Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-17128444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:00am
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Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
Building Power with your Peers Workshop (October 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68359 68359-17069175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC)

Come think through and learn strategies to advocate for yourself and your peers. Topics relating to how to navigate power dynamics, ally mapping, and combating isolation will be discussed. Food will be provided. Both workshop dates will cover the same content. Co-Hosted by GEO's North Campus Organizing Committee (NCOC) and the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (AERO GSAC).

Any questions can be directed to northcampuschair@geo3550.org

RSVP required: https://forms.gle/1Fv6kWsEwCCNDQt8A

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:36:22 -0400 2019-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC) Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
ELI Fall 2019 Workshop Series: Writing the PhD Application Statement of Purpose (SOP) (October 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67155 67155-16805228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Are you applying this fall to a PhD program? Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? You will receive hands-on practice organizing your own SOP and finding the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to. Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or a draft SOP to work on during the workshop.

Sign up here:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4661

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:21:53 -0400 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Event Image
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Construction Seminar (October 23, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66411 66411-16734210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Tyler Bergin has had an interesting professional route to get to Project Superintendent managing projects over $100 Million. He has had different roles from Engineer, Project Engineer, Assistant Superintendent with two different companies in two very different markets. This talk will review his unique experiences working in the professional ranks of construction engineering and management.

Company: Turner Construction 2015-Current
Role: Superintendent/ Project Superintendent
Projects: Top Golf Webster ; Houston Community College - Missouri City Campus, University of Houston - Fertitta Center Renovation; Texas Southern University, Library Learning Center; Houston ISD - Bellaire High School Rebuild

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:17:29 -0400 2019-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Department Colloquium | Gravitational Waves and Neutron Rich Dense Matter (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67178 67178-16805259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

In 2017 gravitational waves, oscillations of space-time, were detected from the collision of two neutron stars. This historic event provides new insight into very dense neutron rich matter. We compare these observations to the PREX II experiment. PREX uses parity violating electron scattering to precisely locate the 126 neutrons in 208Pb. Despite differing in size by 18 orders of magnitude, both the Pb nucleus and a neutron star are made of the same neutrons, with the same strong interactions, and have the same equation of state (pressure as a function of density). Therefore, PREX II has important implications for neutron star mergers and the structure of neutron stars.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:47:34 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Technology-enabled structural health monitoring and control of large-scale structures (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68510 68510-17094812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has tremendous
potential to detect incipient failures of structures, e.g. onset of damage
and unexpected behavior during extreme climatic events, so that
corrective actions can be employed in a timely manner. This talk will present an overview of powerful SHM techniques that enable extracting hidden structural information under a variety of challenging situations towards diagnosis, prognosis and control of large-scale structures.

Ayan Sadhu is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University in Canada.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:04:16 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar structure
U of M Construction Research Symposium (October 25, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68128 68128-17011968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Learn about the ongoing construction research projects. Many PhD students and postdocs will present their research. In addition, a couple of teams from this year's CEE 530 will present their class projects and thus, new Masters' student can see how their projects look like, which will help their preparation for the next year's CEE 530.

Last but not least, students will have a chance to meet our construction industry alliance program partners providing you with a great networking opportunity with professionals. Lunch will be served!

Time: Oct. 25 (Friday) 9:30-11:30AM
Place : Blue Lounge
Lunch will be served from 11:15AM.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:30:35 -0400 2019-10-25T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar construction
Transferring into Automated Driving Era: Opportunities and Challenges (October 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68654 68654-17130521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk provides a summary of important human factors issues associated with Automated Vehicle technology development, and potential solutions.

Shan Bao is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:20:48 -0400 2019-10-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Saturday Morning Physics | The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics (October 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66278 66278-16725792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The birth of the field of nonlinear optics occurred in Randall Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1961 when Franken, Hill, Peters, and Weinreich observed for the first time the generation of optical harmonics. This discovery was rapidly followed by the observation of numerous other nonlinear effects such as optical rectification, frequency mixing, self-focusing, and parametric oscillation. In this talk we review the physics, birth, growth, and modern day applications of nonlinear optics.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:04:49 -0400 2019-10-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar HERCULES LASER Credit Joseph Xu
General Motors Tech Talk - Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Truck Bed (October 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67633 67633-16909299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Wilson Student Team Project Center

Come meet the engineering team and hear about General Motors industry leading application of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics in the GMC Sierra CarbonPro pickup truck box.

The GM team will also be available to discuss internship and full time engineering opportunities.

Food and beverage will be provided!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:21:56 -0400 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Wilson Student Team Project Center Lecture / Discussion 2019-GMC-Sierra-1500-Denali-CarbonPro
CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership (October 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67526 67526-16890095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

Join CEW+ for its annual fall symposium focused on redefining leadership. The 2019 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars, community practitioners and international activists who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year Shannon Cohen and Stephanie Land will kick off the Symposium during the Mullin Welch Lecture where they will discuss how nontraditional leadership strategies can enhance advocacy work with a focus on self-care, resilience, and systemic change.

This working symposium is free and open to all activists, advocates, and allies from all U-M campuses (students, staff, faculty) as well as the local community.

RSVP now: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-advocacy-symposium-redefining-leadership

The CEW+ Advocacy Symposium is organized in partnership with Barger Leadership Institute and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan with funding from CEW+’s Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the CEW+ Mullin Welch Fund.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:25:50 -0400 2019-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League CEW+ Conference / Symposium blue hand holding megaphone with the CEW+ logo on it, with maize and blue ribbons coming out of it, text underneath that says CEW+ Advocacy Symposium: Redefining Leadership. October 29th, 2019
Travel demand estimation: The cornerstone of future urban mobility services (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68655 68655-17130522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

There is an increased interest among both private and public urban
transportation stakeholders to develop and use urban mobility models to inform the design and the operation of their services. This talk presents computationally efficient algorithms for high-dimensional, static and dynamic, demand calibration problems. To tackle these problems, we formulate analytical metamodels with a complexity that scales linearly with network size, making them suitable for large-scale networks. We benchmark the approach versus standard calibration algorithms, and discuss Berlin and Singapore case studies. We will discuss ongoing work on real-time calibration algorithms.

Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:25:24 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Construction Seminar (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66412 66412-16734212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Chelsea serves as Assistant Director at the University Career Center, providing strategic oversight and management for our career coaching and advising team. In addition, Chelsea coaches and counsels undergraduate and graduate students from a wide spectrum of career interests in individual counseling and advising appointments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:14:15 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Safe Shared Mobility Through Game Based Learning (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68885 68885-17188744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview of an experiment to help vulnerable road users understand their safety critical roles in shared mobility scenarios.

Dr. Aditi Misra is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s CMISST group.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:30:52 -0400 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
Saturday Morning Physics | Who Ordered That? The Marvelous, Mysterious Muon (November 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66294 66294-16725811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

The muon is a heavier version of the electron and was first discovered in cosmic rays but is now studied extensively in accelerator experiments. Many properties of the muon have been measured with exquisite precision and are essential to our understanding of the interactions of elementary particles, but mysteries remain. This talk will be all about the muon and what we expect to learn by studying this marvelous, mysterious particle.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:16:44 -0500 2019-11-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Fermilab
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (November 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68194 68194-17026799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Sexual harassment damages research integrity and shrinks the talent pool in science engineering and medicine.

In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on this problem. They published a landmark report in 2018 titled, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Committee member and contributing author, U-M Professor Lilia Cortina will present its key findings and recommendations. Preventing all forms of sexual and gender-based misconduct remains a top priority for the University of Michigan.

RSVP TODAY
Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:00:17 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lilia Cortina
From Design to Control: Robotics at the Intersection of Design, Engineering, and Construction (November 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68992 68992-17211727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Despite the opportunities presented by new technologies, the building construction process remains highly resource intensive, with considerable room for improving efficiency. This becomes acutely important in the face of climate change; while new, more sustainable materials are an important step, material optimization strategies are just as important, and these techniques rely almost exclusively on digital fabrication and robotic manufacturing and construction technologies. In this talk I will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face the use of robotics in the design and construction industry. We will discuss a range of existing and emerging design to fabrication workflows, as well as several case studies which demonstrate how the use of industrial robots as a prototyping platform opens the door to new modes of construction.

Wesley McGee is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the FABLab at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:51:46 -0400 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar robotic manufacture
Introduction to Lean (November 6, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66413 66413-16734213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Brad Booker currently serves as the Regional Lean Manger for Turner’s Great Lakes Region, which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Brad joined Turner as a Field Engineer in 1994, after earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and completing Officer Basic Course as a Reserve Army Officer. He was a Project Manager in the Special Projects Division until 1998 when he joined the Estimating Department. He was an estimator for 2 years then joined the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center team as the Project Engineer from 2000 - 2002. As that project was completed Brad was activated and served 14 months on active duty as a Captain in the United States Army.

Upon his return in 2004 he worked on a variety of academic and science buildings at several community colleges where he held positions as a Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Senior Project Manager. His last project prior to taking his current position was replacing the video boards at Soldier Field.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:14:48 -0500 2019-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Department Colloquium | Physics Adventures in Cancer Research: Cell Motility, Signaling, and Metastasis (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67179 67179-16805260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

Struck by the near total absence of physics thinking and methods in biological research, for the last 30 years, the speaker has endeavored to understand certain phenomena utilizing methods that are based on Physics and are applied to the interpretation of complex biological data. She will discuss 3 examples. In conclusion, we will discuss: Are we ready for the Physics laws of Biology?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:37:37 -0500 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
The Dawn of Mobility Revolution (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69097 69097-17244688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mobility industry is going through significant transformation with three driving forces: autonomy, connectivity, and electrification (ACE). This talk discusses those disruptive technologies under the framework of S Curve described in the book of Innovator’s Dilemma. In order to predict the future, we should look back and review how internal combustion engine (ICE) disrupted the transportation industry in early 1900s and how society reacted to the new technology back then. Fast forward 100 years, we will take a peek into the future and understand how the three forces and big data will forever change the way we measure, operate, and manage transportation system. The talk concludes with a discussion on the challenges we are facing in this emerging area.

Dr. Bo Wang is a mobility analytics manager working at Global Data Insights & Analytics (GDIA) organization at Ford Motor Company. He is leading a team of data scientists and developers building AI driven mobility analytics products from inception to production.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:18:16 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
ASCE Seminar Series: Thornton Tomasetti (November 8, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69200 69200-17267159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation will introduce you to applications of your civil engineering degree beyond the norm. We will touch on all of Thornton Tomasetti’s practices and describe the Protective Design & Security practice in more depth. In Protective Design & Security, we use advanced topics learned in grad school, like structural dynamics and plastic analysis, to protect building occupants against blast and vehicle attacks. We design embassies and consulates all over the world, iconic commercial buildings and protect both new and existing structures. We work with many different entities such as the Departments of State, Department of Defense, private developers and professional sports teams.

Everyone is welcome. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. Bring your resume! Lunch will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:44:25 -0500 2019-11-08T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Building Power with your Peers Workshop (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68359 68359-17069176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC)

Come think through and learn strategies to advocate for yourself and your peers. Topics relating to how to navigate power dynamics, ally mapping, and combating isolation will be discussed. Food will be provided. Both workshop dates will cover the same content. Co-Hosted by GEO's North Campus Organizing Committee (NCOC) and the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (AERO GSAC).

Any questions can be directed to northcampuschair@geo3550.org

RSVP required: https://forms.gle/1Fv6kWsEwCCNDQt8A

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:36:22 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC) Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Construction Seminar (November 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66414 66414-16734214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Daeho Kim is a PhD student in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a MS degree in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Michigan. His research focuses mainly on how to transform hazardous construction sites into a healthy, safe and sustainable place for construction workers.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:21:59 -0400 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Meals with Faculty (November 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65224 65224-16555452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals with Faculty series, which have been created to give you all the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ+ faculty and researchers in the community. There is no required or preferred discipline and all are welcome no matter what you're studying. This month's faculty guests are Cortney Turner of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Andrew Brouwer, a research investigator in epidemiology in the School of Public Health.

The meals are free, but do require pre-registration at http://bit.ly/GradEat

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:30:59 -0500 2019-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Meals with Faculty - February 6th, 5:30 to 6:30 PM. This dinner will be held in the Parker Room of the Michigan Union and features Andrew Brouwer and Cortney Turner as faculty guests.
Transportation Seminar (November 14, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69204 69204-17267163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

We propose a model of the ride-sourcing market with congestion externalities in which a monopolist provides both a single and pooling service. We investigate the unregulated setting as well as the first-best and derive relevant policy insights to achieve an efficient outcome in the market.

Originally from Cote d’Ivoire, Daniel received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2017. He joined LIMOS and Michigan Civil Engineering Department shortly after and is interested in economic modeling and optimization of emerging transportation technologies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:29:27 -0500 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Austin Commercial (November 14, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69199 69199-17267158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:22:26 -0500 2019-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Saturday Morning Physics | Supermassive Black Holes and You (November 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66283 66283-16725803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

A supermassive black hole may have played a more important role in your existence than you might have thought. You might want to sit down for this.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:23:35 -0400 2019-11-16T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Hubble Space Telescope photos of two very active central galaxies in two different clusters of galaxies
Diversity 101 (November 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65121 65121-16539432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the facility or the content of the presentation, please contact Britney Underwood (britneyu@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others.

In this session, participants will:
Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA Staff. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Britney Underwood at britneyu@umich.edu to enroll.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:00:51 -0400 2019-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65989 65989-16678391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Are Diversity Initiatives Effective?
Lisa M. Leslie

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

Register here: http://myumi.ch/QAA1W

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:
Diversity initiatives are prevalent, but not necessarily effective. These initiatives at times not only fail to result in the intended consequence of increased diversity and inclusion, but also produce unintended consequences that undermine their effectiveness. In this presentation, Leslie will describe the unintended consequences diversity initiatives can produce and provide examples of how even well-intentioned efforts to foster diversity and inclusion can go astray. She will also discuss strategies for making diversity initiatives more effective and thus better leveraging the positive consequences of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.

About Leslie:
Lisa M. Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her AB in Social Psychology from Princeton University and her MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Stern in 2013, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Leslie’s research focuses on diversity in organizations, and specifically understanding why organizational diversity initiatives often produce unintended consequences and what can be done to make them more effective. She also has secondary research interests in cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management. Leslie has received many awards for her research, which has appeared in journals spanning a number of different disciplines, and has served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.

Host:
Lindred Greer, Associate 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 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:58 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Lisa M. Leslie
From land to sea: Microplastics and running the estuarine gauntlet (November 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69314 69314-17301843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A particle tracking model simulating particles that sink, float, or remain neutral is used to understand how microplastic pollution is transported in the Bay and either retained or exported to the coastal ocean.

Dr. Rusty Hollerman is a researcher at the University of California Davis for Watershed Sciences.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:37:36 -0500 2019-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Ocean
Construction Seminar (November 20, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66416 66416-16734215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:24:51 -0400 2019-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
New Results of Facility Location involving Competition, Prioritization, or Ambiguous Decision-dependent Uncertainty (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69548 69548-17360107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Abstract: Facility location models are ubiquitously involved in modern
transportation and logistics problems. We present new results of three
sequential facility-location models that involve (i) competition and
probabilistic customer choice, (ii) location prioritization given uncertain
budget, and (iii) location-dependent uncertain demand with ambiguously known distribution. For (i), we utilize submodularity and outer approximation to derive valid inequalities used as cuts to efficiently solve an exact mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) reformulation of the bilevel Stackelberg game. For (ii) and (iii), we derive multi-stage mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and MINLP formulations based on moment ambiguity sets of unknown distribution of the stochastic demand. We employ the Stochastic Dual Dynamic integer Programming (SDDiP) for solving the multi-stage MILP/MINLP formulations using scenario-tree representations of the uncertainty. Via numerical studies, we show the computational efficacy of our approach as well as managerial insights of the new facility location models.

Bio: Siqian Shen is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and also serves as an Associate Director in the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:24:10 -0500 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
MiTSO Tour of Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (November 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69560 69560-17360120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Have you ever wondered how traffic lights respond in real-time and coordinate to relieve congestion? Have you ever seen highway information boards with travel time estimates and wanted to know where they came from? Or maybe you’ve wondered how emergency responders coordinate to respond to traffic accidents on the highway?

This Friday, 11/22, the Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) will be offering a tour of the Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (TOC). The TOC is responsible for monitoring all county intersections in real-time, adjusting traffic lights and coordinating them as necessary to reduce congestion. Additionally, they coordinate with emergency response and law enforcement in order to respond to and clear accidents that block the roads.

The tour will be at 1pm and transportation will be provided. We will be leaving GG Brown at 11:30am and will return by 5pm. More details will be provided closer to the event.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the google form (https://forms.gle/qakMZ8u2DBotAnj56) by noon on Wednesday (11/20) if you are interested so that we can organize transportation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:06:11 -0500 2019-11-22T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Real-time traffic monitoring at the Oakland TOC
ASCE Seminar Series: ROWE Engineering (November 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69203 69203-17267162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:13:12 -0500 2019-11-22T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (November 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-11-23T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Saturday Morning Physics | Scientific Publishing: How Wrong is it to Publish in the Right Journals? (November 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66289 66289-16725807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Scholars need to communicate their research in order to advance science and to promote the understanding of the human experience. The future of scientific publishing may very well rest on our ability to flip the current model that serves the interests of a few for-profit publishers to a model that has incentives to serve the interests of humanity. This talk will introduce a number of strategies that might be employed to create a more just and sustaining scientific publishing system.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:26:46 -0400 2019-11-23T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-23T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar UMich Law Library
Implicit Bias (December 2, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65129 65129-17088486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 1:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

If you have any questions or if accommodations are needed to access the facility or the content of the presentation, please contact Britney Underwood (britneyu@umich.edu) as soon as possible.

In this session, participants will learn to:

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

You will benefit by:

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

Audience:
This session is open to all LSA Staff. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Britney Underwood at britneyu@umich.edu to enroll.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:39:31 -0400 2019-12-02T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-02T15:30:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar LSA Building
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (December 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Equity-Minded Action: Promoting A Culture of Excellence in Strategies and Outcomes for Black Engineering Students (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69258 69258-17275352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The College of Engineering is excited to welcome Dr. Brandi P. Jones to our DEI lecture series for the month of December. Her lecture will be focused on creating a culture of institutional accountability for the success of Black engineering students. She will discuss ways to put equity at the core of efforts to broaden participation in engineering.

Dr. Jones is responsible for leading and directing equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives for Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. She brings 20+ years of experience and proven track record of success in higher education administration, diversity, outreach, and student development.

Dr. Jones’ professional experience is enhanced by her Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, combined with her research focus on the experiences of underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:07:19 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Brandi Jones
Construction Seminar (December 4, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66417 66417-16734216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Andy Brown is a Project Manager for Kimley-Horn in Houston, Texas.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:26:53 -0400 2019-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Department Colloquium | Controlling Dissipation in Superconductors: the Oxymoron that Leads to New Superconducting Phases and Transitions (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67181 67181-16805264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Undergrad Physics Events

Superconductors are exciting materials for basic physics and applications because they conventionally exhibit zero-resistance and zero-dissipation (i.e., no energy loss). However, unconventional superconductors—including high-temperature superconductors and hybrid superconductor-normal (S-N) systems relevant to quantum computation—combine superconductivity with dissipative normal metal-like states. Yet dissipation has been difficult to control and parametrize. In this talk, I will discuss electrical transport experiments on hybrid superconductor-normal metal systems where the dissipation is controlled, leading to new understanding of superconducting states and transitions. In particular, I will show how superconductivity is established in granular S-N systems, how metallic states appear in arrays of S-N systems as the normal metal fraction is increased, and how magnetic fields can be used to control a variety of dissipative phase transitions. The results are relevant to understanding the role of dissipation in superconducting systems, and in correlated materials in general.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:09:38 -0500 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Undergrad Physics Events Workshop / Seminar West Hall
Energy Rebound Effect of Connected & Automated Vehicles (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69558 69558-17360118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

How may travel behavior change and induced travel demand to offset the energy-saving benefits from efficiency improvement enabled by vehicle automation?

Ming Xu is an Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the broad fields of sustainable engineering and industrial ecology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 11:49:44 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
E-Hour Speaker Series: Nex Cubed (December 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69865 69865-17474750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio is a co-Founder and Venture Portfolio Manager of Nex Cubed, a frontier technology investment firm whose target investment areas include artificial intelligence, aerospace and defense, digital healthcare and fintech.

Prior to Nex Cubed, she was Managing Director for NextGen Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund with offices in DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago, and Austin. While at NextGen she launched the NYC office, helped spearhead their first $22 million fund, led investments for NYC and the Bay Area, and built a coalition of 100+ technologists, capital partners, and angel investors who act as venture partners.

She has an extensive background in private equity and M&A, including experience with The Carlyle Group, 3i Group, and Credit Suisse. Over the course of her career, she has completed transactions totaling more than $20 billion.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:43:50 -0500 2019-12-06T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio
Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts, Myths and Mysteries (December 7, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66291 66291-16725808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first stellar mass black hole in our Galaxy, all the way to the four- million-solar-mass black hole that is hiding at its center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:31:07 -0400 2019-12-07T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Black Hole from Event Horizon Telescope
MiTSO Speaker Series (December 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70044 70044-17499553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

MiTSO will be hosting a speaker from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mr. Michael Townley is MDOT's Research Project Administration Manager and will be giving an overview of the structure of national and local DOT organizations and how their research is conducted, as well as presenting on the award-winning research projects happening currently at MDOT, including:

-Wireless Data Collection Retrievals of Bridge Inspection/Management Information
-Meeting the Transportation Needs of Michigan’s Aging Population
-Development of Secondary Route Bridge Design Plan Guide Drawings
-Effect of Pile-Driving Induced Vibrations on Nearby Structures

Food will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:46:04 -0500 2019-12-09T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
MiTSO QLine Tour (December 10, 2019 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70046 70046-17499555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:45pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Join MiTSO for a tour of the QLine streetcar in downtown Detroit! Completed in 2017, the QLine is one of Michigan's most recent transit projects and its only light rail line. We will be going for a ride on the streetcar, as well as getting a tour of the operations center. We will also be learning about the planning process and the impact the streetcar is having on city!

Transportation to and from the tour will be provided. We will be leaving from GG Brown around 12:45pm on Tuesday and returning before 5pm. Please sign up by Sunday using the google form if you are interested.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:01:28 -0500 2019-12-10T12:45:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
Construction Seminar (December 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69559 69559-17360119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:32:00 -0500 2019-12-11T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-11T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Positive Links Speaker Series (December 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65990 65990-16678392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Authenticity on One’s Own Terms
Patricia Faison Hewlin

Thursday, December 12, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/yKKPW

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:
The exhortation to be true to oneself is often intended to empower, but it can actually promote apprehension because instructions are rarely provided. Thus, many shy away from what is true to self, take on inauthentic behaviors to fit into their work environments, or at worst, turn to harsh transparency, alienating those around them. In this session, Hewlin will share how people can be authentic “on their own terms” by identifying their thresholds of authenticity as well as personal values that can be integrated into the workplace to: increase work engagement, foster positive relationships, and enhance overall personal well-being.

About Hewlin:
Patricia Faison Hewlin is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. She is also a visiting professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China. Prior to joining academia, she was a Vice President for Citi, where she managed financial centers in New York City.

Hewlin conducts research on how organization members and leaders engage in authentic expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in the workplace. Her research has primarily centered on employee silence, and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace organizational values, a behavior she terms as “creating facades of conformity.” Her most recent research explores authenticity from a cross-cultural perspective, and how organizations, particularly leaders can leverage diverse and divergent authentic self-expressions among followers, while promoting positive work interactions and productivity.

Hewlin is published in several academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Chinese Management. She has also contributed to the Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Getting Smart, and Harvard Business Review.

On a personal note, Hewlin enjoys traveling, solving puzzles, and quiet moments with her family.

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 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:43 -0400 2019-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Patricia Faison Hewlin
Saturday Morning Physics | Climate Change Opportunities and Challenges for Michigan (December 14, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66293 66293-16725810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Climate change is already impacting the planet in dramatic ways, including in the U.S. and in the Great Lakes region. The impacts in Michigan, although not negligible, are modest compared to much of the country, and thus our state could become a go-to destination for many businesses and people fleeing more severe climate change impacts in other parts of the country. However, if climate change is not curbed, Michigan also runs the risk of becoming a sacrifice zone; thus quick action on climate change could be a win-win for our state.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:38:06 -0400 2019-12-14T10:30:00-05:00 2019-12-14T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Flooding in Dearborn Spring 2019
EWRE Seminar Series (January 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70023 70023-17497478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Herek Clack is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on reducing the environmental and health impacts of a variety of airborne aerosols.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:44:09 -0500 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Writing Effective Email (January 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70422 70422-17594474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to generate the outcome you seek.

Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze. Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:56:20 -0500 2020-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Large-scale Traffic Simulation: Recent Advances Based on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (January 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70036 70036-17499530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation focuses on modelling urban traffic dynamics
with Network Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFD). Recent
developments in MFD simulation propose two general formulations that
can both be applied to multi-reservoir systems. The first is the classical
accumulation-based formulation when traffic dynamics in each reservoir is governed by a conservation equation. The second is the more recently developed trip-based formulation when vehicle trips have individual lengths but share a single time-dependent mean speed in each region. The different model settings in both frameworks (merge, diverge, entry flow functions) are discussed and compared to microscopic simulations. The integration of multiclass extensions (mainly to represent public transport) is also presented with a particular focus on the resulting traffic dynamics at the reservoir boundaries. The question of MFD model calibration is then addressed considering two central questions: (i) the regional triplength estimation and (ii) the scaling of observations to determine the vehicle accumulations and travel productions. Several applications are discussed in the end: validation of the multi-reservoir setting for the city of Lyon, optimization of ride-sharing services, perimeter control for
reducing network-wide emissions.

Ludovic Leclercq is research director at IFSTTAR and professor in traffic flow theory at the University of Lyon, France.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:27:05 -0500 2020-01-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71139 71139-17783437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical engineering provides complete subsurface evaluation for the design and construction of roads, transit, airports, bridges, buildings, pipes, tunnels, and other structures. Somat’s roots are in geotechnical engineering, and we have been investigating and making expert recommendations on foundation conditions and materials for over three decades.

Somat professionals assess the risks posed by site conditions, design earthworks and structure foundations, and make recommendations during the early phases of a project. Somat also monitors site conditions, earthwork, and foundations during construction. Companies have applied our geotechnical expertise to airports, roads, bridges, transit systems, water/wastewater systems, utilities, and built facilities, for both government and private clients.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:57:48 -0500 2020-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (January 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2020-01-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (January 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

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 $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2020-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
Campus Mind Works: Winter Blues & Depression (January 14, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70407 70407-17594454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and grad school life, and speak with others.

Free to attend
No pre-registration required
Refreshments will be provided

These groups are presented by the U-M Depression Center in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Newnan Academic Advising Center. Groups are run by clinical staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only, and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

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Well-being Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:25:23 -0500 2020-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works Logo with Blue Background and White Font
Free-living amoebae in drinking water networks: a treasure trove of intracellular (novel) bacteria (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70025 70025-17497481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are unicellular eukaryotes, ubiquitous in natural and man-made water environments. There, FLA play important roles in regulating microbial populations, as they feed on bacteria and other small eukaryotes by a mechanism involving ingestion by phagocytosis. It is thought that this predatory pressure favored – on multiple occasion – the adaption of several microorganisms (mainly bacteria) to the intracellular lifestyle, by stimulating the arising of resistance mechanisms against phagocytosis.

Thus, we aim to study FLA and their associations with microorganisms, as it stands out as pertinent model not only for better understanding the establishment of symbioses, but also for decrypting mechanisms employed by several bacterial pathogens thriving within eukaryotic cells.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:23:21 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
LGBTQ Winter Graduate Student Mixer (January 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70807 70807-17644332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Graduate students new and returning are invited to an LGBTQ graduate student mixer for the winter semester. Join us to reconnect or meet new LGBTQ graduate students at the University of Michigan. Attendees will also get to meet members of the University of Michigan Faculty Alliance, a group for LGBTQ faculty at the university. Light hors d'oeuveres will be served. Register at http://bit.ly/36N5p4m!

The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:19:45 -0500 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Spectrum Center Reception / Open House The Winter graduate student mixer will be held 5 to 6:30pm on January 15th in the Munger Graduate Residences' Fellows Lounge. All other information is conveyed in the event description.
University Library Resources Open House (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70416 70416-17594469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Explore information services, research tools, and resources offered by the University of Michigan library.

There will be 2 presentations and a variety of other resources available.

PRESENTATIONS:

12:00 - 12:45: Measuring Research Impact
Presenters: Becky Welzenbach, Research Impact Librarian
Judy Smith, Informationist
Tyler Nix, Informationist

1:00 - 1:45: Data Visualization
Presenter: Justin Joque, Visualization Librarian

Resource booths include:

Deep Blue/RDM: Rachel Woodbrook, Data Curation Librarian and Martha Stuit, Repository Assistant
Mapping and GIS: Caroline Kayko, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian
Systematic Reviews: Whitney Townsend, Informationist
NIH Compliance and Open Access: Merle Rosenzweig, Informationist
ISR Information Resources: Yan Fun, Information Resources Manager


Lunch is provided during the presentations for attendees and library participants who RSVP to the presentations.

RSVP is required for this event: https://forms.gle/iC41v4ygK9UNmcTaA

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Other Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:53 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Other flyer
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70342 70342-17584117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Social Excellence: Detect it, Learn from It, Create It
Robert E. Quinn

Thursday, January 16, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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:
The field of Positive Organizational Scholarship asks what people, groups, and organizations are like when at their very best. Researchers in the field scientifically examine the best of the human condition. This means researchers use science to learn from excellence. For 18 years, Quinn has been teaching executives how to understand and apply these accumulating scientific findings. In the process, he has become increasingly aware that in the world of practice, like the world of science, most people do not attend to or learn from excellence. They learn from failure while seeking to reproduce order. In this participative session, Quinn will explore three questions:
1. What does it mean to learn from excellence?
2. How does learning from excellence alter leadership and culture?
3. What can we do to learn from and create social excellence?

About Quinn:
Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research and writing focus on purpose, leadership, culture, and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations.

In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a teacher, Quinn is the recipient of multiple awards. In a recent global survey, he was named one of the top speakers in the world on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. Last year, his talk on personal purpose went viral on Facebook and has been viewed over 16 million times.

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 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:58:34 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Robert E. Quinn
Finding Your Voice: Confidence and Clarity for Public Speaking (January 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70423 70423-17594475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

When you give a presentation, does your voice express confidence? Is it loud enough? Do your listeners easily understand you? Is your audience engaged? Come to this workshop to explore voice and pronunciation techniques to make your presentations shine. You will receive hands-on practice presenting for one minute on a topic of your choice such as a self-introduction, an overview of your broad area of research, a new development in your field, or a quick story of something interesting you’ve experienced.

Bring a script or outline with you to explore together.

Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:59:52 -0500 2020-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
ASCE Seminar Series (January 17, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71140 71140-17783438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

As an innovator, collaborator and future maker, Black & Veatch is characterized by curiosity, a trait that helps them find solutions to clients' most complex challenges. Safety, sustainability and responsibility also are ingrained into every Black & Veatch professional, and they’re designed into all projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:59:43 -0500 2020-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: Andrew Muyanja (January 17, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71571 71571-17842676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Since joining Menlo Innovations in 2014, Andrew Muyanja has worked on a diverse set of High-Tech Anthropology® projects, in domains like logistics, biomedical devices, auto manufacturing, medical software, furniture retailing, and insurance. Andrew also works as an organizational change consultant.

Prior to joining Menlo, Andrew graduated with a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Michigan and bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University. He has also been part of a couple start-up founding teams.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:37:55 -0500 2020-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T13:20:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Andrew Muyanja
Me, the "Other" - A documentary film screening and panel discussion in honor of MLK Day (January 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71086 71086-17777071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

This MLK Day, come to a special screening of Me, the “Other” - a documentary film about the lives of twelve college students at U-M and nearby schools, living on the frontlines of prejudices around race, ethnicity, religion, gender, class, age, physical and mental health and sexual orientation. Visit the following link to view the trailer: https://metheotherfilm.com/#trailer
 
After the film, stay for a panel discussion with students, staff and faculty exploring ways to improve inclusiveness and equity at U-M Engineering.  

Everyone will then be invited to a catered reception, including an interactive wall where you can share your own stories and ideas for strengthening our community.

Monday, January 20th, 2020, 1-4 PM
Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center
Film Screening 1:00-2:30 PM
Panel Discussion 2:30-3:15 PM
Reception 3:15-4:00 PM

Food will be provided. Limited capacity.
All are welcome. No registration is required.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach

Questions? Please contact Kimberly Johnson at berlykim@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:42:35 -0500 2020-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Michigan Engineering Film Screening Me, the Other promotional poster
Using Improv for School & Work (January 21, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69746 69746-17415371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Presenter:
Gary Lehman, Adult Improv series, Education Director
Gary Lehman has been learning and performing improv since 2003. Gary is a middle and high school teacher during the day and teaches computers, makes the yearbook, coaches forensics, oversees the student sketch comedy troupe Voodoo Theatre, directs the middle school musical and play, and directs the high school improv group. Gary has a Master’s of Fine Arts in Drama & Theater, with a concentration in Improvisation from Eastern Michigan University. Gary is a nine-year member of the Resident Cast at Go Comedy Improv Theater in Ferndale, and is the Director of Go U: The Improv Academy. Gary is a member and Co-Director of the League of Pointless Improvisers. Gary has graduated from the following improv training programs : Improv Inferno (Am Arbor 2004), Second City Detroit Intro program (2005), Second City Detroit Conservatory (2006), Second City Detroit Graduate program (2008), iO Chicago Summer Intensive (2010), Annoyance Theater Summer Intensive (Chicago 2011), and UCB Level 101 Intensive (2018). Gary has lead workshops at Eastern Michigan University, University of Michigan, and University of Michigan Medical School.

Description:
In this workshop we will use improv exercises to work on aspects of human interaction, listening, group dynamics, and the improv concept of YES AND. This will be an active, participative, on-your-feet workshop. The focus is on using these exercises to work on and talk about the experience the individuals have playing them, and not on performance or performing comedic improv. We will still have fun, so come join the group and play!

Space is limited, so please register by 1/17 at https://forms.gle/Mipe7HkWbPmaUQtv5. For questions, please email ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:56:10 -0500 2020-01-21T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Three Failure Fables | A CID Lecture (January 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70112 70112-17532719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

John Maxwell’s book Failing Forward states: "The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

Too often, the word “failure” has a negative connotation. We’re conditioned to the binary options of either failure or success. In reality, failure is a lot more nuanced and can even be intentional – to “test things out.”

Peter Adriaens is a professor of engineering, finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan with appointments in three Schools. Join him as he tells three short stories from his career on failure and risk taking - and the lessons learned to achieve positive outcomes.

Failure and risk taking are close cousins. It’s those risk takers who embrace this relation who can flip the fear of failure into the anticipation of opportunity.

Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

RSVP today!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:57:49 -0500 2020-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Peter Adriaens
181 Fremont: Resilience and Innovation in Design (January 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71573 71573-17842679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The 181 Fremont Tower, located in San Francisco’s downtown Transbay District, is an 802-foot-tall, 56-story high rise. It is the tallest mixed-use building in the city, featuring 435,000 square feet of Class A office space and 67 luxury residences. The architectural vision for the tower includes a tapering, faceted façade that highlights an integrated mega-frame structural system. A visual recess between the commercial and residential levels functions as both a mechanical space and residential amenity level with a double-height, open terrace around the perimeter. To maximize usable floor space in the slender tower, a steel-only lateral force-resisting system was used instead of a more traditional concrete core. The novel damped mega-brace system and uplifting mega- columns enhance the building’s performance under seismic and wind loads while reducing steel tonnage by approximately 25% compared to a more conventional design. The damped braces also eliminate the need for a tuned mass damper in the light structure, freeing up the penthouse level for a luxury condominium. Transfer structures at level 39 and level 2 carry load to the corner mega-columns to create column-free spaces at the residential amenity level and ground-floor lobby. The project achieved both a LEED Platinum rating as well as the world’s first Resilience-based Earthquake Design Initiative (REDi) Gold rating, having been designed for immediate re-occupancy and minimal loss of functionality after a design-level earthquake. Resulting from a collaborative effort between the building owner, design, and construction teams, 181 Fremont Tower features an unprecedented design and a pioneering resilience strategy to protect the building and its occupants long into the future.

Jason Krolicki is a structural engineer and founding Principal at Resurget Engineering PLC. A native to the Detroit area, Jason has nearly 20 years of structural engineering experience and led award
winning projects around the world; including giant observation wheels, mixed-use high-rise structures, university buildings, hospitals, hotels and office buildings. Utilizing his experience and passion for design,
he approaches projects focused on performance and innovation. Jason holds a Civil Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in earthquake engineering from the
University of Pavia Italy.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:11 -0500 2020-01-21T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
EWRE Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70026 70026-17497482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Aerosol production from wave breaking is one of the most abundant sources of aerosol globally, but emissions from freshwater lakes are poorly understood in comparison to sea spray aerosol(SSA). In addition, harmful algal blooms (HABs) can lead to aerosolization of toxins like microcystins, which has the potential to lead to exposures to local populations. Given their small size and chemical complexity there is a significant analytical challenge when measuring these environmental contaminants. Herein, the chemical and physical properties of lake spray aerosol (LSA) from pristine freshwater and HABS are discussed. We will discuss measurements of particles along the coasts of the Great Lakes, inland, and aloft at cloud heights from flight measurements using a suite of microscopy, spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry measurements. As LSA can be generated and act as CCN, IN or eject toxic materials from harmful algal blooms, an improved understanding of LSA emission and physicochemical properties is needed to determine the impacts on meteorology, climate, and health in the Great Lakes region.

Andrew Ault is the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:27:46 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Traffic Volume Estimation by Fusing Probe Vehicle Data and Loop Detector Data (January 23, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70038 70038-17499531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Traffic volume information is critical for traffic management and control. Traditionally, traffic volumes are primarily measured by fixed location sensors. However, the high installation and maintenance cost of fixed location sensors often leads to the missing data problem and the low coverage problem. In recent years, researchers have proposed to solve the problems using probe vehicle data. Nevertheless, when only low market penetration probe vehicle data are available, it is difficult to estimate real time traffic volume information if we consider each time slot and each road separately Noticing that traffic volumes in a transportation network are correlated spatially and temporally, we try to capture the correlation by fusing probe vehicle data and partial fixed location sensor data, which are complementary to each other In this work, we propose low rank representation methods to estimate the unknown traffic volumes. The proposed methods take advantage of the correlation of traffic volumes in different locations and different time slots and thereby achieve good estimation accuracy even if the probe vehicle data are sparse. Validation results show that the proposed methods can solve the missing data problem and the low coverage problem at the same time, and they have great potential for real world implementation.

Yan Zhao is currently a PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Yan also works with Professor Henry Liu in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on traffic state estimation and transportation network analysis using trajectory data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:48:37 -0500 2020-01-23T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Poster Presentations: Interacting Fluently with Your Audience (January 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70424 70424-17594476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

We often frame poster presentations at academic conferences and symposia as “easier” and less high-stakes than presenting a paper or participating in a panel, but poster presentations are about 10% presenting and 90% interacting with one’s “audience” of a few people crowded around the poster in a busy, noisy conference space. This type of Q & A can feel daunting, but can also be fun and interesting to prepare for with other graduate students. In this workshop, we will not be working on poster design: instead, we’ll work on strategies for fluent communication with visitors to your poster.

If you have a poster presentation coming up, bring a sketch or draft of your poster so that you can practice taking questions from others at the workshop. Otherwise, come ready to practice formulating and responding to typical question types in poster presentations.

Sign up here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/5596

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:24:58 -0500 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Twitter Chat: How to organize transgender health services (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71498 71498-17834211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Annals of Family Medicine

Are you interested in health care access for trans and gender diverse folks? Join our online Twitter chat with clinicians and health educators from Fenway Health, Harvard Medical School, and the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute on Thursday, January 23, 2020, from 7 to 8PM EST on Twitter using the hashtag #AnnalsChat.

The chat is hosted by the U-M Medical School-based peer reviewed research journal, the Annals of Family Medicine. http://www.annfammed.org/. Our invited guests published this free, open access blueprint for planning and implementing a transgender health program: http://www.annfammed.org/content/18/1/73

To join the conversation on Thursday, follow the Annals on Twitter @annfammed: https://twitter.com/annfammed.

You can follow along with the discussion by searching for the hashtag #AnnalsChat on Twitter. Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/ (Search for #AnnalsChat).

For more questions, contact Noa Kim at annfammed@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:05:42 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Annals of Family Medicine Lecture / Discussion a transgender pride flag with the background of architectural blueprints
ASCE Seminar Series (January 24, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71333 71333-17817106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

AEW provides Southeast Michigan clients with the quality of professional services and a focus on developing and growing long-term relationships. AEW's partners, managers and employees are dedicated to those they serve, the organization, and the achievements they have accomplished over many years.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:56:46 -0500 2020-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: David Barrett (January 24, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71739 71739-17877254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

David Barrett is the founder and CEO of Expensify, a fintech pioneer and industry giant with millions of users worldwide. A software engineer by trade, David takes a unique approach to hiring that focuses on life beyond code.

David started coding at age 6, spent middle school through college writing 3D graphics engines, and (several startups later) launched Expensify onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2008. Unsatisfied with the Silicon Valley “pump and dump” playbook, David and the Expensify team instead built a profitable company that now
processes billions of dollars a month.

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Presentation Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:56:59 -0500 2020-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation David Barrett - Founder & CEO, Expensify
All things Michigan Bridge (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71574 71574-17842681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation will include innovations and policy updates in the areas of bridge design and construction for MDOT bridges, along with updates on complex bridge projects MDOT has completed over the past few years such as accelerated bridge construction projects, non-redundant bridge strengthening, segmental bridge strengthening and rehabilitation, structural moves, carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) bridge elements, and the Gordie Howe International Bridge. This presentation will also include information on how bridge projects are funded, and how bridges are inspected, and maintained upon entering service. We will also have a discussion on the findings of the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse, and related recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Matthew J. Chynoweth is the Chief Bridge Engineer of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) as well as Director of the MDOT Bureau of Bridges and Structures. Matthew holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master’s in Structural Engineering from Wayne State University. He has 16 years of experience with MDOT and four years of experience in consulting
prior to joining MDOT. He is an Adjunct Faculty at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches structural engineering. Matthew is also an Executive Committee Member of the AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures, Chair of Technical Subcommittee T-6, Executive Committee Member of the American Segmental Bridge Institute, Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Bridge Engineering at the University of Buffalo.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:52:50 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Campus Mind Works: Winter Blues & Depression (January 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70409 70409-17594458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and grad school life, and speak with others.

Free to attend
No pre-registration required
Refreshments will be provided

These groups are presented by the U-M Depression Center in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Newnan Academic Advising Center. Groups are run by clinical staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only, and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

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Well-being Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:24:34 -0500 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works Logo with Blue Background and White Font
Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Basalt (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70027 70027-17497483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The need to meet rising energy demands while mitigating climate change driven by associated CO2 emissions has motivated the development of geologic carbon storage systems. Until recently, most research focused on sedimentary reservoirs that rely primarily on short-term solubility and physical trapping mechanisms, where CO2 can migrate if structural security is compromised. This inherent leakage risk could be eliminated by leveraging the natural reactivity of basalt reservoirs, which are abundant in silicate minerals that dissolve rapidly under acidic conditions and can ultimately trap dissolved CO2 as solid carbonate minerals. However, our fundamental understanding of the conditions under which CO2 mineralization occurs and its viability as a permanent carbon sequestration pathway remain limited. This talk will highlight series of high-pressure core flooding experiments and complementary reactive transport modeling designed to evaluate the effects of temperature, fluid chemistry, and transport regimes on basalt dissolution and carbonate precipitation. Results indicate that basalts can effectively mineralize CO2 at representative subsurface stress conditions, but predominantly within buffered diffusion-limited zones (e.g. dead-end fractures) where reaction fronts developed from competing geochemical gradients. Carbonate precipitation was highly localized on reactive silicate minerals contributing key divalent cations and was significantly enhanced by elevated temperature and alkalinity. In combination, this work reveals how complex interactions between reservoir geochemistry and transport conditions drive the extent and spatial distribution of carbon mineralization reactions in basalt fractures, which will inform selection of storage sites and injection.

Anne Menefee in a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Anne received her B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Viginia. Her reserach is focused on improving our knowledge of fluid transport and geochemical controls for enhancing CO2 mineral carbonation in fractured basalt reservoirs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:44:27 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
A Cooperative Driving Framework for Urban Arterials under Mixed Traffic Conditions (January 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70039 70039-17499532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative driving framework is proposed to optimize the traffic signals and vehicle trajectories in a mixed traffic condition with regular vehicles (RVs), connected vehicles (CVs), and CAVsin an arterial corridor.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:46:50 -0500 2020-01-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Making Conversation with Powerful People (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70425 70425-17594477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Making conversation can be one of the most challenging types of speaking to master in a second language. This can be particularly true with people in a position of authority, such as one’s research advisor, work supervisor, or future employer. In this workshop, we will explore conversation topics, turn-taking strategies, active listening, and sources for sample conversations. We will consider different types of conversations, such as seeming friendly and confident at a job interview or competent and insightful in a research group meeting.

Come ready to practice with one another and to identify effective ways to practice on your own.

Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:46:35 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71334 71334-17817107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Since 1953, Klein & Hoffman have worked with building owners, campus and facility managers, condominium association boards and architectural firms, putting their client’s best interests at the forefront. Pragmatic and practical, Klein & Hoffman push the envelope while being mindful of budgets, consistently delivering superior results in high-rise buildings, campus environments, condo buildings and famous landmarks, including the Shedd Aquarium, O’Hare International Airport, and Loyola University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:01:01 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: Sam Schillace (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72243 72243-17963883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Sam Schillace, now a VP of engineering at Google, was previously the SVP of engineering at Box, where he was responsible for the engineering and QA teams. He is one of the founders of Writely, which he sold to Google in 2006 to become one of the first pieces of Google Docs. For the next four years, Sam was an engineering director, initially overseeing Google Docs and building out the team, but eventually working on Sites, Reader, Blogger, Picasa, Google Groups, Gmail, Page Creator, and other internal projects.

Before Google, Sam was a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 20 years, working on projects as diverse as video games, early Web page creation software, word processors, and application engines (server-side JavaScript before it was cool!). Sam has experience with product design, technical design, hands-on coding, and engineering management, and likes to do all of them at once, typically.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:46:47 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sam Schillace
CoE Graduate Student Hockey Social (February 1, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69648 69648-17376500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Yost Ice Arena
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Cheer-on the UM hockey team with your fellow CoE graduate students, as they play against Ohio State University!

Only a limited number of FREE tickets are available, so attendance is restricted to CoE graduate students.

Register at: https://forms.gle/WGrJV62BMZzQpgvG9

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:16:56 -0500 2020-02-01T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-01T22:00:00-05:00 Yost Ice Arena Engineering Office of Student Affairs Social / Informal Gathering Yost Ice Arena
Enhancing the Design and Performance of Highway Bridges using Ultra-High Performance Concrete (February 4, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71935 71935-17903256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is an advanced cement-based, fiber-reinforced composite material that is emerging as a popular solution to many challenges related to highway bridge performance and durability. UHPC-class materials exhibit mechanical and durability properties that far exceed those of both conventional and high-performance concretes. The Structural Concrete Group at FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) has been conducting research on UHPC-class materials for more than 15 years, and has played a significant role in the growing popularity of this innovative class of materials in the US bridge market.
The objective of this presentation is to introduce the state-of-practice for UHPC in US highway bridge market, and discuss how this material is innovating the way we design and construct highway bridges. The presentation will include: a review of the basic properties of UHPC-class materials; a discussion of the current deployments in the US bridge market; and a discussion of recent research conducted at TFHRC. Research topics to be discussed will include: prefabricated bridge element connections using UHPC; UHPC for bridge repair and rehabilitation; and recent research focused on understanding the fundamental material properties and structural response of UHPC-class materials.

Dr. Zach Haber is a research structural engineer on FHWA’s Bridge Engineering Research Team at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia, USA. Dr. Haber’s research areas include prefabricated bridge systems and applications of innovative materials in bridge engineering. He provides technical assistance and outreach to bridge owners, designers, and consultants interested in developing or deploying innovative bridge engineering solutions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:08:01 -0500 2020-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Lateral circulation and its role in disrupting the classical pattern of intra-tidal stratification in estuaries (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70028 70028-17499522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The tidal cycle variability of stratification in an estuary is controlled by the interaction between tidal flows, bathymetry, and the estuary's longitudinal salt gradient. Two-dimensional analysis (in the vertical-longitudinal plane) of a straight, estuarine channel yields the classical theory of periodic stratification from tidal straining, and this mechanism typically works to enhance stratification on ebb tides and break it down through active mixing on flood tides. Ecological implications of mixing relative to tidal phase include whether sediment can reach perimeter habitats high in the tidal prism, whether phytoplankton reach sunlight, and whether hypoxia at depth persists longer than biology can tolerate. This pattern of stratification can be disrupted by density-driven exchange with shallow regions lining the channel: differential advection over channel-shoal bathymetry sets up lateral gradients in velocity, straining the salinity field and driving an input of fresher water at the surface of the channel during flood tides. Here, we present analytical scaling groups to weigh the contributions of longitudinal and lateral tidal straining and explore the conditions which lead to flood-tide stratification through this lateral exchange mechanism. Idealized, fully three-dimensional model results from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) are used to explore the parameter space described by the scaling groups.

Lissa MacVean is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on the physics of water in lakes, estuaries, and marine coastal environments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:47:33 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
A Data-Driven Optimization Approach For the Dynamic Shuttle Dispatching Problem (February 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70040 70040-17499534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The problem of dispatching shuttles to serve trip requests can be mathematically formulated as a dial-a-ride problem (DARP). With on-demand mobility services gaining more popularity in recent years, the real-time application of DARP is attracting ever more interest. However, the fact that size of DARP grows exponentially with number of requests renders the current solution methodologies inadequate for online applications. In order to tackle this issue, we propose a general framework that shifts much of the computational burden of the optimization problems that need to be solved into an offline setting, thereby addressing on-demand requests with fast and high-quality solutions in real time. Furthermore, in order to improve the utilization rate of vehicles, we seek to dispatch our shuttle proactively, and not wait for the demand to be realized first. Using various numerical experiments, we demonstrate the benefits of the proposed method. Furthermore, we present a sensitivity analysis to show the performance of our methodology under different parameter settings.

Amir is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Neda Masoud.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:54:53 -0500 2020-02-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Meals with Faculty (February 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65224 65224-16555453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals with Faculty series, which have been created to give you all the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ+ faculty and researchers in the community. There is no required or preferred discipline and all are welcome no matter what you're studying. This month's faculty guests are Cortney Turner of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Andrew Brouwer, a research investigator in epidemiology in the School of Public Health.

The meals are free, but do require pre-registration at http://bit.ly/GradEat

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:30:59 -0500 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Meals with Faculty - February 6th, 5:30 to 6:30 PM. This dinner will be held in the Parker Room of the Michigan Union and features Andrew Brouwer and Cortney Turner as faculty guests.
ASCE Seminar Series (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71575 71575-17842682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Jeffers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan. Her research focuses on analysis of structures subjected to extreme load events (e.g., fire, blasts, earthquakes), numerical analysis of complex systems, advanced finite element methods, structural dynamics, structural stability. Also interested in various topics within engineering education.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:04:47 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: Samir Kaul (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72245 72245-17963884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Samir is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology investments. Samir led the firm’s investments in Editas Medicine, EtaGen, Guardant Health, Impossible Foods, Nutanix, Oscar, Pymetrics, and View, among others.

Previously, Samir was at Flagship Ventures where he founded and invested in early-stage biotechnology companies, and Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research where he led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. He is active in philanthropy and has been a longstanding member of the leadership committee of the Tipping Point Community and a board member of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:00:50 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Samir Kaul
Preparing a Strong CEW+ Scholarship Application (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69669 69669-17376522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

Join the CEW+ Scholarship team for an overview of CEW+ Scholarship application components, tips on crafting a strong application, and answers to your questions about eligibility, the review process, award types, and more.

The CEW+ Scholarship Application will be available on January 15th and the application process closes on April 1, 2020, for funding available during the 2020-21 academic year.

RSVP here to attend: cew.umich.edu/events/preparing-a-strong-cew-scholarship-application

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:15:23 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar fingers typing on a laptop
Campus Mind Works: Anxiety & Procrastination (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70411 70411-17594460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and grad school life, and speak with others.

Free to attend
No pre-registration required
Refreshments will be provided

These groups are presented by the U-M Depression Center in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Newnan Academic Advising Center. Groups are run by clinical staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only, and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

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Well-being Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:18:28 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works Logo with Blue Background and White Font
Rethinking America’s Urban Water Infrastructure: Resource Efficiency, Access, and Public Health (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70029 70029-17499523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water infrastructure renewal is receiving significant attention today as many of our systems are meeting (or exceeding) design life. Cities in countries with well developed economies like the U.S. enjoy economic prosperity in part due to the development of heavily centralized water systems that create high levels of water quality and public health, on average. While centralized water infrastructure has served us well, I argue that we should not be constrained to applying 20th century thinking as we plan for the future. The current revolution in information technologies (IT: software, hardware and devices) has the potential to transform urban water infrastructure by creating more resilient and flexible hybrid systems comprised of an interacting collection of centralized and decentralized physical IT systems. I contend that the development of IT-enabled “smart” hybrid water system solutions has the potential to: improve the efficiency with which we use resources (e.g., water, power,
nutrients); enhance equitable access to water services; change consumer and provider behavior around water; and ensure that we sustain a high level of public health, even as more people live in close proximity to each other. In this talk and through the use of case studies from across different regions around the globe, I will explore these scenarios and the changing ways in which people live. As an example, one case study will include the development of “smart” distributed nutrient recovery systems that have been deployed and are being tested at the University of Michigan.

Nancy Love is the Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Nancy research focuses are on assessing and advancing public and environmental health using chemical, biological and analytical approaches applied to water systems using both physical experiments and computational models.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:48:22 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Sarah Goddard Power Award and Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award Ceremony (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71014 71014-17768629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: CEW+

February 12, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Koessler Room, Michigan League

Please join us for the annual Sarah Goddard Power & Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Awards Ceremony.

The Sarah Goddard Power & Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Awards are presented by the Academic Women’s Caucus, which was founded in its current form in 1975. Its initial charge was ” …to develop an inclusive organization of all women faculty members of the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses of the University of Michigan which will serve as a forum for the exchange of information about the status of faculty women at the University and as a focus for action necessary to the investigation and resolution of their special concerns.” To this end, the Caucus has met regularly during the academic year since 1976. It has responded to the concerns of its members by sponsoring informational and problem-solving sessions of various kinds and has provided support and a mechanism for exchange of ideas and action proposals.

2020 SARAH GODDARD POWER AWARD
Sarah Goddard Power was widely acclaimed as a major contributor to the advancement of higher education, an advocate for affirmative action and human rights, and a champion of freedom for the international press. As a Regent of the University of Michigan for more than 12 years, Sarah Goddard Power worked tirelessly to advance the position of women and minorities in faculty and administrative roles.

Regent Sarah Goddard Power originally suggested that the Academic Women’s Caucus present awards to such individuals. In 1984, an Awards Committee was established to select the first recipients of the Academic Women’s Caucus Awards. Thus, it seemed appropriate that the Academic Women’s Caucus Award be renamed to honor Regent Power. In 1988, Regent Philip H. Power graciously consented to allow the Caucus to rename its awards the Academic Women’s Caucus Sarah Goddard Power Award. In 1998, President Lee Bollinger enabled the Award to be offered with an accompanying stipend. Each year, nominations are selected for the Sarah Goddard Power Awards.

2020 Sarah Goddard Power Award Recipients:

Cathleen Connell, Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, is being honored for her significant achievement in addressing current challenges faced by women through distinguished leadership at the University of Michigan. Dr. Connell began her academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1989, and rose through the ranks to become Professor in 2003. She has served in many leadership roles in her tenure at the University, including associate and senior associate dean of academic affairs, department and associate chair, and directorships. “Cathleen brings true kindness, empathy and graciousness to her leadership roles. With her attitudes and actions, she has helped make the Department and School a place where female scholars feel comfortable and can thrive personally and professionally,” said Mary Janevic, Ph.D., MPH, in a nominating letter. “Cathleen embodies the characteristics of an inspired leader. A patient listener, she has an innate ability to motivate teams to institute changes, meet goals, and achieve success,” Angela Beck, Assistant Dean for Student Engagement and Practice, School of Public Health, wrote.

Allison Steiner, Professor, Department of Climate and Space Science and Engineering, has provided breakthrough contributions towards developing a diverse and inclusive workforce both at the University of Michigan and in her own scientific field at a national and international level. She receives the Sarah Goddard Power Award for her tireless advocacy towards the advancement of women in Earth Sciences worldwide, and her leadership role in promoting equality for female faculty in the College of Engineering. Allison co-founded the Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN), an international peer-mentoring network of women in the Earth Sciences, whose mission is to promote career development, build community, provide opportunities for informal mentoring and support, and facilitate professional collaborations. At the University and within the College of Engineering Steiner plays active leadership roles in a variety of programs and efforts to develop and implement strategies and plans to support diversity, equity and inclusion. She chaired the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Female Faculty, is a member of the CoE ADVANCE Advisory Committee and Co-Chaired last year’s NextProf Committee. “Looking through the list of the last few years Sarah Goddard Power Award winners is inspirational… Prof. Allison Steiner’s significant achievements in contributing to the betterment of current challenges faced by women through her leadership and community building roles clearly place her in the same company,” wrote Mark Moldwin, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Space Sciences and Engineering, in a nominating letter.

2020 RHETAUGH G. DUMAS PROGRESS IN DIVERSIFYING AWARD
The Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award supports a long-standing vision of increasing the number of diverse women in the academy. Named after late Vice Provost Rhetaugh Dumas, it recognizes outstanding institutional initiative in demonstrating notable progress by academic units in achieving ethnic, racial and gender diversity among those pursuing and achieving tenure as professors, clinical professors, research professors, and research scientists.

Rhetaugh Dumas was an esteemed leader with vision, insight, and wise counsel who had a major impact in the advancement of nursing, healthcare, and academic programs at U-M. Vice Provost Dumas was only the second African-American to hold the position of a Dean at the University of Michigan when she was appointed in 1981, and the first African-American to be named a Dean. She was reappointed Dean of Nursing in 1986 and 1991 to second and third terms. Prior to that appointment, she was the first woman and first nurse to serve as a deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dumas was Deputy Director, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (1979-1981) and before that Chief, Psychiatric Nursing Education Branch of the Division of Manpower and Training Programs (1972-1976). She was also a founding member, a Charter Fellow, and a former president of the American Academy of Nursing. Dumas served the University of Michigan for over 20 years with vision and a commitment to excellence.

2020 Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award Recipient:
The U-M Women’s Studies Department has been selected for the Rhetaugh Dumas Award for its continued commitment to hiring and promoting a diverse faculty. In the fall of 2019, 50% of Women’s Studies faculty were black and/or people of color. Over the past five years, leadership in Women’s Studies has embodied and practiced an “institutional commitment to change.” Two recent department chairs ­- Elizabeth Cole and Rosie Ceballo, African American and Latinx, respectively – during those five years have moved on to Assistant, Associate, and interim dean positions at the College of LSA. Beyond their own leadership positions, they also made the effort to hire black women and/or women of color.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:18:23 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League CEW+ Ceremony / Service Regent Sarah Goddard Power speaks in October 1980 during the 20th anniversary “rededication” ceremony for the Peace Corps on the steps of the Michigan Union
A Concert for HOPE (February 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71771 71771-17879422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery

Join us along with the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Adam Foss, JD, and others for a free event at Hill Auditorium on February 12, 2020 to build awareness and support for the HOPE Collaborative at Michigan Medicine.

The HOPE (health equity, opportunity, pipeline, and education) Collaborative’s goals are threefold: develop, strengthen, and study early pipeline and youth educational programs for medicine; broaden Michigan Medicine’s clinical reach and engagement of community partners for at-risk neighborhoods; diversify training programs and trainee recruitment.

Our guest performers and speakers will inspire and build excitement around the opportunities for underrepresented minorities in medicine.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is an award-winning national model for Creative Youth Development. Founded in 1992,Mosaic annually provides accessible acting and singing training for hundreds of youth from more than 50 Metro Detroit schools. Mosaic's mission is to empower young people to maximize their potential through professional performing arts training and the creation of theatrical and musical art that engages, transforms and inspires. The organization has toured their critically-acclaimed all-teen performances to Europe, Asia, Africa, 25 states throughout the U.S., the White House and The Kennedy Center. At the 2014 World Choir Games in Latvia, Mosaic brought home two gold and two silver medals. Mosaic is proud to report that 95% of their performers have gone on to college. To learn more about Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, visit us online at www.mosaicdetroit.org.

Adam Foss, JD, is a renowned prosecutor and criminal-justice reform advocate who founded Prosecutor Impact – a non-profit focused on training prosecutors to reframe their role in the criminal justice system to focus on metrics beyond “cases won.”

This event is free, but there will be opportunities to support the mission through donations. Funds will be directed towards resources supporting the HOPE Collaborative’s mission.

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Performance Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:45:40 -0500 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery Performance Impacting HOPE Collaborative
Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Parking (February 13, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70244 70244-17556160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to improve mobility, safety, and parking accessibility. It is estimated that AVs will be available on the market in the next decade. As car-parks are closed environments, they are among the first locations to expect influenced by AVs. AVs can be stacked in multiple rows like valet parking due to their self-parking capability. To release blocked vehicles, car-park operators relocate certain vehicles in driverless mode to create a clear pathway for cars that need to leave the facility. The problem of finding the optimal car-park layout design is investigated that minimizes relocations to fit a given number of vehicles. Results show that AV parking facilities can decrease the need for parking space by an average of 62%. The operation of AV parking facilities is also investigated, and policies for choosing a parking spot for each vehicle are proposed based on the arrival and departure time information. AVs will not only change the car-park facilities, but also where travelers park. AV users can exit from their vehicles and send their vehicles to park in a strategic location. AVs can park farther from destination in cheaper parking lots or cruise for the whole activity time. Results show that while the same parking price across all the locations would exacerbate the congestion by motivating more AVs to cruise, a toll for zero- occupant AVs would decrease the congestion.

Sina Bahrami is a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and a Ph.D. from University of Toronto. Sina’s research is focused on the parking policy in the era of Avs.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:36:39 -0500 2020-02-13T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (February 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71576 71576-17842683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

HNTB Spark is part of who they are and what they do. The orange square in HNTB's logo represents the spark of innovation and imagination that they bring to all that they do. HNTB's commitment is to the communities they live and work in. And to their diverse and inclusive culture. A culture that is defined by integrity and technical excellence resulting in delivering quality work for more than a century.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:13:29 -0500 2020-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: Max Shtein (February 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72789 72789-18077124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Max Shtein earned his B.S. from University of California Berkeley in 1998 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. He has made enabling contributions to the science and technology of organic optoelectronics, including the modeling and demonstration of novel devices and highly scalable methods of device processing, some of which are being commercialized.

He joined the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan in 2004, where he has focused on the physics and technology of organic optoelectronic materials and devices.

He is the recipient of the MRS graduate student Gold Medal Award, the Newport Award for Excellence and Leadership in Photonics and Optoelectronics, the Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the MSE Department Achievement Award, and the Vulcan Prize for Excellence in Education.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:42:10 -0500 2020-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Max Shtein
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including currents, eddies, and tides. He will discuss the many applications of ocean models, including short-term ocean forecasting, national security applications, longer-term global change predictions, and preparing for satellite ocean monitoring missions. The talk will focus on the work done in our group here at University of Michigan, with a focus on oceanic eddies and tides.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70344 70344-17586171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
How to Create Positive Team and Organizational Hierarchies
Lindy Greer

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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:
Hierarchy is the most ubiquitous way in which human beings organize social interactions. However, hierarchy comes with substantial downsides in terms of inequities and conflicts. As a result, organizations have explored flatter modes of organizing, such as holacracy, which unfortunately have yet to yield much success. In this presentation, Greer will explore the possibility that hierarchy may still be the most effective form of organization but needs to be used wisely. She will discuss data-driven strategies which can allow hierarchy to be a useful and positive organizational tool, including helping leaders learn how to ‘flex’ the hierarchy for bursts of flatness, to humanize the hierarchy through sharing emotions at work, and to reduce competitions around hierarchy by creating areas of individual ownership and autonomy.

About Greer:
Lindy Greer is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Michigan Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to lead effective organizational teams with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, vision crafting, and the communication of emotions.

Lindy has published in top management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her work has also been covered in well-known media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, and Fast Company. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management and American Psychological Association, and she was recently named one of the Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.

Lindy is currently an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, on the boards of seven of the top management and psychology journals, and has served on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Lindy received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in social and organizational psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She joined the team at Ross in 2019.

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 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:07:29 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Lindy Greer
Blast and Impact Resistant Protective Design (February 18, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72187 72187-17955061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The design of structures to protect occupants and operations in response to man-made extraordinary events requires attention to critical failure mechanisms and component behavior. Since the intensity and likelihood of these events are not well defined, performance based design approaches include the management of inelastic response and local failure. Design techniques that were developed for the ‘cold war’ are now adapted for Government and commercial construction. Applying these techniques to ‘design excellence’ architecture is a major challenge and the least impactful protective measures that achieve the required performance contribute to a project’s success. In many projects, the protective design engineer helps identify the risks associated with different design options and helps the owners to decide whether to mitigate or accept these risks.

Robert Smilowitz is a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:41:14 -0500 2020-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar oslo, minimalism, architecture
Car-sharing service design: combining mathematical programming with stochastic simulation to tackle high- dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization problems (February 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72851 72851-18085923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In this talk, we consider the design of car-sharing services for a major car-sharing service providor. The problem is formulated as a high-dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization (DSO) problem. We propose a method that combines disaggregate car-sharing reservation data, analytical mathematical programming (MP) models, and simulation-based optimization algorithms. We present various ways in which the MP formulations can be used to enhance both the computational efficiency of DSO algorithms, as well as their ability to tackle high-dimensional problems. We present numerical results on a Boston case study.

Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and in the Operations Research Center (ORC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work develops operations research techniques to inform the design and operations of urban mobility systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:18:37 -0500 2020-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar 2020 Faculty Candidate Seminar
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Subsurface Modeling (February 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70030 70030-17499524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Daniel Tartakovsky has received his BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Kazan University, Russia in 1991 and PhD in Hydrology from University of Arizona in 1996. He was a Technical Staff Member and Team Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1996-2005) and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San Diego (2005-2017). Since 2017 he is a Professor in Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, uncertainty quantification and risk assessment, data assimilation and machine learning, and multiscale modeling. He has published over 200 articles in these fields, and served on the editorial boards of many related journals.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:42:05 -0500 2020-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Workshop on Work-Life Balance (February 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71971 71971-17905480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF) for an informal workshop with Laura Korobkin, Associate Professor of English at Boston University.

Professor Korobkin started graduate school herself with two small kids and is very interested in talking with students and colleagues about the challenges of combining graduate school and/or a career with having a fulfilling life (kids, partner, family responsibilities, sleep, exercise, part-time job, hobbies).

A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to RSVP.

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Well-being Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:06:06 -0500 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Well-being Two armchairs with bookshelves
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Historical Engineering Special Guest Seminar: Great Builders (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72779 72779-18077116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In the past century the means and methods to design and build infrastructure have evolved at an ever increasing rate. Yet, there are timeless lessons from the builders of the “great projects”; the Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Veteran builder and award winning civil engineering historian Raymond Paul Giroux will share his unique perspective of the great projects and the timeless lessons of the builders of the great projects.
Learning Objectives: After attending the Great Builders lecture, participants will be better able to:
• Understand the challenges of designing and building the Great Projects
• Understand the role of the key individuals who worked on the Great Projects
• Identify lessons from the Great Builders that are still relevant to modern practice
• Identify the essential traits of great builders

Paul Giroux is a Senior Estimating Manger at Kiewiet in Washington. Giroux has 40 years of experience with working on various projects such as high-risk heavy civil engineering projects, technical bridges, ad quality control management.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:57:47 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Build air
Adaptive Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation Based on Bayesian Optimization (February 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70245 70245-17556161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Testing and evaluation is a critical step in the development and deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), and how to generate testing scenario library is a major challenge. In previous studies, to evaluate maneuver challenge of a scenario, surrogate models (SMs) are often used without explicit knowledge of the CAV under test. However, performance dissimilarities between the SM and the CAV under test usually exist, and it can lead to the generation of suboptimal library. In this work, an adaptive testing scenario library generation method is proposed to solve this problem based on Bayesian optimization. A customized testing scenario library for a specific CAV model will be generated as the result of the adaptive process. Compared with a pre-determined library, a CAV can be tested and evaluated in a more efficient manner with the customized library. To validate the proposed method, a cut-in and a highway exit case are studied for safety and functionality evaluation respectively. For both two cases, the proposed method can further accelerate the evaluation process by a few orders of magnitudes.

Shuo Feng is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:50:59 -0500 2020-02-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Medical School Student Panel Discussion (February 20, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72115 72115-17939978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Here is your chance to hear about what life is like for several medical school students and residents. Learn about each of their paths to medicine, experiences in medical school, and things they wished they had known in college.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:42:55 -0500 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (February 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72593 72593-18024696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:14:30 -0500 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
FE Exam Overview and Student Forum (February 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72852 72852-18085924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chi Epsilon presents Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Overview and Student Forum. This event will give you insight to the exam, available preparation materials, and you will have an opportunity to discuss the exam with graduate students who recently passed the exam.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:30:54 -0500 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion I took this photo in a private school in Italy (Bologna) and I found beautiful these two girls studying together.
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Life In Graduate School Seminar | How to Find a Postdoc Position (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72814 72814-18079325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Life in Graduate School Seminars

Three people with postdoc hunting experience in high energy experiment, computational condensed matter and experimental condensed matter will be invited and present their experience and lessons in finding postdoc positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:31:43 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall Life in Graduate School Seminars Workshop / Seminar West Hall
ASCE Seminar Series (February 21, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72594 72594-18024697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kiewit’s ethical, forward-thinking workforce continues to build upon the company’s reputation of safe, high-quality engineering. Consistently ranked among the top five of the Engineering News-Record Top 400 Contractors, the company is a leader in a variety of market sectors throughout North America. As an employee-owned company, Kiewit’s assets are managed by the people who know their work best. As their own stakeholders, Kiewit is invested in every project they take on. Kiewit continuously strive to build high-quality work at the lowest cost.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:19:13 -0500 2020-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
E-Hour Speaker Series: Amanda Lewan (February 21, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72977 72977-18120892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Amanda Lewan is a writer and entrepreneur. After moving home to Detroit in the middle of the great recession, she endeavored to create work that moves our changing region forward.

Amanda spent time working at a variety of startups in marketing and operations, before launching Bamboo. One of the first co-working spaces in Detroit, Bamboo specializes in building collaborative work spaces and community. She bootstrapped Bamboo from a $5,000 loan to 500+ members expanding to multiple locations, and serving as a catalyst for Detroit’s ecosystem. Her leadership at Bamboo has been honored locally and nationally.

Amanda’s writing is also inspired by our region and country’s economic changes and healing past. After winning a national essay competition by The Nation in college, she went on to study fiction writing in graduate school. Her work has been published and honored by The Rumpus, Glimmer Train, Rust Belt Magazine, Belt Publishing, The Journal of Americana, Lumina Magazine, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of Net.

Amanda holds a BA in Professional Writing from Michigan State and an MA in English from Wayne State. She sits on the board for Fierce Empowerment, Venture Catalysts, and Co-leads the Detroit Writers Collective writers group.

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Presentation Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:07:14 -0500 2020-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Amanda Lewan
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
World Information Architecture Day Ann Arbor (February 22, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72964 72964-18114396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School of Information Student Association

The Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction (SOCHI) is hosting the Ann Arbor location of World Information Architecture Day (WIAD). WIAD is a global event that celebrates and informs communities about information architecture as part of good user experience (UX).

Speakers:
• Peter Morville, Semantic Studios - "Gentle Change"
• Meg Green, Thomson Reuters - “Artificial Intelligence & Consent”
• Dan Cooney, The Understanding Group - “Mindful Models and the Conscious Organization”
• Daniel O'Neil, The Understanding Group - “Information Architecture and the Coming Digital Renaissance”
• Scott Showalter, Ford - “The Chemistry of Information Architecture and Experience Design”
• Rachel Aliana Jaffe, Adjacent - “The Structuralist Language for Information Architecture”

Registration through Eventbrite is required. Professionals and students from Ann Arbor, Metro Detroit, Lansing, and Toledo typically attend.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 16 Feb 2020 15:05:05 -0500 2020-02-22T08:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union School of Information Student Association Conference / Symposium Logo for World Information Architecture Day
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high entropy? We are taught that entropy implies disorder, so crystals must have low entropy...or do they? In this talk, find out how some ordered crystal phases of matter can have more entropy than their disordered phases, and why this matters.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
The Role of Emerging Structural Materials, Technology, and Innovative Testing in Advancing Infrastructure Design and Resiliency (February 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73065 73065-18138323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:53:11 -0500 2020-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Steel bridge on Alaska Highway
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-17955069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
Professor Fred C. Adams, the Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70341 70341-17584116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The fundamental constants of nature must fall within a
range of values in order for the universe to develop structure and
ultimately support life. This talk considers current constraints on
these quantities and assesses the degree of tuning required for the
universe to be viable. In the realm of particle physics, the relevant
parameters are the strengths of the fundamental forces and the
particle masses. Additional astrophysical parameters include the
cosmic energy density, the cosmological constant, the abundances of
ordinary matter and dark matter, and the amplitude of primordial
density fluctuations. These quantities are constrained by the
necessity that the universe lives for a long time, emerges from its
early epochs with an acceptable chemical composition, and successfully
produces galaxies. On smaller scales, stars and planets must be able
to form and function. The stars must have sufficiently long lifetimes
and hot surface temperatures. We also consider potential fine-tuning
related to the triple alpha reaction that produces carbon, the case of
unstable deuterium, and the possibility of stable diprotons. For all
of these issues, the goal is to delineate the range of parameter space
for which universes can remain habitable. In spite of its biophilic
properties, our universe is not optimized for the emergence of life,
in that the proper variations could result in more galaxies, stars,
and potentially habitable planets.

Further Information: This collegiate professorship was named in honor
of Ta-You Wu, a graduate of the Michigan Physics Department and
recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University. He was
one of the central figures of the 20th century in both the Chinese and
Taiwanese physics communities. Adams received his PhD at U. C.
Berkeley, where his advisor was Professor Frank H. Shu, who in turn
has close ties to Ta-You Wu and his family. Naming this Collegiate
Professorship after Ta-You Wu honors Prof. Wu, the Michigan Physics
Department, and Adams' PhD mentor (Shu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:41:33 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Events Calendar
Civil engineering Nth Nth-of -a-Kind advanced nuclear reactors (February 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72780 72780-18077117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nuclear energy provides approximately 20% of the nation’s electricity and is the only green heat source capable of delivering base load power at this time. Plants in the existing nuclear fleet are being retired because they cannot complete financially with natural gas and there is no carbon tax at present. The overnight capital cost for new build nuclear plants in the United States is about $12,500 per kWe , which has to be reduced by about a factor of five to be competitive with the price point of natural gas. Civil construction accounts for between 45% and 50% of the cost of a new build nuclear plant and so drastic reductions in these costs are needed for commercial customers to consider nuclear energy as a source of power generation. The presentation will explore the cost drivers for new build plants, identify differences between building and nuclear construction, describe how poor design decisions lead to dramatic increases in cost, introduce civil civil-engineering strategies for mitigating the effects of external hazards.

Andrew Wittaker is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Buffalo. His research focuses on structural and earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, blast engineering, and performance-based engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:03:30 -0500 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Campus Mind Works: Anxiety & Procrastination (February 25, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70412 70412-17594461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and grad school life, and speak with others.

Free to attend
No pre-registration required
Refreshments will be provided

These groups are presented by the U-M Depression Center in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Newnan Academic Advising Center. Groups are run by clinical staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only, and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

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Well-being Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:24:26 -0500 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works Logo with Blue Background and White Font
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-18085925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism
Wednesday, February 26
10am - 6pm
ISR-Thompson 1430

Morning Session
10am - 12:00pm
Creating Diverse, Joyful, and Productive Working Groups

Working Group Lunches
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Session
2pm - 4:30pm
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Racism

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

RacismLab invites you to join in celebrating its five-year anniversary, in conjunction with University-wide MLK 2020 programming, for the 2020 RacismLab Symposium and concurrent Poster Session on Wednesday, February 26.

NETWORKING LUNCH FOR POST-DOCS and FACULTY:
Early-career scholars (i.e., postdocs and assistant professors) are invited to sign up for the networking lunch during the symposium. The networking lunch, led by Dr. Debbie Rivas-Drake, will explore strategies for creating diverse, joyful, and productive research groups. For more information and to sign up for a working lunch roundtable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIZfoohv6CHmg99EFgXlSEvfSQYmAJ4cvUUaVsy80hBCp7g/viewform

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil” (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72569 72569-18018161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine *O Menelick 2 Ato* and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors, Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty.

Followed by the opening of a digital and print exhibit of selected magazine covers by Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic artists.

The exhibit will be on display until March 11th at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery.

Light reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:19:01 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil”
On the Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation, and Countermeasures (February 27, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70246 70246-17556162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The proliferation of smartphones in recent years has catalyzed rapid growth of app-based ride-sourcing services such as Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing. A big issue that arises with service expansion is the empty miles produced by ride- sourcing vehicles. To overcome the physical and temporal frictions that separate drivers from customers and effectively reposition themselves towards desired destinations, ride sourcing vehicles generate a significant amount of vacant trips. These empty miles traveled result in an inefficient use of the available fleet and increase traffic demand, posing substantially impacts on system operations. This talk expounds the operational physics underlying the empty miles in ride-sourcing services, and interprets the cause of two critical matching failures that can arise due to some common mechanisms practiced by ride-sourcing platforms. Given the prevalence of the failures in real-world operations, we discuss countermeasures to avoid inefficiencies upon the empty miles, and sustain the system performances. Massive empirical data are employed to evidence the presence of matters in reality as well as the effectiveness of control strategies discussed.

Zhengtian Xu is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests mainly focus on developing novel models, tools, and conducting data-driven quantitative analyses to understand, promote, and regulate emerging mobility services and infrastructures.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Feb 2020 07:34:13 -0500 2020-02-27T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Henry Russel Lecture 2020 | Carbon vs. Carbon Diaoxide: Using Carbon-Based (Organic) Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73069 73069-18138327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Professor Forrest is also the
Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Professor of Material Science and Engineering.

Please see more information here: https://record.umich.edu/articles/russel-lecture-fighting-climate-change-with-organic-electronics/

Reception immediately following the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:59:15 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Image of Stephen Forrest
Space Jam Series: Electronic Music Open Mic and Music Workshop (February 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73039 73039-18131795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: North Quad Programming

Another Space Jam is upon us. Mark your calendars: Friday, February 28th!

4-6pm - Electronic music open mic/showcase
Bring your laptops or any other piece of equipment of your choice you'd like to use to showcase your music or show us your beats!

6-7pm - DJ and beats creation workshop with DJ Ell
DJ Ell is an experienced American record producer, radio host, engineer, and DJ with vast touring experience in Europe and the U.S. He also hosts classes, workshops, and lectures on the art of DJing at schools and organizations including the Berklee College of Music, Harvard University, MIT, University of Michigan and community youth centers across the United States.

If you are interested in learning more about DJ Ell, visit:
https://www.thatdjell.com/

Interested in joining the open mic showcase? Email umnorthquad@umich.edu by Monday, February 24th and we'll contact you with lineup information. Spaces are limited.

Whether it is to perform, network, or learn, please let us know if you are coming! RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/214510956247066/

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

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Performance Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:17:33 -0500 2020-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T19:00:00-05:00 North Quad North Quad Programming Performance Space Jam Series: Open Mic and Music Workshop February 28
Financing the Sustainability Enterprise (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73394 73394-18214938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainability (environmental, social & governance values) is not 'a thing' but 'the way we do things'. It is about mainstreaming sustainability. To communicate this we will be talking about integration of sustainability metrics and values at three levels of implementation:
1. Within the fence of an organization: How are sustainable principles implemented at the unit level?
2. Outside the fence of the organization: How are sustainability principles implemented across supply chains?
3. Conditioning capital investment in sustainability: What is sustainable capital, how is capital deployment impacted by sustainability metrics?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:26:06 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Peter Adriaens Teach-In
Achieving One Water and the Circular Economy (March 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73395 73395-18214939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The One Water concept is the integrated planning and management of finite water resources to meet the long term needs of both society and our ecosystems. As a society we need to not only improve the management of our water resources, we should also explore how valuable resources can be recovered from our water. This teach-in will explore the connections between our drinking water, wastewater, and natural water systems in order to better manage our water resources and recover valuable products. In recent years researchers have focused on recovering valuable products such as fertilizers from our waste streams in order to develop more sustainable products and conserve finite resources. We will explore this topic and many more in this teach-in. Specifically, this program will dive in to interesting topics such as:
--Current resource recovery opportunities such as nutrient recycling
--New and emerging resource recovery and water reuse technologies
--Tangible steps that you can take within your household to improve your impact on the water cycle

You can expect to learn about the engineered water cycle, how you can reduce your food/water waste, nutrient recycling, and new technologies and approaches to recover valuable resources from our water and wastewater!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:09:39 -0500 2020-03-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nancy Love Teach-In
Recent Advances in Performance-Based Wind Engineering (March 10, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73710 73710-18302646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:18:53 -0400 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar wind
Campus Mind Works: How to Get Better Sleep (March 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70413 70413-17594462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact mental health, share strategies for managing the stress of college and grad school life, and speak with others.

Free to attend
No pre-registration required
Refreshments will be provided

These groups are presented by the U-M Depression Center in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Newnan Academic Advising Center. Groups are run by clinical staff affiliated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only, and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.

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Well-being Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:28:16 -0500 2020-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being Campus Mind Works Logo with Blue Background and White Font
Meals with Faculty (March 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69929 69929-17483066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals with Faculty series, which have been created to give you all the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ+ faculty and researchers in the community. There is no required or preferred discipline and all are welcome no matter what you're studying. This month's faculty guests are Michael Bastedo, an Associate Professor in School of Education and Omar Sosa-Tzec, an Assistant Professor in STAMPS

The meals are free, but do require pre-registration at http://bit.ly/GradEat

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:32:00 -0500 2020-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Meals with Faculty - March 10th, 5:30 to 6:30 PM. This dinner will be held in the Corner Room of Pierpont Commons and features Michael Bastedo and Omar Sosa-Tzec as faculty guests.
POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering (March 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73303 73303-18190737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

**We regret that the annual 3 Amigos Lecture scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 in the Boeing Auditorium at the Fracois-Xavier Bagnoud building, has been postponed.
We will share the new date and time for the event as soon as they are scheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience.**

It's time again for this annual event led by Steve Battel, President of Battel Engineering and Professor of Practice at the U-M Climate & Space department.

This year's lecture is titled Real World Perspectives: Conversations on Leadership and Diversity in Engineering.

Please join us as Prof. Battel joins with guests Mackenzie Lystrup, Vice-President and General Manager of Ball Aerospace, and Nick Lappos,Chairman of Vertical Lift Consortium in what will be a very interesting discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:48:14 -0400 2020-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T21:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion 3 Amigos social card
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies: CO2 Utilization & Sequestration Through Engineering Solutions (March 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73396 73396-18214940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Combating climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing today’s society, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering has recognized the need to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as one of this century’s grand engineering challenges. Such action is needed to prevent potentially catastrophic shifts in regional temperatures, precipitation patterns, and sea level rise. This teach-in will introduce several emerging opportunities to (1) sequester human-derived CO2 emissions and (2) directly utilize CO2 to create value-added products. Topics will include geologic sequestration of CO2, use of CO2 to produce geothermal energy and store surplus renewable energy in subsurface reservoirs, and direct utilization of CO2 in durable concrete infrastructure products. The presentation will include several hands-on activities to explore these processes and discuss how we can leverage such engineering solutions to slow climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:30:28 -0500 2020-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Brian Ellis Teach-In
Picking collaboration over fighting: Climate Change & the Natural and the Built Environment (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73397 73397-18214941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The built environment is responsible for over half of all man-made CO2 emissions. In this teach-in, we will explore the impacts of the built environment on climate change, and the impacts of climate change on the built environment. We will learn how various policy, design, and technologies may be deployed to mitigate these impacts. The teach-in will include a combination of presentations and panel interaction with participants. Speakers include Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor; Matt Grocoff, Principal of THRIVE Collaborative; Devki Desai, project engineer in HOK’s structural engineering group in New York City; and Victor Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U-M.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:11:24 -0400 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Victor Li Teach-In
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70345 70345-17586172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Is it Really Better to Give than Receive?
Wayne Baker

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
This event will only be live web streamed.

Follow the stream here: http://myumi.ch/518e2

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.

About the talk:
The greatest barrier to generosity isn't that people are unwilling or unable to help, but that people don't ask for what they need. Requests drive the giving-receiving cycle. Drawing on his new book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker describes the four asking-giving styles, how to assess your style, how to overcome the obstacles to asking, how to make effective requests, and how to figure out who to ask. He will present several tools that individuals, teams, and organizations use to create a robust culture of workplace generosity. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to use the tools in real time.

About Baker:
Wayne Baker is Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research. He currently serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations.

His teaching and research focus on social capital, social networks, generosity, positive organizational scholarship, and values. His management and leadership articles appear in venues such as Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive Magazine, and Sloan Management Review. His latest book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, will be published in January 2020.

He puts his knowledge into practice as a frequent guest speaker, management consultant, and as an advisor and board member of Give and Take Inc., developers of the Givitas collaborative technology platform.

Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago business school. He earned his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University.

Host:
Dave Mayer, Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor

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 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:22:08 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Wayne Baker
E-Hour Speaker Series: Jonathan Golden (March 13, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72247 72247-17963886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA, where he focuses on consumer, marketplace and bottoms-up SaaS investments.

Before joining NEA, Jonathan was Director of Product at Airbnb, where he helped the company scale 100x over six years. As the company’s first product manager, he was instrumental in building out significant parts of the product in the early days, including creating host insurance, launching the platform internationally, and founding and leading the monetization, payments and Airbnb for Work teams.

Jonathan is an angel investor in Bowery Farming, Coinbase, Everlane, Funding Circle, Hipcamp, Tile and Wonderschool.

Prior to Airbnb, Jonathan worked in product at both Dropbox and HubSpot, and was a venture investor at Greylock Partners. Jonathan co-founded StartX, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating top entrepreneurs, while attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received an MBA. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:21:33 -0500 2020-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jonathan Golden
Writing Cover Letters (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71802 71802-17885890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Your cover letter is usually the first impression you make on a prospective employer. In this workshop we will review the essential elements to include in a cover letter, and you will spend time working on a letter. Please bring a posting for a job in your field and a draft or outline of a cover letter to the workshop. Pizza will be provided.

Registration starts February 24th: https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:24:52 -0500 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Transportation Seminar Series (March 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70248 70248-17556164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

We build Lagrangian continuum models that utilize vehicle trajectory data obtained via V2X connectivity. These models are able to capture three important features of traffic flow: (i) the propagation of congestions in time, (ii) the propagation of congestions in space, (iii) the string instability/stability, that is, the amplification/decay of traffic waves while having only three tunable parameters. These models also enable us to study the large-scale impact of connected automated vehicles on traffic flow control.

Gabor Orosz is an Associate Professor for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Gabor's research interests include Nonlinear dynamics and control, time-delay systems, networks and complex systems, dynamics and control of connected vehicles, ground robots and autonomous vehicles, neural networks, gene-regulatory networks.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:47:56 -0400 2020-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
E-Hour Speaker Series: Uma Subramanian (March 20, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72248 72248-17963887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Uma Subramanian is the CEO of Aero Technologies, a stealth company focused on next generation air travel. Prior to joining Aero, Uma was a pioneer in the Urban Air Mobility space, as the founding CEO of Voom.Flights, an Airbus company, which built an urban air mobility network. Under Uma’s leadership, Voom.Flights launched in Brazil and Mexico.

Uma holds an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Uma is passionate about aviation, and believes that as a society we are well on our way to unlocking the urban sky. She is thrilled to be part of that journey.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:37:17 -0500 2020-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Uma Subramanian
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Pricing and Worth (March 26, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70249 70249-17556165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lack of a dense network of charging infrastructure is a major barrier to the growth of the plug-in electric vehicle market. Electric vehicle drivers value public charging availability since, among other benefits, it reduces range anxiety. This talk introduces drivers’ willingness to pay functions for public charging infrastructure availability, conditional on electric vehicle type and range, annual travel mileage, energy prices, vehicle efficiency, and household income. At the same time, public charging deployment creates investment opportunities for station operators and electric utilities. Hence, in the last part of this talk, operating costs for fast charging stations are estimated, leveraging utility rates data across the United States. Cost mitigation technologies, such as solar panels and energy storage, are also identified.

Eleftheria Kontou is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Enviornmental Engineering Department at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Her research interests include transportation planning, electrification and emerging vehicle technologies operations, as well as transportation and energy sectors interdependencies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:52:18 -0400 2020-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
E-Hour Speaker Series: Kathleen Sienko (March 27, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72249 72249-17963889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Kathleen Sienko is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Miller Faculty Scholar, and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

She is the co-director of the Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings.

Professor Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has led design ethnography field sites in India, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nicaragua as the Director of the Global Health Design Initiative. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award.

In addition to Professor Sienko’s expertise topics, she consults on Design Process and Professional Development.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:53:29 -0500 2020-03-27T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sienko
Graduate & Professional Student Virtual Check-In (April 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74002 74002-18483381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Graduate & Professional students are invited to join this drop-in chat with staff from Student Life to connect about virtual resources and programming offered during this time.

Have questions? Curious about what way you can stay connected during this time? Be sure to stop in with us this Thursday!

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/324954230

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:20:34 -0400 2020-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer with Log-In Details
A Data Scientist Plays Games (April 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74087 74087-18518836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This event will be hosted online via Zoom

A Data Scientist Plays Games:  This is a presentation broken down into two parts.  The first is how to use mathematical techniques to analyze classic card and board games, and the second part is how data science techniques were applied in real life to support games on the Facebook platform.  This presentation is about 1.5 hours, with a target audience probably suited to CS/software engineering.  It’s light-hearted and fun.

Nick Berry, a native of the UK, has lived in Seattle for the last 25 years. He was educated as a rocket scientist and aircraft designer, graduating with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

Upon graduation, he joined a group of friends to form a software company, specializing in electronic mapping and route planning. This company was grown organically, and earned an unprecedented number of awards and accolades, including the British Design Award and The Queen’s Award for Technology, presented by Her Majesty in 1991. In 1994 Nick was recognized by the Sunday Times Magazine as “One of the top 50 entrepreneurs of the decade”. In 1994, after the company had grown to 50 people worldwide, it was sold to Microsoft.

Nick moved to America with the sale and spent 14 years working for Microsoft, the last ten of which were in the Microsoft Casual Game team. During his tenure, he filed a variety of patents for Microsoft, and represented Microsoft at various conferences and speaking engagements.

After leaving Microsoft, he joined RealNetworks to work as the GM of customer analytics for their games division, GameHouse.

After GameHouse, Nick spent five years as a Data Scientist, working for Facebook in their Seattle office.

In addition to his engineering expertise, Nick is passionate about data privacy and holds a CIPP qualification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is an active member of the privacy community and speaks at various events about the legal and ethical aspects of data collection, use, and destruction.

In July 2013, Nick gave a TEDx talk about Passwords and the Internet, and in 2015 was nominated by GeekWire as Geek-of-the-week. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the 50 over 50 in the video games industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:11:49 -0400 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Nick Berry
A Data Scientist Plays Games (April 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74087 74087-18518837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This event will be hosted online via Zoom

A Data Scientist Plays Games:  This is a presentation broken down into two parts.  The first is how to use mathematical techniques to analyze classic card and board games, and the second part is how data science techniques were applied in real life to support games on the Facebook platform.  This presentation is about 1.5 hours, with a target audience probably suited to CS/software engineering.  It’s light-hearted and fun.

Nick Berry, a native of the UK, has lived in Seattle for the last 25 years. He was educated as a rocket scientist and aircraft designer, graduating with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

Upon graduation, he joined a group of friends to form a software company, specializing in electronic mapping and route planning. This company was grown organically, and earned an unprecedented number of awards and accolades, including the British Design Award and The Queen’s Award for Technology, presented by Her Majesty in 1991. In 1994 Nick was recognized by the Sunday Times Magazine as “One of the top 50 entrepreneurs of the decade”. In 1994, after the company had grown to 50 people worldwide, it was sold to Microsoft.

Nick moved to America with the sale and spent 14 years working for Microsoft, the last ten of which were in the Microsoft Casual Game team. During his tenure, he filed a variety of patents for Microsoft, and represented Microsoft at various conferences and speaking engagements.

After leaving Microsoft, he joined RealNetworks to work as the GM of customer analytics for their games division, GameHouse.

After GameHouse, Nick spent five years as a Data Scientist, working for Facebook in their Seattle office.

In addition to his engineering expertise, Nick is passionate about data privacy and holds a CIPP qualification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is an active member of the privacy community and speaks at various events about the legal and ethical aspects of data collection, use, and destruction.

In July 2013, Nick gave a TEDx talk about Passwords and the Internet, and in 2015 was nominated by GeekWire as Geek-of-the-week. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the 50 over 50 in the video games industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:11:49 -0400 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Nick Berry
A Data Scientist Plays Games (April 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74087 74087-18518838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This event will be hosted online via Zoom

A Data Scientist Plays Games:  This is a presentation broken down into two parts.  The first is how to use mathematical techniques to analyze classic card and board games, and the second part is how data science techniques were applied in real life to support games on the Facebook platform.  This presentation is about 1.5 hours, with a target audience probably suited to CS/software engineering.  It’s light-hearted and fun.

Nick Berry, a native of the UK, has lived in Seattle for the last 25 years. He was educated as a rocket scientist and aircraft designer, graduating with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

Upon graduation, he joined a group of friends to form a software company, specializing in electronic mapping and route planning. This company was grown organically, and earned an unprecedented number of awards and accolades, including the British Design Award and The Queen’s Award for Technology, presented by Her Majesty in 1991. In 1994 Nick was recognized by the Sunday Times Magazine as “One of the top 50 entrepreneurs of the decade”. In 1994, after the company had grown to 50 people worldwide, it was sold to Microsoft.

Nick moved to America with the sale and spent 14 years working for Microsoft, the last ten of which were in the Microsoft Casual Game team. During his tenure, he filed a variety of patents for Microsoft, and represented Microsoft at various conferences and speaking engagements.

After leaving Microsoft, he joined RealNetworks to work as the GM of customer analytics for their games division, GameHouse.

After GameHouse, Nick spent five years as a Data Scientist, working for Facebook in their Seattle office.

In addition to his engineering expertise, Nick is passionate about data privacy and holds a CIPP qualification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is an active member of the privacy community and speaks at various events about the legal and ethical aspects of data collection, use, and destruction.

In July 2013, Nick gave a TEDx talk about Passwords and the Internet, and in 2015 was nominated by GeekWire as Geek-of-the-week. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the 50 over 50 in the video games industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:11:49 -0400 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Nick Berry
Transportation Seminar Series (April 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70252 70252-17556167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Cara Wang is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research mainly focuses on the analysis of the interactions between land use, transport (both passenger and freight), energy and environment, and the spatial dependence of travel behavior.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:16:42 -0400 2020-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
Masters Student Virtual Mixer (April 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74003 74003-18607284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Want to connect with others going through a similar experience? Looking to make some new connections? Join us for a virtual Masters Student Mixer on Tuesday, April 14th.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96995633988

Meeting ID: 969 9563 3988
Password: 004114

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:38:00 -0400 2020-04-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual
Masters Student Virtual Mixer (April 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74003 74003-18607285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Want to connect with others going through a similar experience? Looking to make some new connections? Join us for a virtual Masters Student Mixer on Tuesday, April 14th.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96995633988

Meeting ID: 969 9563 3988
Password: 004114

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:38:00 -0400 2020-04-14T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual
Masters Student Virtual Mixer (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74003 74003-18483382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Want to connect with others going through a similar experience? Looking to make some new connections? Join us for a virtual Masters Student Mixer on Tuesday, April 14th.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96995633988

Meeting ID: 969 9563 3988
Password: 004114

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:38:00 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Michigan Union
A Data Scientist Plays Games (April 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74087 74087-18510444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

This event will be hosted online via Zoom

A Data Scientist Plays Games:  This is a presentation broken down into two parts.  The first is how to use mathematical techniques to analyze classic card and board games, and the second part is how data science techniques were applied in real life to support games on the Facebook platform.  This presentation is about 1.5 hours, with a target audience probably suited to CS/software engineering.  It’s light-hearted and fun.

Nick Berry, a native of the UK, has lived in Seattle for the last 25 years. He was educated as a rocket scientist and aircraft designer, graduating with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

Upon graduation, he joined a group of friends to form a software company, specializing in electronic mapping and route planning. This company was grown organically, and earned an unprecedented number of awards and accolades, including the British Design Award and The Queen’s Award for Technology, presented by Her Majesty in 1991. In 1994 Nick was recognized by the Sunday Times Magazine as “One of the top 50 entrepreneurs of the decade”. In 1994, after the company had grown to 50 people worldwide, it was sold to Microsoft.

Nick moved to America with the sale and spent 14 years working for Microsoft, the last ten of which were in the Microsoft Casual Game team. During his tenure, he filed a variety of patents for Microsoft, and represented Microsoft at various conferences and speaking engagements.

After leaving Microsoft, he joined RealNetworks to work as the GM of customer analytics for their games division, GameHouse.

After GameHouse, Nick spent five years as a Data Scientist, working for Facebook in their Seattle office.

In addition to his engineering expertise, Nick is passionate about data privacy and holds a CIPP qualification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is an active member of the privacy community and speaks at various events about the legal and ethical aspects of data collection, use, and destruction.

In July 2013, Nick gave a TEDx talk about Passwords and the Internet, and in 2015 was nominated by GeekWire as Geek-of-the-week. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the 50 over 50 in the video games industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:11:49 -0400 2020-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Nick Berry
PhD Student Virtual Mixer (April 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74004 74004-18483383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Want to connect with others going through a similar experience? Looking to make some new connections? Join us for a virtual PhD Student Mixer on Thursday, April 16th.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98673173778

Meeting ID: 986 7317 3778
Password: 030429

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:51:35 -0400 2020-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Michigan Union
Transportation Seminar Series (April 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70253 70253-17556174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Corey Harper in a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:15:54 -0400 2020-04-16T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
Moved Virtually - 25th Annual Lavender Graduation (April 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73431 73431-18217180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center is eager to announce that we have found a way to celebrate all LGBTQ+ graduates in a new format!

The Annual Lavender Graduation, also referred to as LavGrad, is a celebration to honor LGBTQ graduates of the University of Michigan. Established by Ronni Sanlo in 1995, the University of Michigan was the first commemorative event of its kind celebrated at an institution of higher learning. This commencement ceremony acknowledges the contributions of any graduates from any school/college at the University and of any academic level. Due to COVID-19 and the University of Michigan’s suspension of all in-person commencements, the day-of ceremony itself has been canceled. However, the Spectrum Center still has opportunities to highlight this year’s graduating class.

All LGBTQ+ students who graduated in Fall 2019 or are set to graduate Winter or Summer 2020 are invited to register as a graduate. Those who register before the EXTENDED deadline of Sunday, April 12th at 11:59 pm will receive a free rainbow 2020 tassel, a lavender cord, and an optional Lavender Degree and optional printed program. Additionally, students will be able to select the ways they would like to be recognized or opt-out of public recognition. The celebratory page will be posted April 30th to coincide with the intended celebration date.

The Spectrum Center is pleased to announce that Ronni Sanlo, Founder of Lavender Graduation in 1995, will be the Keynote Speaker for the Lavender Graduation ceremony and be the recipient of an Honorary Lavender Degree. Playwright, author and LGBT historian Dr. Ronni Sanlo is a well-known keynote speaker at colleges and universities around the country. Ronni speaks not only from her perspective as a higher education/student affairs professor, LGBT center director, dean of students, and faculty in residence but also from her personal life experiences. In lieu of a public speech, Ronni will be providing a pre-recorded video and her remarks in text to be posted along with the 2020 graduating class.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:03:27 -0400 2020-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-30T23:59:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Livestream / Virtual The 25th annual Lavender Graduation will now include the mailing of graduation regalia along with virtual recognition. The new deadline to register is Sunday, April 12th at 11:59pm
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 12, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-12T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-12T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Entering, Engaging & Exiting Communities (May 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58813 58813-18619575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

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


This workshop is open to all students, including ones in small classes of less than 8 students, or student organizations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:14:33 -0400 2020-05-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-05-12T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar Logo for Learning in Community (buildings on top of C)
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 13, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-13T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-13T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 14, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-14T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-14T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 15, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 15, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-15T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-15T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 16, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 16, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-16T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-16T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 17, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 17, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-17T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-17T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 18, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 18, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-18T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-18T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 19, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-19T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-19T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 20, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-20T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-20T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 21, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 21, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-21T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-21T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 22, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 22, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-22T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-22T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 23, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-23T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-23T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 24, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-24T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-24T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 25, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 25, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-25T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-25T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 26, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-26T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-26T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 27, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-27T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-27T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 28, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 28, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-28T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-28T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 29, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 29, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-29T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-29T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 30, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 30, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-30T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-30T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (May 31, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 31, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-05-31T07:00:00-04:00 2020-05-31T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 1, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 1, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-01T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-01T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 2, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-02T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-02T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 3, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-03T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-03T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 4, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-04T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-04T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 5, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 5, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-05T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-05T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 6, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 6, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-06T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-06T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 7, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 7, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-07T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-07T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 8, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 8, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-08T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-08T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 9, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-09T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Career Coffee Chat: Jobs, Internships, & COVID-19 (June 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74795 74795-18996303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join Spectrum Center and the University Career Center for our collaborative Coffee Chat!

Talk with a career coach to discuss how to job and internship search amid all of this uncertainty. We will start with a brief presentation and then jump into an AMA and Q+A.

This is for students that are...
1. Searching for a job or internships
2. Questioning if they are doing it the right way
3. Interested in asking questions about what to do now or unsure on how to proceed


Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:16:30 -0400 2020-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Careers / Jobs Event details in the style of a browser window and computer desktop, no additional information.
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 10, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-10T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-10T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 11, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 11, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-11T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-11T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Ultrafast Charge and Energy Transfer in TMD Heterostructures Using Collinear Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (June 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74876 74876-19049735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Physics

BlueJeans Link: https://bluejeans.com/937279882

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the most prominent group of optically active van-der-Waals materials and show promising properties such as the potential for high carrier mobility, atomic thickness, and ultrafast charge transfer. The implications of fast charge and energy transfer for optoelectronic, energy-, and light-harvesting applications has made this group of materials one of the most well-studied ones over the past years. However, previous work employed techniques not uniquely suited to study the processes in these materials, especially with respect to the temporal resolution, yielding only insufficient information about the physics of the system.

In this talk, I will give an overview about the technique called multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) that we employ to study the charge and energy transfer in a MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure. Using this technique, we are able to infer information about the dominance of charge transfer on a sub-picosecond time-scale in these samples, the underlying time-scales of other processes occurring in the material such as fast decay into dark states, and the high spatial inhomogeneity of these dynamics. We are also able to clearly distinguish between energy and charge transfer dynamics. I will explain how our implementation of MDCS can be combined with existing imaging techniques and how we plan to use this in the future to advance the study of these promising materials for electronic applications.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:49:45 -0400 2020-06-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Physics Conference / Symposium
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 12, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 12, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-12T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-12T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 13, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 13, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-13T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-13T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 14, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 14, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-14T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-14T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor
Submit a Research Project Proposal (June 15, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74570 74570-18827125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 15, 2020 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 May 2020 14:59:36 -0400 2020-06-15T07:00:00-04:00 2020-06-15T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Mentor