type of issues may result on a project, even when there is “sound engineering analysis” to support the design.

Jonathan Zaremski, PE, is currently the Geotechnical Group Manager with Somat Engineering. He received his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1998. Catherine Weirauch, PE, is currently a project manager in the geotechnical group at Somat Engineering. She received her BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2007.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:04:25 -0500 2018-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical seminar series
HET Seminars | Deep Sets for Particle Jets (November 9, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57372 57372-14182267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

One of most basic facts about quantum mechanics is that identical particles are indistinguishable. One of most basic facts about quantum field theory is that only infrared-and-collinear-safe observables can be calculated in a fixed-order expansion. In this talk, I show how to incorporate both of these facts into a novel machine learning architecture called Energy Flow Networks (EFNs). EFNs are a special case of a more general architecture called Deep Sets, with the nice feature that one can "open the box" of an EFN to gain insight into what the network has learned. Using the example of quark/gluon jet tagging at the LHC, I highlight the excellent performance of EFNs and their intuitive visualization.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 08:37:55 -0500 2018-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Farmers Market with Professor Soderstrom (November 10, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57110 57110-14095171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 10, 2018 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Join SLE Faculty Fellow Sara Soderstrom for a trip to the Kerrytown Farmers' Market! Sign up at bit.ly/signupSLE

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:15:29 -0400 2018-11-10T10:30:00-05:00 2018-11-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering Event flyer
M Farmers Market at NCRC (November 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22978 22978-12652749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at NCRC on select Tuesdays, May 15 – December 4, 2018. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 15:36:32 -0400 2018-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower NCRC.
Structural Seminar Series (November 13, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57196 57196-14128655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Matthew Lewis is a senior associate at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE) and Thai Dam is an associate at WJE. WJE is a worldwide, employee-owned interdisciplinary firm consisting of engineers, architects, and materials scientists.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:27:52 -0500 2018-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Engineering Seminar
HET Brown Bag | Higgs Parity, Strong CP Problem and Unification (November 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57623 57623-14243985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The quartic coupling of the Standard Model Higgs nearly vanishes at a high energy scale. We show that this is explained by the parity symmetry and its spontaneous break down by the condensation of the parity partner of the Higgs. The parity can solve the strong CP problem. The theory is embedded into SO(10) unification and the precise gauge coupling unification is achieved.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:30:20 -0500 2018-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Personalized thermal control through integrated human environment data (November 14, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57264 57264-14146529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details about the seminar to be announced.

Da Li is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:53:10 -0500 2018-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
ChE Seminar Series: William A. Tisdale (November 15, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57550 57550-14211245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

ABSTRACT

Structure, surface chemistry, and energetic disorder can dramatically affect excited state dynamics in low-dimensional systems. Using a combination of ultrafast laser spectroscopy, time-resolved optical microscopy, and kinetic modeling, I will show how these effects manifest in assemblies of colloidal quantum dots (QD) and atomically thin 2D semiconductors, which are promising components of next-generation photovoltaic and lighting technologies. In particular, I will demonstrate the counterintuitive role of entropy in the nonequilibrium population dynamics of excitons and charge carriers in nanoscale systems, and how these dynamics are influenced by the surface and structural organizational of these nanomaterials.

BIO

Will Tisdale joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in January, 2012, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor and is currently the ARCO Career Development Professor in Energy Studies. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2005, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2010, and was a postdoc in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT before joining the faculty in 2012. Will is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the DOE Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the AIChE Nanoscale Science & Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award, and MIT’s Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:18:28 -0500 2018-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Transportation Seminar Series (November 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57265 57265-14146531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Merhrnaz Ghavami is an assistant professor in the Civil and Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:49:47 -0400 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
Hopwood Tea (November 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54147 54147-13530690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Authoring a Good Life in America: Narrative Identity and Redemptive Life Stories
Dan P. McAdams

Monday, November 19, 2018
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register: http://myumi.ch/aXyqR

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
Beginning in the adolescent and emerging adult years, many people create stories to make sense of their lives. Narrative identity is the internalized and evolving story of the self that explains how a person has come to be the unique person he or she is becoming.

In this talk, McAdams will describe recent psychological research on narrative identity, with an emphasis on stories of personal redemption (triumphing over adversity and suffering) and their strong connections to mental health, psychological well-being, and positive societal engagement.

In various forms such as narratives of upward mobility, atonement, recovery, and personal liberation, the redemptive life stories told by American men and women today, especially in their midlife years, reprise important cultural ideals that have traditionally been associated with living a good life in America.

About McAdams:
Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Author of nearly 300 scientific articles and chapters, numerous edited volumes, and seven books, McAdams works in the areas of personality and life-span developmental psychology. His theoretical and empirical writings focus on concepts of self and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy, redemption, and generativity across the adult life course.

McAdams is the author most recently of The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. He also wrote a psychological biography entitled George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait. In 2016, The Atlantic commissioned him to write an extended psychological essay on the life and mind of Donald J. Trump, which appeared as the cover article for the June 2016 issue of that magazine.

Host:
Julia Lee, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ’87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:40:11 -0400 2018-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Dan P. McAdams
Opportunities for convergence research in natural hazards engineering (November 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57273 57273-14312562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida and serves as Associate Dean for Research and Facilities in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. His research interests primarily focus on the hurricane boundary layer and its effect on the built environment, with emphasis on the advancement of damage mitigation strategies and building product innovation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:04:01 -0500 2018-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Structural Seminar Series (November 20, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57268 57268-14146532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar will be announced.

Hadi Salehi is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Michigan State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:54:33 -0400 2018-11-20T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
HET Brown Bag | M-theory and String Theory S-matrix From CFT (November 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57765 57765-14303997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

SPECIAL SEMINAR

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:29:27 -0500 2018-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Structural Materials Evaluation Using Nondestructive Testing Methods (November 27, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57269 57269-14146535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Roland Bogdani is a Senior Project Engineer at SME with 7 years of experience in providing engineering assessment of existing structures including pedestrian, highway, and railroad bridges, as well as commercial and historical buildings, and high-rise structures. He is a specialist in providing nondestructive assessment of concrete structures using ultrasonic and impulse radar testing equipment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:09:53 -0500 2018-11-27T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
HET Brown Bag | Path Integrals, Finite Temperature, and Lattices (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57851 57851-14363800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Surprisingly, partition functions for some model systems in statistical mechanics are invariant under formally reflecting the sign of temperature, T: +T -> -T. We call this T-reflection invariance. Clearly, partition functions for generic statistical systems cannot be invariant under T-reflection. However, in this talk we focus on finite-temperature path integrals and give a general picture for why finite-temperature path integrals in quantum field theory *should* behave well under T-reflection. We probe this general picture in the context of the harmonic oscillators (in one-dimension) and in conformal field theories on the two-torus (in two-dimensions) and in the mathematics of modular forms. We find that the relevant path integrals are often invariant only up to overall T-independent phases, which could be naturally interpreted as new anomalies under large coordinate transforms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:37:33 -0500 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Lean construction: Principles and practice (November 28, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57271 57271-14146536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Brad will discuss provide a brief history of lean construction, discuss the five principles, and provide an overview of some of the tools that are used to help create a lean culture on Turner projects.

Brad Booker is the regional lean manager at Turner Construction for the Great Lakes and Canada area.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:06:21 -0500 2018-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (November 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52809 52809-13081674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

"Academic Freedom, New Politics, Old School Censorship, and Meaningful Constitutional Review"

Nichol will explore the challenge of assuring intellectual liberty and academic freedom from outside political interference in flagship public universities. He will focus, particularly, on legislative and administrative suppression and penalization of research and publication which is critical of public policies embraced by governmental authorities. He will address both internal and external pressures on free expression and academic independence in state universities. He will argue, as well, that as freedom of speech, more broadly, is being deployed, or weaponized, for economic ideological purposes, it is being weakened as an essential component of democratic government.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:12:05 -0400 2018-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Gene Nichol
Testing Scenario Library Generation for Connected and Automated Vehicle Evaluation (November 29, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57272 57272-14146537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of seminar to be announced.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:10:57 -0500 2018-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
Hopwood Tea (November 29, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
HET Seminars | Particle Physics Beyond Colliders (November 30, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57852 57852-14363801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Recently there have been several proposals of low-energy precision experiments that can search for new particles, new forces, and the Dark Matter of the Universe in a way that is complementary to collider searches. In this talk, I will present some examples involving atomic clocks, nuclear magnetic resonance, molecules, and astrophysical black holes accessible to LIGO.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:42:07 -0500 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Global Citizenship in Practice Conference (December 1, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56769 56769-13997141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 1, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

The Global Scholars Program's GCIP conference is an opportunity to share interdisciplinary approaches to global citizenship, with an emphasis on how we put this idea into practice.
To register for attendance: https://goo.gl/forms/XccFXk9zROApQA602
To register to submit a proposal: https://goo.gl/forms/aLMQw2KDqljjPwFl1

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:36:03 -0400 2018-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Scholars Program Conference / Symposium GSP Global Citizenship Conference- December 1, 2018
M Farmers Market at NCRC (December 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22978 22978-12652750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at NCRC on select Tuesdays, May 15 – December 4, 2018. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 15:36:32 -0400 2018-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower NCRC.
Lunch with Professor Sara Soderstrom (December 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57111 57111-14095172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Meet at South Quad Dining Hall at 12pm for a casual lunch with SLE Faculty Fellow Sara Soderstrom (Org Studies/PitE). Meet in the South Quad Signature Private Dining Room.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:08:51 -0500 2018-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T12:50:00-05:00 South Quad Sustainable Living Experience Social / Informal Gathering Event flyer
Positive Links Speaker Series (December 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54191 54191-13539445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Company-Community Partnerships for Purpose and Sustainable Impact
Kathryn Heinze and Sara Soderstrom

Tuesday, December 4, 2018
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register: http://myumi.ch/aZrpq

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
In this engaging session, Kate Heinze and Sara Soderstrom will explore the definition of impact, with a specific focus on community partnerships. Purpose-driven collaborations at the community level are central to developing the win-win solutions that can contribute to the good life—doing well for business and strengthening the communities where they do business. Building off academic research, Heinze and Soderstrom share cases that highlight different approaches to building strong partnerships.

About Heinze and Soderstrom:
Kathryn Heinze is an Associate Professor of Sport Management and a Faculty Associate at the Center for Positive Organizations. Her research seeks to understand organizational and institutional change. In particular, she examines tactics, strategies, and processes by which individuals and organizations respond to and lead social and cultural change in their fields and industries. Heinze studies theses dynamics in a variety of contexts, particularly those related to sport and health/wellness. She earned her MA and PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and her BA in Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan.

Sara Soderstrom is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment at University of Michigan. She is core faculty at the Erb Institute and a faculty associate at the Center for Positive Organizations. In her research, Soderstrom aims to contribute an organizational perspective on how society develops solutions to critical global sustainability challenges. She studies how individuals within organizations mobilize others, develop coalitions, and access key decision makers when they are trying to implement sustainability initiatives.

Soderstrom completed her PhD at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan. Prior to her graduate work at Kellogg, Soderstrom worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and led a business transformation team at Auto Club Group. She holds MSE degrees in Chemical & Environmental Engineering and a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering from U-M.

Host:
Mari Kira, Assistant Research Scientist and Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ’87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:45:47 -0400 2018-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Kathryn Heinze & Sara Soderstrom
Opportunities for convergence research in natural hazards engineering (December 4, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57273 57273-14146538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida and serves as Associate Dean for Research and Facilities in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. His research interests primarily focus on the hurricane boundary layer and its effect on the built environment, with emphasis on the advancement of damage mitigation strategies and building product innovation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:04:01 -0500 2018-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 2018-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
HET Brown Bag | Cosmology with Sub-MeV Thermal Relics (December 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58101 58101-14424582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The nature of dark matter (DM) is unknown, with a vast array of possibilities able to account for the missing mass of the universe. A predictive subset of DM models has DM in thermal equilibrium with Standard Model particles in the early universe. A well-known example of this is the Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) with an electroweak-scale mass. However, as direct searches for WIMP-nucleus interactions set stronger and stronger limits, attention has turned to less well-explored DM candidates. Sub-MeV thermal relics, in particular, have received little attention, in part due to the apparently stringent bounds from astrophysics and cosmology. For example, such particles contribute to the energy density of the universe at the time of nucleosynthesis and recombination. The resulting constraints on extra degrees of freedom typically exclude even the simplest of such dark sectors. I will describe the physics that leads to these bounds and show that if a sub-MeV dark sector entered equilibrium with the Standard Model after neutrino-photon decoupling, these constraints are alleviated. This scenario naturally arises in theories of neutrino mass generation through the spontaneous breaking of lepton number. Dark matter relic abundance in these models independently motivates the MeV scale. This scenario will be decisively tested by future measurements of the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure of the universe.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:38:19 -0500 2018-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Planning and Execution for Adaptive Robotized Construction Joint Filling (December 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57274 57274-14146539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Kurt Lundeen is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:17:17 -0400 2018-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
An Innovative Method towards Automation of Model Selection using Big Simulated Data and Machine Learning (December 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57275 57275-14146540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Ali Shirazi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:19:36 -0400 2018-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
Hopwood Tea (December 6, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2018-12-06T15:30:00-05:00 2018-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower (December 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/22957 22957-12650136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Wolverine Tower
Organized By: MHealthy

Visit the M Farmers Market at Wolverine Tower on select Tuesdays, May 8 – December 11. Buy farm fresh, locally-grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more at an affordable price.

M Farmers Markets, a partnership between MHealthy, Michigan Medicine, MDining, Central Student Government, and Planet Blue, support U-M's commitment to offering sustainable, locally sourced foods.

View all M Farmers Market dates, times, and locations on the MHealthy website.

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Other Wed, 16 May 2018 09:52:29 -0400 2018-12-11T11:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 Wolverine Tower MHealthy Other Visit the M Farmers Market on select Tuesdays at Wolverine Tower.
ChE Seminar Series: Neel Joshi (December 11, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57894 57894-14366723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

ASTRACT

"Biologically fabricated materials composed of engineered biofilm matrix proteins"

The intersection between synthetic biology and materials science is an under explored area with great potential to positively affect our daily lives, with applications ranging from manufacturing to medicine. My group is interested in harnessing the biosynthetic potential of microbes, not only as factories for the production of raw materials, but as fabrication plants that can orchestrate the assembly of complex functional materials. We call this approach “biologically fabricated materials”, a process whose goal is to genetically program microbes to assemble materials from protein-based building blocks without the need for time consuming and expensive purification protocols or specialized equipment. Accordingly, we have developed Biofilm Integrated Nanofiber Display (BIND), which relies on the biologically directed assembly of biofilm matrix proteins of the curli system in E. coli. We demonstrate that bacterial cells can be programmed to synthesize a range of functional materials with straightforward genetic engineering techniques. The resulting materials are highly customizable and easy to fabricate, and we are investigating their use for practical uses ranging from bioremediation to engineered therapeutic probiotics.

BIO
Neel Joshi is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and also a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in the lab of Matt Francis and a postdoc at Boston University in the lab of Mark Grinstaff before starting a position at Harvard. He is broadly interested in topics related to biologically inspired materials, protein engineering, self-assembly, and biointerfaces. His group works at the intersection of biomaterials science and synthetic biology. Recent projects in the group have focused on repurposing bacterial biofilms and their matrix proteins for biotechnological and biomedical applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:08:25 -0500 2018-12-11T13:30:00-05:00 2018-12-11T14:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion
Structural Seminar Series (December 11, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57276 57276-14146541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar are to be announced.

Jim Corsiglia is a principal structural engineer at Harley, Ellis, Devereaux in Southfield.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:24:05 -0400 2018-12-11T16:30:00-05:00 2018-12-11T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation based on Reinforcement Learning Techniques (December 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58485 58485-14508640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Shuo Feng is a PhD student in the Department of Automation at the Tsinghua University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:14:32 -0500 2018-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
NAME Community Project | Faculty Seminar | Professor Julie Young (December 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58016 58016-14392467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

The NAME Community Project is a new initiative with a goal to build and strengthen the NAME community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. There will be a dedicated hour each Thursday with no NAME classes or meetings scheduled so that we can hold NAME Community Project events. These events will include industry speakers, faculty/student mixers, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities and faculty meetings.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:33:41 -0500 2018-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME
Adderley Positive Research Incubator - Healthy Minds: Addressing Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behavior in College Student Populations (December 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58001 58001-14390314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Adderley Positive Research Incubator
Healthy Minds: Addressing Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behavior in College Student Populations
Dan Eisenberg

Thursday, December 13, 2018
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Register to attend here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/dan-eisenberg/

Michigan Ross Campus
Blau Hall Building
701 Tappan
Blau Colloquium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Join us as we celebrate our 200th Adderley Positive Research Incubator presentation!

Research is the heart of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), and we want to make sure that we support each other in developing high quality research. To that end, we created the Adderley Positive Research Incubator for sharing and encouraging POS-related research ideas that are at various stages of development.

Since our first gathering in 2004, the Adderley Positive Research Incubator has enabled 120+ researchers in the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship to share research ideas while still in development. This safe space encourages the development of high-quality research and allows for positive, constructive feedback on projects still in progress.

About the talk
This presentation will provide an overview of survey data and intervention research by the Healthy Minds Network, a large-scale research initiative to improve understanding of mental health and help-seeking in adolescent and young adult populations, particularly college students.

About Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg is S. J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, where he is also affiliated with the Population Studies Center and the Comprehensive Depression Center.

His training is in economics and mental health services research. His broad research goal is to improve understanding of how to invest effectively in the mental health of young people, particularly college students. He directs the Healthy Minds Network (HMN) for Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health (www.healthymindsnetwork.org), which administers the Healthy Minds Study, a national survey study of student mental health and related factors.

Register to attend here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/dan-eisenberg/

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Well-being Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:15:32 -0500 2018-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T14:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Well-being 200th Adderley Positive Research Incubator
"Exploring the vulnerability of advanced signal control systems under cyber attacks using falsified vehicle trajectory data" (January 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58480 58480-14508634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details to TBA.

Ed Huang is a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:54:22 -0500 2019-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Hopwood Tea (January 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
The Promise of Smart Materials in Earthquake Resistant Design (January 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59444 59444-14743407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Damage from recent earthquakes underscores the importance of developing new
approaches and technologies to improve the performance of structures during
earthquakes. The presentation will highlight applications of one class of smart
materials, shape memory alloys, in improving the performance of structures
subjected to earthquake loading. Shape memory alloys belong to a class of shape
memory materials which can undergo large deformations while reverting back to
their original, undeformed shape. This unique property has led to the development
of numerous applications in the biomedical, aerospace, and commercial industry. A
multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach is taken to explore the potential use of
these systems for applications in earthquake engineering.

Reginald DesRoches is the Dean of William and Stephanie Sick of Engineering of Rice University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:31:15 -0500 2019-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Canopy Interception: Understanding Leaf Wetness and its Influence on Vegetation Water and Carbon Fluxes (January 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59667 59667-14777903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Canopy interception of rain, dew, and fog occurs in ecosystems worldwide. A ubiquitous effect of leaf wetness on plant water balance is the interference of the water droplets with the leaf energy balance, which increases leaf albedo and emissivity and decreases leaf temperature through droplet evaporation. This in turns affects the vegetation carbon uptake rate, with potential consequences for the whole global carbon cycle. Here, I use the specific example of dew deposition to understand how leaf wetness affects water and CO2 fluxes of plants. First, I will present a simple leaf energy balance that characterizes the effect of deposition and the evaporation of dew on transpiration and carbon uptake. The model is driven by five common meteorological variables and is used to explore the tradeoffs between energy, water, and carbon balances for leaves of different sizes across a range of environmental conditions. I will then present results from a laboratory experiment
where Colocasia esculenta leaves were misted with isotopically enriched water to mimic canopy interception. Leaf water isotopes and water potential measurements corroborates the results of the model.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:08:43 -0500 2019-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T11:00:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59260 59260-14719684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 14, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Disease in African-American Women: Moving Beyond Experiences.”

By Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor, Emory University
Rollins School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:10:41 -0500 2019-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
CEE Department Laboratory Safety Meeting (January 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58442 58442-14500261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

At the CEE Department Laboratory Safety Meeting, we'll discuss current and new safety issues, expectations, and requirements.

Who should attend? All laboratory personnel including but not limited to students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and visitors. Everyone who works in CEE laboratories, except those working in computer laboratories.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Meeting Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:38:22 -0500 2019-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Meeting assorted-color hard hat beside intermodal container
HET Brown Bag | CWoLa Hunting -- Machine Learning for Model-Agnostic Bump Hunts (January 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59652 59652-14777839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

New physics at the LHC would typically manifest as an anomalous overdensity of events in some phase space region of the high-dimensional feature space of LHC data. The traditional way to search for new physics is to make some theory-motivated guess as to what it will look like, and then make a phase space selection which is optimized using simulated data and then look in that region for an excess in the real LHC data. Higher sensitivity is often achieved at the expense of introducing stronger assumptions about the underlying signal model, which are used to make more optimised multivariate cuts using more event features. I will discuss a case study of an alternate paradigm, in which sensitive multivariate selections can be be found while maintaining few signal-model assumptions and without the need for potentially unreliable signal simulations. The key ingredient is a machine learning algorithm which searches for event over-densities on an otherwise smooth background, as is often the case in bump hunts for particle resonances. In this 'CWoLa-hunting' (Classification Without Labels) strategy, the selection cuts are not determined in advance but are rather dictated by the distribution of the actual measured LHC data. I will also provide a summary of some of the other ideas for using machine learning for model-agnostic searches that have been proposed in 2018.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:38:46 -0500 2019-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
ChE Seminar Series: George Lu (January 17, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59976 59976-14806094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

California Institute of Technology
“Biomolecular Engineering of Gas-filled Protein Nanostructures for Imaging Cellular Function in Deep Tissue”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:10:13 -0500 2019-01-17T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Predictive Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT) Enabled Systems (January 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58481 58481-14508635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In this talk, we try to address some of these challenges through predictive data
analytics methodologies designed for IoT enabled systems. Specifically, we establish non-parametric models that predict the evolution of condition/system monitoring signals through borrowing strength from historical and in-service data. These frameworks leverage on kernel methods, functional component analysis and
Bayesian inference. Further, we discuss how these methods can consistently scale to big data settings. The methodologies are validated using numerical studies and a case study with real world data in the application to cloud-based vehicle health
monitoring service systems.

Raed Al Kontar is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering department at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on developing data analytics and decision-making methodologies specifically tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) enabled smart and connected products/systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:01:56 -0500 2019-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Foamed Glass Aggregate: An Ultra-Lightweight Fill and Insulation Alternative (January 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59874 59874-14797308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Foamed Glass Aggregate (FGA) is a lightweight fill and insulation alternative that has been widely used in Europe over the past three decades for roadway, commercial, and residential construction. Beneficial properties of this material include a low unit weight, good insulating values, high friction angle, non-reactive behavior, volume stability, and porosity. Additionally, FGA is made from 100% recycled glass and has an attractive carbon and energy footprint compared to other lightweight fill and insulation options. This presentation will cover the history, manufacturing, engineering properties, application areas, and design considerations
for foamed glass aggregate. Several brief case studies will be described and will focus on recent projects installed in the U.S.
Theresa Loux is the Technical Manager for AeroAggregates where her primary responsibilities include overseeing Aero’s quality control program and technical documentation, education and outreach efforts, and engineering support.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:03:12 -0500 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Hopwood Tea (January 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Tailoring the Mechanics of Origami to Make Deployable & Adaptable Structures (January 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59751 59751-14786502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The art of origami can be used to create a rich variety of deployable, reconfigurable, and adaptable three-dimensional systems. By designing the geometry & mechanical properties of the origami, it is possible to create engineering systems ranging from micro-robots to large-scale adaptable architecture.This talk will present his group’s work on different origami geometries and discuss how their properties are suited to making unique functional structures. They will present cellular and tubular origami which can be used for stiff large-structures and energy absorbing devices. Using
curved creases, they'll show a broad range of possible geometric designs that possess highly anisotropic properties. An origami with a hyperbolic paraboloid geometry is used to achieve bistable and multi-stable characteristics that can aid in actuation. Finally, they'll show new work on using active material systems to achieve structures that can self-assemble. Lunch will be provided.

Professor Evgueni Filipov is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research interests lie in the field of deployable and reconfigurable structural systems. Folding and adaptable structures based on the principles of origami can have practical applications ranging in scale and discipline from biomedical robotics to deployable architecture.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:48:42 -0500 2019-01-18T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar
HET Seminars | An Attractor Mechanism for nAdS(2)/nCFT(1) (January 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59653 59653-14777840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:32:18 -0500 2019-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Canopy Interception: Understanding Leaf Wetness and its Influence on Vegetation Water and Carbon Fluxes (January 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59667 59667-14777902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Canopy interception of rain, dew, and fog occurs in ecosystems worldwide. A ubiquitous effect of leaf wetness on plant water balance is the interference of the water droplets with the leaf energy balance, which increases leaf albedo and emissivity and decreases leaf temperature through droplet evaporation. This in turns affects the vegetation carbon uptake rate, with potential consequences for the whole global carbon cycle. Here, I use the specific example of dew deposition to understand how leaf wetness affects water and CO2 fluxes of plants. First, I will present a simple leaf energy balance that characterizes the effect of deposition and the evaporation of dew on transpiration and carbon uptake. The model is driven by five common meteorological variables and is used to explore the tradeoffs between energy, water, and carbon balances for leaves of different sizes across a range of environmental conditions. I will then present results from a laboratory experiment
where Colocasia esculenta leaves were misted with isotopically enriched water to mimic canopy interception. Leaf water isotopes and water potential measurements corroborates the results of the model.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:08:43 -0500 2019-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Value the Voice: Unravel (January 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58512 58512-14510834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members).​ 

Light food and refreshments will be served in the Commons at 6:30 prior to the start of the program. 

Value the Voice will take place on Tuesdays, September 18, November 13, January 22, March 19, 7 p.m. UMMA Auditorium.

For more information, please contact Keith Jason at mrjason@umich.edu or 734-764-9128

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:16:09 -0500 2019-01-22T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Real-Time Sensor Anomaly Detection and Recovery in Connected Automated Vehicle Sensors (January 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58482 58482-14508636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Yiyang Wang is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:50:34 -0500 2019-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Advanced Laboratory Testing to Characterize Stiff, Geologically Aged Clays (January 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60181 60181-14846874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This lecture is part of a webinar series sponsored by International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Richard Jardine is Professor of Geomechanics and Deputy Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Imperial College - London,

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:01:21 -0500 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Hopwood Tea (January 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Research Lab Open House (January 25, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59670 59670-14777906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Come inside GG Brown and EWRE’s most exclusive doors and “hunt down” its best kept secrets. Make new connections with faculty and graduate students over a sponsored lunch.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:53:20 -0500 2019-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House Lab Open House
Better Assemblies Through Geometric Frustration (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60291 60291-14857788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

In hard materials, geometric frustration (GF) is most often associated with the disruption of long-range order in the bulk and proliferation of defects in the ground state. Soft and self-assembled materials, on the other hand, are composed of intrinsically flexible building blocks held together deformable and non-covalent forces. As such, soft assemblies systems are able to tolerate some measure of local misfit due to frustration, allowing imperfect order to extend over at least some
finite range.

This talk will overview an emerging paradigm for self-organized soft materials, geometrically-frustrated assemblies (GFAs), where interactions between self-assembling elements (e.g. particles, macromolecules, proteins) favor local packing motifs that are incompatible with uniform global order in the assembly. This classification applies to a broad range of material assemblies including self-twisting
protein filament bundles, amyloid fibers, chiral smectics and membranes, particle-coated droplets, curved protein shells and phase-separated lipid vesicles. In assemblies, GF leads to a host of anomalous structural and thermodynamic
properties, including heterogeneous and internally-stressed equilibrium structures, self-limiting assembly and topological defects in the equilibrium assembly structures.

I will highlight the some of the basic principles and common outcomes of GF in soft matter assemblies, as well as, outstanding questions not yet addressed about the unique properties and behaviors of this broad class of systems. Finally, I will describe opportunities and challenges to exploit the scale-dependent thermodynamics of GFA to engineer new classes of intentionally ill-fitting assemblies that target equilibrium architectures with well-defined dimensions on length scales that extend far beyond the size of the building blocks or their interactions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:44:48 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar GG Brown Laboratory
Towards Energy Justice: Exploring the Production and Persistence of Residential Urban Energy Disparities (January 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59674 59674-14777924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

U.S. government action at the intersection of energy and equity is typically driven by either geopolitical or economic crises that affect energy prices, rather than by a comprehensive, long-term approach to addressing disparities in energy access and affordability. With one in three U.S. households facing challenges in paying energy bills, understanding residential energy disparities is key to achieving energy justice. This presentation introduces the energy justice framework and explores the production and persistence of disparities in urban residential energy dynamics,
focused primarily on energy efficiency. The results of cases studies in Kansas City and Detroit demonstrate how spatial, racial, and socioeconomic disparities manifest in urban areas, and how community-based approaches to increasing can help overcome barriers to energy justice.

Tony G. Reames is an assistant professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability, Director of the Urban Energy Justice Lab, and a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health JPB Environmental Health Fellow. He has a BS in Civil Engineering, a Masters in Engineering Management (MEM), and a PhD in Public Administration. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:03:44 -0500 2019-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
ChE Seminar Series: Chibueze Amanchukwu (January 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59977 59977-14806101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Stanford University
“Controlling Electrochemistry using Electrolyte Design”

ABSTRACT
To accelerate the electrification of transport, batteries based on a lithium metal anode and an oxygen/sulfur-based cathode with high energy densities have elicited great interest. However, electrolyte selection and degradation has limited the maximal energy that can be extracted, and reduced cycle life. In this talk, I will discuss my work on developing small molecule and polymer-based composite electrolytes that can decouple instability from ionic transport. I show novel ionic transport processes within these electrolyte architectures, and their ability to control electrochemical reactions at both the negative and positive electrode surfaces. Firstly, a gel polymer electrolyte is designed to control the oxygen reduction pathway in a lithium-air battery, and secondly, a small molecule electrolyte mixture is designed to reduce the overpotentials required for lithium metal deposition and stripping. Using the electrolyte to control electrochemical reactions provides an additional knob for the design of high energy density systems.


SHORT BIO
Chibueze Amanchukwu is a TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy at Stanford University. His expertise involves the study of ionic transport processes in electrolytes for energy storage applications. Under the supervision of professor Zhenan Bao at Stanford and in collaboration with professor Yi Cui, his work has focused on understanding ionic transport processes in small molecule electrolytes and controlling lithium metal deposition and stripping. During his PhD with professor Paula Hammond at MIT and collaboration with professor Yang Shao-Horn, he studied degradation processes and ionic transport in polymer electrolytes for lithium-air batteries. He is broadly interested in electrolytes and electrochemistry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:10:50 -0500 2019-01-29T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-29T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58845 58845-14567882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Creating More Inclusive Workplaces in an Era of Discord – The Power of Helping Across Differences
Stephanie J. Creary

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Register: http://myumi.ch/a0mnp

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
Many of us want to work in organizations that enable us to draw on our unique perspectives to contribute and become our best work selves. Yet, sometimes our differences can make us feel uncomfortable, which can challenge our ability to engage with one another in healthy and productive ways. In this presentation, Creary will share a tool that she has developed from her research on multiple identities and helping at work that is designed to help people build more effective relationships across difference at work. The audience will have the opportunity to use the tool in real-time to create their own positive paths for making one particular work relationship across difference more effective.

About Creary:
Stephanie J. Creary, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Wharton People Analytics and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was on the faculty of Cornell University. Prior to completing her PhD degree at the Boston College School of Management, she was a research associate at Harvard Business School and The Conference Board in NYC.

Creary’s research investigates how multiple identities, perspectives, and experiences are engaged and used in organizations to cultivate positive identities, improve the quality of relationships across difference, and promote change that is positive for organizations. She studies these dynamics in a variety of situations and organizational contexts including the development and implementation of corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives, career progression across demographic groups, socialization practices, and health care delivery.

She has published her research in leading management journals, co-authored several HBS case studies on leadership and diversity, written executive action reports on human capital for management audiences, and has won several research and teaching awards.

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register: http://myumi.ch/a0mnp

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:49:24 -0500 2019-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Stephanie J. Creary
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Testing Models of Dark Matter and Modifications to Gravity using Local Milky Way Observables (January 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60479 60479-14899147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Galactic rotation curves are often considered the first robust evidence for the existence of dark matter. However, even in the presence of a dark matter halo, other galactic-scale observations, such as the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation and the Radial Acceleration Relation, remain challenging to explain. This has motivated various models of dark matter as well as long-distance, infrared (IR) modifications to gravity as an alternative to the dark matter hypothesis. We present a framework to test a general class of such models using local Milky Way observables, including the vertical acceleration field, the rotation curve, the baryonic surface density, and the stellar disk profile. In this talk I will focus on models that predict scalar amplifications of gravity, i.e., models that increase the magnitude but do not change the direction of the gravitational acceleration. MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) as well as superfluid dark matter are examples. We find that models of this type are in tension with observations of the Milky Way scale radius and bulge mass and that cold non-interacting dark matter provides a better fit to the data. We conclude that models that result in a MOND-like force struggle to simultaneously explain both the rotational velocity and vertical motion of nearby stars in the Milky Way. A future publication will extend this analysis to include other models such as Strongly Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:02:39 -0500 2019-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Unbiased nonlinear transport model estimation using linearly projected data in the big data era (January 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58483 58483-14508637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

Wai Wong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:07:15 -0500 2019-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
HET Seminars | From Seiberg-Witten Theory to Adjoint QCD (February 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60482 60482-14899149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:07:52 -0500 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
"Can engineering controls shape the drinking water microbiome and reduce the risk of opportunistic infections" (February 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59676 59676-14777925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Professor Raskin works on a variety of biological water and wastewater treatment processes in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:15:47 -0500 2019-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
HET Brown Bag | Hamiltonian Truncation and the S^3 Partition Function (February 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60738 60738-14961638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In this talk I discuss Hamiltonian truncation, a toolkit to construct quantum field theories. Hamiltonian truncation is in many ways orthogonal to the more familiar lattice regularization, and it can be used to systematically compute QFT observables with little computational effort. In the first part of this talk I will review the basic ideas behind this method, as well as some examples from the literature in d=2 and d>2 dimensions. In the second part I will discuss recent work involving strongly-coupled scalar theories on the three-dimensional sphere. Based on hep-th/1811.00528.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:21:07 -0500 2019-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
ChE Seminar Series: Suchol Savagatrup (February 7, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60031 60031-14814797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Imitating Nature’s Gentle Approach: Molecular Engineering of Soft Materials for Energy and Sensing”

ABSTRACT

While conventional electronic devices are composed of hard materials, the pliability and chemical reactivity of soft organic materials may afford new solutions to pressing scientific challenges for applications in energy and environmental monitoring. Here, I will present two examples of molecular engineering of soft materials for (1) mechanically robust organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and (2) bioinspired chemical sensors. OPVs hold promises to produce devices with performance approaching that of silicon-based electronics, but with the mechanical stability of conventional plastics. However, obtaining both “plastic” deformability and high energy conversion efficiency has proven challenging. I will discuss the relationships between mechanical compliance and charge transport in polymeric systems, and the rational design principles that lead to intrinsically stretchable OPVs, allowing for the co-optimization toward the “best of both worlds.” In addition, I will discuss the fabrications of chemical sensors based on complex liquid colloids. These dynamic, multicomponent emulsions behave as a natural sensor with reconfigurable morphologies that are extremely sensitive to the chemical environment. Specifically, their unique coupling between chemical, morphological, and optical properties can be leveraged to detect different classes of biomolecules. These nature-inspired examples serve as an important step in demonstrating the possibility of translating chemical principles to practical devices.

BIO

uchol Savagatrup obtained his Bachelor of Science from UC Berkeley in 2012 and his Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2016, both in Chemical Engineering. At UC San Diego, Suchol worked in the laboratory of Prof. Darren Lipomi and was supported by several competitive fellowships including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the ARCS scholarship, and the Kaplan Dissertation Year Fellowship. Suchol is currently a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Timothy Swager’s lab at MIT. His research interests sit at the interface of soft materials science and device fabrication for applications in energy, human health, and environmental sustainability.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:57:54 -0500 2019-02-07T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation based on Reinforcement Learning Techniques (February 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58485 58485-14508639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Shuo Feng is a PhD student in the Department of Automation at the Tsinghua University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:14:32 -0500 2019-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Hopwood Tea (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
New Perspectives on Classical Soil Mechanics (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60804 60804-14970660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The classical soil mechanics has been founded to support practice-driven geotechnical engineering solutions. In terms of fundamental soil properties, classical soil mechanics uses the basic mechanics concepts and utilizes experimentally observed soil behavior to develop application-driven engineering parameters. The microscopic mechanisms of these parameters are typically overlooked. This presentation will describe a framework that integrates computational models with characterization of the fundamental properties of soils to understand the structural and interaction bases of soil engineering parameters. The framework allows predicting soil engineering behaviors from the most fundamental characterizations. It has the potential of transforming soil mechanism into a predictive mechanics and catalyze the introduction of new sets of experimental tools for soil mechanics research.
Dr. Xiong (Bill) Yu is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:03:06 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Ada Limón, Poetry Reading (February 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58516 58516-14510838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her other books include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. Her new collection, The Carrying, was released by Milkweed Editions in August of 2018 and has been called “her best yet” by NPR, “remarkable” by The New York Times, “exquisite” by The Washington Post, and one of the Ten Titles to Pick Up Now by O Magazine. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:17:15 -0500 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Relationship Building through Mentorship (February 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59808 59808-14788688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you a U-M faculty or staff member interested in learning about mentorship and connecting with local community organizations seeking mentors? Please join us at the Edward Ginsberg Center on February 8, 2019 from 12-1:15 pm for a lunch and learn opportunity, lunch will be provided.

During the session, community partners will share what it means to be a mentor with their organization and respective populations. Through a small group, conversational approach, you will be able to learn about and speak with several community organizations representing populations of varying ages and life backgrounds about their mentorship needs. These organizations include: A Brighter Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Friends in Deed, Our House, and The Blavin Scholars Program, .

Being a mentor is a meaningful way to engage with individuals in your community and lend your skills to the priorities of community partners and the populations they serve. Finding mentors who are able to commit to the time needed can be challenging, come learn how you can combine your interpersonal skills, time, and commitment through mentorship service.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:35:55 -0500 2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T13:15:00-05:00 Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Logo for Learning in Community Workshops
HET Seminars | The Search for Axion Dark Matter (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60740 60740-14961641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter is the dominant source of matter in our Universe. However, while dark matter dictates the evolution of large-scale astrophysical systems through its gravitational effects, the particle nature of dark matter is unknown. This is despite the significant effort that has gone into the search for particle dark matter over the past decades. In this talk I will review the current status of the search for particle dark matter. I will focus specifically on a dark matter particle candidate called the axion, which is both well-motivated theoretically and also relatively unexplored experimentally. I will outline the near-term program for searching for axion dark matter and show that if this theory is correct, then we will probably know soon.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:20:37 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Future Scenario Modeling to Evaluate the Environmental Impacts of New Technology (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59677 59677-14777940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Estimating environmental impacts of a system at an early design stage provides insights into the overall impact of a new technology and offers the greatest opportunities for improvement. Unfortunately, products at an early stage of development lack sufficient data to perform a traditional life cycle assessment (LCA).
There has been significant research on the diffusion of innovations to understand
potential market penetration of a new technology, adopter characteristics, and displacement effects. Diffusion of innovation concepts are useful when constructing scenarios for consequential LCA and understanding how different policy or design
choices may affect overall technology adoption and market penetration.
This seminar will present methods to construct future scenarios within the context of consequential LCA to identify preferable options for new technology design or policy development. A number of case studies will be explored, discussing research projects that involve assessment of transportation fuels, carbon capture and storage, and penetration of refrigerated food supply chains in developing countries.

Professor Miller's research uses life cycle assessment and scenario modeling to identify environmental problems before they occur. Historically, our society has taken a reactionary approach to the environment. By proactively understanding the environmental issues of emerging technologies, we can identify a greater number of options and more creative solutions to avoid or reduce negative consequences. Miller's research group works on a variety of energy-related topics, including the energy-water nexus, bioenergy, refrigeration in the food system, and autonomous vehicles.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:07:29 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
UMMA and Stamps School of Art Design present: Steven Heller: Paul Rand: A Designer’s Scribbles (February 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60082 60082-14816986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition Paul Rand: A Designer’s Task, please join noted design writer, author, and educator Steven Heller for his talk “Paul Rand: A Designer’s Scribbles” where he will share never-before-seen sketches by Rand and discuss how they influenced his advertising work.

 

Steven Heller, is the co-chair with Lita Talarico of the MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He writes the Visuals column for The New York Times Book Review, a weekly column for The Atlantic online and The Daily Heller / Imprint online. He has written more than 180 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, including The Design Entrepreneur  (with Lita Talarico), Paul Rand, Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, Citizen Designer, Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits (with Louise Fili), The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design (with Mirko Ilic), Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State and 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. He is/was a contributing editor for Print, Baseline, Design Observer, Eye. Heller is the recipient of the Eric Carle Award, Art Directors Club Special Educators Award, the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the School of Visual Arts’ Masters Series Award and the 2011 National Design Award for "Design Mind." He has received two honorary doctorates from The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty at the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

Lead support for Paul Rand: The Designer's Task is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Other Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:17:15 -0500 2019-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T19:15:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Saturday Morning Physics | Constructing an Earth: Just Add Water (February 9, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59475 59475-14745541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk we will explore how a life-bearing world such as our own originates by following the necessary materials from their origins in space.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:40:02 -0500 2019-02-09T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-09T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar NASA image of Earth viewed from space
We Challenge You! Blood Drive (February 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61125 61125-15036278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

"We Challenge You!" is a series of blood drives at the University of Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Oakland University and Notre Dame. The goal is to collect more pints of blood than our rival schools! TBP and Blood Drives United (BDU) are jointly hosting this drive at Pierpont Commons to supply much-needed blood to the Red Cross.

Walk-ins are welcome, and appointments can be made at redcross.org using sponsor code "goblue".

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Community Service Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:10:44 -0500 2019-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Tau Beta Pi Community Service Pierpont Commons
HET Brown Bag | Learning New Physics from a Machine (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61034 61034-15024920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

I will discuss how to use neural networks to detect data departures from a given reference model, with no prior bias on the nature of the new physics responsible for the discrepancy. The algorithm that I will describe returns a global p-value that quantifies the tension between the data and the reference model. It also allows to compare directly what the network has learned with the data, giving a fully transparent account of the nature of possible signals. The potential applications are broad, from LHC physics searches to cosmology and beyond.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:28:05 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
ChE Seminar Series: Jovan Kamcev (February 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60032 60032-14814798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

University of California – Berkeley
“Advanced Polymeric Materials for Water and Energy Applications: Relating Molecular Structure to Macroscopic Properties”

ABSTRACT

Securing adequate, sustainable supplies of energy and water at affordable costs is an enormous challenge facing humanity. Due to the interconnected relationship between these two vital resources, often termed the Water-Energy Nexus, a shortcoming in one could negatively impact the availability of the other. Technologies based on polymeric materials (e.g., membranes and sorbents) will play a key role in addressing our water and energy needs due to their efficiency, simplicity, and small footprint. The success of such technologies hinges on developing new materials with improved functionality. However, despite a longstanding interest in this research area, significant fundamental and practical challenges remain. This presentation will focus on two such challenges: (1) the lack of fundamental understanding of the influence of polymer structure on ion/water transport in dense polymer membranes and (2) the need for materials with exceptional selectivity for neutral contaminants (e.g., boron) that are ubiquitous in natural waters and difficult to remove with conventional technologies.

The first part of the presentation will introduce a theoretical, unifying framework for ion partitioning and diffusion in ion exchange membranes (IEMs), a class of materials that has attracted significant interest for various membrane-based technologies. The framework, based on counter-ion condensation theory for polyelectrolyte solutions, accurately predicted ion transport properties of IEMs from basic structural knowledge, in some cases with no adjustable parameters. The experimental and modeling results elucidate key membrane structural properties that influence ion transport in IEMs and provide guidance on how to rationally design high performance materials. The second part of the presentation will describe the synthesis of novel porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs) with specific functionality for removing boron from aqueous solutions. Due to their exceptionally high porosity and robust chemical structures, the PAFs exhibited high boron adsorption capacities, remarkably fast kinetics, and good reusability. Notably, the boron-selective PAFs removed trace amounts of boron from synthetic seawater solutions at unprecedented rates, demonstrating the promise of this relatively new class of microporous polymers for water treatment applications.

BIO

Jovan Kamcev, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Jeffrey Long in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics from Stony Brook University and his master’s and doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Profs. Benny Freeman and Donald Paul. His graduate research entailed fundamental studies of ion and water transport in ion-containing polymer membranes for water and energy applications. His current research focuses on developing novel porous organic frameworks for various applications, including selective ion removal from aqueous solutions and energy storage.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:56:02 -0500 2019-02-14T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Hopwood Tea (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
On the supply function of ride-hailing systems (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60815 60815-14970670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Zhengtian Xu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:44:55 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geotechnical Seminar (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60865 60865-14979677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conveyance systems for drinking water to major cities are critical infrastructure components. Most systems utilize a combination of pipelines and tunnels, which were typically built 50 to 100 years ago. Some of these systems are either susceptible to risks of rupture or failure, or are experiencing significant operations and maintenance issues. Two examples from opposite coasts in North America are the Delaware Aqueduct in New York State, and the Second Narrows Undercrossing in Vancouver, British Columbia. For the Delaware Aqueduct, a portion of the original tunnel is experiencing significant leakage below the Hudson River within a high-permeability rock mass. For the Second Narrows Undercrossing, construction of three pipelines across the Burrard Inlet at shallow depths and in liquefiable soils put them at risk for both scour/anchor strike damage and failure during the potential large earthquakes that could occur in the area. Specific issues and technical challenges will be presented for each project.

Samuel Swartz is a Principal Tunnel Engineer based out of Chicago, IL. With more than 20 years of experience in the tunneling industry, he has provided tunnel design on a number of challenging projects across North America, and in Australia and New Zealand. A native of Ann Arbor, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, and a Master’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Geotechnical Engineering.
Jake Facey is a Senior Staff Engineer based out of Pittsburgh, PA. His work experience spans three years. In that time, he has contributed to the design of numerous large- and small-scale projects across the United States and Canada. Jake graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016 with a focus in Geotechnical Engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:02:15 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
HET Seminars | Building Bulk Observables in AdS/CFT (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61036 61036-15024922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Physics

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates a theory of gravity in anti-de Sitter space to a CFT on the boundary. A natural question is how local fields in AdS can be expressed in terms of the CFT. In the 1/N expansion this can be done by (i) identifying suitable building blocks - free bulk fields - in the CFT, (ii) assembling the building blocks to make interacting bulk fields. I'll present an approach where the first step is carried out using modular flow in the CFT and the second step is driven by requiring bulk causality.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:28:30 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Instantaneous Airborne Bacteriophage MS2 and Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSv) Inactivation by Non-thermal Plasma (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60813 60813-14970668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Tian Xia works in Prof. Herek Clack’s lab and graduated last August as a PhD in Environmental Engineering from UM-CEE. His research is focused on the applications of novel non-thermal plasma technology to disinfect indoor airborne pathogens relating to agricultural activities. He is also interested in research of electrostatic precipitators, mercury removal technologies from coal-fired power plants and their potential impacts on climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:06:15 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Hair'itage - The Journey of Sistahs with Their Hair (February 15, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59648 59648-14767255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - ZPHIB

Hair'itage The Play: The journey of Sistahs with Their Hair is a captivating play that tells the story of sistahs and their journey with their hair. Each sistah shares their love-hate relationship with their hair; telling secret wishes and fears, jealousy and adoration, and the acceptance or rejection from their lovers, mothers, bosses, friends, and self. Playgoers leave in awes - empowered. Some even shed tears of joy, as they can relate to the storyline from a personal perspective. Hair'itage is a journey that women and men, from all walks of life, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultural backgrounds will enjoy.

HAIR'itage has ben performed in cities across the US including:
New York City - Brooklyn, NY - Somerset, NJ - Philadelphia, PA - Baltimore, MD, Detroit, MI - Los Angeles, CA.

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Performance Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:09:45 -0500 2019-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - ZPHIB Performance HAIR’itage Flyer
Saturday Morning Physics | Are Concussions the Downfall of Football? (February 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59479 59479-14745550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

With the potential for long term effects, the media has placed significant attention on concussions in football. But is all of it accurate?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:41:04 -0500 2019-02-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Ohio-Michigan Helmet Impact
Wind-resilient and sustainable architectural engineering (February 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61162 61162-15043039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainable and wind-resilient building design requires realistic modelling of urban microclimate interaction with building at various scales (component → building → neighbourhood → city). This includes both (i) normally recurring microclimate conditions driven by thermal variations and/or normal wind for building energy performance design, and (ii) extreme climate conditions such as hurricane landfall, tornado touchdown or extreme winter for capacity and safety design. Alan Davenport’s “wind-loading-chain” links the modelling of extreme synoptic wind, exposure, aerodynamics, and dynamics to particular design criteria. Its expansion to (i) non-synoptic extreme winds such as tornadoes and downbursts; (ii) normal micro-climatic loads such as thermal loads, (iii) optimal tall building/bridge aerodynamic solutions; (iv) performance based wind design methods for emerging tall-mass-timber buildings; and (v) community level wind performance assessments, will be presented, through representative research projects from each category. The roles of computational fluid dynamics and Artificial Intelligence (deployed at SHARCNet) complimenting the physical experiments (enabled by the Boundary Layer Wind
Tunnel Laboratory and WindEEE Dome) in realizing windresilient and sustainable architectural engineering will be emphasized.

Dr. Bitsuamlak is Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at Western University. He serves as Director (Research) for both the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory and WindEEE Research Institute, and Western’s Site-leader for SHARCNet computing centre. His team is actively working on modelling microclimate effects to enhance the performance of buildings and cities for extreme wind (e.g. hurricane and tornado safety), and normal climate (Building thermal and energy performance).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57:47 -0500 2019-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar lightning struck on desert
DAAS Graduate Student Open House & BRR Paper Workshop (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61057 61057-15027183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

oin us for a dinner to learn more about the DAAS Graduate Certificate Program and other graduate student opportunities at DAAS. Meet DAAS faculty, staff, and other graduate students, and come through for a chance to win DAAS gear!
A light dinner will be served, followed by a paper workshop with the Black Research Roundtable. (Email reubenr@umich.edu for the pre-circulated paper.)

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Reception / Open House Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:15:48 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House Haven Hall
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (February 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
HET Brown Bag | Energy Condition, Modular Flow, and AdS/CFT (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61328 61328-15088049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

In recent years, substantial progresses has been made in understanding and proving a number of energy conditions in quantum field theories (QFTs), which played very important roles for constraining quantum corrections to black hole dynamics in general relativity. In this talk, I will discuss proof of the quantum null energy condition (QNEC), both in holographic CFTs based on AdS/CFT, and in generic CFTs using techniques related to the entanglement structure. Furthermore, I will discuss the connection between the two approaches, and in doing this, deep relations between boundary modular flow and bulk RT surface dynamics will be revealed.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:39:43 -0500 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58848 58848-14567885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Positive Emotional Culture: How Positive Emotions at the Heart of Corporate Culture Affect Your Well­-Being and Your Company’s Bottom Line
Mandy O'Neill

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Register: http://myumi.ch/6xE2E

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
What aspect of corporate culture is so deep that it affects our hearts, minds, and the organizational bottom line? In this session, O’Neill introduces the undiscovered domain she calls “emotional culture” and demonstrates how cultures comprised of positive emotions such as love, joviality, and awe have benefits not only for employees’ own individual well-being, but also for teams, clients, and the corporate bottom line. Building on her Harvard Business Review article, “Manage Your Emotional Culture,” O’Neill will highlight real-world case studies from across different industries and share practical tips for how managers, HR business partners, and individual change agents can diagnose, manage, and change their emotional cultures.

About O’Neill:
Olivia (Mandy) O'Neill, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California (2018-2019). She is also Associate Professor of Management at the George Mason University School of Business and Senior Scientist at the university’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

O’Neill is an expert on organizational culture, emotions in the workplace, gender, and careers. She consults and conducts academic research across a wide range of organizations and industries including Fortune 500 corporations, global semiconductor firms, major medical centers, and emergency response teams. Her work has been published in a variety of scholarly and practitioner journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.

O’Neill, with co-author Sigal Barsade, earned the Center for Positive Organization’s 2017 Award for Outstanding Published Article in Positive Organizational Scholarship for their Administrative Science Quarterly paper “What’s love got to do with it? A longitudinal study of the culture of companionate love and employee and client outcomes in the long-term care setting.”

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register: http://myumi.ch/6xE2E

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:56:39 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Mandy O'Neill
Introduction to Engaged Design: Developing Community-Based Learning Courses (February 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58819 58819-14561468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Have you been thinking about developing a new course that integrates community engagement? Would you like to learn how to best transform an existing course into a community-based learning course? In this session, co-led by staff from LSA’s Office of Community-Engaged Academic Learning and the Edward Ginsberg Center, we will discuss ways to promote student learning through work in and with communities. We will explore key principles and promising practices for developing effective community-based learning (CBL) courses. Participants will begin applying these ideas to their own courses, so please bring a course idea or description.

This session is designed for those new to community-engaged learning, but faculty with experience can register for our March 20 workshop, Digging Deeper: Enhancing Your Community-Based Teaching.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:09:53 -0500 2019-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Participants in faculty workshop
ChE Seminar Series: Maciek Antoniewicz (February 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54514 54514-15063361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Centennial Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware

ABSTRACT
“Towards a Holistic Understanding of Cellular Metabolism”

Measuring intracellular fluxes by 13C metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA) has become a key activity in metabolic engineering, biotechnology and medicine. Here, I will present important new advances that have extended the scope of this technology to more complex biological systems, including dynamic, interacting, and evolving systems. One of the key 13C-MFA technical advances that was pioneered in our lab centers on the use of parallel labeling experiments for metabolic pathway discovery. In this presentation, I will describe several surprising new metabolic pathways that we have discovered in central carbon metabolism in microbes, including E. coli, as well as mammalian cells using this new powerful technology. These metabolic pathways have been ”hidden” from our view so far because they cannot be estimated using traditional experiments. Only through the use of carefully selected tracers and parallel labeling experiments are we able to visualize these pathways. Applications in cancer medicine, phermaceutical production, and synthetic biology will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 2019-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
HET Seminars | *To Be Confirmed* (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61331 61331-15088051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

*To Be Confirmed*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:39:40 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Smart city logistics: Trends in sustainable deliveries (February 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60818 60818-14970673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Monireh Mahmoudi is a professor in the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources at the Michigan State University. Mahmoudi's research focuses on the application and development of operations research methods in logistics and operations planning in recycling plastic packaging.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:49:12 -0500 2019-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geomechanics of Sinkholes (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60866 60866-14979678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sinkholes pose a major threat to environment, infrastructure, and human safety. They can develop via a cluster of inter-related processes, including bedrock dissolution, rock collapse, soil washing away, and soil collapse. Current practices involved in the sinkhole hazard assessment are generally of a qualitative, empirical nature and largely based on geological characteristics of the karst terrains. This talk aims to present a quantitative analysis of the interplay of multiple mechanisms involved during sinkhole development. The dominant mechanism behind sinkholes formed in rocks is the dissolution of soluble karstic rocks. Dissolution process may be enhanced by potentially aggressive groundwater acidity and the presence of caves or fissures. Specific dissolution rate of the constituent mineral (limestone or dolomite) and the surface area available for reaction are related via a chemo-mechanical coupling with the consideration of the damage-enhanced dissolution mechanism. The second part of the analysis explores the cover collapse type of sinkholes in which the critical mechanism is the growth and upward propagation of cavity. A strain-softening constitutive model is used to describe the strength evolution dependent on accumulated plastic deviatoric strain and erosion progression of soils around the cavity. The numerical results demonstrate the feasibility of expanding classical geomechanics to address intricate, often coupled processes in sinkholes.

Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Toledo. He received his B.E. in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Duke University. His present research interests are primarily in geohazards and energy geotechnics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:15:34 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Freshwater cyanotoxins: Emerging exposure pathways & Impacts on human and ecosystem health (February 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59680 59680-14777941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This seminar will start with the spatial distribution of cyanobacterial blooms in the US lakes and examining whether it is a potential risk factor of non-alcoholic liver diseases. The second part will introduce the health outcomes resulting from acute microcystin ingestion, focusing on liver health using a mouse model. In terms of microcystin exposures, direct exposure to water and consumption of seafood are well-documented.

Jiyoung Lee is a Professor in the College of Public Health at Ohio State University. Lee's research focuses on microbial contamination in environments that leads to human exposure and its linkage to health outcome.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:59:38 -0500 2019-02-22T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | Searching for Dark Matter with Antimatter (February 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59484 59484-14745555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Antimatter cosmic ray measurements can advance our understanding of high-energy astrophysical phenomena in our own Galaxy. Over the last years, satellite experiments as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the International Space Station measure antimatter cosmic ray fluxes, including positrons (the antiparticles of electrons), antiprotons (the antiparticles of protons) and recently antimatter nuclei. These measurements provide a novel probe to search for new physics including annihilations of dark matter in the Milky Way, which I will present.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:13 -0500 2019-02-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark Matter and Antimatter Collage
Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit (February 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61069 61069-15027198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit is a traveling exhibit designed to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through respect for others, comfort during interactions, and awareness of disability issues. Using a multi-media approach to demonstrate respect, comfort and awareness, the
exhibit offers suggestions for becoming disability allies and educators.

It has been twenty years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and almost forty years since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Both of these laws protect against discrimination of people with disabilities by requiring equal access to employment, education, goods and services.

Americans have progressed in their attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities; however, there remain questions and concerns about appropriate communication, comfort level, and inclusive practices.

When it comes to interacting with individuals with disabilities, people ask:
"What should I do?", "How should I respond?", "Is it okay to say that?", "How can I become an ally?"; Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit will attempt to answer some of these questions.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to experience The Ability Exhibit when it visits the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson St.)

February 27, 9am-4pm
February 28, 8:30am-4pm

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:00 -0500 2019-02-27T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Exhibition Event flyer
Allies for Inclusion: Allies for Inclusion Workshop (February 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61071 61071-15027200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Allies for Inclusion is a ninety-minute workshop offered to faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about disability-related issues and are interested in becoming disability allies. Through various interactive activities and presentation, attendees will be able to:
-Demonstrate inclusive language and understand its importance.
-Know the difference between the letter of disability law and the spirit of disability law.
-Understand the concepts of Universal Design, Universal Instructional Design, and Universal Design for Student Development.
-Be able to identify areas of their campuses and communities that are not universally designed or accessible.
-Appreciate and understand the need for ability allies and commit to being an ally for inclusion by advocating for awareness, acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

About the speaker:
Karen A. Myers, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Administration graduate program at Saint Louis University and co-founder and director of the award-winning international disability education project, Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit, the Ability Ally Initiative workshops, Ability Allies in Action: Pre-Kindergarten-Eighth Curriculum, and The Ability Institute. She has been a college teacher and administrator since 1979 at nine institutions; is an international disability consultant and trainer, author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books; and teaches her self-designed graduate courses, “Disability in Higher Education and Society” and “Disability Administration in Higher Education.” She is co-founder of the ACPA College Student Educators International Coalition on Disability, past ACPA Foundation Trustee, and co-author of the ASHE monograph, Allies for Inclusion: Disability and Equity in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2014).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:13:36 -0500 2019-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
HET Brown Bag | Searching for Flavour Symmetries: Old Data New Tricks (February 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61584 61584-15150258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The observed pattern of mixing in the neutrino sector may be explained by the presence of a non-Abelian, discrete flavour symmetry broken into residual subgroups at low energies. These flavour models require the presence of Standard Model singlet scalars, namely flavons, which decay to charged leptons in a flavour-conserving or violating manner. In this talk, I will present the constraints on the model parameters of an A4 leptonic flavour model using a synergy of g-2, charged lepton flavour conversion and collider data. The most powerful constraints derive from the MEG collaboration's result and the reinterpretation of an 8 TeV ATLAS search for anomalous productions of multi-leptonic final states.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:40:12 -0500 2019-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit (February 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61069 61069-15027199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit is a traveling exhibit designed to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through respect for others, comfort during interactions, and awareness of disability issues. Using a multi-media approach to demonstrate respect, comfort and awareness, the
exhibit offers suggestions for becoming disability allies and educators.

It has been twenty years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and almost forty years since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Both of these laws protect against discrimination of people with disabilities by requiring equal access to employment, education, goods and services.

Americans have progressed in their attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities; however, there remain questions and concerns about appropriate communication, comfort level, and inclusive practices.

When it comes to interacting with individuals with disabilities, people ask:
"What should I do?", "How should I respond?", "Is it okay to say that?", "How can I become an ally?"; Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit will attempt to answer some of these questions.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to experience The Ability Exhibit when it visits the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson St.)

February 27, 9am-4pm
February 28, 8:30am-4pm

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:00 -0500 2019-02-28T08:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Exhibition Event flyer
A decentralized game theoretical approach for vehicle platooning under economic concern (February 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60819 60819-14970674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Xiaotong Sun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:31:29 -0500 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Evaluating Site Seismic Parameters for Construction (February 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60867 60867-14979679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical engineers are frequently faced with addressing seismicity issues
associated with construction of new buildings or additions to existing buildings. According to building codes and related guidelines, the geotechnical engineer has several methods to evaluate seismicity issues at sites where new construction is planned. The findings developed from the geotechnical engineer’s evaluation are then used by the project structural engineer in their design of the proposed building. This presentation will provide a broad overview of Mr. Jedele’s experience with the methods available in the geotechnical engineer’s toolbox and include several case histories where these tools have been used and compared with each other.

Mr. Jedele received his baccalaureate and MS degrees from the University of Michigan. He is a Past President of the ASCE Geo-Institute Board of Governors, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Geo-Professionals. In 1991 Larry was named the Engineer of the Year by the Michigan Section of ASCE and earlier by the Ann Arbor Branch of ASCE. He is a registered engineer in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:57:16 -0500 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Hopwood Tea (February 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Opportunities for greywater reuse at different scales (March 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59681 59681-14777945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water and wastewater treatment are key to protect humans in cities by providing safe water and urban hygiene and to protect the aquatic environment from pollutants. Over the past century, urban water management allowed for healthy and pleasant living conditions in ever-growing cities in many parts of the world. This presentation will discuss the potential for local reuse of treated greywater and drivers for implementation. What are the scientific and technological challenges? How can appropriate local water reuse be implemented in a way that it does not jeopardize today’s achievements in urban water management and urban hygiene? Basic sciences for gravity driven membrane (GDM) filtration and technology development for reuse of hand washing water in informal settlements or resource recovery at the building scale will be discussed.

Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. His research interests include wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for water reuse, control of biofilms, biofilm reactors, biological drinking water treatment, decentralized wastewater treatment, and energy recovery from wastewater and organic residuals.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:17:38 -0500 2019-03-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-03-01T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (March 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61902 61902-15232583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about institutional mission and integrity. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:03:35 -0500 2019-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T11:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting
HET Brown Bag | Inflation and Supersymmetry Breaking in an M-theory Framework (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62006 62006-15273938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

**Please note this talk will be on Tuesday at noon in 3481 Randall**

Compactifying M-theory on a manifold of G2 holonomy gives a UV complete 4D theory. It is supersymmetric, with soft supersymmetry breaking via gaugino condensation that simultaneously stabilizes all moduli and generates a hierarchy between the Planck and the Fermi scale. It has gauge matter, chiral fermions, and several other important features of our world, including a De Sitter vacuum. Here we show that the theory also contains a successful inflaton, which is essentially the overall volume modulus of the compactified manifold. We will discuss the cosmological and experimental implications of this theory.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:48:46 -0400 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
HET Brown Bag | Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimensions (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62007 62007-15273940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

We show that Weinberg's leading soft photon theorem in massless quantum electrodynamics (QED) implies the existence of an infinite-dimensional large gauge symmetry, which acts non-trivially on the null boundaries of (d+2)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. These symmetries are parameterized by an arbitrary function of the d-dimensional celestial sphere living at null infinity. This extends the equivalence between Weinberg’s leading soft photon theorem and the large gauge symmetries of QED from even dimensions higher or equal to four to all dimensions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:53:25 -0400 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Depression on College Campuses Conference (March 13, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58286 58286-14452841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

As counseling centers continue to be faced with an ever-increasing demand for services, colleges and universities must consider more effective and efficient strategies for providing support to a large population of students with unique and varying needs. Emerging strategies include precision health and stepped care approaches to better determine and provide the “right intervention for the right person at the right time.”

Join us for the 17th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference to learn about new research findings, model programs, and policies which highlight evidence-based approaches to identify and determine the level of intervention required to best match student need to improve health outcomes.

Registration is free for any student from any campus.

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Well-being Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:34:42 -0500 2019-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being DoCC
Depression on College Campuses Conference (March 14, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58286 58286-14452842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

As counseling centers continue to be faced with an ever-increasing demand for services, colleges and universities must consider more effective and efficient strategies for providing support to a large population of students with unique and varying needs. Emerging strategies include precision health and stepped care approaches to better determine and provide the “right intervention for the right person at the right time.”

Join us for the 17th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference to learn about new research findings, model programs, and policies which highlight evidence-based approaches to identify and determine the level of intervention required to best match student need to improve health outcomes.

Registration is free for any student from any campus.

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Well-being Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:34:42 -0500 2019-03-14T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being DoCC
ChE Seminar Series: Neil Lin (March 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61953 61953-15241363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

ABSTRACT

Bioengineered 3D kidney tissues that emulate human responses could potentially lead a revolution in drug safety testing and ultimately solve organ donor shortage issues. Unfortunately, current kidney-on-chip models lack the 3D geometry, complexity, and functionality necessary to recapitulate in vivo renal tissue. In this talk, I will discuss how we address these engineering challenges by creating 3D vascularized kidney tubule models via multimaterial bioprinting and characterizing their reabsorption properties. In particular, I will discuss how we engineer the flow property and biocompatibility of different soft materials to construct adjacent conduits that are lined with confluent epithelium and endothelium embedded in a permeable extracellular matrix. This 3D kidney model closely mimics the native microenvironment, and thus exhibits superior cell behavior with active reabsorption of solutes including albumin uptake and glucose. Lastly, I will show a few examples of how our model enables toxicity studies and disease modeling that have been difficult to conduct using conventional in vitro systems.

BIO

Neil Lin works as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Jennifer Lewis in the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Physics from Cornell University in 2016. Dr. Lin is originally from Taiwan and received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from the National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. He is recipient of NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein F-32 Fellowship (2018) and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Postdoc Fellowship (2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:36:31 -0500 2019-03-14T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T12:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
CGIS / LSA Program Leader Health & Safety Workshop (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61823 61823-15212840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Join us for our annual Health & Safety Workshop for our 2019 CGIS Faculty! While not required, faculty / staff who are leading LSA students on a (non-CGIS) program abroad are also strongly encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail the LSA International Health & Safety Advisor Rachel Reuter at reuterra@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:59:41 -0500 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Workshop / Seminar Professor teaching students abroad
Effects of charging infrastructure and non-electric taxi competition on electric taxi adoption incentives in NYC (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61447 61447-15106032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Jae Young Jung is a technical expert in operations research at the Ford Motor Company.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:15:13 -0500 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geotechnical Seminar (March 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61446 61446-15106031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

Mr. Roarty is a Senior Vice President in Geotechnical Engineering and Heavy Underground Design at NTH Consultants, Ltd. in Detroit, MI. He specializes in subsurface investigation, ground improvement, underground design, forensic evaluation, litigation defense, and construction contract administration.Mr. Roarty has co-authored magazine articles and technical proceedings as well as numerous reports related to geotechnical and forensic evaluations and rehabilitation work.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:11:51 -0500 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Hopwood Tea (March 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 14, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61902 61902-15232584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about institutional mission and integrity. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:03:35 -0500 2019-03-14T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
HET Seminars | New Directions in Self-Interacting Dark Matter, From Astrophysics to the Lattice (March 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62008 62008-15273941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

Dark matter may have its own dark forces and interactions that are distinct from the Standard Model and unrelated the weak scale. To test this idea, galaxies and clusters of galaxies serve as cosmic colliders for measuring self-scattering among dark matter particles. Present constraints imply that if self-interactions are to solve the infamous core-cusp problem in dwarf galaxies, the scattering cross section must fall with energy/velocity to avoid cluster limits. To test this velocity dependence, I present new constraints on dark matter self-interactions at an intermediate scale with groups of galaxies. I also describe using mock observations from N-body simulations of self-interacting dark matter with baryons as a test of our methods. Lastly, I describe some recent work toward strongly-coupled theories of self-interacting dark matter, using tools borrowed from lattice QCD to compute its properties nonperturbatively.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:00:46 -0400 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Saturday Morning Physics | Rare Events in the Short Happy Lives of Muons and Kaons (March 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59599 59599-14754552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

As our understanding of the building blocks of matter and how they interact has increased, particle physicists have turned their attention to finding processes not known in the Standard Model. We will talk about two searches for rare processes involving the decays of muons and kaons.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:42:36 -0500 2019-03-16T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Full Detector
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58851 58851-14567895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Islands of Mindfulness within Oceans of Chaos
Sanjay Saint and Vineet Chopra

Monday, March 18, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Register: http://myumi.ch/aKrbb

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
At some point in our careers, each of us will struggle with balancing competing demands on our time. Work life can be hectic in any organization, resulting in burnout, errors, stunted creativity, and poor performance. Incorporating mindfulness into our work lives might be one way to help restore equilibrium.

In this lively and engaging talk, Saint and Chopra will share research on how practices of mindfulness can be established within the oceans of chaos to fuel “heartfulness,” restoring kindness and compassion. Mindfulness-based interventions engender attitudes of curiosity and connection that allow us to listen attentively, recognize errors, refine skills, and focus on mission—ultimately leading to better performance. Saint and Chopra will offer various strategies and approaches—so-called “intersectional innovations” (or aha moments)—that can be used to improve personal and organizational performance.

About Saint:
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

His research focuses on patient safety, implementation science, and medical decision-making. He has authored approximately 340 peer-reviewed papers with over 110 appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, or the Annals of Internal Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of 7 peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, is a Special Correspondent to the New England Journal of Medicine, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

He has written for The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and gave a 2016 TEDx talk on culture change in healthcare that has over 1 million views. He has co-authored two books published by Oxford University Press: Preventing Hospital Infections: Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions and Teaching Inpatient Medicine: What Every Physician Needs to Know. In 2017, he was awarded the HSR&D Health System Impact Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research. In 2016, he received the Mark Wolcott Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as the National VA Physician of the Year and was elected as an international honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London).

He received his Medical Doctorate from UCLA, completed a medical residency and chief residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and obtained a Master of Public Health (as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar) from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has been a visiting professor at over 100 universities and hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has active research studies underway with investigators in Switzerland, Italy, Japan, and Thailand.

About Chopra:
Dr. Vineet Chopra is Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Research Scientist at Michigan Medicine and the VA Ann Arbor Health System.

A career hospitalist, Chopra’s research is dedicated to improving the safety of hospitalized patients through prevention of hospital-acquired complications. His work focuses on identifying and preventing complications such as infection and thrombosis associated with central venous catheters, with a particular emphasis on peripherally inserted central catheters. Chopra is funded by a Career Development Award from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also received grant support from the National Institute of Aging, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association.

Chopra is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards including the 2016 Kaiser Permanente Award for Teaching (Clinical), the Jerome W. Conn Award for Outstanding Research in the Department of Medicine at Michigan, the 2016 Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Research Award, the 2014 McDevitt Award for Research Excellence, and the 2014 Society of Hospital Medicine Young Investigator Award. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and serves as Associate Editor at the American Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Chopra is also Feature Editor for Annals for Hospitalists, a new addition to Annals of Internal Medicine.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register: http://myumi.ch/aKrbb

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:33:36 -0500 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Sanjay Saint and Vineet Chopra
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61904 61904-15232585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about teaching and learning excellence and continuous improvement. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:11:43 -0500 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting Hatcher Graduate Library
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61904 61904-15232586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about teaching and learning excellence and continuous improvement. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:11:43 -0500 2019-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T11:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting Pierpont Commons
Value the Voice: The Shoulders of Giants (March 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59516 59516-14748075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members).​  Light food and refreshments will be served in the Commons at 6:30 prior to the start of the program.​

Value the Voice will take place on Tuesdays, September 18, November 13, January 22, March 19, 7 p.m. UMMA Auditorium.

For more information, please contact Keith Jason at mrjason@umich.edu or 734-764-9128

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Writer to Writer w/ Ellen Muehlberger (March 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61259 61259-15061102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Center for Writing's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

This month Writer to Writer welcomes Ellen Muehlberger. Ellen Muehlberger is Associate Professor of Christianity in late antiquity in the departments of Middle East Studies and History at the University of Michigan, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on ancient history, contemporary religious traditions, scholarly methods, and Coptic and Syriac language. Muehlberger has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She edited Practice, a 2017 collection of newly-translated primary sources about early Christian education, asceticism, and reading for the series Cambridge Editions of Early Christian Writings, and her new book, Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford) will be available at Literati for purchase.

Writer to Writer takes place at the Literati bookstore (124 E. Washington) on Tuesday, March 19th from 7-8pm and is also broadcast live on WCBN radio (88.3FM). These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:04:41 -0500 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion flyer
Academic Freedom at a Global University: A Transnational Perspective (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60412 60412-14875272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Speakers:

Fiona Lee
(Psychology and Organizational Culture)

Ken Panko
(Bibliothecography and Information Technology)

Ronald Suny
(History and Political Science)


What is academic freedom? Is it relevant in this day and age? What does it mean at a global institution like the University of Michigan? How does the internationalization of higher education affect it? What does it mean to those who hail from abroad? Does academic freedom globalize? How do scholars and students who move across the world attend to its intricacies, obligations, and limitations? These are some of the questions that we will attempt to answer as part of our conversation. Please join us!

The public is welcome!
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP. This is optional but does help us ensure that we provide enough food for everyone.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:07:21 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion stamps
HET Brown Bag | Pulsar Timing as a Probe of Primordial Black Holes and Subhalos (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62229 62229-15335273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

Pulsars act as accurate clocks, sensitive to gravitational redshift and acceleration induced by transiting clumps of matter. In this talk, I study the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTA) to transiting compact dark matter objects, focusing on primordial black holes and subhalos. Such dark matter clumps can result in different classes of signals observable in pulsar timing experiments depending on the mass of the object. I will classify the types of signals, where they are most important, and the different search strategies resulting in possible constraints over a huge mass range, 10^−12 to 100 solar masses. Crucially, PTAs offer the opportunity to probe much less dense objects than lensing experiments due to the large effective radius over which such objects can be observed with a single pulsar. We project the reach possible with current and future pulsar timing experiments, with sensitivity to a dark matter sub-component reaching the sub-percent level over significant parts of this range with future detectors.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:58:44 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
MLK, Jr. Luncheon II (March 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62126 62126-15299877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Luncheon series seeks to promote a culture of inclusion, while helping encourage attendees to continue their development as a "whole person" rather than simply as an "engineer". This luncheon's speaker is Professor Joseph Trumpey from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:02:54 -0400 2019-03-21T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion p
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61904 61904-15232587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about teaching and learning excellence and continuous improvement. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:11:43 -0500 2019-03-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T15:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting
Ford Mobility Routing Solutions (March 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61450 61450-15106036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

Crystal Wang is a Routing Product Supervisor for the Ford Motor Company.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:06:29 -0400 2019-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geophysical imaging of bedrock weathering profiles: A case study in the Nepal Himalayas (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62277 62277-15344239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This seminar will include two shorter presentations; Mr. William Medwedeff will talk on “Geophysical imaging of bedrock weathering profiles: A case study in the Nepal Himalayas,” and Mr. Logan Knoper will give a presentation on “A temporal perspective on monsoon landslides in the Himalayas through high-resolution satellite imagery.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:58:00 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Hopwood Tea (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Novel Electrode Materials for Water Treatment (March 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59683 59683-14777949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk will discuss ongoing research efforts aimed at advancing EAOPs, which
includes the synthesis of selective electrodes for the minimization of byproduct
formation and development of inexpensive, high surface area, porous electrodes
for enhanced electrochemical activity. A combination of electrochemical
reactivity experiments, electrochemical characterization, and density functional
theory modeling was used to develop a mechanistic understanding of the interactions of contaminants with these novel electrode materials. Results from
this work are being used to develop more efficient and compact treatment
technologies, including ‘self cleaning’ membranes and multi-functional point-of-use
water treatment devices.

Brian Chaplin is a professor the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Chemical Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:02:15 -0400 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | From Tiny to Huge and Something in Between: Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos, Magnets and Galaxies (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59602 59602-14754555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The Elusive Neutrino
Rory Fitzpatrick, Graduate Student Research Assistant (U-M Physics)
The neutrino is simultaneously one of the most abundant and evasive particles in our universe; it is particularly difficult to detect, but holds the key to understanding fundamental questions about the world in which we live. How do we photograph rare neutrino interactions? And what can we learn from those images once we capture them?

Magnetic Microscopy: New Techniques to Measure Magnetism
Lu Chen, Graduate Student Research Assistant (U-M Physics)
The quartz tuning fork has been used as a time standard in the wrist watch for over 50 years. We use it to develop a high-resolution magnetometry, which could be used to measure the magnetism in many novel materials.

Galaxies Galore! Precision Cosmology with Large Scale Structure
Noah Weaverdyck, Ph.D. Candidate (U-M Physics)
What is the universe made of? How does it behave on the largest scales? I will discuss how cosmologists are attempting to answer these questions and more using state-of-the-art telescopes that map millions of galaxies across the cosmos.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:05 -0500 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Observation
Project Management Certification (March 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61540 61540-15126016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example: a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 24 (1:00 - 4:30 pm, Ross 0240)
Sunday, April 7 (1:00 - 4:30 pm, Ross 0240)
Sunday, October 6 (1:00 - 4:30 pm, Ross 0240)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for November 17, 2019 (11:00 - 3:00 pm) at the Ross School of Business. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skill set to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/project-management-certification/2019-03-24/project-management-certification-2019

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:40:05 -0500 2019-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61905 61905-15232588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about institutional resources, planning, and institutional effectiveness. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:15:44 -0500 2019-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T23:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting
CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (March 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 58843-14567875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.

Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:45:15 -0500 2019-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
HET Brown Bag | Sphere Packing and Quantum Gravity (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62522 62522-15397099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: HET Brown Bag Series

The sphere packing problem asks to find the densest possible packing of identical spheres in d dimensions. The problem was recently solved analytically in 8 and 24 dimensions by Viazovska et al., building on linear programming bounds of Cohn+Elkies. I will show that there is a close connection between these results on sphere packing and the modular bootstrap in two-dimensional conformal field theories. In particular, I will explain that Viazovska's solution was essentially rediscovered in the conformal bootstrap literature in the guise of "analytic extremal functionals". It corresponds to saturation of the modular bootstrap bounds by known 2D CFTs. Sphere packing in a large number of dimensions maps to the modular bootstrap at large central charge, which can be used to constrain quantum gravity in large AdS_3. I will use the new analytic techniques to improve significantly on the best asymptotic upper bound on the mass of the lightest state in such theories.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:55:03 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory HET Brown Bag Series Workshop / Seminar Randall Laboratory
Critical Visualities 3 (March 28, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60584 60584-14910398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What are the political dimensions of the affective charge between art and its audience? Between the critic and the art she engages? How does it feel to look ‘critically’ now?”

Now in its third year, Critical Visualities has grown into a major national conference, drawing top faculty from across the country in the fields of American studies, African American studies, visual culture studies, performance studies, media studies, and literary studies. Designed to offer the University of Michigan community an unparalleled opportunity to engage with these scholars in an unusually intimate setting, Critical Visualities incites new insights, new questions, and new collaborations for presenters and audience members alike.

As always, Critical Visualities is particularly attune to the ways in which our interdisciplinary work enables us to engage with current events marked by feelings of shock and urgency about ongoing racial injustice and gendered violence.

Speakers include: Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin); Kimberly Juanita Brown (Mt. Holyoke); Zahid Chaudhry (Princeton); Laurie Gries (University of Colorado); Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers); and UM's Sara Blair (English), Vera Grant (Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, UMMA), Joan Kee (History of Art), and Lisa Nakamura (American Culture).

Thursday, March 28 [All events in Angell 3222]
9:30-11:30am | Panel 1: Absence, Abstraction, and Photography
Sara Blair (U-M), “Seeing Without Empathy”
Zahid Chaudhary (Princeton), “Aesthetics of Expropriation: Abstraction in Fazal Sheikh’s ‘Desert Bloom’ Series”
Kimberly Juanita Brown (Mt. Holyoke), “You and Eye in the Afterlife of Images”

1:00pm-3:00pm | Panel 2: Everyone’s a Critic! (What’s a Critic?)
Joan Kee (U-M), “Smile, Bitch!”
Vera Grant (U-M), “The Critic’s Tear: Disorder and Ordinary Flatness”
Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin), “Everybody’s Historiography: Playing the Digital in Museums”

3:15-4:45pm: Graduate Student Roundtable

Friday, March 29 [All events in Angell 3222]
9:30am-11:30am | Panel 3: Affective Aesthetics of Race and State
Lisa Nakamura (U-M), “Virtual Reality and the Feeling of Virtue: Women of Color Narrators, Enforced Hospitality, and the Leveraging of Empathy”
Laurie Gries (Colorado), “Trumpicons, Affect, and the Racial Politics of Circulation”
Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers), “Carceral Aesthetics”

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:38:43 -0400 2019-03-28T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities 3
Increasing GPS localization accuracy with reinforcement learning (March 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62282 62282-15344246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Ethan Zhang is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:22:15 -0400 2019-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
U-M Ann Arbor Accreditation Town Hall (March 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61905 61905-15232589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) are hosting town halls for faculty, students, and staff to provide input on U-M Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This town hall session is about institutional resources, planning, and institutional effectiveness. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, table, or other digital device. Please visit accreditation.umich.edu for more information.

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Meeting Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:15:44 -0500 2019-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Meeting
Influence of slickwater additives on fate of residual fracturing fluids and flowback composition in shale gas reservoirs (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62284 62284-15344247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Understanding the fate of residual hydraulic fracturing fluids and the mechanisms
that control flowback fluid composition are necessary components to the environmentally sustainable development of shale gas reservoirs. Fracturing fluids contain an array of chemical additives that will influence mineral dissolution reactions and water imbibition at the shale fracture/matrix interface. This presentation will summarize results from a series of experimental studies that examined the impact of acid and surfactants commonly used in slickwater fracturing fluids with respect to their ability to mobilize contaminants from and influence water imbibition into the shale matrix.

Brian Ellis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M).His research interests cover topics related to the sustainable development of subsurface energy resources and geologic CO2 sequestration.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:58:25 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
CGIS / LSA Program Leader Health & Safety Workshop (March 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61823 61823-15212843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA International Travel

Join us for our annual Health & Safety Workshop for our 2019 CGIS Faculty! While not required, faculty / staff who are leading LSA students on a (non-CGIS) program abroad are also strongly encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail the LSA International Health & Safety Advisor Rachel Reuter at reuterra@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:59:41 -0500 2019-03-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T10:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA International Travel Workshop / Seminar Professor teaching students abroad
Critical Visualities 3 (March 29, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60584 60584-15090335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What are the political dimensions of the affective charge between art and its audience? Between the critic and the art she engages? How does it feel to look ‘critically’ now?”

Now in its third year, Critical Visualities has grown into a major national conference, drawing top faculty from across the country in the fields of American studies, African American studies, visual culture studies, performance studies, media studies, and literary studies. Designed to offer the University of Michigan community an unparalleled opportunity to engage with these scholars in an unusually intimate setting, Critical Visualities incites new insights, new questions, and new collaborations for presenters and audience members alike.

As always, Critical Visualities is particularly attune to the ways in which our interdisciplinary work enables us to engage with current events marked by feelings of shock and urgency about ongoing racial injustice and gendered violence.

Speakers include: Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin); Kimberly Juanita Brown (Mt. Holyoke); Zahid Chaudhry (Princeton); Laurie Gries (University of Colorado); Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers); and UM's Sara Blair (English), Vera Grant (Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, UMMA), Joan Kee (History of Art), and Lisa Nakamura (American Culture).

Thursday, March 28 [All events in Angell 3222]
9:30-11:30am | Panel 1: Absence, Abstraction, and Photography
Sara Blair (U-M), “Seeing Without Empathy”
Zahid Chaudhary (Princeton), “Aesthetics of Expropriation: Abstraction in Fazal Sheikh’s ‘Desert Bloom’ Series”
Kimberly Juanita Brown (Mt. Holyoke), “You and Eye in the Afterlife of Images”

1:00pm-3:00pm | Panel 2: Everyone’s a Critic! (What’s a Critic?)
Joan Kee (U-M), “Smile, Bitch!”
Vera Grant (U-M), “The Critic’s Tear: Disorder and Ordinary Flatness”
Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin), “Everybody’s Historiography: Playing the Digital in Museums”

3:15-4:45pm: Graduate Student Roundtable

Friday, March 29 [All events in Angell 3222]
9:30am-11:30am | Panel 3: Affective Aesthetics of Race and State
Lisa Nakamura (U-M), “Virtual Reality and the Feeling of Virtue: Women of Color Narrators, Enforced Hospitality, and the Leveraging of Empathy”
Laurie Gries (Colorado), “Trumpicons, Affect, and the Racial Politics of Circulation”
Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers), “Carceral Aesthetics”

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:38:43 -0400 2019-03-29T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities 3
HET Seminars | Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62524 62524-15397101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

One generic scenario for the dark matter of our universe is that it resides in a hidden sector: it talks to other dark fields more strongly than it talks to the Standard Model. I'll discuss some simple, WIMP-y models of this kind of hidden sector dark matter, paying particular attention to what we can learn from the cosmic history of the dark sector. In particular, the need to populate the dark sector in the early universe can control the observability of dark matter today. Some results of interest include new cosmological lower bounds on direct detection cross-sections and simple models of dark matter with parametrically novel behavior.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:06:43 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall HET Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
A 21 st Century Water Governance Model to Harness Digital Era in Support of the Water Sector’s Paradigm Shift (March 29, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59687 59687-14777952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Newsha K. Ajami, is the director of Urban Water Policy with Stanford University’s
Water in the West program. A leading expert in sustainable water resource
management, water policy, innovation, and financing, and the water-energy-food
nexus, her research throughout the years has been interdisciplinary and impact
driven.
Dr. Ajami is a gubernatorial appointee to the Bay Area Regional Water Quality
Control Board. She has published many highly cited peer-reviewed articles,
coauthored two books, and contributed opinion pieces to the New York Times
and the Sacramento Bee. Dr. Ajami received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental
engineering from the UC, Irvine, an M.S. in hydrology and water resources from
the University of Arizona.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:00:07 -0400 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | Update on Physics from the LHC (March 30, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59603 59603-14754556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The quest to understand fundamental particles and forces in our Universe with the world's largest particle accelerator.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:43:29 -0500 2019-03-30T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar LHC Tunnel
Ginsberg Community Engagement Faculty Grant for Interprofessional Education Application Deadline (April 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61112 61112-15036261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The Ginsberg Center, in partnership with the Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE), is excited to offer this targeted community-engaged initiatives funding opportunity. This collaborative funding model enables us to encourage -- and practice -- collective action to increase our impact in service to the public good, and support the University of Michigan’s goals for interprofessional education.

We seek to engage faculty interested in advancing their scholarship while enhancing the capacity of social sector community partners and communities through substantial, reciprocal engagement. We invite interprofessional education proposals focused on advancing equity and decreasing economic and racial disparities in Washtenaw County, Detroit, and other Southeast Michigan communities, particularly with regard to social determinants of health.

Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to support interprofessional teams, representing at least two different health science schools, that include at least one past or current Interprofessional Leadership Fellow. These teams will develop and apply best practices to community-engaged projects that both demonstrate community benefit and support interprofessional student learning.

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Other Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:20:32 -0500 2019-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Logo for Faculty Grants
RELATE "Storytelling for STEM" (April 1, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62258 62258-15337495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

This info session held by Michigan's RELATE program will be an opportunity for students to learn more about how to effectively communicate their research by understanding their audience and having a central message.

Jimmy Johns will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:07:51 -0400 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion stem
RELATE Research Elevator Pitch Workshop: Take Your Communication to the Next Level (April 1, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62675 62675-15423248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Join RELATE for a workshop covering fundamentals of research communication, such as the importance of knowing your audience and how to shape your central message. As part of this interactive evening, participants will put these principles into practice to create and deliver an elevator pitch.

Jimmy Johns will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:47:44 -0400 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
ISR Expo (April 4, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61492 61492-15117148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

You are invited to the Institute for Social Research EXPO:

Enjoy a variety of ​fun food​!​ (while supplies last)

Xplore the rich portfolio of ISR social science research projects​!​

Peruse a variety of training programs for students, postdocs and faculty​!​

Observe the many opportunities for involvement​ and ​engage​!​

Come learn more about the many exciting projects and programs housed within ISR.
Our featured programs and projects include:

Michigan Program in Survey Methodology AND Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques | Michigan Retirement Research Center | Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) | IRIS | M-CARES (Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study) | PSC Training Programs | LIFE-M (Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database | U-M HomeLab | Poverty Solutions | Panel Study of Income Dynamics | Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS)/ Program in Society, Population and Environment (SPE) | DACCD & Perspectives | ICPSR | ICPSR Summer Program | Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) | Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ​| Health and Retirement Study | American National Election Studies | Racism Lab | Staples Staff Development Fund

Please contact abeattie@umich.edu with any questions​ or if you need any accommodations to attend this event.​

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Fair / Festival Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500 2019-04-04T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Fair / Festival flyer
Optimizing Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Stream (April 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59689 59689-14777953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The presentation will discuss on-going work to develop optimization algorithms,
simulation tools, and sensor capabilities for enhancing traffic signal control operations when the traffic stream consists of connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and conventional vehicles. Early versions of the optimization were deployed and tested at theTraffic Engineering and Research Laboratory (TERL), a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) closed-course facility. The results from the field test confirmed the feasibility of the concept and are now used to enhance the algorithm and prepare it for field deployment as part of the I-STREET real-world testbed in Gainesville, Florida. The research, led by UF, is funded by NSF and FDOT, and involves two industry partners: ISS and Econolite.

Dr. Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focus is traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:02:51 -0400 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Hopwood Tea (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Agents of Change for Resilient Infrastructure (April 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61712 61712-15176756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York City and subsequent programs to improve the City’s infrastructure are described in this lecture. Special attention is focused on the restoration of the L Line Tunnel, which was flooded by Hurricane Sandy. Professor O’Rourke will describe how a team from Cornell and Columbia Universities was assembled at the request of Governor Andrew Cuomo to help reengineer a $1/2 billion project to rehabilitate the subway tunnel, and still keep the subway in service. The new approach integrates several advanced technologies, including distributed fiber optics and LiDAR, and makes a breakthrough in infrastructure restoration resulting from interdisciplinary work between civil and electrical engineers. The agents of change that lead to improved policies and approaches are explored, including the technical, institutional, and social challenges of introducing new technologies and engaging community support.

Thomas O' Rourke is a professor of the Engineering Department at Cornell University.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:42:43 -0400 2019-04-04T16:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar 2019 Frank E. Richart, Jr. Distinguished Lecture