Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
STS Event. Art in the Age of the Internet: Exhibit Tour and Panel Discussion (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60884 60884-14981946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

See more about this event on the UMMA website.

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Other Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:34:03 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Science, Technology & Society Other Museum of Art
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (February 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-14576223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T15:15:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 20, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Advance Micro Devices Info Session (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60607 60607-14912639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Majors: CE, CS, and ME.
Degrees: Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D.'s
Positions: Full-time, Internships, and Co-op's.
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Collecting Resumes? Yes

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:04:03 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs amdLogo
Advanced Micro Devices Info Session (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60826 60826-15038552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

AMD is a major manufacturer of semiconductor devices, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips.

Food will be provided.

Majors: CE, CS, and ME.
Degrees: Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D.'s
Positions: Full-time, Internships, and Co-op's.
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident
Collecting Resumes? Yes

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:39:47 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs amd
Leveraging Information Theory to Practical Machine Learning: Minimum Description Length Regularization for Online Learning (February 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60992 60992-15000018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Classical online learning techniques enforce a prior distribution on the objective to be optimized in order to induce model sparsity. Such prior distributions are chosen with mathematical convenience in mind, but not necessarily for being the best priors. The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle is usually used with two pass strategies, one for feature selection, and a second one for optimization with the selected features.

An approach inspired by the Minimum Description Length principle is proposed for adaptively selecting and regularizing features during online learning based on their usefulness in improving the objective. The approach eliminates noisy or useless features from the optimization process, leading to improved loss. By utilizing the MDL principle, this approach enables an optimizer to reduce the problem dimensionality to the subspace of the feature space for which the smallest loss is obtained. The approach can be tuned for trading off between model sparsity and accuracy. Empirical results on large scale practical real-world systems demonstrate how it improves such tradeoffs. Huge model size reductions can be achieved with no loss in performance relative to standard techniques, while moderate loss improvements (which can translate to large regret improvements) are achieved with moderate size reductions. The results also demonstrate that overfitting is mitigated by this approach. Analysis shows that the approach can achieve the loss of optimizing with the best feature subset.

Bio: Gil Shamir received the B.Sc. (Cum Laude), and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel – Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1990 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A. in 2000, all in electrical engineering.

From 1990 to 1995 he participated in research and development of signal processing and communication systems. From 1995 to 1997 he was with the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, as a graduate student and teaching assistant. From 1997 to 2000 he was a Ph.D. student and a research assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame, and then a post-doctoral fellow until 2001. During his tenure at Notre Dame he was a fellow of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the university. Between 2001 and 2008 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah, and between 2008 and 2009 with Seagate Research. Since 2009 he has been with Google. His main research interests include information theory, machine learning, coding and communication theory. Dr. Shamir received an NSF CAREER award in 2003.

For more information on MIDAS or the Seminar Series, please contact midas-contact@umich.edu. MIDAS gratefully acknowledges Wacker Chemie AG for its generous support of the MIDAS Seminar Series.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:26:46 -0500 2019-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Gil Shamir, PhD
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Beyond Crisis: Science and Technology Studies in the Age of Emergency (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61066 61066-15027193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Environmental crisis, financial crisis, states of emergency and urgency. Crisis forms the backdrop of contemporary debates about the role of science and technology in society. Is there a "beyond crisis" when the concept itself has shaped so many of the critical tools in the humanities and social sciences? This graduate student panel will consider the insights that STS theories and methods bring to bear on discussions of various political, environmental, and financial crises in the present.

Presenting:
Nick Caverly (Anthropology) "Detroit, Crisis City"
Nishita Trisal (Anthropology) "Managing Risk and Volatility in Kashmir's Economy"
James Arnott (Sustainability and Environment) "The Sustainability Crisis and the Science Crisis"

Discussant:
Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Center for Internet & Society, Delhi, India

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:22:13 -0500 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar Haven Hall
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Dissonance Event Series: Genetics & Medical Apps: Ethics, Privacy, Law and Policy (February 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60952 60952-14990967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information Assurance

Each new genetic test or medical app generates or collects more and more detailed health data, but may also raise serious issues for medicine, public health. Under what circumstances should a test be used, and how should it be implemented? Should people be allowed to choose or refuse a test, or should it be mandatory, as newborn screening is in some states? How should the data from these tests be used, and should individuals control access to the results of their tests? If test results are released to third parties, such as employers or insurers, what protections should be in place to protect individuals from unfair treatment based on test results, data collected, or genotype?

This Dissonance series event will take a multi-disciplinary look at these issues from a variety of theoretical and applied perspectives.

Panelists will include:
- Lori Andrews, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and, Technology at Chicago Kent Law School

- Jodyn Platt, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School

- Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School, Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

- Denise Anthony, Professor, U-M School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:08:57 -0500 2019-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Genetics & Medical Apps Panel Discussion
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-26T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (February 26, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-14576224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-02-26T14:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T15:15:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
The Theory of Criminal Relativity (February 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58961 58961-14628124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Explains how genealogy databases like Ancestry and GEDMatch are being used to solve old and cold crimes. Explores the legal and ethical concerns about this new data usage by police.
This Study Group led by Donald Shelton is for those 50 and over and will meet Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., February 27th.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:29:06 -0500 2019-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 27, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-27T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: “Micro(phone) Aggressions: Nina Simone's Sound and Technologies of Black Rage" (February 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60566 60566-14910380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Edwin Hill's research seeks to highlight the marginalized intellectual and cultural traffic between France and the Americas. He has published and/or presented on contemporary Caribbean writers, Sub-Saharan francophone literature, African American popular music, French chanson, and francophone hip hop. Similarly, his teaching interests, while focused on black vernacular culture and France, extend from the poetry of Negritude writers to postcolonial explorations of contemporary francophone writers and musicians.

His first book Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Francophone Black Atlantic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) considers the torn aesthetic and ideological relationships between Antillean music and literature from the 1920s to 1960s to be a colonial struggle over the meaning of Caribbean vernacular culture. Informed by an interdisciplinary formation (Bachelor Degree in Music Performance, PhD in French and Francophone Studies), Black Soundscapes White Stages relocates the marginalized voices of the black diaspora through the discursive matrix of French imperialism and the cultural history of the French West Indies. The book has enjoyed positive reviews in French Studies: A Quarterly Review 68.3 (summer 2014), Comparative Literature Studies 52.3 (2015), and Contemporary French Civilization (Spring 2015).

Professor Hill's current book project, Black Static, locates rage as an sonic/affective vibration routed through the circuits of African diasporic musical culture, travel, and communication. It focuses on a range of musicians and writers, from Nina Simone and militant rap artist Casey to Frantz Fanon and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Professor Hill is also at the beginning stages a third book project: a critical biography of Léon Gontran-Damas.


Education
Ph.D. French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.A. Music Performance (Percussion), University of Iowa
M.A. French Literature, University of Iowa

Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Research interests include: Francophone poetry and music. Representations of post/colonial desire and romance. Exchanges in Caribbean and black Atlantic identity formations and cultural discourses. Cultural studies, performance studies and musical discourses on gender and race. Technology and post/colonial discourse.

Conferences and Other Presentations
Conference Presentations
""Black Noise in a Moment of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Freie Universität, Berlin Germany, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Stud, Invited, Spring 2016
""Freedom of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Muhlenberg College. Allentown, PA., French and Francophone Studies Program, Invited, Fall 2015
""On Not Being and Not Following Charlie"", Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, California Institute of the Arts, Program in Aesthetics and Politics, Invited, Fall 2015
""Cipha vs State: Symbolic Violence and the Performative Power of the Rap Lyric in France and the US."", Theme Colloquium, Lecture/Seminar, University of Oregon, Department of Music and Dance, Department of Roman, Invited, Spring 2015
""Sounding Affect"", Thinking in Sonic Terms, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Race Across Time and Space", Invited, Spring 2014
""Black Women, Affect, and the Cité"", The Transatlantic, Africa and its Diaspora, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Oxford University, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Invited, Fall 2013
""Bêtes noires: Black Women Beast on the MIC"", New Directions in Caribbean Sound, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Rutgers University, The Critical Caribbean Studies Initiative at Rutge, Invited, Spring 2013
""DJ Cut Killer in the Cité"", Music Moves; Exploring Musical Meaning through Difference, Framing and Transformation, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Georg August University Göttingen, Musicology Department in cooperation with the Cent, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Emory University, Department of French and Italian, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of French, Invited, Spring 2013
""Sharpen me THIS" (Critical Karaoke)", Locals Only: Pop & Politics in this Town -- Annual EMP Pop Music Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, REDCAT Theatre, Experience Music Project, Invited, Spring 2013

Publications
Book
Hill, E. C. (2013). Black Soundscapes, White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Black Francophone Atlantic. Callaloo African Diaspora Studies Series. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Hill, E. C. Black Static (in progress).

Book Chapter
Hill, E. C. (2010). Monnaies Mythiques: Métissage and A Woman's Worth in Suzanne Dracius's Sa Destinée Rue Monte au Ciel. Paris: Harmattan.

Book Review
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime (New York: Columbia UP, 2015) by Carrie Noland. French Studies.
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980 (New York: Oxford UP, 2015) by Jonathyne Briggs. Journal of Social History.

Essay
Hill, E. C. (2016). "Uncanny Correspondences". LA, CA. LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
Hill, E. C. (2012). Afterwards: Climbing Down from the Sky. pp. 25 pages. Virginia. Virginia University Press.

Journal Article
Hill, E. C. (2013). "Making Claims on Echoes: Dranem, Cole Porter, and the biguine between the Antilles, France and the US". Popular Music.
Hill, E. C. Ratés rythmiques: Léon-Gontran Damas's Black Label and the Negritude Beat. Negritud: Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos. 28 December 2012
Hill, E. C. (2007). "‘Adieu madras, adieu foulard’: Antillean Musical Origins and the Doudou’s Colonial Plaint. Ethnomusicology Forum / Routledge. Vol. 16 (1), pp. 19-43.
Hill, E. C. (2004). 'Aux armes et caetera: Re-covering Nation for Cultural Critique. Copyright Volume! Musiques actuelles et problématiques plastiques / Éditions Mélanie Séteun. Vol. 2 (2)
Hill, E. C. (2002). Imagining Métissage: The Politics and Practice of Métissage in the French Colonial Exposition and Ousmane Socé’s Mirages de Paris. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture / Routeledge. Vol. 8 (4)

Other
Hill, E. C. (2006). "Letter following" by Daniel Maximin ("Lettre suit"). Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translations.

Service to the Profession
Conferences Organized
Organizer / Panelist, "Paris, Beirut, Ankara: A Roundtable Discussion.", USC, Fall 2015
Project Banlieue: French Peri/Urban Cultures and Crises, Project Banlieue encourages research on marginalized French urban cultural production and life. It includes a year long lecture social science series and a one day humanities colloquium March 6., 2008-2009

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:27:05 -0500 2019-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 5, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-05T10:30:00-05:00 2019-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (March 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2019-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 2019-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-06T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (March 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Women in Tech Panel (March 12, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62028 62028-15276102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan FinTech (MFT)

Michigan FinTech is co-hosting (along with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology) an accomplished panel of women, all active @MCWT leaders, to speak about their careers in technology The panelists will discuss the challenges/adversity they have faced and offer cogent advice to students looking to begin a career in technology. Food will be provided by Jerusalem Garden. Everyone is welcome!

Our Speakers:
Jennifer Charters CIO, Flagstar Bank
Paula Stolar Senior IT Director, Ally Financial
Sunayna Tuteja Global Head of Strategic Partnerships &
Emerging Technologies, TD Ameritrade
Judy Asher Manager of Cyber Security Governance,
Risk, and Compliance, Ford
Our Moderator:
Angela Peat Delivery Lead and Experience Architect,
Accenture

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:51:36 -0400 2019-03-12T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan FinTech (MFT) Careers / Jobs Flyer
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-13T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Free Chelsea Manning (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62046 62046-15278274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan has called a meeting and a demonstration demanding the immediate release of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning. A rally will be held on Wednesday, March 13 at 12 PM on The Diag in front of Hatcher Graduate Library. A subsequent meeting will take place on Thursday, March 14 at 7 PM in the Michigan League, Room A.

The IYSSE is declaring the imprisonment of Manning an egregious attack on democratic rights and a threat to press freedom. The courageous whistleblower was imprisoned on Friday for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that is drawing up fabricated charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on behalf of the Trump administration. Beginning in 2010, Manning exposed major US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan including the infamous Collateral Murder cockpit video showing a US helicopter in Baghdad gunning down 16 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists.

Wednesday’s demonstration is part of a series of coordinated rallies around the country, with the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org). The perspective of this campaign places the basis of the defense of press freedom and democratic rights on the mobilization of the international working class. More information on the campaign to defend Manning can be found on the website: freechelsea.org

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:33:59 -0400 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus International Youth and Students for Social Equality Rally / Mass Meeting Photo of Chelsea Manning
EER Seminar - Engineering Students' Time-Oriented Motivation and Its Relation to Goals and Persistence (March 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61715 61715-15176759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

MARCH 13, 2019
TIME: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
(with EER social from 4:00-4:30 pm)
LOCATION: 1180 DUDERSTADT

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:37:18 -0500 2019-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Benson
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms (March 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61941 61941-15241347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Standard deep-learning algorithms are based on a function-fitting approach that do not exploit any domain knowledge or constraints. This makes them unsuitable in applications that have limited data or require safety or stability guarantees, such as robotics. By infusing structure and physics into deep-learning algorithms, we can overcome these limitations. There are several ways to do this. For instance, we use tensorized neural networks to encode multidimensional data and higher-order correlations. We combine symbolic expressions with numerical data to learn a domain of functions and obtain strong generalization. We combine baseline controllers with learnt residual dynamics to improve landing of quadrotor drones. These instances demonstrate that building structure into ML algorithms can lead to significant gains.

Bio: Anima Anandkumar is a Bren professor at Caltech CMS department and a director of machine learning research at NVIDIA. Her research spans both theoretical and practical aspects of large-scale machine learning. In particular, she has spearheaded research in tensor-algebraic methods, non-convex optimization, probabilistic models and deep learning.
Anima is the recipient of several awards and honors such as the Bren named chair professorship at Caltech, Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, Young investigator awards from the Air Force and Army research offices, Faculty fellowships from Microsoft, Google and Adobe, and several best paper awards. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network consisting of leading experts from academia, business, government, and the media. She has been featured in documentaries by PBS, KPCC, wired magazine, and in articles by MIT Technology review, Forbes, Yourstory, O’Reilly media, and so on.
Anima received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010, a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England in 2012 and 2014, an assistant professor at U.C. Irvine between 2010 and 2016, an associate professor at U.C. Irvine between 2016 and 2017 and a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services between 2016 and 2018.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:32:47 -0500 2019-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Animashree Anandkumar, PhD
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
STS Speaker. Just in Time: The Chronopolitics of the Queue (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58143 58143-14433273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk examines the politics of time as they play out through various problems of the queue—the organizational science and logistics of waiting lines. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of civility campaigns and customs inspection reform in contemporary China, I will show how the queue offers insight into shared concerns about “quality control” over the flows of both global supply chains and the movement of populations. These concerns link the market metrics of timeliness as configured by the dominant global production model of JIT or Just-in-Time with social questions of expedience and justice in the other sense of being "just" in time. These entangled issues converge in what I will explain as a politics of tempo--that is, as a question of pace and rhythm--in contradistinction to the conventional emphasis on "speed" or "space-time compression" in the analysis of global temporalities.

Biosketch: Julie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes. Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010), received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers, this work will analyze various infrastructures in place (legal-rational, financial, cosmic, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. A graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media, she is also currently completing video projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing a new ethnographic focus on Chinese soundscapes, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹, a bustling scene, social liveliness or, literally, “heat and noise”).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:06:35 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Chu
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Healthier Together: Collaborative Networks of Patients, Clinicians and Researchers Working Together to Transform Care (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59181 59181-14694667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Today’s health system fails to deliver the best possible outcomes. Research takes too long and costs too much, and opportunities to engage the participation and contribution by patients and families are not yet common. What if we could create a better care system by harnessing inherent motivation and collective intelligence of patients, clinicians and researchers? In every part of our lives, networks are having a profound effect. How could networked organizations accelerate progress towards Learning Health Systems? This talk will describe how several large-scale learning health system networks are eliminating the artificial barriers between clinical care, improvement and research while engaging all stakeholders as part of a single health system. The result is faster learning and better outcomes for large populations of patients.

The LHS Collaboratory is co-sponsored by the Department of Learning Health Sciences, the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the Office of Research at the University of Michigan.

Please register in advance. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-19-2019-lhs-collaboratory-peter-margolis-md-phd-healthier-together-collaborative-networks-of-registration-52022816645

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:42:31 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Workshop / Seminar Peter Margolis, MD
Tech Talk Tuesday (March 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 20, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Digitally Divided: The Art of Algorithmic (In)Decision (March 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62305 62305-15346465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

In “Digitally Divided,” Katherine Behar presents her artwork with a focus on how algorithms dismantle and rearrange us. Across culture, algorithms have been unleashed to allocate complex systems into manageable portions. They mete out standardization and suppress idiosyncrasy across diverse and defiant populations of human and nonhuman objects, in ways that are socially, technically, and conceptually reductive. This lecture brings together examples of Behar’s videos, interactive installations, sculptures, and performances, alongside episodes from media history and popular culture to explore this core notion of being “digitally divided.”

About the Speaker:
Katherine Behar is an artist and critical theorist of new media whose work explores gender and labor in digital culture. In contexts spanning automated labor, mandated obsolescence, big data, and machine learning, Behar applies object-oriented feminism into practice in her art and writing. Her work connects feminist and antiracist post-colonial histories with a wave of new theories that grapple with the nonhuman object world. Katherine Behar's works have appeared throughout North America and Europe. Pera Museum in Istanbul presented a comprehensive survey exhibition and catalog, Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girişi, in 2016. Additional solo exhibitions include Katherine Behar: Anonymous Autonomous (2018), Katherine Behar: E-Waste (2014, catalog/traveling), and numerous others collaborating as "Disorientalism." Behar is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism, coeditor of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, and author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity. She is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College, CUNY.

The CRITICAL x DESIGN series is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; the Science, Technology and Society program, and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:17:24 -0400 2019-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion portrait of katherine behar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Tauber Leadership Forum (March 20, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62293 62293-15346447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The University of Michigan Tauber Institute for Global Operations hosts the annual Leadership Forum to provide Tauber students with opportunities to learn directly from current leaders in Operations from top global firms.

A panel discussion offers Tauber students insights about managing the complex fields such as Aerospace, Energy, Technology, and Big-Box Retail, while striving to employ sustainable practices in a rapidly evolving business landscape. The focus of the 2019 Forum is Automation / Machine learning.

2019 Tauber Leadership Forum Speakers:

Speakers:

Kim Vogel - Strategic Accounts Director of the Great Lakes Region at Microsoft.
Doug Mehl - Partner at A.T. Kearney.
Leslie Hardin - Lead of On-Campus Recruiting at American Industrial Partners.
Lisa Strama - President and CEO at National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.
Michael Mikula - Chief Engineer of Advanced Manufacturing at Ford.

Questions? Please contact tauber.umich.edu

About Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Tauber Institute for Global Operations is a joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering, and 30 industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. In addition to a broad array of core and elective courses, the innovative LeadershipAdvantage Program provides students with the tools to ascend to major operations leadership roles. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real-world settings. http://www.tauber.umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:18:31 -0400 2019-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Tauber Institute for Global Operations Conference / Symposium Tauber logo
Discover Series: Bird's-Eye Views of America (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61721 61721-15176768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Between 1850 and 1900 panoramic depictions of towns and cities were very popular in America. Director of the Clements Library Kevin Graffagnino will discuss the significance of these unique nineteenth-century depictions of communities throughout the United States. U-M School of Information student Corey Schmidt will describe his project to catalog and digitize these bird’s-eye views and also to create an online interactive map. Participants will also have an opportunity to view several original bird’s-eye views from the Clements Library collection.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:22 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Ann Arbor 1880
DCMB Tools & Technology Seminar Series - “Database Integration and Digital Phenotyping to Improve Perioperative Care: Tools Used by the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group” (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62306 62306-15346466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Abstract: Modern challenges of an increasingly digital healthcare system include (1) data quality is not a priority for busy clinicians, (2) data can be non-standardized across health systems, (3) observations from Big Data are often not prioritized and may disrupt clinical workflow, and (4) data collected by varying healthcare teams are often not integrated. Such problems can limit the effectiveness of medical care delivery, and are currently being tackled by clinician collaboratives such as the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG). Using the MPOG collaborative as an example, this talk describes how software tools are used to assimilate large arrays of diverse health data and present complex medical inferences to clinicians in a reliable, intuitive, and non-disruptive manner.

Associated Link: https://mpog.org/whoweare/
Tool Link: http://phenotypes.mpog.org/
BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/cgycshca

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:34:40 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:50:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Lecture / Discussion
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62237 62237-15335282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In 2012 the first 4K resolution screen became available on the commercial market at the common 30” desktop size, making it possible for a user with 20/20 vision seated 24” away from a computer screen to be confronted with the same amount of visual information as could be experienced in the surrounding environment. This development brought verisimilitude to another realm that has gradually emerged for decades, the constitution of the digital sphere as a kind of environment itself. Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic. Drawing contributors from across art, architecture, design, and media studies, we will examine the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:48:12 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (March 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61942 61942-15241348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: Despite the promise of big data, inferences are often limited not by sample size but rather by systematic effects. Only by carefully modeling these effects can we take full advantage of the data -- big data must be complemented with big models and the algorithms that can fit them. One such algorithm is Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, which exploits the inherent geometry of the posterior distribution to admit full Bayesian inference that scales to the complex models of practical interest. In this talk I will present a conceptual discussion of the challenges inherent to Bayesian computation and the foundations of why Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in uniquely suited to surmount them.

Bio: Michael Betancourt is the principal research scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC where he develops theoretical and methodological tools to support practical Bayesian inference. He is also a core developer of Stan, where he implements and tests these tools. In addition to hosting tutorials and workshops on Bayesian inference with Stan he also collaborates on analyses in epidemiology, pharmacology, and physics, amongst others. Before moving into statistics, Michael earned a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in physics.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:43:04 -0500 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Michael Betancourt, PhD
Project Management Certification (March 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61540 61540-15126016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:40:05 -0500 2019-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Post-Human Creativity: A Conversation (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62112 62112-15293425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Who or what is the creator in a world where machines generate original music, poetry, art and more? Is the human creator of a machine the creator of the machine's output? Who holds copyright for creations made by computers or algorithms rather than directly by a human creator? How are we designing the machines that will take care of us? How do artists and designers approach creativity differently from engineers? These questions intersect with all creative endeavors today whether making art, altering the body, or designing autonomous vehicles.

Join us for a live, unrehearsed, interdisciplinary conversation with faculty from diverse perspectives to explore the idea of Post-Human Creativity.

Irina Aristarkhova, Associate Professor, School of Art & Design
Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Melissa Levine, Director, U-M Library Copyright Office
Andrea Thomer, Assistant Professor, School of Information

All are invited. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Library Copyright Office and the Ford School of Public Policy’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) graduate certificate program.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:14:38 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (March 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Tauber Industry Panel (March 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62302 62302-15346456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The students of the Tauber Institute for Global Operations host an Industry Panel on the theme of Operational Excellence / Continuous Improvement.

Students will discuss the emerging trends and challenges in operations with the following industry leaders:

Nicholas Clift - Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.

Nick leads consulting teams that guide clients in transforming G&A functions at Fortune 100 firms, leveraging advances in automation and time-tested change management approaches. Nick is a graduate of EGL and Tauber having completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering.

Christina Coyne - Director of Global Continuous Improvement and Innovation at NSF International.

Christina obtained her Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Michigan and has led NSF’s Lean/Continuous Improvement program for the last decade.

Michael Rockett - Solutions Designer at LLamasoft

Michael focuses on providing technical expertise in sales cycles while pushing the development of the company’s risk and sustainability offerings. He studied sustainable supply chain at the Ross and graduated from both the Erb and Tauber Institutes.

Moderated by Jeffery Liker - Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, owner of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC, Partner in The Toyota Way Academy, and Partner in Lean Leadership Institute.

For more information, contact Dehao Zhang at terryz@umich.edu, Tauber Student Advisory Board Industry Chair or visit https://tauber.umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:26:04 -0400 2019-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Tauber Institute for Global Operations Conference / Symposium Tauber Institute for Global Operations
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 27, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-27T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Less Metrics, More Rando: (Net) Art as Software Research (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62310 62310-15346470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

How are numbers on Facebook changing what we "like" and who we "friend"? Why does a bit of nonsense sent via email scare both your mom and the NSA? What makes someone mad when they learn Google can't see where they stand? From net art to robotics to supercuts to e-lit, Ben Grosser will discuss several artworks that illustrate his methods for investigating the culture of software.

About the speaker:
Artist Ben Grosser creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that examine the cultural, social, and political implications of software. Recent exhibition venues include Eyebeam in New York, Arebyte in London, Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, Museu das Comunicações in Lisbon, and Galerie Charlot in Paris. His works have been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, El País, Libération, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Der Spiegel. The Chicago Tribune called him the “unrivaled king of ominous gibberish.” Slate referred to his work as “creative civil disobedience in the digital age.”

Grosser’s recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, and the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from Stuttgarter Filmwinter. His writing about the cultural effects of technology has been published in journals such as Computational Culture, Media-N, and Big Data and Society. Grosser is an assistant professor of new media at the School of Art + Design, co-founder of the Critical Technology Studies Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an affiliate faculty member with the Unit for Criticism and the School of Information Sciences, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

https://bengrosser.com

The CRITICAL x DESIGN series is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology & Society program and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:34:45 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Ben Grosser
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Digital Studies Winter Colloquium: New Directions in Digital Studies (March 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61482 61482-15114934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Digital Studies hosts its annual colloquium: a one-day gathering of lightning talks from new digital studies faculty, graduate student research workshops, and network-building with a keynote from digital historian Angel David Nieves.

10:00-10:15AM: Coffee & Tea
10:15-10:30AM: Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:30-11:45AM: Lightning Talks
11:45-1:00PM: Lunch
1:10-2:20PM: Graduate Student Research Workshops
2:25-3:50PM: Lightning Talks
3:55-4:55PM: Keynote with Angel David Nieves

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:56:06 -0500 2019-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Digital Studies Institute Conference / Symposium The image is a text-based poster describing the event, its location, and who to contact with questions: casidyc@umich.edu or vanzanen@umich.edu
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 31, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (April 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 2, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 3, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (April 3, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-04-03T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62432 62432-15364114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract: On the one hand, there's science: the clear-eyed, hard-nosed, the pragmatic empiricist. On the other hand, there's math: the poet, the dreamer, the hunter of wild abstractions. How do these two intellectual traditions regard one another? And why is it that the most useless-sounding math - from knot theory to meta-logic to non-Euclidean geometry - often turns out to be the most useful? Prerequisites: basic human curiosity; tolerance for bad drawings; the willingness to participate in a silly debate. In short: all are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:15:46 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Ben Orlin Public Lecture
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 4, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 5, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NASA (April 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62701 62701-15431950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA, formerly a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, presents a guest lecture at the School of Information (SI 663, Entrepreneurship in the Information Industry).

He will discuss change agents, organizational change, and intrapreneurship, with examples from NASA, academia and industry.


Dr. Zurbuchen earned his Ph.D. in physics and master of science degree in physics from the University of Bern in Switzerland. His honors include receiving the National Science and Technology Council Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2004 and three NASA Group Achievement Awards.

Previously a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Zurbuchen is well versed in the practice of asking tough questions that help enable innovation and create impact. During his career, Zurbuchen has authored or coauthored more than 200 articles in refereed journals in solar and heliospheric phenomena. He has also been involved with several NASA science missions involving Mercury, the Sun and more. His experience here has driven his passion of cultivating leaders and highlighting talent throughout the agency. He has also been an advocate of sharing NASA’s messages on social media and can be found on Twitter at the handle @Dr_ThomasZ.

Light lunch will be served. RSVP to umsi.info/zurbuchen.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:09:38 -0400 2019-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Thomas Zurbuchen portrait
Making Connections: Data Science Approaches to Understanding Mood and Cognition in the Modern Era (April 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62825 62825-15477378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: In this talk Dr. Leow will share her reflections, as both a computational researcher and a practicing psychiatrist, on the current landscape of psychiatric neuroimaging research and where we go from here.

To this end, she argues that recent advances in data science and information technology will revolutionize the way we conceptualize psychiatric disorders and enable us to objectively quantify their symptomatology, which traditionally has been primarily based on self reports.

To illustrate, she will highlight two lines of ongoing research that apply data science approaches to the assessment of mood and cognition. In the first example, she will propose how EEG connectomics coupled with manifold learning and dimensionality reduction may allow us to measure the ‘speed of thinking’ on a sub-second time scale. In the second example, she will introduce her recent joint work with Dr. Melvin McInnis that seeks to unobtrusively turn smartphones into ‘stethoscopes’ of the brain, in real time and in the wild.



Bio: Dr. Alex Leow is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and an attending physician at the University of Illinois Hospital. With Dr. Olu Ajilore, Alex founded the Collaborative Neuroimaging Environment for Connectomics (CoNECt) at UIC. CoNECt is an inter-departmental research team devoted to the study of the human brain using multidisciplinary approaches of brain imaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, Big Data analytics, virtual-reality immersive visualization, and more recently mobile technologies.

Most relevant to this talk, Alex is honored to the project lead of the BiAffect project. BiAffect is the first scientific study that seeks to turn smartphones into “brain fitness trackers”, by unobtrusively inferring neuropsychological functioning using entirely passively-collected typing kinematics metadata (i.e., not what you type but how you type it) from a smartphone’s virtual keyboard. The iOS BiAffect study app now powers the first-ever crowd-sourced research study to unobtrusively measure mood and cognition in real-time using iPhones and Apple’s ResearchKit framework.

The CoNECt team’s research has been extensively featured in the news, including more recently in Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tonight, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press news, and the Rolling Stone.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:59:17 -0400 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Alex Leow, MD, PhD
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 6, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 7, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
Project Management Certification (April 7, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61540 61540-15126017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:40:05 -0500 2019-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-07T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 8, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Online Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 9, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62719 62719-15434147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the Stamps School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the School of Information. Catch the competitive buzz!

The challenge: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

Visit https://tauber.umich.edu/form/ipd-voting-winter-2019 to check out all 6 product websites.

Cast your vote for your favorites between April 2 and April 9 by 2:00p.m.

This course has been featured on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times.

About the Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute is joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Business and Engineering Schools, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. For more information, visit tauber.umich.edu.

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Other Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:22:14 -0400 2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Other Online IPD Trade Show
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 9, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-09T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (April 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Computational Science: Classical Origins, New Frontiers (April 10, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60525 60525-14903665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering is proud to welcome a distinguished group of scientists from around the world for its 2019 Symposium, titled “Computational Science: Classical Origins, New Frontiers.”

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, will deliver the keynote address, titled "The Computational X Future." Abstract: For every field X there either is now, or soon will be, a computational X---and it'll be the future of the field. This talk will discuss both the theory and the practice of computation as the key paradigm for future of science. Expect to challenge the speaker with what computational X might be for your favorite value of X.

Dr. Wolfram will be joined by an outstanding slate of speakers:

Marsha Berger — Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University
Marisa Eisenberg - Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mathematics and Complex Systems, U-M
Carla Gomes — Professor of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Computational Sustainability, Cornell University
Jan Hesthaven — Dean, School of Basic Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Necmiye Ozay — Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U-M

Poster Competition:
The symposium includes a poster competition highlighting outstanding computational work from U-M students and postdocs. First place will be awarded $500, second $300 and third place $200.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:29:27 -0400 2019-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Conference / Symposium MICDESymposium 2019 Image
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Healthy Kids / Active Tech (April 10, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62717 62717-15434136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 24th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

You won’t want to miss this year’s trade show!

The Problem Statement: to design and produce the best active technology product that encourages kids to maintain and improve their health as they grow to adolescence.

See the actual products and test them out. Then cast your vote! Network, have fun and meet up with friends, old and new!

Parking is street meter or there is public parking available in the Hill Street Structure Parking Garage.

Event is Free and open to the public, with light refreshments.

GREAT LOCATION: Tauber Colloquium, at the Ross School of Business, 6th floor at 701 Tappan

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS April 2nd:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-04-10/ipd-trade-show-tauber-colloquium-april-10

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:32:10 -0500 2019-04-10T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T20:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD Trade Show
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Old, Raw or New: A (New?) Deal for the Digital Age (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62312 62312-15346472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

American historians debate whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Depression-era legislation was, in fact, a New Deal, or perhaps an “Old Deal” or a “Raw Deal.” Considering multiple perspectives and voices, combined with the long sweep of history, stokes this lively, ongoing debate. In this CRITICAL x DESIGN talk, Rankin turns her attention to American computing in the 1960s and 1970s to consider whether the academic networks of that era may be inspiration for a Digital New Deal.

The users of 1960s and 1970s academic computing networks built, accessed, and participated in cooperative digital commons, developing now-quotidian practices of personal computing and social media. In the process, they became what she calls “computing citizens.” She uses several case studies to illustrate the dynamic - and unexpected - relationships among gender, community, computing, and citizenship, including the Old Deals and the Raw Deals of computing citizenship. How might these computing citizens inform crucial contemporary debates about technology and justice?

About the speaker
Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin is a feministi, anti-racist historian, and a Contributing Editor for Lady Science. She is also a consultant for the documentaries The Birth of BASIC and The Queen of Code and for the television show Girls Code. Rankin was an Exchange Scholar at MIT while earning her doctorate in History from Yale University, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to entering the academy, she had a successful career launching educational programs for students of all ages, which took her around the country. Her website is joyrankin.com.

The CRITICAL x DESIGN series is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology & Society program and Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:45:56 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Joy Lisi Rankin
Academic Innovation Student Showcase (April 11, 2019 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62595 62595-15407995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:15pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Don’t miss this annual spring event, showcasing the work of the amazing Academic Innovation student fellows. Register today to secure your spot for the 2019 Academic Innovation Student Showcase, where you’ll hear from students contributing to Academic Innovation initiatives in the fields of behavioral science, data science, learning experience design and management, product management, public engagement, software development, and user experience design just to name a few.

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Conference / Symposium Sat, 06 Apr 2019 20:04:25 -0400 2019-04-11T13:15:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Conference / Symposium Displayphoto
TempoRealities (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58680 58680-14542716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

It is time for science and technology studies (STS). The meaning of the past and threats to the future are hotly contested. Scientists simultaneously proclaim epochal ruptures and extrapolate present trends into the next millennium. New technologies promise to help us “be present” even as they stretch our attentions to the breaking point. The nature of time is of central importance to modern intellectual, cultural, and political life, and STS is well-positioned to address how divergent temporalities structure our public and private lives, environmental imaginaries, and embodied experiences. Recent work on the sciences of prediction and forecasting, the vital politics of science fiction, and the Anthropocene suggest some of the many ways scholars of STS can and should intervene in broader debates that trouble the present moment.

Panels: Experiencing Time, Embodying Time; Apocalyse Now?; Scholarship NOW; Is Ancient Science Studies an Anachronism?

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:24:33 -0400 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Science, Technology & Society Conference / Symposium
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Data Science at the New York Times (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62827 62827-15477379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: The Data Science group at The New York Times develops and deploys machine learning solutions to newsroom and business problems. Re-framing real-world questions as machine learning tasks requires not only adapting and extending models and algorithms to new or special cases but also sufficient breadth to know the right method for the right challenge. I’ll first outline how unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning methods are increasingly used in human applications for description, prediction, and prescription, respectively. I’ll then focus on the ‘prescriptive’ cases, showing how methods from the reinforcement learning and causal inference literatures can be of direct impact in engineering, business, and decision-making more generally.

Bio: At Columbia, Chris is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, the Department of Systems Biology, and is affiliated faculty in Statistics. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY (http://hackNY.org), a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons and the hackNY Fellows Program, a structured summer internship at NYC startups. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia he was a Courant Instructor at NYU (1998-2001) and earned his PhD at Princeton University (1993-1998) in theoretical physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of Columbia’s Avanessians Diversity Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:04:51 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Chris Wiggins, PhD
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-16T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (April 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Understanding the Social Implications of AI (April 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62790 62790-15466656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

"If we are going to augment humanity with the machine, we need to do it in a way that doesn’t bring along our mistakes of the past."
— Gregory Simpson, Chief Technology Officer for Synchrony Financial

Through mobile phones, the Internet of Things, and web computing, every single day around the globe we create a quintillion bytes of data. Pairing that trove of data with enormous computational power, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making strides into every aspect of everyday living, from emails and targeted advertising, to healthcare and education. But with great power comes great responsibility. This Dissonance Event Series discussion will take a multidisciplinary look at the social implications of artificial intelligence and consider the promises and potential pitfalls we may look forward too.

Panelists include
- Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, School of Information; Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT

- Ram Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

- Michael Wellman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,College of Engineering (Moderator)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:05:19 -0400 2019-04-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Understanding the Social Implications of A.I.
LHS Implementation and Acceleration Symposium (April 18, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62704 62704-15431952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Join us for a dynamic and interactive symposium devoted to accelerating Learning Health Systems (LHS) projects across the University of Michigan campus.

To advance LHS work, the April symposium invites faculty, staff, and students to share their experiences with ongoing LHS-related work, and engage in focused discussions. The emphasis of the event will be on identifying challenges while discovering practical approaches and ways to work together.

Active participation by all attendees will enrich these discussions. Please review the agenda and attend any portion of the event based on your availability. In September 2018, the Collaboratory hosted a successful poster session highlighting 20 LHS projects. We will continue to build on the energy of these efforts to chart a path for our next season of the LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series.

The event will include breakout sessions focused on key challenge areas. We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Register here: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/lhs/service-outreach/learning-health-system-collaboratory

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:32:20 -0400 2019-04-18T08:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Workshop / Seminar LHS Learning Cycle
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Apparatuses of recognition: Google, Project Maven and targeted killing (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62315 62315-15346476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

In June of 2018, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and, by implication, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other?

The focus of a growing body of scholarship, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171), Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. I close with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses, in the service of wider movements for social justice.

About the Speaker
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Her research interests within the field of feminist science and technology studies are focused on technological imaginaries and material practices of technology design, particularly developments at the interface of bodies and machines. Dr. Suchman’s current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and problems of "situational awareness" in remotely-controlled weapon systems. Dr. Suchman is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into these systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.

This lecture is also part of the ETHICS AND POLITICS OF AI series. Both series are generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology and Society program and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:58:58 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Lucy Suchman
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (April 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58979 58979-14628144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

What are today’s greatest challenges and most important choices? How do we maintain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching? What will the future workplace look like? Yuval Harari, author of the subject book, has a unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going. We will discuss many pressing issues, including problems associated with liberal democracy, nationalism, immigration, religion, and the educational and economic response to automation. The author invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty by presenting complex contemporary challenges in 21 clear and accessible lessons. Each aims to stimulate further thinking and help us participate in some major conversations of our time.
These sessions for those 50 and above will be led by Instructors Gail Hubbard and Ron Frisch. The Study Group meets on Fridays from 1-3 p.m., from April 19-May 17.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:39:47 -0500 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Ethics and Politics of AI: Data Violence: Discourse and Justice in a Datafied World (April 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62336 62336-15353047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Values of fairness, antidiscrimination, and inclusion occupy a central place in the emerging ethics of data and algorithms. Their importance is underscored by the reality that data-intensive, algorithmically-mediated decision systems—as represented by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)—can exacerbate existing (or generate new) injustices, worsening already problematic distributions of rights, opportunities, and wealth. At the same time, critics of certain “fair” or “inclusive” approaches to the design and implementation of these systems have illustrated their limits, pointing to problems with reductive or overly technical definitions of fairness or a general inability to appropriately address representative or dignitary harms.

In this talk, Anna Lauren Hoffmann extends these critiques by focusing on problems of cultural and discursive violence. She begins by discussing trends in AI/ML fairness and inclusion discussion that mirror problematic tendencies from legal antidiscrimination discourses. From there, she introduces “data violence” as a response to these trends. In particular, she lays out the discursive bases of data-based violence—that is, the discursive forms by which competing voices and various “fair” or “inclusive” solutions become legible (and others marginalized or ignored). In doing so, she undermines any neat or easy distinction between the presence of violence and its absence—rather, our sense of fair or inclusive conditions contain and feed the possibility of violent ones. She concludes by echoing feminist political philosopher Serene Khader’s call to move away from justice-imposing solutions toward justice-enhancing ones. Importantly, justice-enhancing efforts cannot simply be a matter of protecting or “including” vulnerable others, but must also attend to discourses and norms that generate asymmetrical vulnerabilities to violence in the first place.

About the Speaker:

Anna Lauren Hoffmann is a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. She is currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington.

Her work centers on issues in information, data, and ethics, paying specific attention to the ways discourse, design, and uses of information technology work to promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice. She is concerned with the ways data, information, and technological systems (or the ways we talk about them) discriminate by undermining the development of self-respect of some, especially through the infliction of symbolic and discursive violences. In addition, she works on issues around ethics education for data professionals and computer scientists, as well as the possibilities (and limits) of research ethics and professional codes of ethics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:07:30 -0400 2019-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Anna Lauren Hoffmann
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Tech Talk Tuesday (April 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58905 58905-15188667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of workshops designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

We encourage advance registration, but drop-ins are welcome too! Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:12:48 -0500 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Computer Showcase Tech Talk Tuesday
Access to Justice (April 23, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63002 63002-15534802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

Multidisciplinary teams of graduate and professional students have spent the past term considering the real-world problem of access to the civil justice system.

Students will present solutions that improve access to civil justice in Michigan, drawing on insights from law, information technology, engineering, design, public policy, business, sociology, social work, and other relevant fields.

Proposed solutions to be discussed:

- legal information for migrant farm workers

- representative jury pools

- tenant support in eviction proceedings

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:25:12 -0400 2019-04-23T15:15:00-04:00 2019-04-23T18:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation Hutchins Hall
Robots and the Workplace: Addressing Automation-Related Workplace Disruption (April 24, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63246 63246-15601674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law School Problem Solving Initiative

The advent of autonomous technology, artificial intelligence, and new sales and delivery mechanisms are likely to bring economic upheaval to a wide variety of professions, including transportation, sales, fulfillment, and hospitality services.

Multidisciplinary teams of graduate and professional students spent the term exploring the history and current issues around employment shifts to create proposals to maintain decent livelihoods in the face of automation.

Guest panelists:
John Austin (Director, Michigan Economic Center)
Lionel Robert (Core Faculty, Robotics and Associate Professor, U-M School of Information)
Dana Thompson (Clinical Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship Clinic, U-M School of Law)
Curt Wolf (Managing Director, Urban Collaboratory, U-M School of Civil and Environmental Engineering )

Instructors:
Marc Norman, Associate Professor of Practice,
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Nina Mendelson, Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law,
University of Michigan Law School

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Presentation Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:47:39 -0400 2019-04-24T15:15:00-04:00 2019-04-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law School Problem Solving Initiative Presentation Hutchins Hall
Ethics and Politics of AI: Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (April 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62338 62338-15353051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Content moderation can serve as a prism for examining what platforms are, and how they subtly torque public life. Our understanding of platforms too blithely accepted the terms in which they were sold and celebrated - open, impartial, connective, progressive, transformative - skewing our study of social behavior that happens on them, stunting our examination of their societal impact.

Content moderation doesn’t fit this celebratory vision. As such, it has often been treated as peripheral to what they do—a custodial task, like sweeping up, occasional and invisible. What if moderation is in fact central to what platforms do? Moderation is an enormous part of the work of running a platform, in terms of people, time, and cost. The work of policing all this caustic content and abuse haunts platforms, and profoundly shapes how they work.

Today, social media platforms are being scrutinized in the press; specific controversies, each a tiny crisis of trust, have gelled into a more profound interrogation of their responsibilities to users and society. What are the implications of the emerging demand that platforms serve not as conduits or arbiters, but as custodians? This is uncharted territory for the platforms, a very different notion of how they should earn the trust of their users and stand accountable to civil society.

About the Speaker:

Tarleton Gillespie is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and an affiliated associate professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His new book, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale University Press) was published in June 2018. He is also the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007), the co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and the co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:16:08 -0400 2019-04-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Tarleton Gillespie
MUSE Workshop: Discussion: ethics, big data, and our response to climate change (April 25, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60222 60222-14849124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The MUSE workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together sustainability researchers from across the university to discuss ideas and promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
The workshops are informal gatherings with a facilitator who leads an often wide-ranging discussion.
Workshops occur at least biweekly (with special workshops arising for hot topics). Check out the line up of further speakers

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:31:20 -0500 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Workshop / Seminar MUSE workshop
Build Interactive Maps with ArcGIS Online (May 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62862 62862-15485940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

ArcGIS Online is a simple, yet powerful interactive mapping tool to which everyone at the University of Michigan has access. Use ArcGIS Online to visualize data, analyze spatial patterns, and present materials in a professional-looking app. In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to easily turn a spreadsheet into a map using ArcGIS Online, all on the web. We will explore how to work with symbols and pop-ups on the map, and discover and add data from authoritative sources, including Esri’s Living Atlas. Exercises are based on Esri’s tutorial: “Get Started with ArcGIS Online”.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:11:09 -0400 2019-05-06T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-06T14:50:00-04:00 Shapiro Library LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Harness The Power Of Maps To Tell Your Story With Esri Story Maps (May 7, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62866 62866-15485947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Story Maps enable you to combine interactive maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They provide a powerful, engaging, and inspiring alternative for educational activities and assessments, as well as instructional delivery, as compared to traditional presentation or paper-writing methods. In this workshop we will share examples of how instructors are using Story Maps within their courses, discuss best practices for using the Story Map application, and create a Cascade Story Map. Workshop exercises will be based on Esri’s tutorial “Getting Started with Story Maps”.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:16:42 -0400 2019-05-07T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-07T14:50:00-04:00 Shapiro Library LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
Conversation with BlueCorps: Insights into U-M Student Approaches to Research, Information Evaluation, and More (May 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62871 62871-15485948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

This session will be a candid talk with a small panel of BlueCorps students who will provide insights into how students conduct research in the modern digital age, how they locate and evaluate information sources, how they think about the democratization of information, and generally how they go about being students. This is a wonderful opportunity to get honest answers from thoughtful students.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:19:35 -0400 2019-05-07T15:00:00-04:00 2019-05-07T16:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar
Design Web-Based Surveys With Survey123 For ArcGIS (May 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62873 62873-15485950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Survey123 is a simple, form-centric data collection app, that allows users to design surveys, share, and analyze data all within the ArcGIS Online platform. Survey123 differs from other form-centric data collection apps in that collection of geographic data is a key element. It seamlessly integrates with Collector for ArcGIS, an interactive mobile mapping application, and surveys can be downloaded to work offline. One can design a simple survey using the intuitive web-based form builder, and implement it within minutes.

In this workshop we will look at the basic workflows for creating and administering a survey using the Survey123 for ArcGIS mobile app. We will also discuss best practices for survey design for the mobile environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:24:37 -0400 2019-05-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-08T14:50:00-04:00 Shapiro Library LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Shapiro Library
#UMTweetCon2019 (May 23, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61765 61765-15179575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 23, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

#UMTweetCon2019 will connect U-M scholars across a diverse set of disciplines in an interdisciplinary exchange about common challenges and lessons learned. We further seek to facilitate new connections to help U-M scholars create opportunities for future joint research, collaborative grant writing, training and other activities. Conference attendance will be open to anyone interested in learning about the wide array of Twitter data applications in current research at the University.

The conference is sponsored by the Social Science and Social Media Collaborative, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, the #Parenting Rackham Interdisciplinary Group, and coordinated by the Center for Political Studies and the Institute for Social Research.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 May 2019 12:05:49 -0400 2019-05-23T08:30:00-04:00 2019-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium TweetCon2019
Labor in the Global Platform Economy (June 1, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63818 63818-15896737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 9:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

The first of two panel discussions open to the public as part of a two-day National Science Foundation-funded workshop on Making the "Future of Work" Work.

From voice assistances that replicate how care and service professions manage their own emotions to surveillance technologies powered by outsourced, contracted coding work, emotional, gendered, and racialized labor are the sources of “smart” technologies writ large. How does the promise of a better, hopeful “future of work” reproduce or contest exploitative regimes of labor? How does the promise of living the “good life,” of becoming the “smart” self, and individual empowerment prohibit other forms of solidarity?

Presenters:
Nathan Ensmenger, Indiana University
Mary Gray, Microsoft Research
Lilly Irani, UC San Diego
Cara Wallis, Texas A&M

Discussants:
Sarah Murray and Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 May 2019 10:08:40 -0400 2019-06-01T09:30:00-04:00 2019-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Algorithms, Scale, Speed and the Labor of Logistics (June 1, 2019 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63823 63823-15897066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 1, 2019 11:15am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

The second of two panel discussions, open to the public, as part of the National Science Foundation-funded two-day workshop on Making the "Future of Work" Work.

Digital labor regimes have infiltrated various processes from global logistics and supply chains to mass production and mechanic work. Scale, speed, and acceleration are key to these processes of increasing algorithmic control (simultaneously critiqued and celebrated). What are the cracks, frictions, and gaps in this seemingly all-subsuming finance capitalism? How might we have to rearticulate what counts as solidarity and collective organizing to counter distributed, isolating, and large-scale structures of control? How can we intervene in the persistent techno-optimism that lives on in contemporary engineering and design?

Presenters:
Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto
Vicky Hattam, New School
Margaret Jack, Cornell University
Noopur Raval, UC Irvine

Discussants:
Silvia Lindtner & Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan School of Information

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 May 2019 10:17:27 -0400 2019-06-01T11:15:00-04:00 2019-06-01T12:45:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Merging the Old and the New: Bird’s-Eye Views of America - OLLI Study Group (June 17, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58983 58983-14628148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Between 1850 and 1900, panoramic depictions of towns and cities were very popular in America. University of Michigan School of Information student Corey Schmidt will describe his project to catalog and digitize these bird’s-eye views and also to create an online interactive map. Director of the Clements Library, Kevin Graffagnino will discuss the significance of these unique nineteenth-century depictions of communities throughout the United States. Participants will also have an opportunity to view several original bird’s-eye views from the Clements Library collection.

This session for those 50 and above meets on Monday, June 17, from 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:11:04 -0500 2019-06-17T13:30:00-04:00 2019-06-17T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Book club- Becoming by Michelle Obama Part I: Becoming me (Chap 1-8) (June 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63964 63964-16041377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

This summer MUSES is having a book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

The book club will be divided into 3 parts:

Becoming me (Chap 1-8): June 25th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

Food will be provided, Please RSVP here for June 25th, so we can have enough food
If you need a book or have any other question, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:09:36 -0400 2019-06-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-06-25T19:30:00-04:00 MUSES Meeting
IT4U Webinar: Intro to M-Reports (July 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64185 64185-16201835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

John Moje (ITS/Information Quest) offers a tour of M-Reports--management reports in a customizable user interface, sourced from M-Pathways Production, U-M Data Warehouse, unit systems, and other databases. Register in My LINC: http://bit.ly/2KTraID

IT4U is a series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information & Technology Services. Learn and apply tips & techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. View recordings of previous sessions on the IT4U MiVideo page: http://bit.ly/2KQ1vkk.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:43:12 -0400 2019-07-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-23T09:45:00-04:00 Information and Technology Services (ITS) Class / Instruction m-reports screenshot
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (July 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63525 63525-16386890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction

The Machine Learning for Healthcare conference is a national research meeting that attracts clinicians and data scientists with machine learning and big data expertise. The event will be held at Rackham Auditorium August 9-10 beginning with a community data challenge on August 8 at North Quad. This annual research meeting includes invited talks, poster presentations, and panel discussions. Speakers will include machine learning leaders from across the nation and Andrew Rosenberg, MD, Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine. The Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP) is sponsoring the event. Conference hosts are Jenna Wiens, PhD (College of Engineering) and Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD (Michigan Medicine). To view the conference live on August 9-10, visit www.tinyurl.com/2019MLHCvideo

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:09:04 -0400 2019-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-24T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction Conference / Symposium MLHC conference promotion
Book Club - Becoming by Michelle Obama Part 2: Becoming us (Chap 9-18) (July 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64488 64488-16372918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

We will continue our book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

We already explored Becoming me (Chap 1-8) on June 25th.

Following, we will explore:
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

If you would like to join us on July 30th, at 6 pm. Please, RSVP below so we can have enough food.
https://forms.gle/4HhPTKSnUPqUFdaL8

If you need a book or have any other questions, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:42:40 -0400 2019-07-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-07-30T19:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Duderstadt Center
U-M Ideas Lab: Informational Webinar on Predicting Human Performance (July 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64096 64096-16147464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Attend this webinar to learn more about the 2019 Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab: Predicting Human Performance.

Experts will:
- present background surrounding the Ideas Lab
- explore the topic in depth
- answer questions live from the audience

Questions may be sent ahead of time to biosciences@umich.edu.
Registration for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e93ed8dbfacf569acde7dc3c8da9331e
On-line attendance- please register yourself and utilize your individual link for the meeting.
In-person attendance- you may register on-line or when you arrive.

About U-M Ideas Lab:
The Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab is your chance to pursue high-risk, high-reward, creative ideas and solutions to broad biosciences challenges alongside colleagues with diverse areas of expertise. Use this interactive think tank funding opportunity to pursue innovative research while still focusing on your current program and other duties.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:01:40 -0400 2019-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar Ideas Lab Banner
LinkedIn Learning Day (August 8, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64081 64081-16115270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 8:30am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Organizational Learning has teamed up with LinkedIn Learning to show you ways you can support your personal learning goals. Join us for an informational session with a representative from LinkedIn Learning on how to navigate the new platform and how to utilize LinkedIn Learning to best support your goals and growth on your development journey. Charge your mobile device to be ready for a hands-on experience during this workshop.

About LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning is an on-demand learning solution designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career, provided for all qualifying benefits-eligible faculty and staff at the university.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:42:34 -0400 2019-08-08T08:30:00-04:00 2019-08-08T10:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar Organizational Learning and LinkedIn Learning
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (August 8, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63525 63525-15775924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction

The Machine Learning for Healthcare conference is a national research meeting that attracts clinicians and data scientists with machine learning and big data expertise. The event will be held at Rackham Auditorium August 9-10 beginning with a community data challenge on August 8 at North Quad. This annual research meeting includes invited talks, poster presentations, and panel discussions. Speakers will include machine learning leaders from across the nation and Andrew Rosenberg, MD, Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine. The Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP) is sponsoring the event. Conference hosts are Jenna Wiens, PhD (College of Engineering) and Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD (Michigan Medicine). To view the conference live on August 9-10, visit www.tinyurl.com/2019MLHCvideo

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:09:04 -0400 2019-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction Conference / Symposium MLHC conference promotion
LinkedIn Learning Day (August 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64081 64081-16115271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Campus Safety Services Building
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Organizational Learning has teamed up with LinkedIn Learning to show you ways you can support your personal learning goals. Join us for an informational session with a representative from LinkedIn Learning on how to navigate the new platform and how to utilize LinkedIn Learning to best support your goals and growth on your development journey. Charge your mobile device to be ready for a hands-on experience during this workshop.

About LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning is an on-demand learning solution designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career, provided for all qualifying benefits-eligible faculty and staff at the university.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:42:34 -0400 2019-08-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-08-08T14:30:00-04:00 Campus Safety Services Building Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar Organizational Learning and LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning Day (August 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64081 64081-16115272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Organizational Learning has teamed up with LinkedIn Learning to show you ways you can support your personal learning goals. Join us for an informational session with a representative from LinkedIn Learning on how to navigate the new platform and how to utilize LinkedIn Learning to best support your goals and growth on your development journey. Charge your mobile device to be ready for a hands-on experience during this workshop.

About LinkedIn Learning:
LinkedIn Learning is an on-demand learning solution designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career, provided for all qualifying benefits-eligible faculty and staff at the university.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:42:34 -0400 2019-08-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-08-08T17:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar Organizational Learning and LinkedIn Learning
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (August 9, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63525 63525-15775925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 9, 2019 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction

The Machine Learning for Healthcare conference is a national research meeting that attracts clinicians and data scientists with machine learning and big data expertise. The event will be held at Rackham Auditorium August 9-10 beginning with a community data challenge on August 8 at North Quad. This annual research meeting includes invited talks, poster presentations, and panel discussions. Speakers will include machine learning leaders from across the nation and Andrew Rosenberg, MD, Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine. The Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP) is sponsoring the event. Conference hosts are Jenna Wiens, PhD (College of Engineering) and Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD (Michigan Medicine). To view the conference live on August 9-10, visit www.tinyurl.com/2019MLHCvideo

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:09:04 -0400 2019-08-09T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-09T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction Conference / Symposium MLHC conference promotion
ITS Intern Showcase (August 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64639 64639-16402988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The fifth annual ITS Intern Showcase is at the Michigan League on Friday, August 9. ITS’s 47 summer interns, fellows, and summer academy interns have been hard at work across ITS to bring you a summer’s worth of IT insights, solutions, and recommendations. Come hear remarks from ITS leadership, view the premiere of the internship documentary, and network with IT leaders from across the university and nearby campuses.

Visit the event page for a full schedule of events and registration info. Registration is encouraged, but not required. The Intern Showcase is open to everyone, so bring a colleague or friend!

Event page: https://its.umich.edu/internship/node/53

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:56:28 -0400 2019-08-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-09T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium Fifth annual U-M ITS Intern Showcase
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (August 10, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63525 63525-15775926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction

The Machine Learning for Healthcare conference is a national research meeting that attracts clinicians and data scientists with machine learning and big data expertise. The event will be held at Rackham Auditorium August 9-10 beginning with a community data challenge on August 8 at North Quad. This annual research meeting includes invited talks, poster presentations, and panel discussions. Speakers will include machine learning leaders from across the nation and Andrew Rosenberg, MD, Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine. The Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP) is sponsoring the event. Conference hosts are Jenna Wiens, PhD (College of Engineering) and Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD (Michigan Medicine). To view the conference live on August 9-10, visit www.tinyurl.com/2019MLHCvideo

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:09:04 -0400 2019-08-10T08:30:00-04:00 2019-08-10T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction Conference / Symposium MLHC conference promotion
ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum (August 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64601 64601-16394978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register today for the annual ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum! The event starts with lunch and will be a great opportunity to network. An informative afternoon will follow where we will share new application features available for fall including new Gradebook options in Canvas, In-Video Quizzing and Canvas Assignments and Analytics 2.0 coming later this year.

The 2019 ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Technology Forum
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Noon–4 p.m.
1010 Weiser Hall (tenth floor), 500 Church Street on the Ann Arbor campus

https://its.umich.edu/academics-research/teaching-learning/unit-technology-forum

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:06:42 -0400 2019-08-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Image from 2018 ITS Teaching and Learning Unit Tech Forum
Application of Big Data in Medicine - Experience in China (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65206 65206-16547477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract
During the last few years, substantial enthusiasm has emerged towards the application of big data in medicine in China, in the expectation of resolving many existing challenges by combining powerful data resources with novel technologies. In the present talk, the data eco-system, status of current practice, existing challenges in the area will be discussed. In addition, the activities of National Institute of Health Data Science at Peking University will be briefly introduced.

Luxia Zhang, MD, MPH
Dr. Luxia Zhang is the professor in the renal division of Peking University First Hospital, and the Assistant Dean of National Institute of Health Data Science at Peking University. She obtained her M.D. degree at Peking University; and her MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health.
Her research has focused on prevalence, risk factors, intervention and management of kidney disease in China. Her work provides first-hand information of kidney disease in China, and has gained wide attention internationally. During the last 3 years, she has initiated several projects based on big data and utilizing machine learning in the field of major non-communicable chronic diseases. Her studies have been published in top medical journals including the N Engl J Med, Lancet and BMJ. She was given 2016 Young Investigator Award by the Chinese Society of Nephrology. She is now the vice president of Beijing Young Nephrologists Society, and the editor of American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:38:17 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T14:00:00-04:00 Taubman Library DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
IT4U Webinar: Modifying eRPM Reports (August 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64186 64186-16201836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

David Mulder (Office of Research & Sponsored Projects and Finance-Sponsored Programs) shows how to modify existing BusinessObjects reports in the eResearch Proposal Management (eRPM) data set. Register in My LINC: http://bit.ly/32335V7

IT4U is a series of 30- and 45-minute interactive webinars brought to you by Information & Technology Services. Learn and apply tips & techniques for working with ITS tools, products, and services. View recordings of previous sessions on the IT4U MiVideo page: http://bit.ly/2KQ1vkk

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Class / Instruction Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:52:26 -0400 2019-08-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T09:45:00-04:00 Information and Technology Services (ITS) Class / Instruction eResearch home page
Words of Wisdom and Breakfast with Crystal Ashby (September 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65361 65361-16573561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Crystal Ashby is a dynamic and innovative executive with a record of successes leading government and external affairs, legal and ethics and compliance organizations. She has held many executive roles during her career, including VP of BP Oil Company. For years she has helped Michigan female students with her wisdom and advice for a successful career and personal life. This is an opportunity you cannot miss.

If you would like, you can find more about Crystal at https://lab.engin.umich.edu/members/crystal-e-ashby/

Breakfast will be served!
Please, RSVP at the link below so we can provide enough food.
https://forms.gle/brHkoUmScrUt7H9h8

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Meeting Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:40 -0400 2019-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
DCMB Seminar - Neurons in pathology through the lens of multi-omics and data analytics (September 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65485 65485-16605630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Advances in stem cell engineering, omics technologies and data sciences offer a unique scope for deciphering the myriad ways molecular circuits dysfunction in pathologies of the brain. Recently, we have developed and explored iPSC-derived neurons from familial Alzheimer’s disease patients using a systems-level, multi-omics approach, identifying disease-related endotypes, which are commonly dysregulated in patient-derived neurons and patient brain tissue alike. By integrating RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, and ChIP-Seq approaches, we determined that the defining disease-causing mechanism of AD is de-differentiation of neurons, driven primarily through the REST-mediated repression of neuronal lineage specification gene programs and the activation of cell cycle reentry and non-specific germ layer precursor gene programs concomitant with modifications in chromatin accessibility. Strikingly, our reanalysis of previously-generated AD-patient brain tissue showed similar enrichment of neuronal repression and de-differentiation mechanisms. Surprisingly, our earlier work on glioblastoma also showed de-differentiation and initiation of some of the shared diseased endotypes as common features. We postulate that de-differentiation and reprogramming are hallmark mechanisms of numerous pathologies, arguably genetically evolved to serve as protection mechanisms.

Acknowledgements: This work was done in collaboration with the Laboratory of Dr. Wagner and his colleagues.

References:
Caldwell AB, Liu Q, Schroth GP, Tanzi RE, Galasko DR, Yuan SH, Wagner SL, Subramaniam S. Dedifferentiation orchestrated through remodeling of the chromatin landscape defines PSEN1 mutation-induced Alzheimer's Disease. 2019 (under revision in Nature) Available from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/531202v1.
Friedmann-Morvinski D, Bhargava V, Gupta S, Verma IM, Subramaniam S. Identification of therapeutic targets for glioblastoma by network analysis. Oncogene. 2016;35(5):608-20. PMCID: 4641815.
Bhargava V, Ko P, Willems E, Mercola M, Subramaniam S. Quantitative transcriptomics using designed primer-based amplification. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1740. PMCID: 3638165.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:49:51 -0400 2019-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Michigan FinTech Informational Meeting (September 11, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66258 66258-16721679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan FinTech

Come learn about Michigan FinTech, upcoming events, and how you can join our leadership team. All are welcome!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 04 Sep 2019 20:49:53 -0400 2019-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T21:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan FinTech Rally / Mass Meeting Michigan FinTech
Coffee Chats with DRW (September 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66260 66260-16721681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan FinTech

Come meet recruiters from DRW in an informal, small-group setting! DRW is a technology-driven principal trading firm headquartered in Chicago, IL. Full-time and internship positions are available for software developers and quantitative trading analysts. Event registration is required, and SPACE IS LIMITED. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050b4cafad23a4fb6-drwcoffee

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:58:16 -0400 2019-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan FinTech Careers / Jobs DRW Logo
Computer Maintenance and Internet Security (September 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64618 64618-16396984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This class will focus on how to protect your data and identity. Topics include antivirus software, internet threats (ransomware, phishing, etc.), backup alternatives, password best practices, wireless security tips, latest Internet/phone scams, and identity theft tips-including dealing with some of the latest data breaches.

There will be time for questions and discussion. Harvey Juster is a semi-retired IT Consultant who has guided friends, family and businesses through the task of protecting their data from internal and external threats. He holds an engineering degree from UM and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

This study group for will last two hours and be led by instructor Harvey Juster.
No Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership is required for this course.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:26:22 -0400 2019-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
2019 FinTech Conference (September 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66259 66259-16721680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan FinTech

Connecting the brightest students, luminaries, and industry leaders
in the field of financial technology

The 2019 FinTech Conference will feature a FinTech career panel; keynote address from David McClelland, CEO of Ford Credit; technical presentation from U of M alum Elaine Wah; and career fair.

Connect with representatives from JP Morgan, IEX, Clinc, among others eager to share their experiences and recruit U-M talent.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:43:58 -0400 2019-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan FinTech Conference / Symposium 2019 FinTech Conference
Into the Dataverse Hackathon (September 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66543 66543-16744996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

For their 2019 Hackathon, the National Security Innovation Network Challenges students to create an AI-enabling user interface that can intuitively capture both structured and non-structured maintenance data, and associated maintainer actions, in an efficient and user-friendly manner to produce more accurate maintenance logs.

There are two focus areas embedded in this challenge:
Data Collection - How do you recognize, classify, and quantify maintainer action? How do you associate those actions with required maintenance data fields?
User Interface - What are the most intuitive and user-friendly interfaces? How can you minimize the burden on the technician?

Ideal solutions will create more accurate maintenance logs while taking into consideration a wide spectrum of Intelligent User Interfaces - from traditional User Interfaces to more advanced modalities such as Natural Language Processing, Gesture Recognition and Augmented Reality.
 
Who should be interested? New ideas from students, academics, entrepreneurs, and early stage startups with skills including, but not limited to: design, hardware and software engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, UI/UX, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics, business, communications, social media, and information technology.

NSIN will provide up to three $15K awards, for a total of $45K, to three winning teams to further develop their concepts!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:00:47 -0400 2019-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T23:59:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Into the Dataverse
Into the Dataverse Hackathon : Turning Maintenance Actions into Structured Data (September 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66504 66504-16742868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Event Details:
September 20: 4PM - 11 PM
September 21: 8AM - 11 PM
September 22: 7:30 AM - 5PM

Join us for our Into the Dataverse Hackathon, September 20-22, 2019 in Ann Arbor, MI, to develop solutions to turn maintenance actions into clean, annotated data to feed predictive maintenance algorithms.

The Challenge. Develop an AI-enabling user interface that can intuitively capture both structured and non-structured maintenance data, and associated maintainer actions, in an efficient and user-friendly manner to produce more accurate maintenance logs.

Focus Areas. There are two focus areas imbedded in this challenge:

• Data Collection - How do you recognize, classify, and quantify maintainer action? How do you associate those actions with required maintenance data fields?

• User Interface - What are the most intuitive and user-friendly interfaces? How can you minimize the burden on the technician?

Solutions. Ideal solutions will create more accurate maintenance logs while taking into consideration a wide spectrum of Intelligent User Interfaces - from traditional User Interfaces to more advanced modalities such as Natural Language Processing, Gesture Recognition and Augmented Reality.

We need you! We are looking for new ideas from students, academics, entrepreneurs, and early stage startups with skills including, but not limited to: design, hardware and software engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, UI/UX, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics, business, communications, social media, and information technology.

NSIN will provide up to three $15K awards, for a total of $45K, to three winning teams to further develop their concepts!

Sign up today on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-the-dataverse-tickets-66220650749 !

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Other Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:54:29 -0400 2019-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Other Dataverse
Into the Dataverse Hackathon (September 21, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66543 66543-16744997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 12:00am
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

For their 2019 Hackathon, the National Security Innovation Network Challenges students to create an AI-enabling user interface that can intuitively capture both structured and non-structured maintenance data, and associated maintainer actions, in an efficient and user-friendly manner to produce more accurate maintenance logs.

There are two focus areas embedded in this challenge:
Data Collection - How do you recognize, classify, and quantify maintainer action? How do you associate those actions with required maintenance data fields?
User Interface - What are the most intuitive and user-friendly interfaces? How can you minimize the burden on the technician?

Ideal solutions will create more accurate maintenance logs while taking into consideration a wide spectrum of Intelligent User Interfaces - from traditional User Interfaces to more advanced modalities such as Natural Language Processing, Gesture Recognition and Augmented Reality.
 
Who should be interested? New ideas from students, academics, entrepreneurs, and early stage startups with skills including, but not limited to: design, hardware and software engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, UI/UX, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics, business, communications, social media, and information technology.

NSIN will provide up to three $15K awards, for a total of $45K, to three winning teams to further develop their concepts!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:00:47 -0400 2019-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T23:59:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Into the Dataverse
Into the Dataverse Hackathon (September 22, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66543 66543-16744998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 22, 2019 12:00am
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

For their 2019 Hackathon, the National Security Innovation Network Challenges students to create an AI-enabling user interface that can intuitively capture both structured and non-structured maintenance data, and associated maintainer actions, in an efficient and user-friendly manner to produce more accurate maintenance logs.

There are two focus areas embedded in this challenge:
Data Collection - How do you recognize, classify, and quantify maintainer action? How do you associate those actions with required maintenance data fields?
User Interface - What are the most intuitive and user-friendly interfaces? How can you minimize the burden on the technician?

Ideal solutions will create more accurate maintenance logs while taking into consideration a wide spectrum of Intelligent User Interfaces - from traditional User Interfaces to more advanced modalities such as Natural Language Processing, Gesture Recognition and Augmented Reality.
 
Who should be interested? New ideas from students, academics, entrepreneurs, and early stage startups with skills including, but not limited to: design, hardware and software engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, UI/UX, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics, business, communications, social media, and information technology.

NSIN will provide up to three $15K awards, for a total of $45K, to three winning teams to further develop their concepts!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:00:47 -0400 2019-09-22T00:00:00-04:00 2019-09-22T09:59:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Into the Dataverse
Shaping Future Cities: An evening discussing Urban Tech in Detroit (September 23, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66900 66900-16785540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Urban transformation is increasingly driven by technological innovation, which is changing the game in areas ranging from housing and mobility to development and construction. Dean Jonathan Massey invites you to join us for an alumni event in Detroit centered around the uses and possibilities of Urban Tech, including the new technologies and development practices that are transforming cities operationally, socially and spatially.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:30:50 -0400 2019-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Shaping Future Cities
UROP Intro to Spreadsheet Workshop (September 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66508 66508-16744942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop is intended to support UROP students in addressing skills needed in Excel and Google Sheets to meet the needs of their UROP Project.

Students must register as space is limited

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Microsoft Excel 2016 to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Google Sheets to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:44:27 -0400 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Excel Registration QR Code
DCMB Seminar, "Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery" (September 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66407 66407-16734206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
She’ll be describing the technologies and datasets her team uses to study human disease and develop new and improved treatments for their clients. She’ll cover the applications of traditional transcriptional profiling and sequence analysis as well as datasets and tools developed specifically for therapeutics development including CMap, Project Achilles, PRISM, functional CRISPR screening and others. She’ll also touch on topics like biomarker development, patient selection/stratification and gene therapy development. Along the way, she’ll describe what it’s like to work as a consultant, and how it differs from academic work or direct employment in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:01:32 -0400 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
EER Seminar Series (Engineering Education Research) (September 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65182 65182-16547451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

TITLE: Advancing Evidence-based Biomedical Engineering Education in Real Time

Undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) programs typically consist of courses from several different academic departments combined with BME-specific courses taught by faculty trained in a variety of disciplines. While some students embrace this diversity in courses and disciplinary perspectives, many struggle with how to translate these experiences into career opportunities. BME students are often concerned that they are perceived as a “jack of all trades, masters of none.” In 2016, the BME Department sought to find new ways to integrate BME professional practice into the curriculum.

Informed by organizational change theory, we asked: 1) Is there potential for change; 2) what strategies facilitate change; and 3) how can these strategies be implemented? As a result, we developed an Instructional Design Sequence, a new approach to instruction in which students, post docs, and faculty create short modules that use evidence-based teaching practices to expose BME students to BME professional practice.

This presentation describes how the Instructional Design Sequence was conceived and demonstrates how theory can be used to inform practice. The resultant Sequence is a transferrable model for transforming engineering education, offering a mechanism for integrating new career-relevant curriculum into undergraduate curriculum, while training future educators in evidence-based instructional practices.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:53:48 -0400 2019-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
Friday Night AI (September 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66385 66385-16734110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Join us for an evening of AI to engage with University of Michigan experts as they discuss the implications of using AI for mental health care:

-How will AI and personalized technologies fit into the mental health care system?
-Who benefits? How?
-How do we measure outcomes?
-Are we heading towards an AI-based mental health care system?
-What are the benefits of using AI for mental health?
-How efficient are virtual therapists?

Michigan AI’s Prof. Emily Mower Provost and Prof. Melvin Mcinnis, Director of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, will address these and other open questions in this public AI event.

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is open now: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/friday-night-AI

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 09:07:18 -0400 2019-09-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lecture / Discussion Friday Night AI speakers
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-15782016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Angel David Nieves (San Diego State University) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67285 67285-16831259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Digital and interactive forms of scholarship challenge established practices in the Arts & Humanities. Audiovisual content, graphic interfaces, and different types of visualizations employed in new forms of presentation and publication (e.g. websites, blogs, online databases, 3D worlds) do not conform with existing concepts of scholarship, and established practices of evaluation. Bringing together 3D model making (scholarship more generally) and the work of digital scholarly editions (DSE) is in fact new, and not a series of scholarly theories and practices that have been previously deployed in the digital humanities. Although these digital vehicles powerfully disseminate and engage with scholarship, scholars who implement these ‘new’ modalities are confronted by “the same old,” established mechanisms with which to gauge ‘impact’ among one’s scholarly peers, i.e. within traditional and long-established publications. Interactive 3D visualization, despite its long tradition in humanities research, is still faced with skepticism and hesitation, not only because of the constant technological shifts and exigencies and the fragile ecosystem within which projects are being developed, but also due to their non-conventional nature that does not adhere to established “norms” and metrics. Nieves will discuss the challenges of doing social justice based work, in digital humanities, while also providing new methods and platforms for dissemination in the Global South. He is currently working on a digital book project entitled, Apartheid Heritages: A Spatial History of South Africa’s Township’s (www.apartheidheritages.org), now under consideration at Stanford University Press as part of their Mellon Foundation-funded digital publishing initiatives.


Bio

Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. is Professor of History & Digital Humanities (in the Area of Excellence in Digital Humanities and Global Diversity) at San Diego State University (SDSU) and Co-Director of their Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI). He was, most recently, (2017-2018) Presidential Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and an affiliate in the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab). He is Research Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:29:25 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Special Joint Lecture (MICHR and DCMB) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67257 67257-16829032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Dr. Haendel’s vision is to weave together healthcare systems, basic science research, and patient generated data through development of data integration technologies and innovative data capture strategies. The Monarch Initiative is an international consortium dedicated to integrating human and organismal genotype-phenotype data and the development of deep phenotyping techniques. This talk will focus on the use of ontologies to support knowledge and data integration across disciplinary boundaries. Strategies for how to reconcile different terminologies and examples of harmonized semantic structures for anatomy, phenotype, and disease will be discussed. Finally, we will discuss the use of these ontological resources to populate graph structures and their use to aid mechanism discovery and rare disease diagnosis.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:53:44 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 3, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-16155523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-03T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
Podium Tech Talk - First Generation Engineers (October 3, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67822 67822-16954120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: First Generation Engineers

Podium will be hosting a Tech Talk event next Thursday, October 3rd from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm in FXB 1024 for 1st Gen Engine! They will be providing a tech talk on one of the technologies that drive their software, Elixir, and will be reviewing resumes (& interviewing students the day after)!

All students are welcome to join and free food will be provided!

RSVP at https://forms.gle/GnA1fRW6wi9mLiVp7

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:14:47 -0400 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T18:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building First Generation Engineers Careers / Jobs Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
E-Hour Speaker Series - Rivian (October 4, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67833 67833-16958329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 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.

As the Strategy Director at Rivian Automotive (a company which develops vehicles, products and services related to sustainable transportation), three-time U-M Alum, Patrick Hunt seeks to highlight authentic experiences by humbling your ego when at the helm of a startup.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:31:42 -0400 2019-10-04T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Patrick Hunt Headshot
Project Management Certification (October 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61540 61540-15126018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:40:05 -0500 2019-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-06T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
STS Speaker. Change Over Time? Fracture and Reconciliation in Natural Science Infrastructure (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66596 66596-16767936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Scientists in the natural histories create the frameworks, calendars and infrastructures that allow us to understand and grapple with "deep time" -- but they do so within their own temporally complex scholarly settings: they draw on classification systems that are constantly facing revision and methodological revolution; database systems that simultaneously face forced obsolescence and true decay; and data collections in need of maintenance and migration. In this talk, I consider the rhythms of fracture and reconciliation in the data infrastructure in the natural sciences. This talk draws on Thomer's on-going work with the “Transforming Taxonomic Interfaces” and “Migrating Research Data Collections” projects.

Bio: Andrea Thomer is an assistant professor of information at the University of Michigan School of Information. She conducts research in the areas of data curation, museum informatics, earth science and biodiversity informatics, information organization, and computer supported cooperative work. She is especially interested in how people use and create data and metadata; the impact of information organization on information use; issues of data provenance, reproducibility, and integration; and long-term data curation and infrastructure sustainability. She is studying a number of these issues through the "Migrating Research Data Collections" project - a recently awarded Laura Bush 21st Century Librarianship Early Career Research Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Dr. Thomer received her doctorate in Library and Information Science from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:23:44 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Design Science Information Session (October 7, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67417 67417-16849161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

This information session will give you a better understanding of what the Design Science degree can do for you, as well as allow you to ask questions from our Program Chair, and current Design Science students.

Design Science offers a MS and PhD option.

*Pizza will be provided*

Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pTE88gUicZI6Ex28ZTvNS2qPz9RQJletqip35-f3X0U/edit

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Presentation Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:03:55 -0400 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Integrative Systems + Design Presentation Pierpont Commons
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68092 68092-17009821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Controlling dynamic ensembles: From cells to societies"

Abstract: Natural and engineered systems that consist of populations of isolated or interacting dynamical components exhibit levels of complexity that are beyond human comprehension. These complex systems often require an appropriate excitation, an optimal hierarchical organization, or a periodic dynamical structure, such as synchrony, to function as desired or operate optimally. In many application domains, e.g., neurostimulation in brain medicine and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in quantum control, control and observation can only be implemented at the population level, through broadcasting a single input signal to all the systems in the population and through collecting aggregated system-level measurements of the population, respectively. These limitations give rise to challenging problems and new control paradigms involving underactuated manipulation of dynamic ensembles. This talk will address theoretical and computational challenges for targeted coordination of both isolated and networked ensemble systems arising in diverse areas at different scales. Both model-based and data-driven approaches for learning, decoding, control, and computation of dynamic structures and patterns in ensemble systems will be presented. Practical control designs, including synchronization waveforms for pattern formation in complex networks and optimal pulses in quantum control, will be illustrated along with their experimental realizations. Lastly, future directions and opportunities in Systems and Controls will be discussed.

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:26:01 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
2019 EER Prospective Student Open House (October 11, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65464 65464-16603590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 8:00am
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

We invite students from all institutions to attend the University of Michigan Engineering Education Research (EER) graduate student open house!

Attendees will be eligible for an application fee waiver.

(Note: Applicants to the EER program must have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a traditional engineering discipline.)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:11:11 -0400 2019-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:30:00-04:00 School of Education Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar EER Logo
CGIS STEM Symposium (October 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64877 64877-16483058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS and the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University for an info session about STEM Summer Research programs abroad! This is a great opportunity for students to learn about our 6 CGIS STEM Summer Research programs in Brisbane, Australia; Dublin, Ireland; Aberdeen and Glasgow, Scotland; Granada, Spain; and London, England partnered with Arcadia University. CGIS Alumni will also be there to discuss the various types of research that they conducted while on their programs.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:29:51 -0400 2019-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) PhD/MS OPEN HOUSE (October 15, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55738 55738-16794275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 5:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The HILS Program is the first graduate program in the nation to focus on the science and methods of Learning Health Systems with the goal to improve the health of individuals and populations by developing practitioners who design, implement, and evaluate innovative change and continuous improvement.

If you’re interested in learning more about the HILS Program, application requirements, and the curriculum; and speaking with faculty and current students, please consider attending the HILS Open House

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Reception / Open House Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:08:55 -0400 2019-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T18:30:00-04:00 V. Vaughan Department of Learning Health Sciences Reception / Open House
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68138 68138-17011980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "3D genome structure as a tool to understand the impact of somatic and germline sequence variants"

Abstract: The 3-dimensional organization of DNA inside of the nucleus impacts a variety of cellular processes, including gene regulation. Furthermore, it is apparent that somatic structural variants that affect how chromatin is organized in 3D can have a major impact on gene regulation and human disease. However, such structural variants in the context of cancer genomes are abundant, and predicting the consequence of any individual somatic mutation on 3D genome structure and gene expression is challenging. In addition, we are severely limited with regard to tools that can be used to study 3D folding of the genome in vivo in actual human tumor or tissue samples. Our lab has developed several approaches to address these challenges. We have taken a pan-cancer approach to identify loci in the genome that are affected by structural variants that alter 3D genome structure, and we have identified numerous loci with recurrent 3D genome altering mutations. We have also used genome engineering to create novel structural variants to better understand what types of mutations are actually capable of altering 3D genome structure and gene regulation. Finally, we have also developed novel tools to study 3D genome structure in vivo in complex tissue samples. We believe that these approaches will be critical for improving our understanding of how non-coding sequence variants can affect 3D genome structure and gene regulation, with the ultimate goal of understanding how these events affect human physiology.

3:45 pm - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:39:45 -0400 2019-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Precision Health Analytics Platform Roadshow (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66954 66954-16787746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 16
Organized By: Precision Health

Are you a health researcher looking for genetic and clinical data, or do you need assistance in data analysis?

Precision Health’s new Analytics Platform is a suite of tools, services, and datasets available to researchers across campus--resources previously available only to Michigan Medicine faculty and other level-two password holders. The platform provides campus-wide access to research tools such as DataDirect and services such as consultation with scientific facilitators.

Attend a roadshow to learn how to access the platform and what you can do with it:

• Perform cohort discovery on a database of 4M+ patients
• Query a de-identified, structured dataset of ~60K patients
• Submit queries through the self-serve tool DataDirect
• Access output via a secure, HIPAA-compliant environment
• Request access to linked genetic data (with IRB approval)

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Presentation Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:20:05 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 16 Precision Health Presentation DataDirect
E-Hour Speaker Series - Samaritan (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68299 68299-17043870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 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.

A user experience designer by trade, Samaritan Founder and U-M Alum Jonathan Kumar has founded several app-based companies with a focus on solving social issues.

Jonathan’s first company, FoodCircles, enabled anyone to directly aid an individual in need simply by dining out. Four years later, Jonathan created Samaritan, enabling Seattle city goers to invest directly and compassionately into individuals around them struggling through homelessness.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:06:57 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jonathan Kumar, Founder - Samaritan
Michigan AI Symposium 2019 - "AI for Society" (October 19, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66547 66547-16745004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Join us for a day of AI: research talks, posters, demos, and plenty of networking opportunities.

The symposium aims to bring together participants from both academia and industry who are interested in the foundations or real-life applications of artificial intelligence.

The symposium is free and open to the general public. Registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:45:05 -0400 2019-10-19T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Conference / Symposium AI Symposium
AI for Society: Michigan AI Symposium (October 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66541 66541-16744993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Join us for a day of AI!

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Doina Precup (McGill University, MILA, DeepMind)

Research talks by Michigan AI faculty: Profs. Ella Atkins, Joyce Chai, David Fouhey, Justin Johnson, Satinder Singh

There will also be demos and posters sessions, and plenty of networking opportunities.The symposium aims to bring together participants from both academia and industry who are interested in the foundations of AI as well as its real-life applications.

We hope you will join us for the second Michigan AI Symposium. Registration is open until October 5 (or until the event is full).

Poster and demo submissions are also encouraged from both academic and industry participants, covering research contributions, work in progress, position statements, applications of AI. Previously published work can be submitted and presented. Deadline: October 5.

We look forward to seeing you at the symposium on October 19!

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:44:30 -0400 2019-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Conference / Symposium Keynote Speaker Prof. Doina Precup
BIONIC Lunch: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63777 63777-15873595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion as we assess the computational engines assessing us.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/5t6UjXWNA1VSW4fr9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:00:08 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
EER Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67813 67813-16952010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Every instance of a design process can be represented with a design signature – a tracing of design activities over time that can be represented as a timeline. Design signatures can differ across levels of expertise of the designer(s) in significant ways. These representations have been shown to be effective for teaching undergraduate engineers about the complexities of design processes.

In this talk, I will review the research findings from an analysis of verbal protocols from 177 individuals with a wide range of expertise (from beginning undergrads through expert professionals in industry) who solved 401 separate design problems. We found that individuals with more expertise 1) use processes that demonstrate a higher level of complexity, 2) consider a broader set of information and objects during their design process, 3) spend longer solving the problem they were given, and 4) are more likely to demonstrate a cascade pattern in their tracing across design activities. I will also discuss several teaching activities that are derived from the research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:45:24 -0400 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Cindy Atman
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68168 68168-17020453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Chromatin accessibility signatures of immune system aging"

Abstract: Aging is linked to deficiencies in immune responses and increased systemic inflammation. To unravel regulatory programs behind these changes, we profiled peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from young and old individuals (n=77) using ATAC-seq and RNA-seq technologies and analyzed these data via systems immunology tools. First, we described an epigenomic signature of immune system aging, with simultaneous systematic chromatin closing at promoters and enhancers associated with T cell signaling. This signature was primarily borne by memory CD8+ T cells, which exhibited an aging-related loss in IL7R activity and IL7 responsiveness. More recently to uncover the impact of sex on immune system aging, we studied PBMCs from 194 healthy adults (100 women, 94 men) ranging from 22-93 years old using ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, and flow cytometry technologies. These data revealed a shared epigenomic signature of aging between sexes composed of declines in naïve T cell functions and increases in monocyte and cytotoxic cell functions. Despite similarities, these changes were greater in magnitude in men. Additionally, we uncovered male-specific decreases in expression/accessibility of B-cell associated loci. Trajectory analyses revealed that age-related epigenomic changes were more abrupt at two timepoints in the human lifespan. The first timepoint was similar between sexes in terms of timing (early forties) and magnitude. In contrast, the latter timepoint was earlier (~5 years) and more pronounced in men (mid-sixties versus late-sixties). Unexpectedly, differences between men and women PBMCs increased with aging, with men having higher monocyte and pro-inflammatory activity and lower B/T cell activity compared to women after 65 years of age. Our study uncovered which immune cell functions and molecules are differentially affected with age between sexes, including the differences in timing and magnitude of changes, which is an important step towards precision medicine in older adults.

3:45 pm - Light refreshments served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:12:18 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Graduate Certificate Info Session (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67933 67933-16969022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Graduate Certificate!

Wednesday, October 23rd, 4:00pm-5:00pm
5240 Weill Hall
There will be SNACKS!

Do you want to learn how science and technology policy is made? Are you interested in the social and ethical implications of developments like gene editing and autonomous vehicles? Are you concerned about the increased politicization of science and research funding?

In the STPP graduate certificate program, graduate students from across the University analyze the role of science and technology in the policymaking process, gain experience writing for policymakers, and explore the political and policy landscape of areas such as biotechnology, information technology, energy, and others. Graduates of the STPP certificate have gone on to a range of policy-engaged scientific roles in government, NGOs, and academia.

More information about the program is available at: http://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/graduate-certificate/

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:21:49 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Presentation Information Session promotional slide
Machine Learning in Survey Research (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68286 68286-17039621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Adam Eck (assistant professor of computer science, Oberlin College), as he conducts a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning in Survey Research”. This workshop is designed for population/survey researchers and analysts of all skill levels, and will present an introduction to machine learning concepts and their applications to survey research (such as sample frame creation, respondent modelling, and open-ended response coding).

Topics Include:
• Introduction to machine learning and its applications to survey research
• Decision trees and random forests
• Deep learning and other neural network-based techniques
• ML techniques to model respondent behaviors, assist with coding of open-ended responses, and more
• Demonstration using R and Python

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP).

BIO:
Adam Eck is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Oberlin College. His primary research and teaching interests include: intelligent agents and multiagent systems, machine learning, data science, and computer-aided education.

More specifically, Adam enjoys learning about and developing solutions within decision making under uncertainty (how should agents gather information and behave to maximize rewards in complex, dynamic environments), reinforcement learning (how can agents learn how their worlds' operate in order to guide their decisions), and sequential supervised learning using recurrent neural networks (how can we predict future outcomes based on sequences of past observations).

REGISTRATION:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:01:52 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Machine Learning in Survey Research poster
Little MUSES Mixer (October 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68082 68082-17009753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Don't you wish you knew certain things earlier in your education? Don't you wish you knew others like you that are going through or have already gone through similar difficulties in your education? Come join us at Little MUSES Mixer where you will have the opportunity to get to know others like you and share your experiences. In this event, graduate and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact and network over great food and activities.

Please, RSVP on the link below so enough food is provided
https://forms.gle/yHZrVfSjn1CJSVMJ7

Best,
MUSES Committee!

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Meeting Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:45:22 -0400 2019-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
SUMIT_2019 (October 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68179 68179-17020463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register today to attend SUMIT 2019! The Security at University of Michigan IT (SUMIT) conference is the university’s flagship event for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This free, one-day symposium hosted by Information and Technology Services’ Information Assurance (IA) team is an exciting opportunity to hear recognized experts inform the community on the latest issues, trends, and threats in cybersecurity and privacy.

SUMIT_2019 explores the increasingly diverse topics in privacy and security research and operations

For a complete list of speakers and to register visit the SUMIT_2019 website. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/sumit/2019

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:02:14 -0400 2019-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium SUMIT_2019 Event banner
Complex Systems Seminar | Stephanie Forrest 'The Biology of Software: Evolution, Robustness, Diversity' (October 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68316 68316-17045998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

**Please note, if this room's capacity is exceeded, there will be a simulcast into the next room of talk slides and audio**

Stephanie Forrest is Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University, where she directs the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation, Security and Society. Her research focuses on the intersection of biology and computation, including cybersecurity, software engineering, and biological modeling.

Abstract:
Software today is a complex adaptive system. Although we think of computer programs as the products of intelligent design, they also evolve inadvertently through the actions of many individual programmers, often leading to unanticipated consequences. Similarly, economic and political incentives produce arms races between competitors and adversaries, which in turn have shaped the cyber landscape.

The talk will give examples of evolution, robustness and diversity in the context of software, describing how these concepts provide new insights and suggest new approaches to problems such as repairing software bugs and cybersecurity. It will present recent results on the mutational robustness of software and describe a new algorithm for bug repair that leverages neutral mutations.


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Prior to joining ASU in 2017, Professor Forrest was at the University of New Mexico and served as Dept. Chair 2006-2011. She is a member of the Santa Fe Institute External Faculty and 2013-2014 served at the U.S. Dept. of State as a Senior Science Advisor for cyberpolicy. She was educated at St. John's College (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:11:45 -0400 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Stephanie Forrest
Engineering Majors/Minors Fair 2019 (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67826 67826-16958323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Engineering Advising Center

Undecided on an Engineering major? Want to learn about co-curricular opportunities? Considering a minor in Engineering or another school or college? Then this event is for you! Join us at the Majors/Minors Fair on Tuesday, October 29th, from 4 to 6 PM. Come speak with representatives from Engineering departments and programs as well as campus partners including Art & Design, Education, Entrepreneurship, LSA, and Ross. FREE PIZZA will be provided!

RSVP here!: https://forms.gle/p585qQ2LZyBVEXBU6

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Fair / Festival Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Engineering Advising Center Fair / Festival Picture of Civil Engineering table at Majors/Minors Fair 2018
UROP Intro to Spreadsheet Workshop (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66508 66508-16744943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

This workshop is intended to support UROP students in addressing skills needed in Excel and Google Sheets to meet the needs of their UROP Project.

Students must register as space is limited

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Microsoft Excel 2016 to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

In this introductory workshop, we'll use Google Sheets to explore the basic functionality of spreadsheets. Topics covered will include navigation & terminology, formatting, basic formulas and functions, sorting, filtering, and basic data visualization.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:44:27 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Excel Registration QR Code
SMRL Talk (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67561 67561-16892250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Abstract:

Facial recognition systems are increasingly common components of smartphones and other consumer digital devices. These technologies enable animated video-sharing applications, such as Apple’s animoji and memoji, Facebook Messenger’s masks and filters and Samsung’s AR Emoji. Such animations serve as technical phenomena translating moments of affective and emotional expression into mediated, trackable, and socially legible forms across a variety of social media platforms.

Through technical and historical analysis of these digital artifacts, the talk will explore the ways facial recognition systems classify and categorize racial identities in human faces in relation to emotional expression. Drawing on the longer history of discredited pseudosciences such as phrenology, the paper considers the dangers of both racializing logics as part of these systems of classification, and of how social media data regarding emotional expression gathered through these systems can be used to reinforce systems of oppression and discrimination.

Speaker Biography

Luke Stark is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) Group at Microsoft Research Montreal. His scholarship examines the history and contemporary effects of digital media used for social and emotional interaction; his work has been published in venues including Social Studies of Science, Media Culture and Society, History of the Human Sciences, and The International Journal of Communication. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College, a Fellow and Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and an inaugural Fellow with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. He holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and an Honours BA and MA in History from the University of Toronto.

This talk is hosted by The Social Media Research Lab (SMRL)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:38:29 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Luke Stark
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68926 68926-17197024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Although central architectures drive robust oscillations, biological clock networks containing the same core vary drastically in their potential to oscillate. What peripheral structures contribute to the variation of oscillation behaviors remains elusive. We computationally generated an atlas of oscillators and found that, while certain core topologies are essential for robust oscillations, local structures substantially modulate the degree of robustness. Strikingly, two key local structures, incoherent inputs and coherent inputs, can modify a core topology to promote and attenuate its robustness, additively. These findings underscore the importance of local modifications besides robust cores, which explain why auxiliary structures not required for oscillation are evolutionarily conserved. We further apply this computational framework to search for structures underlying tunability, another crucial property shared by many biological timing systems to adapt their frequencies to environmental changes.

Experimentally, we developed an artificial cell system to reconstitute mitotic oscillatory processes in water-in-oil microemulsions. With a multi-inlet pressure-driven microfluidic setup, these artificial cells are flexibly adjustable in sizes, periods, various molecular and drug concentrations, energy, and subcellular compartments. Using long-term time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, this system enables high-throughput, single-cell analysis of clock dynamics, functions, and stochasticity, key to elucidating the topology-function relation of biological clocks.

We also investigate how multiple clocks coordinate via biochemical and mechanical signals in the essential developmental processes of early zebrafish embryos (e.g., mitotic wave propagation, synchronous embryo cleavages, and somitogenesis). To pin down the physical mechanisms that give rise to these complex collective phenomena, we integrate mathematical modeling, live embryo and explant imaging, nanofabrication, micro-contact printing, and systems and synthetic biology approaches.

BlueJeans livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc
Qiong Yang: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dcmb/qiong-yang-phd

3:45 pm to 4:00 pm - Light refreshments
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:42 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Global Operations Conference (November 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66502 66502-16742869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Global Operations Conference is an annual event that brings together leaders in industry and academia to explore current topics in the field of operations. This year's topics include Technology Trends - Industry 4.0 in the Upcoming Decade, Sustainability through Innovative Operations, The 2030 Customer: Changing Perceptions/Attitudes, and Global Factors Influencing Supply Chains of the Future. The conference is your opportunity to hear keynote speeches, attend panels, and network with industry leaders in operations from top companies.

Program details and session information is planned to be finalized soon - please stay tuned for more information!

For more information about the conference, visit GOC Conference >http://myumi.ch/4pye7.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:52:02 -0400 2019-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Conference / Symposium Global Operations Conference Nov 7-8
Global Operations Conference (November 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66502 66502-16742870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Global Operations Conference is an annual event that brings together leaders in industry and academia to explore current topics in the field of operations. This year's topics include Technology Trends - Industry 4.0 in the Upcoming Decade, Sustainability through Innovative Operations, The 2030 Customer: Changing Perceptions/Attitudes, and Global Factors Influencing Supply Chains of the Future. The conference is your opportunity to hear keynote speeches, attend panels, and network with industry leaders in operations from top companies.

Program details and session information is planned to be finalized soon - please stay tuned for more information!

For more information about the conference, visit GOC Conference >http://myumi.ch/4pye7.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:52:02 -0400 2019-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Conference / Symposium Global Operations Conference Nov 7-8
ISD Design Science Seminar (November 8, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69144 69144-17252909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 9:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 8, 2019 from 9:30-11:00 am in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Design Science Seminar Series with speaker Malcolm McCullough, Ph.D. Dr. McCullough is a Professor of Architecture, Taubman Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the books Downtime on the Microgrid (forthcoming 2020), Ambient Commons (2013), Digital Ground (2005), and Abstracting Craft (1997) all with the MIT Press.

Whereas “the smart city” has most often been understood as a totality, top-down and always-on, in today’s climate-altered reality more agendas instead need to advance a more locally clustered, adaptive resilience. Otherwise, the most salient aspect of any future smart city is its fragility. While not a report on complexity simulations, this talk reexamines some perhaps-familiar principles of adaptive clustering from three less conventional perspectives.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:37:09 -0500 2019-11-08T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar DESCI Seminar
Atlas Design Jam (November 8, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68949 68949-17197056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

The Center for Academic Innovation is holding a Design Jam in hopes of demonstrating how students would plan a schedule and proposed design solution. Consider what key features would be for the proposed schedule builder. Outline user pain points and how their solution solves the unique needs of our users and use/expand on the existing design system for Atlas.

We're offering:
Free food
Swag and prizes!
Space is limited to 50 students and no previous design experience is required!

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Other Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:41:57 -0400 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Academic Innovation Other Atlas Promo
U.S. Foreign Policy in an Era of Cyber War (November 11, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64556 64556-16388908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In an era of cyber confrontations, the U.S. faces extraordinary national security challenges. Our major global adversaries continue to engage in systematic and sophisticated assaults on our political and economic institutions. Richard Clarke’s book, Cyber War, will be our guide to the nature, scope, and responses to cyber threats. Our sessions for those 50 and over will be structured around U.S. cyber relations with Russia, China, Iran, and N. Korea, with a special emphasis on the historical context.

Instructor John Fogarasi brings a unique perspective to the topic of U.S. Foreign Policy and cyber war as a senior U.S. diplomat, having served for over three decades in Europe, Asia, and North America. Sessions will meet Mondays from 3:15-5:15 pm from November 11 through December 16 (no class on November 18).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:57:57 -0400 2019-11-11T15:15:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
STS Speaker. We Are All Well - A Partial History of Public Information Infrastructures after Disasters (November 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66685 66685-16770200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may look to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for online maps that show the quake's epicenter, turn to Twitter for government bulletins and the latest news, check Facebook for updates fromfriends and family, and hope to count on help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This information order articulates a particular epistemic experience of earthquake for some Americans.

In this talk, I discuss how people produce and circulate information in earthquake publics using a comparative historical lens. I analyze the institutions, policies, and technologies that shape today's post-disaster information landscape, paying close attention to not only the circulationof knowledge, but also to the production of ignorance.

Bio: Megan Finn is the author of Documenting Aftermath (2018) with MIT Press. She teaches information policy and ethics at University of Washington's School of Information where she is an assistant professor. Megan is a faculty member of the DataLab at the Information School, and at the eScience Institute where, as a part of the data science studies group, she convenes a talk series called Data Then and Now. She is currently working on an NSF-sponsored project on ethical practices in computer security research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:04:35 -0400 2019-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Pathways & Prep: Data Analytics (November 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66114 66114-16686738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Discover possibilities within the data analytics field that sparks your interest and determine which might be right for you to explore next. You’ll leave with a better understanding of what data analytics is, and understanding of the industries that have data analytics roles, and strategies to secure an internship in data analytics. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:32:12 -0400 2019-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Notebook work with statistics on sofa business
Building a Legacy with Dr. Susan Montgomery (November 12, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68643 68643-17130510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:45pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: MUSES

This year is MUSES' 20th year anniversary, and our theme this year is Building a Legacy. On Nov 12th, we will have the pleasure to host a very special guest, Dr. Susan Montgomery, that truly represents what legacy looks like.

Doctor Susan Montgomery has had an important role in mentoring and advising students and student organizations throughout her career. She joined the University of Michigan in 1993 after a two-year postdoc developing educational modules following her PhD from Princeton University. She has taught many courses over the years including ‘Teaching Engineering’ which molds future engineering faculty. She has served as an advisor for undergraduate chemical engineering students, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and Habitat for Humanity. Recently she received the “Achievement Award” at the Willie Hobbs Moore Luncheon, given to an individual in STEM whose achievements encourage and inspire others to achieve their goals. She is in the process of transitioning to phased retirement, and certainly her contributions to our organization and our community at the University of Michigan will be forever remembered.

All are welcome!

When: Nov 12th, at 6pm.
Where: Johnson Room, Lurie Engineering Center (1221 Beal Ave)

Dinner will be provided. Please, RSVP below so enough food is provided.
https://forms.gle/StwpgEtjUurczAVz9

for more information or questions, contact umichmuses@gmail.com

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Meeting Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-11-12T17:45:00-05:00 2019-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr MUSES Meeting This was taken with the old Nikkor f1.4 35mm AIS, wide open, making for a pretty abstract image.
EER Seminar Series (November 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68977 68977-17205320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As the data tsunami washed over everything including college campuses, universities invested heavily in data management systems and then layered on services to create the highly digitally-engineered environments in which we work today. Within that context, I’ll review the seeding and ongoing nurturing of two U-M services (Atlas and Problem Roulette) that share common themes of access and transparency. As examples of research enabled by these services, I’ll present evidence showing that: (i) on average, females study more for less reward in STEM subjects than male students, and (ii) increased selectivity, as measured by ACT/SAT scores, is a minor factor driving undergraduate grades upward. The talk will close by inviting your thoughts and discussion on potential future directions for these and similar services.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Prof. August E. (Gus) Evrard is a first-generation computational cosmologist and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at U-M. Author of the first algorithm to enable multi-fluid simulation of galaxy and large-scale cosmic structure formation, Prof. Evrard's research is focused on understanding the population of clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe. Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, his research is documented in over 200 refereed papers with 22,000 total citations. Within the Office of Academic Innovation he leads two separate projects, one offering visual summaries of Michigan's recent academic landscape (Atlas) and another providing “points-free” study support using local exam content (Problem Roulette). Both are used by thousands of students each year at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:52:04 -0400 2019-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:20:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion August Evrard
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68641 68641-17128443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Reproducibility with high-dimensional data

Abstract: With the expanding generation of large-scale biological datasets, there has been an ever-greater concern in understanding the reproducibility of discoveries and findings in a statistically reliable manner. We review several concepts in reproducibility and describe how one can adopt a multiple testing perspective on the problem. This leads to an intuitive procedure for assessing reproducibility. We demonstrate application of the methodology using RNA-sequencing data as well as metabolomics datasets. We will also outline some further problems in the field.

This is joint work with Daisy Philtron, Yafei Lyu and Qunhua Li (Penn State) and Tusharkanti Ghosh, Weiming Zhang and Katerina Kechris (University of Colorado).

DCMB Faculty Host: Alla Karnovsky, PhD

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

BlueJeans Live Streaming: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:05:22 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Engaging with the Public: Approaches and Concerns for Public Scholars (November 14, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67156 67156-16805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will discuss various ways scholars in the Humanities can engage with the public. Themes addressed will include differences between public outreach vs. engagement, engaging with digital history as part of a research profile and equity/inclusion mission, and incorporating technology in the classroom to encourage civic engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:41:34 -0400 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Colophon_portrait_from_the_Khamsa_of_Nizami
ISD Design Science Seminar (November 15, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69358 69358-17310299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 9:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 15, 2019 from 9:30-11:00 am in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Design Science Seminar Series with speaker Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Ph.D. Dr. Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks is a a Behavioral Scientist and Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he co-directs the Leadership + Design Studio.
In deciding whether a pitched opportunity seems worth exploring further, individuals are influenced by the emotional qualities they observe in nascent entrepreneurs and founding teams.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:34:50 -0500 2019-11-15T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Lecture / Discussion DESCI Seminar
Project Management Certification (November 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61540 61540-15126019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:40:05 -0500 2019-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
Dissonance Event Series: Protecting Patient Privacy in Big Data (November 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69146 69146-17252912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us on Tuesday, November 19, at 6 p.m., for an exciting Dissonance event: Protecting Patient Privacy in Big Data. This panel discussion will take place in the Vandenberg Room, on the second floor of the Michigan League on the UM-Ann Arbor campus. There is no charge for this event and no need to register.

Electronic health records, connected medical devices, health tracking applications, and more have led to a tidal wave of medical data. How this data is being used to transform patient care, improve care quality and decrease healthcare costs, however, is not always evident. Michigan Medicine physicians and legal scholars will explore how medical care will change as digital health platforms evolve, the legal ramifications we might have to navigate, and the privacy and ethical issues that are unfolding today.

- Dr. Brahmajee Nallamothu, Professor, Michigan Medicine (moderator)
- Dr. Jessica Golbus, House Officer, Michigan Medicine
- Prof. Nicholson Price, Professor, U-M Law School
- Dr. Hamid Ghanbari, Clinical Lecturer, Michigan Medicine
- Prof. Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School, Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)
- Dr. Sachin Kheterpal, Associate Dean for Research Information Technology, Associate Professor, Michigan Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:29:44 -0500 2019-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T19:15:00-05:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event: Protecting Patient Privacy in Big Data
How to Negotiate Your First Job Offer Webinar (November 20, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69447 69447-17324763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:15pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

Everyone should negotiate their first job offer but offer negotiations are hard. Negotiating is hard because most graduates dread the experience. Negotiating is also hard because recruiters are negotiating experts. On the other side of the table, recruiters have years of negotiating expertise. This FREE webinar will illuminate what are the tactics that recruiters use to win offer negotiations, what are tactics a candidate can employ, and how you can make an extra $10,000 from simply being a more effective negotiator. Free webinar by Ralph Inc (https://www.withralph.com/)

This webinar is focused on Masters and PhD students
When: Nov 20th, at 12:15pm
Where: You can access the webinar from your own computer. sign-up on the link below and the webinar link can be sent to you


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGlMglhl3rY-SYsIENEqrWG0Yq_pPoanyog2fWozEO-ayfgg/viewform

for more information and questions, please contact: Fatoumata Fall at fatu@withralph.com

Sponsored by the MUSES

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Meeting Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:05:37 -0500 2019-11-20T12:15:00-05:00 2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 MUSES Meeting Offer negotiation free Webinar
DCMB Weekly Seminar (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68972 68972-17205312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: GWAS of neuropsychiatric diseases have identified many loci, however, causal variants often remain unknown. We performed ATAC-seq in human iPSC-derived neurons, and identified thousands of variants affecting chromatin accessibility. Such variants are highly enriched with risk variants of a range of brain disorders. We computationally fine-mapped causal variants and experimentally tested their activities using CRISPRi followed by single cell RNA-seq. Our work provides a framework for prioritizing noncoding disease variants.

The second part of my talk will be focused on genetics of N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a common form of mRNA modification. m6A plays an important role in regulating various aspects of mRNA metabolism in eukaryotes. However, little is known about how DNA sequence variations may affect the m6A modification and the role of m6A in common diseases. We mapped genetic variants associated with m6A levels in 60 Yoruba lymphoblast cell lines. By leveraging these variants, our analysis provides novel insights of mechanisms regulating m6A installation, and downstream effects of m6A on other molecular traits such as translation rate. Integrated analysis with GWAS data reveals m6A variation as an important mechanism linking genetic variations to complex diseases.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies | Incompatible Rights: Gendered Work-Family Conflict under Changing Population Control Programs in Contemporary Urban China (November 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68724 68724-17145046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Work-family conflict is one of the central foci in gender inequality scholarship. Existing research has mostly considered the conflict as an incompatibility of commitments predominantly experienced by women. In this talk, I capitalize on China’s termination of the one-child policy in 2016, and introduce individuals’ perceived incompatibility of rights as another key dimension. Using a mixed-methods design that combines national surveys and in-depth interviews, I demonstrate that individuals espousing gender egalitarian beliefs, which emphasize women’s right to work over the primacy of women’s roles as wives and mothers, more strongly support the state’s role in limiting births. This support is underlain by the perception and experience that for women, work and family are incompatible beyond competing commitments: The expansion of individuals’ right to parent is viewed as at the expense of women’s right to work. Three interlocking forces underscore individuals’, particularly women’s, perception and experience of work-family conflict as an incompatibility of rights: 1) Macro-level reproductive and family policies that view women foremost as mothers and caregivers, from a state that exerts strong power over its citizens; 2) Meso-level discriminatory labor market conditions with limited recourse for claims-making; and 3) Micro-level gendered division of care work and normative expectations of women’s and men’s roles and responsibilities in marriage, procreating, and parenting.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:30:39 -0400 2019-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Dr. Yun Zhou, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
ISD Design Science Seminar (November 22, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69368 69368-17310322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 22, 2019 from 9:30-11:00 am in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Design Science Seminar Series with speaker Mario Štorga, Ph.D. Dr. Štorga is the Head of the Chair of Design and Product Development in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. He has led research in numerous national and international research and development projects, serves on the editorial boards of five journals, and has published more than 100 journal and conference papers.
In his talk, a research framework for experimental studies of engineering teams (both face-to-face and virtual) will be presented.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:56:34 -0500 2019-11-22T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Lecture / Discussion DESCI Seminar
ISD Manufacturing Seminar Series (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69420 69420-17318586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 22, 2019 from 11:00am-12:00pm in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker, with Zhimin Xi , Ph.D. Professor Xi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rutgers University – New Brunswick. His research interests include reliability and safety for lithium-ion batteries, design for reliable engineering systems, model validation under uncertainty, and prognostics and health management for engineering systems.

This talk presents the integration of FE and data-driven modeling with systematic calibration and validation framework for the SLM process based on limited experiment data.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:47:15 -0500 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Lecture / Discussion MFG 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
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 2:00pm
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Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show